, 1879-02-16
EVERYWHERE,

/ thEES-hooM G0SclP.
Mr.. Mckee Rankin is negotiating with Mis-:
Bateman ior the production Of IS The Danites !
in London.
Ruth Goshen, the giant, is suffering from &
severe cold. He got his feet vet about a yca1
ago, and the cold has just reached his head.
Miss Roscau, tile vocalist. who is described as
the original <tBaby attne," was Introduced to O
number OF Concressmen at the Capitol the othcr
day. They simultaneously responded, "I'rc a
| letter.
Mr. George Rieno]d has been very successful
as Henry :. at Melbourne. AT the end of the
| fourth act one evening not long ago be was pre-
| scnled with new flag embroidered bv several
| ladies' who are admirers OF his acting. When he
left the theatre the horse WAS taken from l,is
| CAB, and he was drawn to his hotel by the popu-
| singing s'The Men OF uar1ecl.''
1t turns OUT at last that the real mama of
| Bartlcy Campbell is Bartholomew. It is lucky
that Dick Hoo1ey didn't know this years ar1
when he took the sparkling BARLEY to nis
bosom and made money on 7sPeril,'' " Fatc.,'
etc There's much 10 name. A man NAV BE-
Nicodemused into nothing, as Thackeray saws
somewhere, but this name is Suggestive nf
massacre. The Dramatic Nescs evilently means
to fight it out on this line if it takes them iii
their capital.
The death Of the French dramatic author.
Clairvillc, whose real name was Nicolaie, is an,
nouuced by cable. He was man Of eytraori1i-
nary ability, and produced his first piece at the
age OF IS, In 1929. Hisfrst piece at the Anbie1
was review Of the year, entitled " Eighteen
Thirtysix IN the Moon" From this time for-
ward until death overlook him he did not cease
writing for the stage, and the bare catalogue OF
his pieces mostly written in collaboration with
o'hcr writers, would be far too long for detail.
His fccundity was extraordinary; his reviews.
feeries, Vaudeyilles, and operattas number near
" go.
The Bridgeport Standard has brought trouble
upon itself BY criticism made in Its columns Of
the performance given BY the Dickie Lingard
combination in that city. Mr.. Dalziel, the hus-
md Of Miss Iingard, states that suit for libel
will DC begun through John W. Alling as attor-
nev, the DAMAGES 70 be laid At s., oW. at is
mode OF proving the libel, the entire company
intending to perform the piece Of fOur Wives
to the jury exactly as given to the Bridgeport
audience" Now, if Joaquin Miller thinks OF
adopting such course with the New York |
papers, we are t1Deatened with q public ca-
lamitT.
Joaquin Miller has put his foot in it-in
" Mexico" His new drama has been most
damned bY the critics, and it is |
barely possible that 1t survive the storm of
derisfon which the performance created in New |
ork. According to one observer, it is "the
cheap scnsationalfsm Of familiar and not too |
highly esteemed class of periodical literature |
and q weak aud stiltcu sort OF sentiment that |
stalks about ia unconscious blank verse. he |
chales at restrictions Of mere fact, ignores all
principle Of dramatic construction, foreets the
between quality and quantity, and ]
passes by easy stages OF increasing incohereucy
into the familiar and painful region of the
penny dreadful" Another critic sars: n'Tle
performance OF Nine. Won Stamwitz, of Dir,
Lytell, and Slr. Magiulcy was well enough, but
the balderdash put into their mouih hs and the
impossible situations devised by this alleged
PLAYWRIGHT defy analysis, and are beneath Sc
rious criticislu.''
a dispatch is sent over the country by telc-
2raph to inform the natives that Mr. Scott, and
us spouse, Mrs. Scott7Siddons, danced with his
E.xcellcnuy the Goyernor-Gencral and H. r. Il. |
nc Frincess Louise. 4 correspondent writes
IRON the country districts} asking whae is the !
meaning OF the letters g. R. Il. It is cipher, |
Addressed to the newspaper press, and being ir- |
.ernEeted means. s'Her Rattle Highn; which, |
oeing interpreted into pure American is, "GiYe
ger good send-olf." 1t means that Mrs Sll-
ne opportunity, and is coming to over
Ehelm the United States. It means that
Ars- slddons is coming back to the United
states to read Tennyson's .sA!ay Queeu,n and
eycrai other pieces. It means q great many
nines,-among others, that we ought to recon-
der Mrs. Siddons now that she has been Der
onal1y recognized BY the Marquis Of Iorne
nd the frincess Louise. Lorne is a poet,-