The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-11-17
STAGE AND ROSTRUM.

THE Cathorne Children will return
from England in the fall.
BoUoICAULT is striving to make q
drama out of "Don Quixote" for Henry
Irving.
SARA BEREHARDT's American tour viii
commence at Booths Theater, New
York, November 8.
NOTHING will cure a young mans In
| fatuatiOn for an actress sooner than mar
riage and a chance to pay her little bills.
MILE. SARA BERNHARDT is, by the
official utterance of the Conservative,
declared to be thirty-six years of age,
having been born in 1874.
Hon. r. G. HoRR quantity describes
operatic singers as that sort OF music
where Z" they squeal and go up, and then
| choke and come down" 1t is brief, but
exact.
ALEXANDRA DUMAS, JR., during the
| inst six years received from the Theater
Francaise royalties to the amount OF
| $4I,600 Victor Hugo has received
So, COO
MISS AGNES LEONARD, an English act
res8 said to strongly resemble Nelson
| both IN style and appearance, will be a
prominent star i'll this country the COM
ing season.
TIE health of Clara Morris continues
delicate, but she has, nevertheless, de-
cided to close an engagement at the
| Brooklyn Park Tbeater, beginning on
the goth Of September.
NOBODY can complain that art does
not pay. CapouI carries away as his
winters earnings $4,000. Campanini
as much more, Miss Nelson an amount
| in the same neighborhood; John Nc
! Cullough clears nearly $50, 900, and Mary
| Anderson, $50, 900.
MuT0N MOBILES company for 1880-81
| includes Fanny Lewis Burt, Grace Page
rnd LeOnora Bradley; Messrs. Milton
| Mobiles. AIonzo Schwartz, Sam. E. Ryan,
! David r. Young, l.. r. Willard, W. @.
| Anderson, J. w Gardner, r. S. Wires,
! George w. Barnum and W. B. Wright.
The "Tourists" for the coming year
| will embrace William A Mestayer, n. j
Long, Henry Watson VIII. II. Bray
/ Samuel Swan, Louise Z. Ogilby, OF San
/ Francisco; Carrie Swain, Jennie Reiferth,
! Alice Hutchings; Prof Fred. A. Mueller,
musical director A tenor singer Is yet
to be engaged.
INGERsoLL says of Edwin Booth: ''Ed-
win Booth has elevated and refined the
! stage. He has reOrganized the sacred.
ness of art, he has become illustriOus as
/ an interpreter of these trifes, and II
/ should satisfy his ambition to know that
/ to and with the speech Of Shakespeare
/ his name and memory will be linked and
mingled forever.
SARA BERNHARDT's repertoire for heI
American tour viii include "Arienne, .
s'Frou-F -Frou, ""Camille, "''L' 'Etrangere, "
| "'Ihedre, .'Ruy Bias" and probably
Hamlet" Sara herself assuming the role
Of the melancholy Dane. Her terms are
one-third the Gross receipts, this third
! guaranteed not to fall below $500 pea
night. To this Is added her allowance Ol
so per day for expenses.
THEplay Camille" has always been re-
fused a license by Lord Chamberlain, oi
| England. on the ground that it is i'm
moral. \ clean, but weakver8ion Of the
piece. however, under the title OF
< Heartsease, - was passed by the censor,
only to fail on the stage Modjeska hit
upon the expedient Of bringing out that
adaptation with the part of Camille
nearly restored, and it Is now running
with great success at the Court Theater
LAWRENCE BARRETT, the celebrated
actor, with whom we had a little cores
/ youdence lately, says: "My father and
mother were both Irish, and if there is
any good or talent III me, [ Of course owe
it to my Irish parentage." We rank
Lawrence Barrett next to Henry Irving,
in the dramatic world. He Is 6
thoroughly cultivated gentleman. Mary
! Anderson, also Irish, and good practica
Catholic, bids fair to rival the foremost
dies in the theatrical profession
/ ht0Lic TGICQrGph