The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-08-01
COULISSE CHAT.

The favorite comedians, Mr.. George w.
Denham and MIR. II. Clay Ford, have completed their
organization TO travel throughout United states and
Canada next season. The company VIII he composed
Of Ella Chapman, Blanche Chapman, Emma Hall,
Marion Taylor, l;"hort slavln, f. NJ wills, Charles +
COnnely. They Will produce new farclca comedy
called "rranks," especially written to suit their
versatile style.
Joseph Hatton writes from London as fol-
lows; ''Mr. Edwin Booth landed at Queenstown and
s making short tour In Ireland prior To coming to
London. Meanwhile, II Is n private matter here at
present, hut may be communicated to you IN advance
that negotiations have been opened will, MIR. Walter
GoOch for Mr.. Booths appearance at the rincess's
Theatre. The proposition has taken this shape, that
Mr.. Booth shall open the newly built theatre IN Octo
bcr, and remain there for season. only playing such
pieces shall enable Mr.. Charles Warner TO share the
enn VIII, h% II , 1hS terms s can he arranged & the
playing Iago to Warmers Moor. London will be
considerably asonished when this leaks out and more
SO should the Idea be realized.'
Mr.. Albaugh, the popular manager of the
National, has returned from his summer vacation at
Long Branch to make active preparation for the open
Ing Of his dramatic season here and In Baltimore.
MIR. Albaugh has already made his most important
engagements. one of the earliest of the novelties
produced, with which he viii open his Baltimore
rcit' s London Company, who viii bring the entire
paraphernaa needed for Its presentation across the
Atlantic Other attractions Ia follow win be Jeder
son, Sothern, oita, Mary Anderson Maggie Mitchell,
Lawrence Barrett doe Emmett the florences, the
Emma Ablnit Opera Troupe, Fred Robinson the
TOURISTS, AMI DbNIcy tafte'S opera company IN
"i'he Pirates Of Penzance," and new opera by
Messrs. Gilbert Sullivan.
For men who have passed the meridian of
life we know of nothing that minges together so
strangely both pain and pleasure the reading Of the
play-bills Of younger days. II has been tIuthlully
said that the delights Of the stage have passed away
for the man who counts forty Years of life. Take tile
east Of old play and look at the drdudtiS erSond
| You smile as Imagination recalls To you all the hne
| women, tic gallant men who figured there The
tender sympathy you felt for the heToine; that deep
abiding faith you had In the hero, tla he would right
the foroIn madden now that you old and callous
| you would not for worlds wish To eiface. DO you
Think II you saw these people Tomorrow, that the
same delight would MI Your soul? you who have even
yawned In SdHe Orohestr. AT the Theatre Fran
Gals, and who wonder how your son and heir stand
| what you call the trash Of to-dayYN Treasure
| your impressions Of thirty or forty years ago. Re-
| member though what ThackeIy said: - Nobody viii
ever sing to you ms Mabibran sang dance for you
as did Taglioni.' - They Were good people In their
day. Console yourself with the Idea that actors and
actresses Of Your time, In the first forty years ol THIS
century, had TO do more themselves and depended less
upon artificial accessories our younger generation
Will never more delightful actor than Iyfoiie
Powers, better actress than Fanny kemle, and AS
Tor that more delicious daiseuHe than failny Essle.
Are You going to forget Josephine Cliitoh, as hand
| some woman as ever tfud the stage, ol the funny
thipprndlc the admirable Burton, on lhe hun,ui-
Gus rlaclde, the clever Iiambn, liackeii, seiton
or MIS-. Mowatt Clara Fisher, Elizt Logan, Ellen
| liec Celeste Mme. Augusta, aud hosl oI oll,i
good actors ami actIessesH 1be Ialh comes, wien
you read these old play bills, 10 Ind that ninety nino
| out OF the hundred OF all the people who trod tho
| hoirds when you were young are dead and buried.
book like Mr. Ludlow ~ transports you into The ih
distant past iereare actors anu actresses at looked
your age when you eighteen OF twenty, some of
whom born In tho last decade OF the eighteenth
century. Was II the paint and the wigs that endowed
| these men aud women at least fur you, With shalu
| ium0rtaityS Were they never ~ dief