Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-03
DRAMATIC GATHERINGS.

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The experiment of society paper i.
being tried at Dublin for the first time
Dion Boucieault stands godfather to the
new weekly, which is called the Shaugh.
TGun.
The San Francisco Minstrels, at New
York, have been reinforced by the Canni-
| balls of Barren Island, and the neighbor-
hood resounds nightly with screams and
shrieks.
Miss Ida Vernon has withdrawn from
the Union Square Theater. The only
representative of what is known as the
Fanny Morant line of business is already in
great demand.
The agent of the Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Children has taken the
infant danseuse and the girlish song. and
dance performer out of Cinderella, at
Booths Theater, New York.
The date of the 3O0th performance of
"Hazel Kirke at the Madison Squire is
November 9th, and souvenir, which is
said to be not altogether unconnected with
the Tile Club, is now in preparation.
Miss Davenport has adopted the motto
from the French Nothing is so success
full as success" In spite of adverse criti-
cisms upon :" An American Girl, ;" she has
carried Miss Dickinson's play triumphantly
through five weeks of her engagement at
the Fifth Avenue.
In the departure of Mr.. Bishop, and,
worse still, in that Of Mr.. O'Neill, the
Baldwin (San Francisco loses the most
valuable members of its company, and at
the present the wonder is how their places
can be filled In manner satisfactoryto the
patrons of the theater.
The Carnival in Rome" after elab
crate preparation and careful rehearsal,
was withdrawn from the boards, Of the
Bush-street Theater on the 23d of October.
The OlympidR says that much longer run
was anticipated, and perhaps deserved.
The music is unquestionably good, but the
Dialogue limping. The scenery and setting
of the play was in good taste, but the
management made no attempt to display
it, hence one reason of its comparative
failure is distinctly apparent.
At Leadville, Colorado, theatricals are
dull. The Tabor Opera House has received
its usual patronage, but the varieties have
not done well. Milton Mobiles troupe
made success of their trip to that city
the first three nights standing room only
was the rule. Charles Montaldo has closed
the Coliseum and gone to Woods Opera
House, which has been closed for some
time. Howard and Sullivan will shortly
produce the BLACK Crook" at the Grand
Central, and then make tour of the State.
Chicago is very proud of its symposium
of tragedians. John Mccullough played
to the largest weeks business ever known
at Haverley's, while Lawrence Barrett and
Tom Keene, the new star from California
also had crowded houses in legitimate
plays. The Chicago critics declare that
Mccullough grows as steadily and solidly
as an oak that Barrett is fixture, and
that Tom Keene will become great actor
if he does not degenerate into too
robustuous style.-[N. Y. Spirit Of the
Times.
John T. Raymond had curious expe.
rience at Lincoln, Neb., while acting in the
trial scene as Colonel Sellers. Two dogs
began to fight in the center aisle of the
theater, and all attention was instantly
diverted from the stage to the fight. 81
move we suspend proceedings in this
Court, said Raymond, land Til bet
dollar on the white dog" "PI take
you" cried a man in the audience, The
white dog won, the dollar was passed
across the footlights to Mr.. Raymond, and
the acting of the play was resumed.
w. Sheridan has secured, through
French & Son, the American right to the
dramatization Of Edwin Brood" by
Charles Dickens, Jr., and Joseph Hatton,
written forthe London Princess and Charles
Warner. Sheridan will play "Jasper"
quite as WELL perhaps better than Warner.
This version is said to have peculiar in
terest. 1t purports to finish Dickens story
on the lines of Dickens himself the present
Dickens having had from his father the
points on which he and Hatton have
worked, and Fildes. the illustrator of the
novel, having verified their information
result, powerful drama, and, at the same
time, the solution of a literary mystery.
We have our. own theory upon this sub
ject.-[N. Y. Spirit of the Times.
Miss Nellie Calhoun's recent debut in
San Francisco was a marked success The
Oiympiaa critic says of her. "Of Miss
Calhoun 1 can write only praise. She has
that rare and radiant beauty which would
thaw an iceberg. She is not tall, yet you
would fout the man that called her short.
In form anu inquire tnere Is Ine delightful
blending of grace and vigor that places
her beyond the need of comparison. Her
face is beautiful not the delicate tint of
the lily, but the more enduring color of
the damask rose. Her eyes are dark,
sparkling by turns in merriment, or fash
ing intellectual fire. With such charms
her simplest appeals will never pass un-
needed. But beyond and above this she
is blest with the divine gift of expressing
with her eyes, face and bodily presence
the hope, fear and impulse of her mind /;
and her voice of richest m-lsic