The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-17
STAGE AND RoSTRUM.

J.H. HAvERLEY wants to buy out
BARLEY Campbell's right to he Galley
slGUe.
IT is said that BARLEY Campbell is
spending all of his money Like Coal oll
Johnny.
MISS MATHIIDE PHILLIPS has de-
cided not to return to Europe until
spring.
LAWRENCE BARRETT thinks that Mr..
Howelps play, YoricE's Love, will run
hundred nights in New York.
The daughters of John 7. Ford have
written a play which has been produced
at their fathers Baltimore Thester.
The City Council of Erie, Pa, has
passed an ordinance forbidding variety
shows from opening in that moral city.
THE 500th performance of Glinka's
popular Russian opera, Life for The Car,
took place at ST. Petersburg on the 18th
ult.
THE play which Ed. Thorne pur-
chased from Mckee Rankin was written
by John Habberton, and is entitled Dead
mood Chiahes.
MANAGER MAPLEsON states that it is
his intention to bring both Gerster and
Nilsson to this country for the season OF
1S8O381.
The Go den CAT is the name of the
new play which Mr.. Frank Mayo has
bought Of John L. Scar, of San Fran
cisco.
IT is said Mrs. D. P. Bowers thinks of
purchasing farm on the Delaware and
retiring from the stage at the end OF the
season.
Col. ROBERT G. INGERsoLL recently
drew 81 200 audience while lecturlng IN
California. He, it is said, has an annual
income of some 100000 from his pro-
fession as a lawyer and lecturer.
IN Milan there are no fewer than
eighty-fve establishments engaged in
the supply of theatrical costumes and
properties, as many as 1, 900 persons be-
ing engaged in the manufacture of silk
tights alone.
Lolita, the actress, was worth $500, 900
five years agol This is stated on the
authority of her friend and lawyer,
James Fl. Heverin, of Philadelphia.
Half million dollars five years ago!
and neither husband or chick to share 1t.
THE Dramatic and Musical Mirror, of
Mary Harris Russian play In Bondage,
and recommends it earnestly to the at
Jention of American managers. 1t Is
all ready to be put on the stage.
AT the Royal Conservatory of Music,
Leipsic, there are two promising violin
PLAYERS, who, at a recent crucial concert
acquitted themselves so creditably as to
lead the German critics to assert that
among the future Wilhelmjs and
Joachims, the two boys will surely have
q place. One is a 13~year-old from
Philadelphia, named Rhodes, and the
other is a 15-year old from Copenhagen,
and named Won Damek.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Figaro tells
a sad story Of an actors death. 1t oc-
CURED a few days ago at the Batign0lles,
on the first night of the patriotic drama,
Hoche. One of the parts, that of an old
miser, was played by an aged actor
called Lucas. Lucas had been long i'll,
and his illness had weakened him Goa.
siderabIy. Re refused, however, to re-
sign his part, and made his entry as best
he might, working his wav from chair
to chair and stammering his speeches
rather than saying them. He had to
feign alarm at the progress Of riot by
which he was threatened with the loss
of his money, and he was applauded TO
the echo, In the next act the the Bas-
tile cannon sound, and the miser, de-
spairing of his treasures. has to 1all
into the arms of some one near MIN.
Lucas fell, as his cue obliged him: but
he fell to rise no more. Five minutes
after he was dead. Since MOliere
played "Argan in the 1ialade Imog
;aaire, assembling his Commissions in
shrek of comic laughter, and going of
to die that night, no actor has come to so
professional an end as poor Lucas at the
BatinOlles.