Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-22

Flashes from the EoOtlighRs and
Green Room Gossip.

Alice Oates is said to have struck Illinois
again.
Louise Pomeroy is making = hit in Aus
tralia.
Max strakosch has succeeded in procuring
naturalization papers.
Mrs. Z. A. Sothern win Certainly contest
Lord Dundresry's viii. =
Sarah Bernhard expects to leave New
York for home on May 4.
Mr.. Harry Crisp made a capital hit "a
Guv'nor In Chicago LIST week.
The VoIkes family are to appear at the
Union Square Theatre May ID.
The theatrical business in New York has
not been very profitable this season.
John T. Raymond has postponed his mar
rage, probably until she LIST of April.
The soldene Opera Company have deter
mined to work their way TO California.
Gun on the Bristol" will be produced in
Haverly's Fourteenth Street Theatre, March
2S.h.
The next season at Niblo's Garden Will
open with Barley Campbell's ''MY Geral-
dine"
Mr.. and Mrs. Lingard are playing "sto-
len Kisses" in San Francisco. 1t will be
seen in Brooklyn later.
h.
but will wait till summer, when but little
clothing will be needed.
A Western paper says Frank Mayo will
tackle Hamlet" next season, and wants to
know what "Hamlet" has done!
"Billee Taylor" is great success at the
Standard Theatre, the best seats being
sold for nearly week IN advance.
1t Is stated that Mckee Rankin and wife
did larpa b1Sfnasc in Tho&f.
kind OF business Rankin likes to do
Mrs. Jane English, mother Of Lucille and
Helen Western, has applied for admission
to the Forrest Home, at Philadelphia.
Cyril Searle has received an order from
Liverpool to open in "Drink" at the Thea
tire Royal, that city, on Easter Monday.
Dion Roucicault's "London Assurance
was first produced in London March 4, 1910,
when the author was but eighteen years Of
age.
A telegram from the business manager of
John A. Stevens states that he has ended
six weeks successful season In San Fran
cisco.
The doctors say the Bernhardt is greatly
overworked, and rest will soon be absolute.
" necessary II she wishes to avoid an early
death.
Carl Formes, the emiRent basso, quite old
and feeble, is giving music lessons in San
Francisco, but occasionally appears In pub
lie on some grand lyric occasion.
Anna Dickinson will show what an Ameri-
can girl can do on the stage, and 1t Is said
she has signed an agreement to play CHAM
let" and "Claude Melnotte'' in Philadel-
phia.
A satin playful was issued at the Boston
Globe Theatre to commemorate the 1,500th
performance of "The Brook" by Salsbury's
Troubadours, which occurred there on Feb
ruary 25th.
Nine. Modjeska is said to be the pet Of
aesthetic society 10 London, and to be seen
everywhere and be honored by exhibitors of
her photographs and sketches Of her career
everywhere.
The Yelled Prophet is the title of an ope-
ra by G. 2. Stanford, an Englishman, which
has lately been successfully produced at
Hanover, Germany The subject is from
Moore's Lalla Rookh.
George Boniface and j. B. Studley expect
at an early day to take the road in "Two
Hundred Wives" 1t is a Mormon play,
and one hundred wives bigger than Run
uion's zone Hundred Wives"
The receipts for the first week of "Bulee.
Taylor" at the Standard Theatre, New
York, where $9,293 IS. This is actual; it is
the sum on which royalty is paid to the au-
thors by percentage of five per cent.
1t is now authoritatively asserted that
Adalini Patti will come to the United States
next autumn. to remain two years, bringing
with her NJ. Nicolini, the great tenor, Nine.
Trebeli, the eontralto, and Cologni, the
baritone.
Miss Mary Dixon, society lady of Mem
phis, is John w. Norton's latest find In the
way of talented and amateur actress. She
IL RI nj In OIIio
ter of course will play "Egadne," "Mart-
anna" and "Julia.
The following company has been engaged
to support Agnes Herndon, during her
forthcoming Southern tour: Agnes Ber-
thold, Katie Firmiu, Horace Vinton, Harry
Mack, Clarence Montague, j. d. Walsh and
Peter Reynolds. Charles Abbott is the
manager and John w. Mckinney business
manager.
"Voyagers in gouthern aeas' drew so
well at the Grand Opera House, Chicago,
all last week, that it was put upon the
boards for six days MORE and is again doing
well this week. The scenery is pronounced
fine, the ballet Qed by Bonfanti the best
seen in Chicago for long time, and Ariel,
the flying dancer" perfect marvel.
When Mile. Bernhardt played in Nash
vile, Tenn, ticket Spectators bought up
the greater part Of the house, when sold at
auction, at greatly advanced prices, aver
aging, 1t is said, five dollars seat. They
could not obtain anything near these prices,
and lost, it is computed, about 81 $50. A
box for which $50 were paid was sold to
twelve young men at 81 seat. The audi
ence, however, was large and appreciative.
Nine. Janauschek tells an amusing anec-
dote illustrative of the remarkable intelIi-
gence of soEae of tae audiences which an
actress meets with in travelling. She had
been playing her two characters In Bleak
House, when, after the play, a young lady
who had witnessed the performance was
overheard to remark that she liked the ac-
tress very well as Hortense, but did not fan
cy her as Janauschek and when it was sug-
gested that she meant Lady Deadlock she