Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-07


! Dundreary's will.
The Troubadours have q new piece by
| Bronson Howard.
Mr.: Pilot, the husband OF Janauschek, is
very Ill in Chicago.
PATTY Oliver" the original "Black- Eyed
| Susan, +" Is no more.
The late Harry Hunter was engaged to
marry Louise Searle.
Blondin Is In Berlin and Bernhardt has
consented to go to Havana.
Tony Denier will visit Europe earlv next
month to hunt new novelties.
Miss Annie Pixley proposes to play
"M'liss" In London next season.
Dan Harkins is acting ssVIrginius'' In the
| British provinces with considerable success,
Chicago is reported to be suffering at pre-
sent FROM an overdose of amateur theatri-
| calls.
Miss Louise Van Born, pretty New York
society lady, will adopt the stage as a pro-
fession.
Louis James and j. N. Gotthold are to
| star next season In piece to be written by
BARLEY Campbell.
Ford's OiVette troupe is at Harrisburg and
other interior Pennsylvania cities and
towns, and is doing we'll.
Miss Ada Cavendish, who has been quite
| Ill in New York, has entirely recovered, and
viii soon sail for Europe.
Another "Hazel Kirke'' company Is or
| gsnizing In New York, with Miss Lillian
Spencer to play the title role.
Miss Annie Grifiths has made a great hit
at the Standard Theatre, San Francisco, in
PASSIONS Slave" The California press
pronounce her one OF the best soubrettes on
that or any other stage.
Hon. Fernando Wood was an actor fftv
years ago, and played in New York and
other American cities. He left the profession
| in Richmond, Va, while playing at the old
Marshall Theatre, In 1895.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall will come to this
country for the season Of 1882, Mrs.
Kendall (Madge Robinson1 is generally ac-
corded the credit of being the best come
dienne on the English stage.
The new play by the Gosche-H Hopper
Combination, entitled One Hundred Wives,
Is drawing large houses at Booths Theatre.
New York, and must be counted one Of
the notable dramatic successes Of the sea-
| son. The plot is replete with interest, and
contains surprises that keep the interest of
| the audience alive from beginning to end"
Olive Logan says Mary Anderson's Glove
impulses are given in such way as abso-
| lutely to shock spectator Of taste.u Mary
| must make love very naturally then, for
the Glove impulses" of young couple of
| the stage are calculated to also shock a
| spectator Of taste. But II q spectator Of
taste can't stand It, he, or she, should ego
| away from there"
Pauline Markham, model for a sculptor,
| has signed a contract for next season with
| M. b. Leavitt. He has released her from
| her present contract, and she will appear as
'Stalacta" in the Black Crook at NIblo's
| Garden, March 9TH. Miss MarkhRm still re-
tains all her charms OF voice, form and face.
| She makes her re-entree before New York
audience after an absence of three years.
T. G. Burnand's new comedy, "The
Colonel" produced at the Prince OF Wales
Theatre, London, on the ID instant, ia
pronounced by the Telegraph ga merry,
boisterous and apparently unquestioned
success" The Meas is less complimentary,
but says 1t met with ga degree OF success
which does not often fall to the lot of a
dramatic satire dealing with q mere con-
ventional f0ible OF folly Of the day.
The new musical sensation and latest
London success, Billee TAYLOR, a nautical
comedy on the Pinafore order, was pro-
duced at the Standard Theatre, in New
York, last Saturday, and has proved fair
success. The music is light and catching.
The story of the opera is founded on the
old song OF Chilly Taylor,n well known
mariners ditty, and the authors, in order to
preserve the copyright OF their work, spell
'Billee." The time Of the action is 1905.
The first act opens with q view Of South
ampton harbor, at the old Inn OF the Royal
George, where the villagers have met to re-
joice over the approaching wedding of BIZ
lee and Phebe, charity girl.