Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-05
THE STAGE.
Flashes from the FOotIights and Green
Room Gossip

3 Flashes from the FOOtIights and Green
Room Gossip
q Mary Anderson is resting.
a c.. T. Darcy is writing play for Louis
9Aldrich.
q Strauss, the composer, is about to mar
Try third wife.
s Lydia Thompson has quite lost her voice
sSand finally retired from the stage.
q "a Muddy Day. will succeed ''McSor-
@ley's Imitation at Harrigan a. Harris
8Theatre, New York.
: Carrie Perkins, formerly of Rice's Sur
%prise Party, has inherited $4,000 from an
&uncle in Arizona.
g At the recent sale of Edwin Forests
Hwardrobe, L. w. Keene was a purchaser
Ito the amount of 1898.
q When Charles Dickens granddaughter
Snakes her debut on the stage it will be in
Il The Silver King"
A If Oscar Wilde is going on to the stage,
#lhe would make a good end man for Mrs.
%Langtry.
a Mary Anderson, Margaret Mather, Kate
#ClaXton and Sarah Jewett, all prominent
%actresses, played in Boston recently.
q ''Seven Twenty-eight; or, Casting the
Boomerang" which is adapted from a
&German comedy, has scored a success at
%Daly's theatre in New FORK.
y Frank MayO's company is composed of
ssthe unlucky number thirteen, and is
7playing one of the most prosperous seasons
= ''Davy Crockett" has ever known.
s Emma Delaro, the Lady jane and
S''EliZa" with the Philadelphia Church
#ChOir Company, is now playing the sF'airy
#Queen' in .Iolanthe" at the Boston BijOu.
81 J. w. Hague has PLAYED the part of
N'Josiah Scraggs" regularly at every per-
$formance of MY Partner" over LOCO
#times, without missing line or causing
IA stage wait.
81 1t is said that Willie EdOuin's wife,
HAlice Atherton, will not go to Europe
lwith him. She had one taste of the ocean
when she came to this country, and does
,Enot think it agrees with her.
n Miss Anderson has a set of five dresses
&designed by Frank Millett, the well
Il known artist, which are made with abso-
#lute fidelity to good Greek models. Mr..
Is Millett declares that Miss Anderson is
1.-THE first actress to wear the genuine
E2classic costume on the stage.
81 Charles ParslOe, the exponent of the
$Chlnese character in my Partner" evi.
identity comes by his rare mimetic gifts by
8 inheritance. AS long ago as 1928 his
afather, K. j Parsl0e, appeared at COvent
#Garden Theatre, London, in Chinese
dance.
Jay Gould has a tender streak in his
decomposition, after all. He is said to have
sswept over McCullough's .'Virginius" the
Hother night, and said to his companion
|aSafter the performance: 81 would rather
Ebe that man, with his power to touch the
%human heart, than to be the most success
Nful stock broker in America"
n Margaret Mather, the young actress,
whose success on the stage has been very
#rapid and whose Boston engagement was
#prOyinga brilliant success, had to cease
Splaying ON Saturday, being attacked with
*pneumOnia. She was dangerously ill
Saturday night, but Is now better. Ben
aMaginley in ga Square Man, has re-
Nplaced her at the Park Theatre.
q On the night of Ada Dyas' first appear
lance at Days theatre in "Man and Wife"
4toward the end of the piece, a bouquet
&Of modest proportions was sent around to
8her, marked "B. 2. s." Two or three
Enights afterward came another bouquet,
<ssimilarly marked. Nor has she failed to
#receive, on the first night of any new part
&for herself since then, in New York, a
#similar bouquet similarly marked. 1t is
Esaid that by an accident she learned that
sthe letters meant Bright Particular Star,
@as applied to herself. Beyond giving the
@bouquet the sender( believed from the hand
writing to be a LADY, has never made any
Hsign of personal interest in her success,
&says the Dramatic NelcS.