Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-14
THE STAGE.
Flashes from the Footlights and Green
Room Gossip.


Frank Mayo will appear in the legiti-
mate drama next season. and viii only
occasionally play .'Dayy Crockett" His
son. Edwin r. is a member of his CON-
pany. and promises 10 be a capital actor.
Carrie Perkins. formerly of Riee's Sur
prise party and one of the most attractive
beauties at one time in that troupe, is
now residing al Charlestown,; Mass,
having become too cOTpulent 10 make
pleasing stage presence.
Margaret Mather has performed an I'M
heard-of feat in Boston. Previous TO her
appearance Juliet" was never played in
that city more than three times in success
sion. Following the opening Of her en-
gagement she gave fourteen consecutive
representations Of the part.
Mary Beebe being the third soprano in
the Boston Ideal Opera Company, and
not liking the place, has caused the mana
geress Of unpopular organization cOnsld-
cradle trouble this season, and she has
been released from her engagement.
Whenever a part didn't suit Miss Beebe
she would feign illness.
| hear that Bronson Howard. who is
writing on American topics for the LOn-
don papers and digging away at new
plays, has rented a house in London for
nineteen years and sent to this country
for the carpets, etc., TO furnish it. This is
one way he has Of prOclaiming his nation
atty. / suppose. II can't be economy
Music aud Drama.
A negro who has assumed the imposing
name Of Paul MOlyneuX. is playing
throughout England as ''the great Ameri-
can Creole tragedian, so justly entitled
the Black ROscius.r He tries TO play
''Othello." Nobody ever heard OF him in
this country, but the New York Mirror
he. g low
/ ly's late genuine" minstrel company.
left there upon the consolidation with the
/ Calendar troupe.
/ 1 hear OF the strange infatuation Of a
| young lady moving, though not prominent,
/ in the best social circles, for Emmett, the
/ actor. She is a quiet, modest, unpreten-
/ tiOus and unrOmantic girl of eighteen.
| who has had the discretion to tell her
/ friends Of her infatuation. She does not
/ know Emmett, has never met him or seen
/ him of the stage, yet goes to every per-
/ fOrmance that is possible for her to attend,
/ and simply sits undemonstratively and
/ admires him. She knows he is old, not
/ handsome. married, and has had the hab-
/ its or misfortune Of the dipsOmaniac that
/ he is, yetshe saws she cannot resist the
| impulse TO gaze at and think about him.
! Her friends hope that time will cure her
| of her absurd affection. Emmett does not
4 know that he has been playing David
/ Garrick unconsciously, = Music and
| Drama.
A week ago Willie Edouin was here
I what an ass man must be to call him.
self Willie with his tidy little company,
/ including his wife, Alice Anterior. At
! the Saturday matinee two extremely
! pretty little children occupied one of the
| boxes with their nurse. They were Ed
Ouin's. During the progress Of the play
"A Bunch of Keys"-when Alice Ather-
/ ton emerges from the kitchen as a clatty
maid, the smallest child. leaning over the
! box, cried out during momentary lull in
+ the dialogue: Say, mamma, 'ou face is
/ dirty" The nurse hastily drew the little
one within the curtain and the play pro-
| ceeded. BY the way, speaking Of this
| Lydia Thompson Company, which
/ York fifteen years ago. EdOuin
/ dams. Alice Anterior was one Of the
/ prettiest girls in the ballet, with a few
! lines to speak. She grew prettier as the
/ years went on, and always declined the
protection" Of the Metropolitan Club
/ men who hung around Woods Museum
| those days. Edouin fell in love with her,
! and they were married. She is a loving
! wife and devoted mother, and there is
/ no pretticr home in England than these
| two dealers in horse fun possess in the
/ garden county Of Cheshire. They are
| bright, intellectual people, an ornament
/ to the stage and to sOciety.-4tbQHg Err
! press.