Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-03-07
LIES TID-BITS.
Gossip About Some Great
People.
Current Items Concerning the HistriOnic and
Musical Worlds.
Dion BoucIeauIt's COMMUNICATIVE
COlombIer Bound for Americas
EneIand's Chief Detective.
DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL.


Mr.. AND Mrs. GEoRG HENcHEL have post
poned their departure for London, where they
will not arrive until July, previous to which
they will make trip to San Francisco.
SHIEL BARRY, Sadie Martinez and Nina
Boucicault will accompany Dion Boucicault in
his Australian tour
j. NJ HILL, Miss Mather's manager, dis
claims having had anything to do with the pub
llcatlon of the paragraph now going the rounds
OF the press, and much commented upon, in
which the symmetry of his stars arms is COM
mented upon.
HERR BANDMANN, who recently or ived in
this country from his tour around tue world
will shortly appear in ''Narcisse," and "The
Merchant of Venice" in New York Nine
Geistinger will play Portia in the latter piece
AN imitat on of "Sarah Barnum" is the new
sensation scandal just appearing in Paris. 1t
is styled "Nana Judith" and is intended as an
attack upon Anna Jude, the diva Of the
Varieties.
MARIE CoLoMBIER has organized a troupe to
tour Europe and America with Richards
drama the ''Contes of Edgar Poo,' which they
are now rehearsing.
Miss MARGARET MATHER concluded her on
gagement of three weeks in Boston with per-
Torrance of Juliet, before a large audience.
Miss Mather's Boston season has been very
successful throughout; large audiences have
attended every performance, and on not few
occasions the great theater has been packed to
its utmost capacity. Her audiences have been
as enthusiastic as they were large, and the
young actress has been literally rewarded for
her efforts by the heartiest of plaudits and calls
before the curtain without number. Her i'm
provement since last season is unmistakable;
she has made marked advances in the right d.
rection, which proves that she was not content
TO rest at the point she attained by one years
work, and is profiting by study and experience
as she goes on. She has gained a host of
friends and admirers here, who are unanimous
in predicting for her unbounded success in the
profession she has chosen, and for which she
has so many and so brilliant qualifications.
MRS. KATE DENIM WILSON has received
$500 from John Mccullough for salary while
the tragedian managed the San Francisco
thenter. 1t was compromise result Mr..
Mccullough claimed to be in no ways response
bic Tor the amount Gained, but rather than
break engagements, settled the case.
ROBERT L. DOWNING has been engaged by
Miss Fanny Davenport for next year, to sue
coed Robert Mantell in her company. Mr..
Downing is playing this season with Jos. JEFF
| ferSon and has come forward with mysterious
rapidity IN the dramatic profession within the
past four or five years. Prior to that he kept q
cigar store in Washington. For season or
two he played heavy business in Miss Mary
Anderson's company, and from that position
he was engaged by Mr.. Jefferson He is u
young man with plenty of voice and physique,
but no special intelligence, and he can hardly
supply the vacancy occasioned by Mr.. Mantell's
retirement. He has told half dozen people
within the past week, under the strictest in
| functions OF secrecy, concerning his new con-
! tract with Miss Davenport, and all Of them, as
| people generally do under similar circum-
stances, have spread the news with commenda-
bic rapidity.
! In the amazon march in "Jalma," at St.
Louis, one Of the girls marching down the stair
case tainted and fell forward, but her armor
caught ON the step, and saved her from rolling
to the stage. Mr., William Redmund came
from the wings, went up the steps, and plac-
ing the fallen warrior on his shoulder bore her
! lightly from the scene, His act was not only a
neat physical exhibition, but humane and gal
liant. 1t is not every leading man and prosper
GUS star that would show such public consider
alton for an unknown "super."
Miss GENEvIEvE WARD has begun tour OF
Asia. She made her debut at the Town Hall
in Calcutta, where she was greeted by crowded
audiences made up Of government officials
and fashionable English and native civilians.