Morning journal and courier., 1885-04-11
Amusennent Notes.

Tennyson has given his consent to Irving producing his last play, ''Thomas A Beckett
 Haverly's Mastodon Minstrels making about 10000 week during the present en- gagement in this country
 Mr. J. M Hill says that he will spend S10,000 on the settings for 'Romeo and Ju1iet' in New York next fall, when Mar garet Mather will compete with Mary Ander- son.
 Minnie Palmer, George c. Miln, the Knights and Hazel Kirke are playing at Brooklyn theaters at present.
 Booth and Ristori are announced to play Macbeth at the Academy of Music the first Thursday in May.
 Manager Grau has begun 8 three weeks en- : gagement at the Star Theater with Theo
 Clara Morris is considering several offers to play in England at the close of her coming engagement at Dalys.
 "The Private Secretary" will be given for the last time at the ome heater tonight Monday it will be replaced by ''Sealed In structions."
 Next Saturday evening will be the closing performance of Daly's company at their theater for this season. At the close of the performance, an appropriate epilogue will be spoken by the company. They will be seen here about the middle of May,i Glove on Crutches, D for one entertainment.
 Annie Pixley will arrive from Liverpool next Wednesday.
 Miss Mary Anderson reappeared in London as 'tPauline" in ''The Lady of Lyons'' Mon day evening, after her short rest with good success.
 Mr. Harry Lacy, of 'tThe Planters Wife, has been in the city lately on vacation. Next week, he reopens at the Chestnut Street Theater, Philadelphia, where he will play two weeks, going from thence sto Brooklyn and Boston, and closing his season in July in Providence. He reports very successful season.
 Messrs. Edward and Frederick Banlon who were here about week ago, close their present season in about two weeks, in New York. In the following month they will sail for Paris, where they begin an engage ment at the Theater des Varieties the first of September, in their new piece entitled E'Fan- taslna," which will be followed by the play given heres It may be of interest to add that they first produced the Voyage" at this theater several years ago. While playing here they received cablegram offering them an engagement at Berlin. Although most actors complain of hard times, this has been one of their most successful season as they so richly deserved it to be.
 While playing an engagement in New York lately Herr Sonnenthal, the most celebrated of German actors. told reporter the fellow ing tale: 'For twelve years past have been followed almost daily by woman. I have never spoken one syllable to her nor she to me. Never has the slightest communication of any kind passed between us. For twelve years have seen her almost nightly at the theatre. have occasional glimpses of her at a window balcony of some house in some street in which I might be living. I have met her in obscure villages when on some tour of rest When fail to see her some piece of iIl-luck always seems to befall me. l tried to communicate with her, but always failed. Finally grew to regard her as my lucky star. I have built up ideal in my mind concerning her. Not for the world would speak to her lest that ideal should be de- stroyed. Judge of my astonishment when saw my Gliiskrengel on board the ship when we were & few days out When I open to- morrow night at the Thalia I know I shall see her there. If on the night play Hamlet my eyes fall on her, know I shall carry all before me-" And the reporter went on to say that the good angel was present when he opened and that he did carry all things be- fore him. And another says in conclusion that she was seen aboard ship when the actor sailed for home
 It will matter little what artists instruct us over the footlights in the future. Within the last two years we, as public, have learned better the possibilities of the stage and shall tax those who accept it as profes- sion more intelligently and unmercifully to satisfy our instinct of the actors part What ever in the past from our own renowned ar lists or foreign stars we have received with applause and commendation, we have learned now of many faults in their means and ends that in days coming we shall de mand perfected. MT. Henry Irving and Miss Ellen Terry-two names at which praise blushes and fit expression for one's high es- teem of their art stammers-with their su- perb company have made a revelation in the realm of dramatic art It matters not in what parts they have been seen, in the light and subordinate or in the severe and control ling, one could never lose sight of the fact that an artist can make one line as imple | sive as soliloquy of many lines, that the play of the features eloquent" the happy commingling of stage trappings and scenery l are part of each actors business, working | to develop and to impress this thought, his purpose Nor in those different scenes of 1 the drawing room, banquetting hall and lec- ture platform has the artist added aught else | than dignity and honor to his calling. The final expression of feeling to him on his de- parture was nobly offered and accepted. To