Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-17
The Amusement World.

Rose Coghlan has secured from Will c.
 Cooper play containing part which the actress believes she can make the creation of
 her life. So enthusiastic is she over it, in fact, that she will immediately put the play
 in rehearsal.
 Edwin Booth will travel next season under
 management of Lawrence Barrett, the latter
 furnishing the company and arranging all
 the business matters connected with the tour.
 MT. Barrett will play his own season as usual
 and the two organizations will be quite dis
 tinct, although under the same management. MT. Booths tour will comprise all the large cities in the United States and the two com
 panies will be the strongest legitimate organ
 izations ever gotten together. The plays of
 both tragedians will also be produced with | special scenery and costumes, SD that the
 lovers of the legitimate may expect rare treat next season.-Mirror.
 This week was signalized by the simulta-
 neous appearance in New York of two Amer 1 ican tragical xponents-Mary Anderson and Margaret Mather, the former as Rosalind in 'sAs You Like It," the latter the heroine in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" Salvina, the eminent Italian tragedian, ar- rived in this country on Monday last and is booked for 8 season of six months His sup port will include his son, Alexander, who is
 to play leading juvenile parts. Among his repertory is Carlolanus which was made fa- l nous here by our deceased Forrest. Miss Ze1fe De Susan, who made her debut with the Boston Ideals in this city last week, is described in one of the dramatic papers as ''short, with dark lustrous eyes and brows, a small straight nose and dark waving masses of hair, more slender and a trihe taller than Adelina Patti, to whom she bears strong | resem blance, and is very ambitious wo- man."
 The Mascot on the eth of December next will have reached it's one thousaudth per- formance at the Menus Plaissirs, Paris. Dion Boucicault, the well known play wright and actor, was recently married to Louise Thorndyke ili Australia. 'rh9 lady | is twenty seven years of age, and the gay | Dion acknowledges siXty-eigbt.
 Mime. Modjeska has eleven plays in her repertoire for this season.
 The Chicago Rambler facetiousiy observes as follows: ''Mr John L. Sullivan is paid | seven hundred dollars a week to appear with | a minstrel company and he forfeits two hun | dred dollars every night he is drunk. At | this rate the management will make seven l hundred dollars @ week out of Mr. Sullivan. The following the current attractions | playing at the metropolis: Evangeline,
 Adonis, Nanon, Pseyche, Magistrate, the
 Mikado Doyle Carte), Auselma, In Spite of | All, Old Lavender, Sealed Instructions, | Woman Against Woman. Mikado (Duff's), l As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, A Moral
 Crime, Captain of the Queens Own, Jutlic l Gounod's latest grand musical compost
 tion, 'sMors at Vita," will be produced for the first time in America October seth at the
 St. Louis Music Hall, under the direction of Theodore Thomas.
 series of four Sunday afternoon concerts
 by orchestra of fifty performers, conducted
 by Frank Van du Stricken, will shortly be
 tions to be rendered are "Narcissus," by
 Masseut; ''The Golden Legend" by Dudley
 Buck, and "Convival Song" by Brahms.