The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1885-03-06
AMONG TIE PLAYERS.

touf IN LEND Me Dollar" ON April q,
Mrs. 0nstayc rrohman died in Jacksonville,
Fla, on Monday last.
Mr.. John W. jennings proposes 10 star In q
new piece called "painling tho Town Red"
Mr.. Gus Williams has purchased now
play by Mr.. George Hocy, entltled "What a
salsbury's rroubadours will appear Mt the
Park Theatre, Boston, on the both instant,
10 their new play.
Mics Marguerite Fish Is playing very sue
Seesiul engagement at. the Grand Theatre IN
Berlin.
The Mckee Rankin Company is playing to
inll houses at the Bush-Street Theatre In
"'Frlsco."
Messrs. W, @. wills and Herman have writ
ten O play dealing With incidents In the life of
Charles II.
Mr.. Louis james ana Miss Mario vain.
wright nave been reengaged Tor next season
Miss Catherine Lewis has a new comedy In
which ehe will 90 starring noxt month, under
the management OF the Chase brothers.
Niles Louise Murderer has been cngaged rs
leading Indy OF the "lfer Atonement" Com.
pany for the remainder OF the season.
=. 1t 10 said that Treasurer shattucS OF tho
New York DiiOu Is shortly to wed Miss Rillie
Deayes OF the 'Kindcrgartcn" Company.
our Heroees' Is tho title Of a military
drama by Mrs. william Henderson. which
may be produced In New York tho coming
spring.
owing to the general poor business on tho
road, tho 'Silver King" aud "Devlls Auction"
companies have been taken or the road until
after Lont.
Mr.. George Mllbank, formerly OF Boston,
has entire charge Of Mr.. NJ. d. Beavtts
California.
Ar. W. seymour, late OF the Museum, Boston,
pas been engaged TO manage the production OF
Mics Lstella Claylon's play, "Favette," at
Louisville on April 9.
Mr.. II. L. Grant, the elegged clog dancer.
was shot and Instantly killed on the night OF
FEBRUARY ~ In Fargo, OAK, by u desperate
character named Jefferson.
Mr.. Barrett hos planned to pass his summer
vacation on tho Avon, in company with party
or distinguished painters,
Miss Mary Jansen says she has signed no
contract for next season, all reports TO the
contrary Notwithstanding.
"victor Durand" scored great success last
week ut the Baldwin I'm San Francisco, where
1t has been put up for run.
ilne life-size bust, In marble, of Miss Mag
gle Mitchell is attracting much attention In
the lobby OF the Park Theatre In Boston.
The members OF the "AIugg's Landing"
Company were fined 81 apiece In Dayton,
OHIO, recently, for playing on sunday night.
Rices Surprise Party has been called In, "a
Bottle OF Ink having proved too much OF O
burden 10 carry. Messrs. Walter F.. Lamb aud
Charles Parkinson, the business Manager and
agent OF the organization, have formed q
comic opera company, which they Will put on
the road at New Haven March ..
II used TO be "Lers go TO tho theatre. What
W luf9 Dihyf Next season inc question VIII
good let's co." The public are slowly getting
educated npove the level OF poor plays poorly
played, and have no money to throw away on
trash.--UdHtst ffOtDidH.
The Redmund- Barry "AIidnlght Marriage"
Company made It's New York debut at the Poo
Pies Theatre this week. on April o 1t will be-
GIN foitnighrs engagement at the Boston
Museum.
Mise Alice Harris1n's right name Is said to
DC Alice Maud Nets. She was born In London,
and her father originally came to this coun.
try with the Pyne and Harrison Euglish Opera
Company. She is creating ruroro IN New
York In 'IXlon."
"Hard times" are not confined to American
theatrical enterprises. The receipts OF the
Paris theatres In December and January were
100000 francs (S1SO,00O) less than ln tho
corresponding month of last season.
,rhe Kiralty Brothers have leased the Expo
sition building In Chicago, after the opera
festival in April, and VIII consolidate their
companies there to give a season OF spectacle
and ballet ON a grand scale.
Late corners at the Leipzig Germany Stadt
Theatre are not permitted 10 occupy thelr
seats until the act drop has fallen, and at
Bremen no person is allowed TO enter the
auditorium except between the acts. German
customs ehould DC imported.
The latest asplrant for metropolitan man.
aeerial honors Is Mr. Barley Campbell. He
10 bent ON opening new theatre 10 this city,
aud has an iioa that he can mako 1t success
from tho outset.-NeT ioH Herdid.
The Madison Square management conn.
IDENTIFY believes that "rhe Private Secretary"
Will run until Faster Monday. ''Sealed IN
structions" viii, IN all probability, be tho next
production at this house, as 1t Is already In re-
hearsal.
Tho engagement between Nine. Rlstorl. and
Messre. Brooks Dickson for sixteen weeks
came 10 an end yesterday. Nine. Ristorl Will
play six weeks more, under the management
OF AIR. y. A. Chizzola, going as far west as San
Francisco.
Mr.. Ezra Kendall and Mr.. W. A. Mes,ayer
layn THAR dfntpuIffna ha
Will continue TO play the old man In 1--WE, Us
h Co." 10 the end OF the season, and next year
called "a Pair OF Kids"
Manager schoenel has given to the s1ldiers'
Home Carnival Committee the free use OF tue
Park Theatre, Boston, on the afternoon OF Mon.
"Rebecea's Triumph" Will be presented by
twenty-five young ladies under the direction
OF the author.
The Mirror announces that the site secured
for Mr. Barretts new theatre In New York Is
on tho southeast corner OF Madison square,
with frontage ON Twenty.third streer, and
thot the building will be ready for occupation
before the autumn OF 1856,
Miss Margaret Mather has been playing to
enormous business on the New England cir
cult the past week, the houses In nearly every
place she visited having been entirely sold
out before her arrival. She viii remain IN
New England during the next month.
News comes from England that Mr.. John Q.
Cowper, who is well remembered as A member
OF the late Arthur on oney's famous stock com
paDy at the Globe Theatre, Boston, 10 years
ago, died at Barnes, In Surrey, on January
81. IL was MIR. Cowper who, az Manchester,
in 1866, introduced AIr. Irving 10 Mr.. B)uci
cault rs "the very man 10 play Rswdon Lands
mere" In the latter's play, "rhe Two Lives of
Maly Leigh" This Is said 10 have been the
stepping stone TO Mr.. Irvlng's first London
success, as he made n remarkable hit In the
character whom the drama, under new title,
NHunted Down." was acted Mt the ST. James
Theatre, Deceased was the father OF Archie,
W. q. ana Miss Clara COwper.
The only recent criticism OF irving we have
seen that can rank with these noble outburst3
is that OF an esteemed contemporary, that de-
scribes him as stealing ''upOn his Quaker an.
dlence like nightmare foaled in sulphurous
fires from the lowest depths OF the tabled re-.
gions OF Pluto" This IS a poetic pharaphras
| OF Charles Thorne's well.known characterlzl l.
ton of his brother Edwin's talents. rnOrne
| was not poetic. lie simply said that "Ned Is a