The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-10-25
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children TO reserved seats at InatInees only for ten
cents. Sweet jennie Calcf Ia underlined for No
vcmber2.
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MIR. Francis II. Moves, one OF the prominent anna
tcurs OF this city, has accepted an engagement q,
leading baritone In the Kellogg Concert Company
for the coming season.
Louis James, who has left MIR. Batrett's company
Intends To occupy the Held for star left vacant by
othcUo, etc, with company OF his own.
A change OF bill win soon be made by Mary An
dcrson, and "As You Like II" replaced by "Pygma
lion and Gaatea ~ and "Comcdy and Tragedy
which will test Miss Anersons versatility, besides
displaying the London company In new aspects.
sig. Salvinl has been busily engaged during the
past week rchcarslng the company engaged to sup
port him upon his forthcoming tour. The opening
performance will be "oihello," October 49, And
during the week he VIII appear In " King Lear !" aud
"Thc Gladiator"
Edwin Booth will be managed next season by
Lawrence Barrett, who furnishes the company and
directs all the business OF the tour. Mr.. Barrett will
play his own season usual, and the two organIza-
tlons Will be separate and distinct, although under
the same management. Mr.. Barrett has also In
tragedies.
I'M. Damala," says Paris letter to the PhIladcl.
phia Telegraph, "is not going 10 accompany his
wife In her American tour after all. lie positively
denies the rumor in letter lately published In the
Partisan papers, and In which he declares that he Ia
very happy at the Gymnasc. She has engaged as
second lady Mlle Marie Julien who took the first
prize for tragedy at the Conservaore six years
Miss Daisy lIodkinson, of this city, Ia now travel.
ing with the "Ptivate Secretary Company Of the
Madison Square Theatre. she Is playing her old
part OF Era, the same that she acted upon the rst
son. Miss rIodknson Is spoken OF very highly, and
has attracted the notice OF several metropolitan
critics' who predict very brilliant future for her.
Mr.. James oNelll, as the Count OF Monte Crfsto,
did an af-Fechter-ed piece Of acting at the New Ma
tlonal last week. AT times during the play the de-
livery OF his "b broken English seemed cross he
tween the deceased Dutch actor and Rhea. This
peculiar style OF affected emphasis coming from a
descendant OF the :" Emerald Isle" made the per-
formance quite unique. Barring thls eccentrcity,
he Is a fine actor
The leading lady with James o'Nelils Monte
Cristo " Company Is very beautiful woman. As
Mercedes she was charming. She does not seem
inclined, however, to sacrace her beauty In
after ian elapse OF eighteen years." she appears
just as young and pretty and fresh far features
anu actions m Ions are concerned as though she had not
the sweetheart of her "son" than his smother. +"
This ladys beauty greatly resembles tina, OF mar
ried lady In this city, by many considered the hand
somest woman here.
salvlnis season OF nine nights and three afternoons
will begin at the Metropolitan October 90. He will
appear as Oihelto, Lear, Corioldnis, Tgon,ar, and
the Gladiator His son will be member OF the
Bnglish-speakng company. II seems by recent
letter OF Salvn however, that he does not favor the
yonng mans choice of profession. "I should
much rather have heard, he says, "that he had ef-
fected n commercial or banking Affair." You must
he aware, as are all who know me, OF my ever.in-
creasng aversion my sons choice OF the stage for
his profession. At the age Of fifteen years was left
an orphan, and, being poor, was obliged 10 devote
that the encouragement of the public, and my not
small success, made me love IT. and II were now to
complain Of II should be an migrate But, giving
art Is placed ut present, could applaud my who
wishes TO follow 1t as his profession? The neeiing
renown OF the present makes no Illusion for me;
look at the future. The examples of 80 many dis
ilngnished actors, who at the end OF their career
loInd themseyes or who. stu living, are in the
! hear you reply. And how about yourself, and
Ristor and Rossi?' And shall answer that, In the
that II Ristori and Rossi had been obliged to rely
upon the income from Italy alone for their living
they could hardly have afforded to eat salt upon their
potatoes"
a discriminating critic writes OF Mary Andersen's
RoSd,ind as follows: "Miss Anderson was not
mistress Of the subtletes of her role. The most
roustng declainer now on the stage, the excellent
player OF the aercely emphatic Epadne and Blanca
was unable to express the whimsical womanlincss
OF Rosdlind. Only when she turned upon the Duke,
who had pronounced an undeserved banishment
and In fiery oraiory denounced the charge, was she
quite satisfactory; and this brief specimen of her
hest ability was handy thing by which to measure
her shortcomings during the rest OF the perform
was, in the general estimation, folly excused by
materla! beauty. Her manner was unfeeling; but
what Of that II her queenlness made 1t appropriate
~ Mary Anderson though incoDgruous In Rosdlindi
The admiration was OF her exterior, and 1t was In
tense. No hraver wearer Of The boys costume In
The forest episodes OF the comedy ever been seen
Iuh ri Of
doublet and leggns to the unmanly feet there was
so much shapeness. OF kind that softenei without
burlesqning the mock mascullnty that eyesight was
captive and critical Judgment enslaved. OF no con-
sequence was her mimetica inability In view OF her
shoulders behind. No piece of drapery had ever
been more variously or pcturesquely disposed on so
fascinating figure. The management OF this CLOTH
IN relation TO every Stir and pose, was quite enough
to demand OF one woman without further expecting
her TO give equal heed to the Shakespeare fabric.
The most notable of the New York fall produc-
ons appears to be that at DAYS. of which the Times
says: "To the llst OF great successes is to he
added The Magistrate,' which is doing the most
remarkable business ever recorded In connection
with the theatre OF successes bearing Mr.. Daly's
name. There has not been nigh. in the career OF
Mr.. Pinero's play upon this stage when seats could
bc had for any price after the curtain rose, and
almost every evening crowds numbering as high az
800 or 400 people are sent away because the house
so thoroughly filed that 10 impossible to accommo-
uate them Last Saturday night the scene IN front
OF the theatre was remarkable. The sldewalks and
the outer lobby OF the house were blocked up with
gentlemen and ladies who could not get into the
auditorium, and who had almost equal difficulty In
getting away by reason Of the still greater crowds
pressing np0n them from outside. The point about
this which Is most noticeable to Mr.. DAILY and his
corps OF assistants s that the audiences made up
TO a very large extent OF people who have not
hitherto been numbered among the regular patrons
of the house. Mr.. DAILY notes among them very
great many English ladies and gentlemen and d
great many others from out OF town. Tho regular
supporters OF this theatre, he thinks, are to large
extent still In the country or not settled completely
In their city homes. The receipts OF The Magis-
trate have exceeded those IT 'ANlght or which
were previously to the present engagement the
largest known In the house, aud there s conse.
qnently no telling how long the career OF sThe
70 MI the Court Theatre, where It has been running
Tor long time already. ON the 18th Of September
Mr. Arthur Cecil, Mrs. John Wood, and Miss Marion
| Terry, who had been absent from the cast for q
months vacation, returned to their original parts
The fact that 1t Ia considered necessary for the vari
ous members OF the company to take regular vaca-
tiOns by way Of fOrtlfying themselves against the
fnture Indicates that the play Ia expected to continue
It's run for very much extended period. Indeed
my private advlces from London are TO the effect
that The Magistrate Is likely TO exceed In the du
ration OF its popularity the hitherto unparalleled
career Of Our Boys,' which, 1t will be remembered
went on for about l, 800 nights. The indications In
New York are that II Mr. DAILY desires to follow up
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