The Sunday herald., 1886-10-03
COULISSE CHAT.


Marie Bockel. OF Salsburys Troubadours, was re.
Gently robbed OF her watch at Springfield, Mass.
Rose Eytnge Is In novel combination business
She Is keeping boarding house and writing play
Sgnor Angelo announces that his first season OF
Italian opera will begin at the Academy OF Music on
October ls.
Miss Alice Vincent the prima donna of the Carrie.
ION opera Company, is enjoying unusual success
this season.
Mr.. John 7. Ford, of baltimore, has been chosen
Colville, deceased.
Eleanor Carey, OF Mantell's Company, is an ex.
ceptionally fine actress. Her hit as Ruth in "The
wages OF Sin" is fresh In the public mind.
Herr Albert Niemann, the great German tenor. It
Is said, has bargained to go to New YORK for three
months for 800 and expenses TO sing In Wagner
operas.
II il reported that Fay Tempeton who was lately
divorced IRON william West, the minstrel, has be-
come Mrs. Howell OSBORNE They are living in a
coy cottage al Saratoga.
=. The friends of Mary Anderson reluctantly admit
tnat Inc Bluegras bride s growing stout. IL is es
timated that she lunches between the acts THAT ia
where the weight usually comes in.-Clepeland sun
Marie Prescott will begin thirty weeks tour on
October eS' playing Toronto first and visiting the
principal cities. She viii be at the Union square
Theatre In January. Mr. Frank A. Small has been
engaged as business manager.
The "Evangene" Company out West has an I'm
itatlon OF Freddy Gebhardt who follows them around
from town TO town and makes himself generally
10 the local restauranters. OF course he comes
from New York.
Madame Nevada-Palmer, who was married on the
1st OF October, 1855, has sent baby two weeks old
to the Church OF st. Ferdinand des Termes TO be
christened There was great feast after the event
The little girl will be known rs Mary Mathilde Mig
non Amlna.
The New York Mirror says "McCaull has done
well with his by no means extraordinary operetta
Josephine The houses have been good, better
oest-al the time In an ascending scale. Cottrelly
mas charmed, Parker has delighted Hopper has
amused, and Morsell has pleased every one, One
great secret ef McCaull's success Is that Whatever
he does he does right we'll"
well-known burnt cork comedian whose name
now stands at the head of minstrel troupe, is an
inveterate gambler, and several years ago, after
wife "a very handsome woman with 9 slightly
smrched reputation) for $5O gambler present
accepted the 0fer, and, what Ia more took the wife,
anu they nved together Tor some time.-Cincinaati
Enquirer.
The School of Acting, located In the Lyceum
Theatre, New York City, has Just published state
ment OF its newest plans. Its third year opens I'm
October, under a reorganization comprising Mr. n
Ii. Sargent director, and David Belasco az aiaae
manager, and full corps OF dramatic teachers. It's
management claim that this school Ii the only
stilutlon In America exclusively devoted to train
ing Tor the professional stage.
Mr.. Brandon Thomas, who will he much missed
from the Rosna Vokes Company this season, has a
good part In the new play by Henry Hamilton, pro-
Ilced az the Princess Theatre, London last Monday.
9orke stephens, whose place Otis Skinner took In
DAYS Company, and Charles Glenny, who was a
member men OF Wallack's Company one season, were
ROsselle. '"'
Rosina vokes's repertOry comprises "rhe School.
mistress" by Pinero; "The Double Lesson, by b.
q. Stephenson; "Iiyde and Jekyll," by George
Grossmith; "cousin Dick" by Val Prnsep, and a
smith. The company comprises Helena Dacre,
Mabel Mlllett, May Carew, Agnes Miller, and Gwen
uonne Dalzel, all very beautiful women, and Messrs
GrossInlth, Elliott, Thorpe, Bell, Dalzel. Roberts,
Rivers, and Role.
The operate outlook In Paris Is unusually bril-.
liant. Paladilbe's "Paire," founded on sardou's
drama, IL In preparation at the Opera; verdi's
"lago" Is announced at the Opera Comique, where
also Saint-SRens's new work. "ProspeTine,r and
Berlloz's "Beneyennto cellinl" are half proInised
and at the Theatre Lyrique uOrmerly the Eden) the
interchangeable and unierrlned IaInauyeux ia prepar-
ing several OF wagner's works with which TO aston
ish the Parisians.
Wilson Barrett VIII open at the Star on October II
In Herman and wills classic play of "Caudian."
His stay In New York VIII he limited to three weeks.
He will then play about twenty weeks In the prnci.
pal cities, returning 10 New YORK for u short
me viii appear 10 addition toaCIsadiah, lin .ciiip
'chatterton." ."and"IaInlet." IilscOmpany OF forty
nye and az ms scenery WIZ be Imported Mr. Bar-
ret sailed from Liverpool on Tuesday last.
Mrs, Mckee Rankin hates The stage, ana would
like dearly 10 retire from II forever. But the for
tune which she and her husband had amassed was
recently swallowed up IN a New York theatrical
venture "kitty Blanchard's' ambition IL to devote
her time 10 her two beautiful young daughters.
These young ladies' have been quite prominent In
san Francisco society during tho past season. and
their mother IL full OF social ambitions for them
They have been on the stage since they were eight
or ten years old.
The ballet for the American Opera Company is
now rehearsiDg In New York. A correspondent
Thls class OF forty young girls Is bnsily re-
hearsing, ana It's members show great proficiency
Ballet dant1nR, however, IL not learned IN season
or Two, and several years OF drill must pass before
New York can furnish premieres and secundos for
our American ballet. The principal dancers must be
imported and thirty eoryphees are coming over
from Italy early next month on the CITY OF Chicago
10 Join the domestic corps de ballet"
Modjeska's fan season viii open October 20, al the
Union Square, New YORK, and she VIII play there
eight weeks. Charles r. Power will go ahead of
her after she leaves New YORK; he Ii now with Jo-
seph jefferson The company now Includes NJ. II.
barrymore, CHARLES NandenhoH, w. u. owen, H.
Hamilton Bell, Florence Gerard, Ian RobertsOn
James Cooper, ErrO Dunbar, Howell IIanseii, Max
Freeman, Albert Lang, Laura Johnsione, aud Grsce
Roth Henderson. Fred siinson VIII DC The manager
tnfront and Count Bozenta Will direct every thing as
usual
Professor Hermann, assisted by Mrs Hermann, is
Introducing OF the most surprising OF iluslons
The great disappearing OF lady IN full View OF the
audience IL simply marvellous. curtain hangs at
tue back OF the stage; a few feet-say three-in
FROM OF this he spreads an open newspaper on The
ground; on this he places an ordinary chair. lie
then leads his wife from behind the curtain, seais
her on tue chair, and holds up before his audience
A2hi slik yel la fouaTd. Nitb this he proceeds TO
cover the sitter, aud as IL narrow u does not fall
over her back 6lI tolh sides are quite hidden from
yieN. An lnstaut AFTER ne whips oil THIS fngelope
slih msgie9 IApidily. snd the chair n ennly
Eesscaper reInaDs Intact. and, be.des, am assured
"a sc1f sutaofiiJ tnai the trick Ia NOD eneeled BY
mesrs ~ trap. Its success 10 si1pendous, and aIl
Paris rasnbg, anf vii r0Ah for months, 70 witness
VITO Nonder abd almlraflOl this newest manner Of
sstliaR rd q wife. Hermann vii make fortune