Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-04-18
GREEN ROOM GOSSIP,
What - Going ON IN the theatrical Worl'
Notes OF Interest to PIay-Guers.

HaStTlN.
An Unequal Match.
McNiNh. johnson and Slayin.
Gilmore and his famous band are coming
Matte Nrkers' next stand is L"ui>Nille
Maud Granger plays in Columbus this
week
"A Prisoner for Life" closes season April
a i'll Boston.
Mary Anderson has made great hit i'll
San Francisco.
Doris circus opens its season at Indian
apolis April 2G.
Rhea played To great business at Heuck'S,
Cincinnati, last week.
Burr Oaks will be the bill al Harris Gin
cinnati museum this week.
Georgia Cayvan will not travel with
May Blossom" next season.
The Bennett N MouItnn opera company
play in Decatur, ILL.,, this week
McCaul's Mikado Co. packed the Grand
Opera House. Cincinnati, last week.
Henry f. Dixey will go away from the
Bijou opera house in blaze of glory.
Charles Sutton has taken Henry Ave
ling'S place in F. B. Wardr's company.
1t is now proposed. by the liberals of
Marylebone, to run Henry Irving for Par
lament.
Joe Jefferson'S old farm at Saddle River,
~ 4 I,- /,
a lantern.
Louise Kissing left the Bennett & M"ul-
ton Opera Co. April at Terre Haute, Ind,
and returned Ia Philadelphia.
Sol Smith Russell, new play is called Pa
He considers it as solid a parent as any rea-
sonable offspring could desire.
Lydia Thomp>on the great hurlesquer,
plays Oxygen" at the Grand, Cincinnati.
this week, opening Monday night
W. j. Florence is said to be reading a
new comedy. which he may produce next
season, entitled A Bit of Scandal"
/ Edwin IL. Price intends starting K. b.
Mantrll and Sara Jewett in Fedora through
/ Canada. beginning the season on May 10.
Tony Pastor has been seriously troubled
by the gnut of late years. This disease is
hereditary in wealthy and ariStocratic fam
lilies.
/ Fred. Bryton has closed his season in
''Furgivem." The play has been well re-
ctived. but business has not kept pace.
1t will 90 on the road again next season.
/ Tom Keene, il is announced, will posi-
>on. He i steadily recovering his speech
and will be all right by the end of the sum
meT.
| Rhea and her company have been flood
bound in Tennessee They lost two days
| by it, and Nine. Rhea was 81 diSguSted
with the element that she now Uses it only
to wash in.
! Rose Coghlan was break tasted at Cmcin-
matt last week by leading citizens. The
Mayor and Editor Murat Haisteai led the
/ list. She closed her season at that city Oh
SATURDAY. night
| Henry lrvingS oxford lectures will diff
/ ferentiate the state of the stage in the days
ot Burhage and Shakespeare, the age of the
Restoration, the era of Garrick and the
time of Edmund Kean.
/ Treasurer Al. T. Miller of the Vine
Street Opera House, Cincinnati. has become
insane through excessive cigarette smoking.
| He has been removed 10 an asylum, and it
! is not believed he will recover
! Patti is to have a rival at last. Miss An
derSon is reported 10 be preparing to study
for the opera stage. and papa Griffin Is
c"mmr",.Ing Ia practice on the trombone in
Orie- 10 be inspired for the occasion.
Letter X Williams ''ParlOr Match" re-
sumes tour this week al New London, CT.
Kate Foley succeeds Jennie IeamanS. Kit
tie Cheatham will be a new face. Miss
Cheatham goes with the McCaull forces
next season.
The break which has been growing be
tween Baker and FarrOn for some years,
has eliminated at last Mr.. Farron will
Bubbles. 1t is not yet stated what his
partner will do.
One of the leading events in the theatri-
cal world next season will be- the American
tour of the truly great Meninger Court
company. Mr.. Wesley SiSson will have
charge of the management, and Mr.. AdOlph
Neuendorf of the artistic direction of this
undertaking.
"A Cold Day; or, the LaplanderS," will
take the road again shortly. Ii has been
rewritten throughout and with Perkins ID.
Fisher and Frank VI. Wills at the head,
supported by strong company of singing
artists ought to do well. They carry their
own special scenery and properties.
The vitality of the BLACK Crook" is
nightly demonstrated at NiblO'S Garden.
This theater is crowded 10 the doors at each
performance, and the bald and beardleSs sit
side by side and enthuse, as they did years
ago when Pauline Markham. as Stalacta.
charmed them with her voice of vocal
velvet" and her lost arms of the Venus of
Milo"
Important Patent Suit.
The Fahy's Watch Case Co. and A. c.
Dalzell, of New York, through their attOT-
neys, y. +. c. Whitney and 5. A. Bowman.
of this city, have brought suit in the L. 5.
circuit court for the Southern district of
81.