The Sunday herald., 1886-10-31
coULIsSE CHAT.

Added popularity has been given TO Miss Fortes-
cues season by the announcement that her nose Ia
the twin OF Mrs. Grover Ccvcands.
Jules Levy, the cornct. player, is going to make
tour OF the world under the management OF Charles
H. Dlttnian, who has sailed for Dublin to hire hall
Some Of the Western critics think Mr.. Robert Il.
Mantcls new play of "Tanged Lives" risky In lia.
logue aud situation, but the public go TO Fec II athe
same.
Dion Boucicault does not wear slippers In the
house. lie travels around In his stockings Cannot
some actor secure similar advertisement by gong
barefooted?
Clara Morris, whose popularity enlures In spiie OF
er Illnesses, eccentrciIies aud facial charms, keeps
her audiences waiting from quarter to half an
h0nr between acts and tries their patience sorely.
Mrs. Langiry bathcs in water as cold as she can
have 1t, without Ice, rising nine In the morning
she has done this FOR years and what makes
her conpexlon pure. Detractors say that her COM
pleXlOn SHOWS Signs OF wear
The old green umbrella strapped to the trunk that
Denmau Thompson uses in s'The Old Honcste Id"
was presented to the actor by an admring citizen
OF Worcester, Mass whose great-grandfatner kept
on tue rain with II one hundred years ago.
Richard Mansfield will not produce the startling
tragedy OF "Dr. Jekyll aud Mr.. IIyde' until next
February, when he will give publicity AT the Union
Square Theatre His "Prince Karl" slight as II IL,
| appears to be gracefully accepted In the Provinces.
Lillian olcott has left Nblo's for Montreal and
ottawa with "Theodora.' She Will play In Brook
lyn later Her lion, Jack, that she Introduces In the
play, IL becoming personal pet, and an auver-
Using medium Is worth haf d dozen of Ada Rehan's
bull-pnps.
w. S. Gilbcrts "Grctchen,' the piece In which
| Miss Fortescuc made her American bow has re.
ceived no great praise from the New York press,
Que critic saying: =" thought as was looking at his
work that twas II wa. another glaring example OF the
playwrghts have been lately put"
That Miss Fortescue has been most carefully
drilled ls manifest; hut the errors made In teaching
her to act have been most unfortunate aud she does
not better her Instruction by tranalic talent in
tel!igence She appeared last evening like tried
actress OF long eNperiece, but OF limited power bad
inethol. and no intellectual grasp emotional force.
| ". y. Matt ana Express.
Nym Crinkle says In his feuilleton In the New
York Mirror: "Lct me beg OF you to see Lailgtry
as FaMfne Diana OF Ephesus! but she ls sumptu-
Gus. used to- think Charlotte 10 Clcrcq was the
best IuMine ever saw. That was before had
seen me l.ily." Great heavens! what a change has
that she now acts a little, instead Of ''shOws."
Lawrence Barrett, In addition to all his other
work. Ii In daily conference with George II. BOXER
respecting the new play, "CaayOs," which he thinks
| IL better than "Francesca III Rlmn." The scene of
the play Is laid IN spain, ad treats OF the expulsion
Of the MOors from Granada. It will be produced
first In Washington next month"; aud vii! then be a
feature OF Mr.. Barrctts second engagement In
Philadelphia.
And now tho Paris correspondent OF T,r,th says
that Augustn DAILY thought Kingdom could playJuliet
better than Anderson, and credits that gentleman
with saying: "l0ye is blind, which Is a reason
should ike TO have him at the head OF my
| shifting lot when Edith Kingdom plays. All
the men ,m from ,hs h,snes! 70 the lowest are
thought that 1t was prudent to marry Gould.
1t is related OF Miss Helen Dauyray, who Ia the
heroine of "Onc OF Our Girls" that she went on the
| stage Mt i've, was star at ten, and headed COM
pany OF twenty-sx people at thirteen. Before going
the California Diamond Next season she VIII
revive Tho "SchoOl for Scandal and will consult
the English artist, Alma Tadema, with reference TO
people Will appear on the stage.
Miss Marguerite Fish, better remembered an
| "Baby Benson," vii. make her American debut,
after great success In Germany, at the Thaa Thea
tire, New York, December l9, In a German comedy,
De;ember 20 "dllleite dc NarIonnc,' conic opera
| by Edmond Audran, Will be played at tho same
| theatre, with Marguerite Fish as Gnette, supported
| by the Thalla Opera Company. ON January she
appears at Miners BROOKLYN Theatre, In Leonard
| dr0ver's new comedy, sour Wedding Day" In
| which she plays nve characters, supported by her
own Englislspcaking comedy company. After n
short tour OF The leading cities Miss Fish VIII re-
| the Lyceum Theatre, following the engagement OF
| Helen Dauvray.
The New York correspondent OF the Boston "a
zete does moi speak highly OF Gilberts Gretchen,
AMI says; "As Tor Miss Forlescue, she IL pretty
actresses go, but she isso frghifuiy made up that II
s hard to tell what she III under her paint AMI pow
seems TO weight them down, though she has a way
| OF bllnking-caught from Miss Terry, by the way
which shows thai she can move them. There IL u
goa @ usa aooa. MISS f9riescue ana, as neen caught %
Az times 1t reminds you Of Miss Kate Girarl's imita
| ion OF the fair Ellen II the truth must he told,
Mlas fortescuc IL no actress. She IN pretty WOMAN
| that In, what IL c0nvenIonally called pretty; II Ii
not The style admire at a-and she has plant,
girsh figure, aud X modest In her bearing. But N
she makes SUCCESS II Will have 10 he for other rea-
sons than her histrionic talent. The audience,
ever saw a pretty young actress. about whom 40
much has been said, receive 10 little applause on
| the first night. Eyen the claoquc could not warm
up the house, and II was only by the hardest effort
| that the star got her recalls NJ the end OF
| the acts. ] am sorry that Miss Forescue IL not
going to he more OF success because she To
| he 70 decent little woman. The only thing against
her IL that she could ever bring herself 70 be en-
she came out OF the scrape successfully, aud with a
| large addition to her bank account"
New Workers are having good Italian opera at
moderate prices, aud enjoying, besides, treat In
| The revival OF ierdi's least uackncyed operas.
Among these are "I'L0mbardl" and "Un Ballo In
Maschera" OF The performance last week OF the
latter the Times said: "'un Ballo IN Maschcra, Ia
undoubtedly one OF the works IN which tho COIN
posers creative power III most yiyidy shown and In
which he has been most happily Inspired; II IL also
an achievement, In which the inapposite strains
winch are listened TO III lls earlier scores are
heard. The pages music represents totally novel
element In vcrdl's music In point OF brightness
lhtIt HpinlHR nkt " III
| OSGdTS two songs, however, are but small pro-
portion Of the lovely aud effective measures In 'un
| Balo.' These need no enumeration, OF course, at
this late day, and yet II IL possible ilat some of the
younger spectators that enjoyed the opera laHt night
were unaware until then that the Co.., loser whom
German relOrmcrs have no long derided had
gathered In q slngle work such "a series OF solos
| and concerted pieces Az are called up 10 the
recollection Of older dileiianti by the titles OF ia
ryedro, AHA vita, 'Dl ia no fedel, Er tu, by the
impassoned duet ia the ihird act aud by the adni-
rable quitei e II scherzO9 which IL almost on plane
In p0lui Of melodlOus beauty and dramatic Blgnih-
cance with the quartet In 'Rgeletto' I'm Ballo'
raised large audience 10 high pitch OF enthusiasm
| yesterday evening, partly through the charm and
force OF tue opera and partly through the represen.