Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-06
STAGE GOSSIP.
Miss Fortescue Nobiy Supported by
the Fashionable Clique.

Miss F'ortescue Nobiy Supported by
the Fashionable Clique.
NEW Y DIRK, Dec. 4.-Miss Fortescue,
who has been playing quietly successful
engagement at the Lyceum Theatre, is
not brilliant actress. She failed in Gill
berts "Gretchen," but she has been nobIy
supported 10 a social way by a fashion
able clique who have feted her and packed
her private boxes. During her season
here the Lyceum Theatre has been the
swell house. Dress coats and even opera
cloaks have been the rule. Paran Stew
ems, the dowager regnant, set the ex-
ample, and she pulled the whole train of
her set after her into the Lyceum. For
tescue has had the entree of the fashion
able houses, and has been seen on the
avenue In the carts of some OF the
wealthiest parvenues. There Is no &C.
| counting for this favoritism, The actress
Is an intelligent, rather comedy, slightly
faded and by no means brilliant woman.
She has not been accepted by the public
| or the critics as a genius, but she has had
all the patronage that set large, power
full and exclusive can confer.
At supper given to her the other night
she made little speech, and L believe it
has been published double loaded in all
the society journals. She was lmmedi-
ately interviewed again by the enterpris-
ing press, and two brilliant remarks OF
hers have sunk deep into the breasts OF
| the New Workers.. She said we didn't
have circulating libraries enough and our
street pavements were bad.
The late Sam Colville, theatrical man.
ager, started out through the rural dis
tricts of England a few years ago to
gather up some fresh rural beauties for
one of his shows that was going to
America, and he came across a ravish-
1ngly beautiful barmaid somewhere down
in Yorkshire. She was at the tap. He
made bid for her Immediately.
claw, measter," she said, 81 bean't no
good, anyhow, at play actin"
Sam is said to have patted her on the
back aud replied:
"My girl, In six months from to-day I'll
have the New York reporters asking you
what you think of our form of govern
ment. You've got dramatic genius in
your eyebrows"
The latest dramatic novelty is the ICY
Clone" at the Madison Square Garden.
Ordinary, and even extraordinary, the
atric cyclones have hitherto been Illusions
on the stage. Trees were bent down by
wires and jointed houses fell to pieces as
if struck by the wind. Real wind has now
breeze. Four enormous ventilating fans
have been secured that make about 10000
revolutions in a minute. They are
worked by tifty-house power engine.
The consequence is the audience have to
hold their hats on.
At the first rehearsal, when Rocky Bear
was inadvertently blown into Madison
Park and the ushers chung frightened to
the arena posts with their coat tails f1ut-
tering like starry banners, the manager,
with deep sigh, remarked, "Thank
heaven, that works all right. Now can
take rest"
This blowing machine has drawn all
the managers in town. Mr.. Morrissey,
the inventor of the Abbott kiss, came all
the way from St. Louis to see it. Mr..
Coppleston, who was blown over to this
country from England in advance of
Henry Barrett, has written puff OF IL in
which he says 1t supplies long felt
want" and even Henry George and Bob
Ingersoll have had drawings made of 1t.
On all hands it is pronounced great
theatrical desideratum.
NYM CRINKLE.