San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-09-10
MUSIC AND DRAMA.

Actors are grumbling over the small
salaries that are offered this season
Miss Hooper, the daughter Of the
! United States vice consul at Paris Is Ia
! join Edwin Booths theatrical COM
pany.
Miss Minnie MaddeTR has written her
self new comedy for next season. In
| addition to that she will appear in
"JaOquette and Caprice.
Mr.. Arthur Mess, who for many years
has been the chorus master OF the
| CinoinDati Festival Chorus, -hRs been
engaged us second assistant conductor
of the American Opera Company.
They produce the "Mikado" very
| thoroughly in Chicago. The house Is
japanese from the entrance TO the stage,
the attendance, even the walters in the
cafe, being clad in japanese costumes,
Justin Nc Carthy will visit the
United States in time to witness the first
appearance here OF Miss FOrtesquc, who
will be seen, in one of his plays. The
of the lady's American debut is October
4th.
Dion Boucicault announces that he
will produce the "Jilt" in London as a
farewell tribute when retiring from the
the London stage, after labOrs extending
over fOrty-tive years" 1t is nineteen
years, according the the New York
Tribune, since Mr.. BOuoicault first ere
tired"
A new play relative TO Napoleon and
Josephine.in which Mrs. Bowers is 10 act
this season, is the work of Mr.. Deshler
WEIGH. Among the historic persons
Talleyrand, Mile. Georges. NJ. de
md N mn do Rpmusat
People who have read Tangled
Lives" the play written by Mr.. John W.
Keller of New York City, in which Mr..
Robert Mantell will appear during the
autumn and winter, say that the work
is original and vigorously written. The
play deals with social problem that is
only too familiar no wadays, and its scene
is laid in New York.
One of the chOruses in the new opera
Josephine Sold by Her Sisters now
being given in New York, is almost
identical in its music to tn religious
hymn of "Ies, We will gather at the
River" The chorus was one of the
features of the opera when performed in
Paris, and Col McCaul concluded not to
emit il on account OF its originality.
Some of the others say it does not
amount TO much.
Henry +. Dixey's mother writes to the
Boston Globe that her son Harry was
born January 6, 1859; that he was only
ten years old when he played Peanuts in
Under the gas-light" at the Howard;
that he was the front legs of the heifer
in "Evangeline," and and not the hind
legs, which position was occupied by
Richard Golden, and that when he was
seven years of age he used her kitchen
table for a stage, with sheet for
curtain and all the "babies in the block,
for an audience.
When the blood becomes poisoned or over
charged with wastC-maTtCr il begins to purify
itself through the medium of the skin, Caus-
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eases; and instead of going around with your
face covered with those eruptiOns, you should
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During serious run of whOOping cough
at saltwater, n. Y, the physicians found that
ACker's English Remedy was Il positive cure,
and prescribed 1t freely. We therefore guar
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