Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-10-17
GREEN ROOM GOSSIP.

Bill Nye and James Whitcomb Riley will
appear at Blacks tomorrow night.
Ned Harrigan's new play, THE URea-
gan's,, has made a hit in New York.
| The company from the New York Casino
is now playing "Erminie" in Philadelphia.
McCaulPs Opera company will produce
Don Caesar" at Heuck's, Cincinnati, this
week.
1t is said that the Cameron Opera COM
pany has already encountered financial diff
culties.
Charles Pope and Mrs. Chanfrau have
closed their seasons and disbanded their
companies.
"Uncle Toms Cabin" has not been
produced here for at least a year. What's
the matter?
Frank Mayo is playing "Mordeck" and
THE Three Guardsmen' through the New
England circuit.
Lester and Aliens minstrels are said to
be on their last legs. They are now play
ing in Michigan.
Kate Forsythe's company has commenced
rehearsals preparatory to opening in ST.
Louis, October "a.
1t is said that Charles Hoyt will soon
marry Flora Walsh. the Carrie Storey Of
the Tin Soldier Co.
Tangled Lives" affords neither Mantell
nor Miss Carey an opportunity for the full
display of their talents.
1t is said that President Cleveland and
his beautiful wife are regular dead-heads at
the Washington theaters.
HenryV. Donnelly, of Kate Castleton
. Co., played here in "The Skating Rink"
with Nat Goodwin last season.
Mary Anderson is giving series of per-
r formances in Dublin for the benefit of the
Charleston earthquake sufferers.
] Kate Castleton's part in "The Crazy
Patch" is not Of any great Importance.
But for goodness sake don't say told you.
5 John d. Gilbert of the Kate Castleton
: company, made great hit here two OF
= three years ago in Mestayer's Wanted a
Partner"
Dave Croft still keeps his eye on the
stage door at the Grand. Dave says it is
cold day when anyone" makes a sneak
on him.
John Gilbert as Bill Smith, the lunatic,
and Eddie Girard as the policeman, in
'The Crazy Patch" are hard pair to beat
as fun-makers.
Hot Water" will be on the road again
this season. Adali Richmond has been en-
gagged to play the part that Alice Harrison
I had last season.
Robert Downing played to immense
audiences in Louisville last week. He will
probably be seen again in this city before
' the season closes.
Edwin Booth played to over s25, ,OOO
1 in Chicago. There was no increase in
E prices, and hundreds were turned away at
: every performance.
Harold Forsberg has given up the strug-
S gle with bad play and worse luck and has
Z returned to New York. Manager Teegar-
den is now in this city.
Nat Goodwin has made a phenomenal
success in Little Jack Shepherd" Not
I withstanding the success of the play, new
piece is already in rehearsal.
Violet Cameron has failed to make de-
: cided success at the Casino, New York. Her
manager, Lord Lonsdale, has been refused
admission to the New York clubs.
The Dayton Herald asserts that Miss
Blanche Curtisse, the alleged "Vassar
e beauty" of GARDENERS ''Zozo" company,
must have graduated from yassar with the
class of AT.
Mantell's play, Tangled Lives" did not
q meet with much favor here. The acting,
d however, was excellent and the company
the most efficient and evenly ly-balanced seen
here this season.
= Augustin Daly's Under the Gaslight"
company, which created quite a favorable
impression here short time ago, will re-
turn next Saturday, Oct. %, and produce
! the play at the Grand.
: Miss Jennie Satterlee as Nancy Drake in
"A Ring of Iron," made quite hit at the
Grand on Thursday night She reminds
one very much of Annie Ward Tiffany in
3 ''The Shadows of Great City,"
The Alta Norman opera company has
given up the ghost. The fair Alta skipped
r and left her company to the tender mercies
of the landlord. The last appearance Of
this company was at Springfield, Ill.
Wilson Barrett received an enthusiastic
welcome on his first appearance in New
York, last Monday. The critics do not
consider him by any means great artist
but unite in praise of his stage manage
ment.
Nelson Wheatcroft gave very pleasing
performance of Hawson in Tangled
! Lives" In this play he has part much
better suited to his capabilities than that of
Tom Cooper in THE Shadows of Great
City," which was decidedly too heavy for
him.
Ada Gray played "a Ring of Iron" at the
Grand Thursday night to beggarly business.
A liberal estimate would place the house at
sl25. The company was very good through
out, but the play possessed but little merit.
1t would be an improvement if some of the
suggestive passages were omitted.
Manager Reist, of the Grand, Dayton,
has incurred the deadly enmity of the Her
aid, of that city. This paper claims that
Mr.. Riest owes that paper over $500 for ad-
vertising, and as Mr.. Reist refuses to pay
the bill, gets satisfaction by damning, with
out mercy, every attraction that appears at
his theater. But one good attrac-