The evening world., 1888-02-01

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far as California, where she has secured time
at the Baldwin Theatre, rs has been an
nounced before. Marcus Mayer asserts that
on March 10 the much-discusse lady will be
under Mr.. Abbey's management. From all
of which il will be seen that there are CON
ficting opinions ms to Mrs. Potter's immediate
future. II is sad that next February MIR:
Abbey will produce Antony and Cleopatra "
ut Wallack's.
AL Hayman, the California manager, ar
rived from San Francisco yesterday and is
now engaged in settling down in his metro
politan office for the rest of the winter. He
reports that the business on the Pacific coast
for the past few weeks has been very large,
in the face of the worst weather he can re-
member in that part of the country, The
Carleton Opera Company ut the Baldwin has
been doing a large business, and the =" Dark
Secret " at the California has made q great
hit.
]. L. Cunningham, one of the trustees
of Miss Lillian Olcotts estate, was show
ing her life insurance policies yesterday.
The lady il insured for something like $50
900. and one of the clauses in the policies is
that she shall not train lions.
When " Under the Polar Star, :" David Be
lasco and Clay Greene's melodrama, is pro-
duced in this city by Charles Frohman, the
music will be specially written by w. W.
Furst, who composed the music used in the
dramatization of She"
World Against Her" has been meeting with
q great deal of success, talks of producing 1t
in California next spring.
Nine. Modjeska produced AS You Like
It" at the Fourteenth Street Theatre last
| ,,-,,, lnfn,n N Axtla 1n,,pn Har RnualtnI
is 30 we'll knownth that it is almost unnecessary
to speak of it. She acted the part with the
delicacy and finish which make all her efforts
80 attractive. Mr.. Eben Plympton, US Or
Mary Shaw was n charming Celia. There
were many calls before the curtain. At the
matinee this afternoon Camille " will be
presented, and this evening Mime. Modjeska
abandoned the idea of going to California on
aprofessional tour. She contemplates play
ing around New York during May. instead.
Said John F.. Harley, who, with Michael F.
pallett' is Organizing a COMPANY to SUPPORT
search in the realms of the soubrette, / have
finally succeeded in securing q lady who, 10
use slang, will do us proud She Ii Emily
Kean. formerly Roland Reeds lead, and this
season with Hanlon's Voyage en- Suisse.
She i. pretty (of course), young, talented and
ambitious"
Little Mr.. Alexander Comstock, of the
Academy of Music. announces that Jerome
Ravel, the only remaining member of the
famous family of pantomimists, is on his
way to New York TO witness the second
triumph" of Mazulm,' and that upon his
arrival the theatre will be gayly decorated.
A good story is told by William j. Davis,
who has lately opened the Haymarket Thea
tire in Chicago. When he left the Columbia
Theatre he felt that he wanted a rest, and
sought a spot where theatrical things were
unknown. At last he ~bethought himself OF
the interior of Nebraska and started for Il Sc.
Guided spot called Plum Creek. After being
there a few days he met an old friend who
had settled upon a place about twenty miles
away from him. MIR. Davis accepted an in
v~itation to visit this friend. He arrived at
the ranch about twilight one evening, and to
his Mortified surprise the first thing that
greeted him was a faring poster on the side
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