San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-04-04
DRAMATIC.
The Season Drawing to a Close
Notes and Personal Points.

ne season DTdWlT1S SlOSe--
Notes and Personal Points.
The dramatic season, in San Antonio
as we'll as in all cities of the country, is |
drawing to q close, and after May the
10th scarcely play house In the country
will remain open. Then New York will
be soon filled with theatre mansEers
for the next season. Manager Rische
will be one of them.
There will be only three more COM
panies at the opera house in this city be.
fore the season closes Mrs. Langtry
will be the last. Up to date there have
been l43 performances at the
Grand during the season. This
ia good showing.
Mrs. Ella Wren, who played such de-
lightful comedy in Mile Rhea's COM
pany as the old woman, is the mother of
Miss Eugene Blair, who will be remem-
bsred In Mr.. Frederick Warde's support
this season. Mrs. Wren as well as Mr..
ATory, the comedian, have been with
the Rhea company for the past eight
years. and are greatly attached to her.
Rhea's kiss Ia something quite Origi-
nal, wonderful and jolly. She gives her
leading man hearty smack. that lie
real, earnest and just the right sort of
article to make every young fellow in
with their girls Then her hug 10 warm.
strong, and quite full Of fire. Both so-
oOmplishments are best seen In the Sec
ond act of Frou-FrOu.
Her deaths, too, are quite correct, 81
do not suddenly become stiff and cold"
said she, "becAuse dead people do not.
They remain quite limp and natural for
one hour after death. Then l do not let
my jaw drop wide, but my mouth falls
half open. Ny eyes are wide open, be-
cause all p ople die that way" She is
right, and she really can get up the
mOst stony Of stony stares from those
expressive eyes, that beats all other
actresses we have seen.
Mike Kelly, Boston's favorite base ball
star, has become an sctor, playing "Ous-
ty Bob' in "A Rag Baby" company in
that city.
Grand Central theatre, Philadelphia,
was burned. The Night Owls CON-
pany lost their wardrobes and Manager
Gilmore lost entirely new sets Of ward
robes for The DEVILS Auction" va
mara, the Snow Queen" and the
Twelve Temptations"
Samuel Nj. Bishop, formerly Barnum's
STAT boy" is dead. He weighed over
| $50 pounds at his death.
Annie Pixley is in San Francisco.
Booth was compelled to make q speech
before the curtain in Frisco on the
closing of the Booth-Barr6tt engage
ment at Baldwin's, on March oath.
Joe Grismer and Phebe Davies are
back in Frisco, leading everything at
n m
"She" ia being produced in St. Louis
| to crowded houses. POpe's theatre has
been sold for $2S0.000.
Jennie Yeamsns is in Chicago.
The French opera company became
pretty deeply involved in debt in st.
Louis.
Zera semon is in New Orleans at
Faranta's.
Janauschek is in Philadelphia this
week.
Now that Langtry is coming, the pub
lilo want to see Mrs. James Brown Pot
ter before the season closes. She is In
Topeka, Kan, on the 7th inst. Couldn't
she be induced to come here?
Kate Castleton got snow bound on
her way to Pueblo.
Kirslfy's "Mszulm," to be produced
in Cincinnati, will have In it a live
elephant, camel, and donkey.
Grover Cleveland Morris, a one.pound
baby, is a Chicago Museum attraction.
The remains OF the late Bliss Whit
taker were laid to rest at Mount Green
wood, Chicago, March %. Manager
Davis OF the Hsymarket theatre sent q
pillow OF tuberoses, on which in violets
was represented a theater ticket, with
the words thereon, "Heaven's Gallery"
and Reserved Seats to the Right" on
the coupon. Deceased, last New Year
day, gave a thirteen" party; his I'M
drawn salary at the Windsor theatre
amounted to $l3, and the only unpaid
bill in his effects called for $l3.
Harry Ed wards, before a select audi
ence in the Fifth Avenue hotel, New
York, March Goth, delivered a lecture on
NEGLECTED Singers, or the Poets of the
Newspaper Columns" In the course of
his theme, he spoke of the press in much
the same eulogistio strain as did Fred
Warde at the Knights Of Pythiss ban
quet in this city.
Isl Hawkins" a comedy drama, just
written by A. l.. Fanshawe, is a success.
"a Possible Case" by Sidney Rosen-
field, has been produced for the first
time in Brooklyn.
Minnie Palmer Is In England.
"La TOsos," Bernhsrdr's play, and
"Les Surprises du Divorce" will be pro-
duced in English and in America.
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