The evening world., 1888-01-25

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3I@ASSdkks& parts of the house.
MWZ%gH8AGhkSySs Seats will range from
W/W//T77HrA Is cents to 81. The
first attraction that comes to the theatre I'M
der its new management is the big "She"
organization. Mr.. Charles Frohman yester-
day notified Mr.. II. @. Miner that the organ
ization would be at the theatre on time. salts
fed with the change in management, but
would insist that the contract should be car
ried out as far as prices were concerned. In
other words, " She" must not be visible for
Is cents. That is how the matter stands II
present.
There Is considerable rivalry between these
pioneers of cheap theatres, Messrs. Jacobs
and Proctor. They are each trying to outdo
nestly all the same. Proctor secured the
Grand Opera House in Wilmington, Del. thus
making two houses that he will control in
hat own next season. Mr.. Jacobs secured
the Grand Opera-House at Reading, Pa. AL
though both managers control theatres to-
gether, they seem to be gradually drifting
apart.
Courtlandt Palmer and the Nineteenth Gen.
fury Club will be tho guests of Manager j.
M Hill at the Union Square Theatre next
"Wednesday afternoon. There will be an en-
tertainment, at which amateur and profess
sional talent " will be in good force, Court
landt Palmer's little boy. who is said to be o
prodigy, will play the piano.
The tank plays are meeting with success.
Both Lost in New York" and "A Dark
Secret" are doing q large business: Mr.;
s stiiI tS Sth onl play yylIeo my Bei RT9t bsedu s'stefb,y y
Miss Minnie Palmer. John R. Rogers says
that Glover originally sold this play to Kit
Clarke. Afterwards he sold it again to Mr..
Rogers. When Rogers produced the play in
the piece, which was also bought by Rogers.
During the Boston engagement Rogers re-
ceived q letter from Miss Lolita, in which
that lady said she had read the plot Of I" My
Rith the p Say's That Mr. G sHs ha da sold Iit to hsr.
Rogers showed, however, that the play which
! he bought lfrom Kit Clarke annotated that
sold to Miss Lolita, and thus the matter was
settled.
John Russell expects, at the end of the
week, to sign q contract with John Stetson
for the production of his Natural Gas" at
the Fifth Avenue Theatre during the month
of April. The company, which has played
as far West as San Francisco, il ct present in
Philadelphia.
Fred Turner and George Cohen are two
young men never seen in the production Of
" Conrad the Corsair " at the Bijou Opera
and mSr The hind indy legs play Of fe The muley. II The 'C youas
men have been with Manager Price all their
lives, which period, however, is not a very
long one. They call themselves animal
interested in their parts that whenever they
see a mule they begin to kick. Henry L.
Dixey began his career as the ~forelegs in the
heifer in 7" Evangeline." so there is hope for
the youths devoted to the sportive mule.
HF:.. uo1oo po..r Ill noo.oko Acadia. T..
the spring, instead of waiting until autumn,
as was intended. She will appear in o play
called "Woman's Wit"
John A. Mackay will open his season at the
Grand Opera-House, Buffalo, Feb. 10, when
being rehearsed at the Fourteenth Street
Theatre.
Alexander Comstoek. Of the Academy OF
very frequent at the "Mazulm" pantomime.
One party last week consisted of forty young
ideas" and they filed several boxes. They
were attended by nurses and maids. They
seemed to enjoy the performance hugely.
the Fourteenth Street Theatre Mime. Mod.
jeska will appear in Camille" AS You
Like It." donna Diana and Gym.
beline." In the last -named play Nine. Mod,
leskh Will Do Seen lor TIC urbL tlme Ill tulh
city.
Thatcher. Primrose & Vests Minstrels will
play a weeks engagement at Niblo's. begin,
ming Feb. 6, They promise IN entirely new
programme. Mr.. Cyrus ID. Prell wakes en-.
thusiastic about the "gorgeousness of the
costumes"
Charles Coghlan will play the part of jim
the Penman at the Brooklyn Theatre next
week. His support will include Mrs. Agne.
Booth, Miss Maude Harrison, Alexander
Salvini and Walden Ramsay.
Mrs. Langtry's private car, which is being
built for her at Wilmington, Del, will bt
one of the most gorgeous palaces on wheels
ever constructed. Thu cost will be about
500. 900. 1t will be equipped with Office,
dressing-room, bath and bedroom. The bed
room will be padded IN every part, so that il
case of railroad accident Mrs. Langtry viii
fall gently. Mrs. Langtry will undoubtedly
recover the money thus spent in the curl
osity to which the car will give rise, in thu
same way that w. s.. Eden. proprietor o
THE Arabian Nights" recovered the 100
silver dollars with which he paved his barber
shop in the Palmer House, Chicago.
was in Wilmington, Del. on Monday, =