San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-26
THEATRICAL GOSSIP.


Ware IS leading lady next season.
Mr.. l. renee Barrett has gone to
Richfield lorings, N. Y, for few
weeks.
Fanny Davenport is making a sum-
mer tour of California in Fedora" and
LA Tosca."
An adaptation of civilian Tell"
will be produced in Boston by Mr..
Fred Warde next November.
Fred Warde will begin his season at
Buffalo, under the management of
Joseph Brooks, Sept. oath.
The outdoor performance of enid
summer Nights Dream" at Manches-
ter-by-the-sea will be given July 30th.
Minnie Madden will begin her sea-
son in New England, Aug. 10Th, pro-
ducing a new play entitled "Miss
Jemina."
Fanny Davenport says the report
that she is to marry Mellow ell is non
sense. Mr.. Mcdowell may congratu-
late himself.
Fascination, with Cora Tanner in
the chief role, will be produced at the
Fourteenth Street Theater, New York,
September 10.
''The Kitty" is the name of farci-
cal play, in which w. A. Mestayer,
Theresa Vaughan and others will be
seen next season.
Mr.. Steele Mackaye was out of the
cast of "a Noble Rogue" at the matt
nee yesterday, and Mr.. Burroughs
played the title role commercially.
Rose Coghlan and her brother,
Charles Coghlan, are to make a sum-
mer trip through Nova Scotia. 1t is
romantic, pretty land, that of Evan
geline.
At Cheltenham Beach to-day fe-
male aerouaunt will descend from a
ballon by means ofa parachute. Cottie
Hunt is the name of the adventure
some woman.
Hubert Wilke will star next season,
under the management of Julius
Howe, in romantic comedy drama
of gypsy life, when the gy psy langu-
age will be first introduced on the
American stage.
E. HI. Sothern has returned from
Europe. He will commence his next
season at the Lyceum theatre about
the middle of August with a new
comedy called Lord Chumley; or, the
Knight of Lummy Tum."
Mrs. George Drew Barrymore will
retire from the company at the end of
this week. There are reasons for the
belief that Mrs. Barrymore will not
act next season. Mr.. Henley, how
ever, will remain-and so will the
other principals of the company.
Mr.. Henley, the highly talented
young actor who has been the life of
the company at McVickar's, enter
tains the hope of establishing stock
company in Chicago, of which he will
be the paincipal actor. Though no
definite plan has been formed, the idea
is large in mind and is beginning to
take form.
The repertoire of Miss Julia Mar
lowe for her coming tour has been de-
cided on. 1t includes Romeo and
Juliet" Twelfth Night 1.-THE
Hunchback," "Ingomar," 1.-THE Lady
of Lyons" GAS You Like It," and
"Pigmalion and Galatea." The sea-
son will begin in the National theater,
Washington, on November 5.
Eugene Blair is now in the city at
the home of her mother, Mrs. Ella
Wren, where she will remain until it
is time to join the Robert Downing
company, of which she will be leading
lady next season. Mrs. Wren will
travel again with Mdlle. Rhea, who
will have two new plays for next sea-
son and be under new management.
Rachers contract with the Gymnase
in Paris was lately sold at the Hotel
Drouot for ITO francs. The engage
ment from the 1st of February, 1887,
to the 1st of May, 1913, was at 5000
francs $4,000 per year, with a yearly
increase of 1000 francs $1,000. AS
Mile. Elise Felix was then minor,
the document was signed for her by
her father and mother.