The evening world., 1888-12-10
THE STAGE AND ITS PEOPLE.
NEWS NOTES AND PERSONAL GOSSIP
AMONG THE PLAYERS.

nfiss Loic FuIler,s Remarkable Repertoire
and Solid Financial arrangements for
Her West Indian Trip-Den Thempson'"
Contempt for a Mere Hundredth Night
Uncle Josh's Biography.
William Morris, who with q company
headed by Miss Loie Fuller was to have
sailed for the West Indies on Saturday, IL Ill
with ~gastritis and was unable to leave. The
sailing has therefore been postponed Until
Dec, 20. Miss Fuller is very delighted with
her engagement, and she certainly has every
reason TO feel pleasure. She is to appear in
an astonishingly varied repertoire. In fact
abe will play Juliet In Romeo and Juliet"
Parthenia in "Ingomar," Pauline in 1.-THE
Lady of Lyons" Lady Teazle in The School
for Scandal, " Fedora in the play of that name,
Mrs. Ralston in Jim the Penman," Vera in
moths" Galatea in "Pygmalion and Gala
tea,' and also in Caprice" There's q roper
toire for you'll Miss Fuller is to get $20c per
week Ono fairy tale business about it), and
twenty weeks salary will be deposited here
before she starts. She therefore need not
feel any anxiety about the venture, which, it
Ia thought, will probably be very successful.
Little Clarence worrall, the boy cornet-
list, will play in Philadelphia next week APP
pearing between the acts of that classical
work known as "Zo-Zo, the Fairy Queen"
E. A. Mcdowell. the brother of Melbourne
Mcdowell, and formerly the leading member
Of Clara Morris Company;N MIA has S Tort . the foe
Canada. Mr.. Mcdowell will engage Q com
pany and produce the play. 1t is said that he
10 negotiating with Emily Rigll, who played
the role of Carina at the Broadway Theatre.
Mr.. Mcdonnell will be lucky if he gets her.
James Crossen, who is known in connection
with THE Bankers Daughter" has with
George James secured the rights to - Esmer-
Jannar S.u This is is not particularly startling,
but it goes to show that what is dead to New
York may possess enough vitality to kick and
live on the road.
envy of Music last night. The weather was
not particularly exhilarating and the audience
was not conspicuously large. But It was ap-
Preeiatiye, and the sunday pop T vii u an
t~ertainment last night was decidedly
enty-frst Regiment Band played the
S%ysssncs e Sounod Tse Ave Merry Mar %,S's . SCI OF
schubert's "Rosamunde." a pot-pourri Of
Rosini's operas, and the "Halleluiah
chorus from THE Messiah" Two little
ladies, called respectively Emma and Emelie
Schneelock. sang; Mr.. Bowen did some cor
net work, Edward MoIlenhauer played the
violin, and Miss Anna Russell sang. These
concerts ought to be extensively patronized.
Denman Thompson looks like happiness
with a capital HI p~ersonifed. 1--WE have
passed the one hundredth performance of
The Old Homestead at the Academy" he
.asl los ,srht land unn ana Wa hIhnSf avan
notice it. Souvenirs ? Oh, no. Well wait
until We can celebrate the seventh year OF the
production before we give souvenirs. Mr..
shown by clergymen. The Endorsement of
the Evangelist has already been noted here;
that of the Christidn at Work is the latest.
Mr.. Thompson laughingly. suggests as Q sub
ject for q souvenir Hamlet shaking hands
with q clergyman.
Denman Thompson's life by James Jay
Brady. is in the press. 1t will undoubtedly
be an interesting little volume. II will be
prettily illustrated.
Mrs. James Brown Potter will begin her
engagement at PalmeI's Theatre. Dec: "a, in
.''Twixt Axe and Crown" Kyrle will also
P Ps there will Be plas ap e ths + Park rflms Thes MFs.
Brooklyn, in "'Twixt Axe and Crown"
Romeo and juliet" she Stoops to Con-
quer," The Lady of Lyons" and Mile.
uo Drebbler.
Herbert Kelley has received several letters
anent his carrying o gold-headed cane as q
supplement to a dress suit. The general
opinion seems to be that a silver headed cane
would be more in accordance with his mod
est. retiring disposition. Kelley, however,
prefers the gold
r. M. Hooley. of Chicago, has returned to
the city. He says that business in Chicago
has been extrem, ly large this year, and that
the theatres did not suffer at all from the
Presidential excitement. In fact, the season
has been better than its two predecessors in
spite of there being two more theatres to par
ticipate in its profits.
THE Two Sisters ~ will remain at Niblo's
until Christmas. Author Ryer is constantly
making changes and bringing the play into
more compact shape. New York shows its
good taste In approaching such simple,
earnest plays as >" The Old Homestead, u
The Two Sisters" and Little Lord
Fauntleroy."
Dockstader will sing the topical song, III
I Were a Millionaire" written by Monroe
II. Roseofeld and suggested by the dis
~cussion in The EVENING WORLD, tonight.
Vt will be a great song.
Theodore Tbomaa,a Orchestra.