Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-07
PLAYS AND ACTORS.

Boucicault says that 81 is enough to pay for
any seat in theatre. He is right
Charles CoghIan will return to Mrs. Lang
try next falI-at least the gossips say that be
will
Billy Florence has been compelled to
stop playing for time, on account Of q sore
throat.
Barry Sullivan, the Irish tragedian, is
coming back to America for a tour Of FIVE
months.
Miss Rosa Boden, who recently died in
London. aged so years, was popular actress
at Covent Garden theatre forty Years age.
Fanny Davenport is said to be her own
stage manager. and always directs the re-
hearsals and performances of her company
Augustin DAILY goes abroad early this year
He and his company sail for England on
April IA He will visit London, Paris and
Berlin.
The "Pittsburg grip throat disorder
that troubled singers in the smoky city for
years. has disappeared with the introduction
Of natural gas.
Mile Nikifa the l6-year-old American
prima donna discovered by Strakosch, has
been engaged to sing at Kroll's garden, Ber-
LIN, next summer.
Patti is TO give forty concerts in South
America under Mr. Abbey's management
She sails from Lisbon in May and will open
in Buenos Ayres in June.
William Mcfarland, who died in abject
poverty in Minneapolis recently, was mem-
Der Of Mscready's company when the great
English actor was in this country
For her spring season, under H. C. Miner,
Mrs Potter will receive a third Of the
net profits, in addition to her salary Of
800 and her carriage and servants expenses
A Boston "nejumr says that Josef Hof-
mann plays under spirit guidance, and that
. tall and masculine spook has been seen to
stand over him, resting his hands on the lit
tie fellows head
Miss Menk Mayer. who is not yet Is years
old, is the musical wonder Of Vienna. She
has composed the music and written the
hbretto Of an opera, and is regarded as q
prodigy. She was pupil Of List.
w. J. Seaman, the Irish comedian, is
growing rich, and owns more property in
New York city than any other actor. When
q man grows wealthy by singing Peek a
Boo" there is need Of social reorganization.
Booth and Barrett will play in San Fran
cisco for three weeks, beginning March s..
Senator Fair has offered SO, 900 for the Bald
| win theatre for one night to have an exclu-
sive theatre party. The offer is being con-
| sidered.
Ii is stated that Adelna Patti never con-
sented to sing gratuitousiy in London but
| once, and that was for q concert which had
| to he abandoned, at no little expense, as she
sent word in the morning that she was too
hoarse to sing.
NINE. Coquelin, mother of the famous
comedian Of the Franchise, is living i'll Paris
with her sons She prefers extreme sim
plicity in the furnishing of her rooms, though
she might cut a dash if she chose, and she
would not be the first French woman of 20
| to do 50.
A Belgian manager wishing to inform good
| fathers and mothers Of the character of the
plays produced at his theatre uses different
colored bills A red bill signifies that the
play is somewhat doubtful white bill that
it is moral, and blue bill that it is betwixt
and between.
| Robert {. Hudson, Frederick Warde's
| manager, was born on an Indian reserva-
ton, but is not an Indian. Like the gentle
man who protested that his American nativ-
ity did not prevent his being an Irishman, he
thinks tina: "a mans being born in stable
| doesn't make him O horse"