Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-18
NUMBER II.

| Se'lsou iVI ON opefatlc tonr under the man.
agemeat of Henry Z. Abbey.
Henry f. Dixey is still at Manchester
| by-the,Sea, studying his great part in his
new play The Seven Ages"
Eddy Girard is at Long Branch and
| Henry Donnelly at Mount Clements. Mich.
Natural Gas viii be LET on in August.
Edwin Booth has given $500 toward
building an armroy and litrarv at his ma
tive town, Belair, Hartford county. Mary
land.
Il is announced that Maggie Mitchell
will marry again, this time to Charles Alb
bott her leading man. She is now in
Hamburg.
Pretty Miss Anna L. Jackson. late of
the Conreid company, will be member Of
Lewis Morrison's Faust Opera Company
next season.
NiScount Dunlo, heir of the Earl Of
Clancarty, recently married a gay and
festive London vaudeville vocalist named
Belle Bolton.
Charles Frohman has returned to New
York, and IS busily at work on the pro-
ductIon of Shenandoah which is to le
produced at ,lse Star Taestpr.
After all his hustling, W. W. Kelly's
London Theater is IN the hands O.. q re-
ceiyer, and the great American blowerwiu
soon return to his native land.
Mrs. Kendall, the famous English
actress, Is the youngest of tweutv-tv-o chill
dren, and comes of a family that has fur
nished seven generations to the stage.
The best new opera abroad Is "Le Roi
d Us, by Lalo, young French comnoser,
which is given at the Opera Cou,iauc. 1t
Is beautiful work, full Of melody aud in
geniously orehestrated.
Mr. Grismer and Miss Davies BROUGHT
The Burglar" to California with fear and
misgiving, but the piece has scored sue
cess in San Francisco, and is up FOR a long
run. The play viii be given here in the
course of Il month.
1t turns out that the real reason why
Irving is not coming to America any more
is because he feels offended at the treat
ment some of the newspapers gave him
when lie was here last timeo Ellen Terry
says that she contemplates another visit
here.
The Sacramento public addicted to
dramatic loves will be pleased to learn that
Fanny Davenport is to appear here in Oc-
tober and will reproduce ia Tosca, and
1t goes without saying that there are no
actresses, If we except Bernhardt. who do
La Tosca" better than Fanny Davenport.
Pauline Hall was first made known to
the admiring dudes of this metropolis by
Mike Leayitt in the "Adamless Eden" at
what Is now known as DoCkstader'S Thea-
ter. She gets more money now from the
Casino than she did from the Eden man
agement, but she is neither more admired
nor more beautiful than she was then.
1t may not be generally known that Tony
Pastor first exploited Lillian Russell as a
prima donna. This was at his famous old
house on Broadway, where she was heard
in "The Pirates ofPenzance." She received
small bouquet the first night. Since
then she has been the recipient of flowers
enough to cover large area OF New York
city. She was success from the start
Manager Aronson, of the New York
! Casino, saws "Whiie was on the other
side this remarkable thing was observable,
that the two great capitals of Europe
! London and Paris-depend upon America
for their singers; for in Paris, at Che Opera
Comique, was Sibyl Sanderson IS prima
! donna, while at the Grand Opera Miss
Eames was singing in Rom, and Juliet
! In London were Van Iandt, Nordica, and
! Nevada"
Miss Isabelle Coo, who made such sue
cess last season as the Yankee Schoolma'am,
in "a Midnight Bell" is passing the sum-
mer with Mr. and Mrs Charles Hovt at
their pretty home in Charlestown, \. II.
Miss Coe, in private life, is known as Mrs.
Frank Mckee, and her pretty little girl,
named after her, but called BABY Mckee,
is quite as pretty and as much admired as
| the other baby Mckee in the White Honse.
Next season Miss Coe will be leading lady
of Nat. Goodwin's company.
Walter Arnold, the proprietor of the
London Iyceum, is dead. He retained
possession of procenium box at the right
of the stage, and entertained lis friends
there upon all great occasions. His last
appearance i'll public was on the first night
of Macbeth" He was lucky in his ten
ant, for Mr.. Irving expended large sums in
| additions and improvements to the build
ing, which still remained in full possession
, of the landlord. Mr. Arnold was 80 years
of age, and enjoyed life to the last
a more lugubri0us drama than "Joce-
| lyn cannot well be fancied. There is not
in 1t ray Of sunshine or a CLEAN of wit.
But Rose Coghlan and her fine company
play 1t charningiy. Their engagement in
San Francisco has been fairly successful
with the dismal piece-withal it Is fisci-
natingly interesting-and they wiz make
country tour a couple of weeks hence.
The company win appear here late this
month in three plays, one of which will
be Masks and Faces" and more uharm-
ing Peg Wofiiugton than Rose Coghlan
one could not wish to see.
While grand operas and light operas are
magnifcently put on in Paris at the Opera
House and the Opera Comique, the setting
| and dressing of comic operas are shabby in
| the extreme. There are four houses pre-
! sentiug this class OF work-the Varieties,
Bouffes Parisiennes, Fo'ies Dramatiques
and Renaissance. All are small and stufy.
In some of them the chorus does not num-
Der more than eighteen, and the dresses
and scenery are miseI able. If any Ameri-
can manager were to put on such a
wretched production, its career would
probably be limited to one night.
The cable dispatches in regard to VIII
son Barrett being supported by an Ameri-
can company during his forthcoming tour
of the United States are pronounced erro-
neous by his American manager Clark S.
Sammis. Mr.. Barrett is contemplating
appearing in Paris just prior to sailing for
America, and he would have no time
; to devote to rehearssing an Ameri-
can company. So he will bring over his
entire London company, he; ded by Mrs.
Eastlake and George Barrett. About ten
of these fullyequipped English compa-
nies are coming to America during the
coming season, and the question is, what
will become of the American actors if this
is continued ? q
1t is said that one night not long ago,
Barrymore, who is thought to be the
handsomest man on the stage to-day, was
coming from the Union Square Theater
escorting home handsome and very large
woman. Now, the beautiful actor is a
superb athlete, aud it's bit dangerous to
say anything unpleasant to him. How
ever, one OF the impudent cahmen along
the square called out to him: "Say, chappy,
don't you want a cabby for your chippy %
The cabman found his resting place in the
gutter. Barrymore had given him. one
straight, and after the first indignation the