Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-20
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Mabel Bert has rejoined Mckee Ran
kins Company.
NJ. B. Leavitt is building s25OOOC
theater in Denver, Col.
Modjeska is to receive $1,000 week
from Booth and Barrett next season.
Hoyt's "a Brass Monkey" has made as
big hit in Boston as it did in New York
1t is nip and tuck between Minnie Pal.
mer and Corinne who has the most dia.
monds.
Tie newest and most fashionable dis
ease among professionals at present is ton.
silitis
A Chinese dramatic company will be
one Of the novelties in New York next
season.
The new American opera to be produced
at the Union Square Theater, June Sd, is
called Gabrielle"
Adelaide Moore will make another tour
of America next season in piece called
"The Love Story"
Grace Hawthorne's American tour will
begin next November, when she will APP
pear in a new play called Josephine"
Nat Goodwin bought $3.50 opal ring
last week. He went home with it; found
Mrs. Goodwin indisposed; walked out
again and presented it to the first friend
he met. When he returned he felt better
and so, he said, did Mrs Goodwin.
Bella Pateman has produced, at Birm-
ingham, new drama written for her by
Sims and Petit. She has part full Of
wifely and motherly devotion Mr.. Pate
man is fitted with Quilp character
There is a child in the play and the low
comedian has real bulldog to play with.
One of the fads of the season is the
whistling girl, and anything more uninter-
esting than Pretty girl puckering her
pretty lips into whistle is hard to mag
inc. Lord Byron said something about
not liking to see pretty woman eat.
What would he have said if he had seen a
pretty woman whistle?
Robert Elsmere," dramatized by Will
lam Gillette, against the public protest of
the author, was produced at the Hyperion
Opera House, New Haven, last week The
principal cast was: Robert Elsmere E. III.
Vanderbilt Edward Langham, John T.
Sullivan; Catherine, Dorothy Dorr; Rose
Leyburn, Effie Shannon.
Louis Harrison is the only American
actor that Chinaman take any stock in,
and his pictures are displayed in nearly
all the laundry shops in New York. A
wealthy Chinese merchant in Mott street
presented him on Monday last with pair
of gorgeously embroidered shoes. The
presentation was made in Chinese, and Mr..
Morrison replied in the same language.
The new toy, "Pigs in Clover" which is
at present amusing full-grown people in
Gotham, has cost the rank and file of the
profession great deal of money, as the
majority of them try TO drive the pigs in
the pen behind the scenes, forget their cues,
and are consequently fined. Keller, the
magician, gets the pigs in the pen in one
second. He turns the box three times and
in they go.
Alan Dale, the dramatic critic of the
Euening World, has written book called
"a Marriage Below Zero" which has set
Gotham a-talking. The sins of Sodom
and Gomorrah have been used for the first
time by the novelist, and the result is hor-
rible, but readable. Alan Dale's name is
Alfred j. Cohen, clever young English
man, who has resided in New York for
FIVE years. The book is selling like hot
cakes.
Miss Alice Chandos recently came with
in shoestring of being blown off the top
of the Eiffel Tower, Paris. She bad been
told that the wind and tower were both
too high for ladies to attempt the asoen-
Sion, but she disobeyed orders, and no
sooner reached the top of the tower THE
first lady who had attempted it, than the
wind engulfed in her skirts, and had she
not tripped On loose shoestring and fell,
she would have gone over the parapet
Hence, saved by a shoestring.
When Miss Amelia Summerville was in
Europe with the Dixey "Adonis" Com