Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-06


business thus far is larger than last season.
THE MiddIeman" is great success in
London. In fact it is said to rank as a
literary etiortf far above "The Silver King
Mrs. Dion Boucicault louise Thorn
aykel Is TO return to the stage, appearing
IN Our Flat" at the New York iyceum
Theater, October 2Sth.
M. Nalabreque, French dramatist, is
writing comedy for Miss Adelaide Moore.
which will take the place Of the love
Story" later this season.
Sophie Eyre, who is well known in
professional circles, is going to try starring
! in America this season. Her pIay Is
called The Witch" and she is to start on
the Pacific coast.
RumOr lias it that Amelia SummeryiIle
| will leave America October 10th for Lon
don, where she will appear at the Gaiety
Theater. Her exact weight at the Ven
dome Russian bath is l72 pounds.
Mrs. George Drew Barrymore, the wife
of Maurice Barrymore, Is the mother Of
three interesting children. Mrs. Barry
more is the daughter of Mrs John Drew
and the sister of John and Sydney Drew.
Loie Fuller has taken the London Globe
until DeCember-Richard ManSfeld's nm
expired lease--and will show Londoners
what she can do with Caprice She is I
plucky little woman, and ought to succeed.
OF the present company supporting Nc
hee Rankin only Mabel Bert and Fred c..
Meader will accompany him to San Fran
cisco. He will, however, be reioined again
October 25d, at Portland, Or, by his pres
ent company.
NJ. Is. Leavitts company in the Spider
and Fly opened its season September 2Oth
in Trenton, n. j., and drew a crowded
house. The scenic effects and costumes are
described as magnificent aud the tricks are
said to be novel
Miss Hope Booth, pretty girl and an
actress of some promise in Miss Minnie
Maddens "Featherbrain," was married re-
| Gently to the Hon. Mr.. Gibbs, member
| of the Canadian Parliament. She will re-
tire from the stage.
Cora Tanner, the handsome and stat
uesque actress, makes her first appearance
IN New York tomorrow night at the Four
| teenth-street Theater, when she will again
be seen in Fascination" which made such
long and successful run at that house last
year.
j. P. Broder & Co. of San Francisco
have published the "Song for Dear Old
Father" which was written for Raymond
Moore, the California solitaire of Prim-
rose & Vests Minstrels. The music is by
c. III. Reed, and the words by Thomas P.
Getz.
J. W. Pigott has successfully produced
his new comedy, "Hhe Bookmaker" at
Grand Rapids, with Nat Goodwin as the
star. 1t will be done at Chicago, October
18th or 10Th. The Grand Rapids papers
| praise the play. Nat Goodwin was called
out for speech. Mr.. Pigott shared the
honors in the part of a dude marquis.
H. B. Farnie, the comic opera transla-
tor whose death is reported from London,
was a Scotchman who looked like Count
Fosco and had his ideas of morality in
business. His shrewdness and sagacity
made the fortune of Alexander Henderson,
of whom he was the partner, and intro
duced to the English stage the brightest of
French operettas.
Miss Carol Grouse, who was compelled
to give up her position as prima donna
contralto in the Tivoli Opera Company
In San Francisco about a year ago on ac-
count of i'll health, has entirely recovered
and is about to resume her profession.
Miss Grouse has done some excellent liter
ary work for the SUNDAY UNION and for
some of the San Francisco papers. "The
Princess Polygon" will be welcomed to the
stage again by the public.
We regret to record the death of Z. l..
Blanchard, the veteran critic of the Lon
don Era and Telegraph and author of the
Drury Lane pantomines. He was sixty
nine years old. but began writing for and
about the stage when he was only sixteen.
Ten years ago, clerks in Government
offices began to crowd him off of his
papers by accepting low wages, and since
then he has confined himself to his pan
tomlmes and "reminiscences and has had
grand complimentary benefit.
Wilkie Collins will be mourned by the
profession as well as by the rest of the
world. 1t was his ambition to become a
dramatiSt but he did not succeed. Yet
llnhis novels were dramatic and most of
them have been adapted for the stage and
have had their years of popularity. In
'The Frozen Deep" and "The New Mag
dalen" he proved himself playwright;
many of his books were first written in the
form of plays; but by some strange chance,
the magic seemed to leave his pen when
he attempted drama and he will live as
the last of the great school of English
novelists.
Irving revives "The Dead Heart" by
Watts Phillips, at the London Lyceum, on
Saturday night. The extraordinary cast
includes Irving in Webster's great part,
Robert Landrey; Ellen Terry, as Cathe-
rine Duval; S. B. Bancroft, as Able La
tour; Arthur Stirling, as Legaud Right
ton, as Toupet; Kate Phillips, as Ceri-
sette The new scenery is by Telbin and
Hawes Craven, and jacob has composed
new incidental music. 1t is probable that,
after "The Dead Heart" Irving will re-
turn to the policy of new plays with which
his London success was inaugurated.
Should Wilson Barrett accede to the re-
quests of numerous managers and friends,
and give few special performances of
"The Silver King" over here the coming
season, he will have to pay for the use of
his own property. When he produced
and made such phenomenal success with
"The Silver King" in London few years
ago he disposed of the American rights to
the play to French & Son. In accordance
with the terms of this agreement, and to
make the transaction legal, Mr. Barrett, if
he presents the piece here, must pay the
regular royalties to the Trenches, who,
after deducting their percentages, will re-
turn the balance to Mr.. Barrett How
ever, it will be interesting to see this beau
tiful drama with its original and famous
cast-with Wilson Barrett as Wilfred Dem
yer, Miss Eastlake as Netty and George
Barrett as Jaikes.
The Elixir of Life,