Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-03
-fBOUT 4CTRESSES.

Mrs. Potter was recently photographed
in Cleopatra costumes III forty different
attitudes.
Annie Pixley viii produce this spring
can Ocean Pearl, comedy which +
e Kidder is now ut work upon, if that
busy author completes it in time.
Mabel Leonard, the former child ac-
tress of the Shook & Palmer regime at
the Union square, is now a grownup
member of Margaret Mather s support
ing company.
Cora Tanner viii star in Fascination -
until the end of next season, bat her
husband and manager, W. r. Sim, is
already on the lookout for a new play
suitable to herabilities
Mrs. d. P. Bowers has probably said
farewell to the stage. She win make her
residence in New York this winter, aud
will instruct ambitious amatfers who
want TO be professional players.
Helen Dauvray says that while her re-
turn TO the stage next season is not at all
improbable, yet it is certain that her ap-
pearance viii not be effected as a mem
Der of Joseph Jefferson 5 company.
The st. Felix sisters, three pretty girls
who have grown from infant song and
dauce prodegies into clever all round
vaudevillers, are now playing III Vienna
They are to return here in the SIMMER
John w. Norton, the st. Louis actor
and manager under whose tuition Mary
Anderson developed, has a new tragedi-
enne in training Frankie Davids is her
name and Louisville is her place OF habi-
tation.
Isabelle Urquhart is very much dissat-
istied at the engagement of Lillian Rus
sell to succeed her in the cast of Nadjy'
at the New York casino, and she viii
probably take a vacation OF indefinite
length.
Annie Summerville, who win be re-
membered as the statuesque Conrad in
the "Corsalr, - Is 10 make another
plunge into the matrimonial grabbing.
The gentleman s name is Rich, and so is
his worldly condition.
Celia Ellis, the black-eyed girl who
left the comic opera stage about a year
and a half ago to enjoy home comforts
with her recently welded husband wants
to come back to the glitter and glare of
the footlights if she can obtain desira-
bic engagement.
Mrs. Potter, the actress and ex-society
woman of New York, has little daugh-
ter who is ouriously like her mother.
The gOssips say that before she orders Il
new dress she gets smaller edition of it
made for the child, and if she likes the
effect, at once orders for herself.
Fanny Davenport has had good luck.
Not long ago she bought some land III the
suburbs Of Chicago known as the Grant
estate. 1t belonged to the late Gen.
Grant, and for it Miss Davenport paid
SIS goo. Last week she received a let
ter from her attorney inc1osing an offer
of $50 800 for the property. Miss Daven-
port will probably sell the land and in
vest the proceeds in other Chicago real
estate.
Selma DolaTo, well known in opera
bouffe, died recently in New York city.
Nine. Dolaro was an English Jewess, and
her first success was made in the concert
halls of London. After she received q
systematic musical education, and
achieved q success IN several of OfTen-
bach $ operas. She was the first to sing
Carmen in English, and she was for
a time manager of the Haymarket thea
ter. There she was the first to produce
Gilbert s. Sullivan 5 ''Trial by Jury -
She first came to the United State in
1877, as a member of the Mapleson grand
opera troupe, and appear ed at the
of Music in the role of Car
men