Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-01


selected for test case, and the whole mat
ter will be brought before the Courts. II
is plain, of course, that the holder of q
short lease might be ruined if forbidden tc
open his house until costly alterations had
been made in it; but it is no less certain
that no theater not absolutely safe ought
to be open to thepublic for a single night
There are unsafe theaters in all large cities
and New York has its full share of them
Every manager declares that he takes
abundant precaution against every posi-
bility of fire. But so much precaution
ought not to be necessary. When the
world has advanced a little more in civil
ization, it will be impossible to set fire to g
theater, because there will be nothing il
it which will burn.
IRVING AS CLOWN.
A rumor is current in London, and i:
printed here for it may be worth, thai
Henry Irving is meditating SUMPTION.
revival of Gas You Like 1t" at the Ly,
ceum Theater, with Ellen Terry, of course
as Rosalind, and himself as Touchstone
1t is little surprising to find his name
associated with this character, considering
the easy opportunity afforded him in the
part of Jacques, but his Interpretation Of
the clown would be of rare interest. His
powers of industry, insight and originality
would all find free room for exercise, and
what the result might be no one would
dare to foretell. What Terry's Rosalind
would be like everybody can guess. The
rumor ought to be true.
PAVING: lTTrSTr FESTIVALS
Music festivals pay in England. The
proceeds of the Leeds Festival this year
reached higher total than ever before.
At the meeting of the Festival Committee
Alderman Spark reported that the receipts
amounted to e10,S35, an increase of 1888
over those of 1886, while the expend-
iture, e7,701, came to rather less than
in that year; the balance, G3,134,
thus showing net advance of e564. 1t
was decided to distribute e2,350 among
the Leeds medical charities (as against
$3.50 given in 1888 and 1866, and add
the remainder to the reserve fund, which
now amounts to e2,760.
STAGE NOTES.
Alphonse Daudet's latest comedy ''La
Lutte Pour la Vie" will be produced in
London next June.
Charlie Reeds colleagues of the "City
Directory" company, while they were in
Columbus, presented him with the Elk
badge.
The Webster-Brady "She" company is
doing excellent business on the road. They
appeared in Atlanta, Ga, on the 18th in
stant tn a snlendid housa
The receipts of the benefit to Marvin
R. Clarke, the blind journalist, at the Star
Theatre, New York, amounted, with the
subscriptions, to over $4,000.
The "Only a Farmers Daughter" COM
pany is prosperous and doing well every
where in Virginia. On several occasions
lately, people nave had to be refused ad-
mission.
The management of the Opera House,
Elgin, ILL.,, has cancelled the date for the
'Dr. Cronin Tragedy" Three or four
pieces on this theme are said to have been
written.
c. B. Cline has been engaged to manage
j. B. Polk in "The Silent Partner" and
will assume the reins when Mr.. Polk be-
gins his engagement in Brooklyn on De-
cember 9th.
Clara Morris is reported to have played
to overflowing houses in Baltimore last
week. Helene" in which she opened,
was spoken of by the critics of the city as
an unusually strong and original drama.
Marie Van Zandt is at present in Paris,
where she is preparing for her winter tour,
which commences at Barcelona, December
9th, and finishes at Madrid This success
full American artistic has added to her
repertoire "L'Etoile du Nord" and
"Ophelia."
A new musical comedietta entitled
"Crazed, or Queen of the Varieties" has re-
Gently been written by Webster C. Fulton,
Chicago dramatic writer, and is now
being played by Mrs. George S. Knight.
Its first production was quite a success for
that actress.
The reception in Boston of the Jefier-
son-Florence combination with "The
Rivals has been in every way highly sat-
isfactory. The Boston papers all speak in
most eulogistic terms of the merit of the
performance. and particularly of the sue
cess of Frederick Paulding as Captain Alb
solute.
Percival Leigh, one of the oldest con-
tributors to Punch, and a humorist well
known in select literary and theatrical
circles, has just died in London at the age
of IS years. He was the "Paul Pende-
gast " who wrote "The Comic Latin Gram
mar" many years ago, and he will also be
remembered as the author of Mr. Pips'
Diary"
Manager D. De Vivo announces the
coming appearance in this country of Sig
nor Giovanni Emanuel, supported by Sig
nora Virginia Reiter and powerful cast
His repertory for this tour comprises
4" King Lear" "Othello," Hamlet, 4"
Romeo and Juliet, LIE Demi-Monde,
Gle Nozze di Figaro" and new play
called "Nerone"
Frank Benson, the Oxonian athlete who
has been acting the Legitimate" in the
English provinces for several years, is
about to make bold essay in the metrop-
oils. He has engaged the Globe Theater,
and will be seen there in December in "a
Midsummer Nights Dream" "Hamlet, u
"Othello," and "Romeo and Juliet" In
the first play William Weare will enact
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