The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-12-01
Theatrical Notes.

Managers +. w. Sanger and Daniel
Frohman have in hand the arrangements
for the coming benefit of the Actors
Fund. Among the attractions to be Of
fered the following have already volun-
teered:-Edwin Booth, Helen Modjeska,
Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall, Wilson Barrett
and company, the Shenandoah" Com
pany and the Lyceum Theatre Company.
The benefit will take place at the Broad
way Theatre, New York, next Tuesday
afternoon. Denman Thompson has sent
800 for box.
MY Jack" an English melodramatic
success, is to be acted for the first time in
this country December 90, at the Grand
Opera House, by special cast engaged by
Manager Il. II. French, and including j.
H. Gilmour, w. A. Lackaye. w. J. Fer
guson, Daniel Lesson, Russell Bassett,
Katharine Rogers, Isabelle Evesson and
Emily Lytton.
Edwin Booth and Nine. Modjeska will
end their long engagement at the Broad
way Theatre next Saturday night. Mon
day s'The Merchant of Venice" will be
given; Tuesday and Thursday, ''Riche-
lieu" Wednesday, "Hamlet;' Friday
and at the Saturday matinee, The Mer-
chant of Venice and Saturday night,
''The Kings Fool" and Donna Diana"
The one hundredth performance of
Shenandoah" at Proctor's Twenty-th1rd
street Theatre Tuesday evening will be a
souvenir occasion. Bronson Howard
starts for London next week to look after
preparations for the production of his war
play in the English metropolis during the
coming summer.
Wilson Barrett and Miss Eastlake will
continue to play in 'The Silver King" at
the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York,
during the coming week.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Tichenor has sustained the appeal of
Clark b. Sammis from the decision of the
Collector of Customs at Boston, assessing
duty on certain theatrical scenery, cos
tunes and properties imported by him in
September and October last, for Wilson
Barrett, and claimed to be entitled to ex-
emption from duty. This establishes the
precedent, and scenery must come in duty
free as stools of trade"
Adelina Patti is on the ocean. She
sailed for New York from England No
vember 81.
De Wolf Hopper says that in all proba-
bility he will not be in the McCaull Opera
Company next year. He is considering
another offer
Mrs. Kendall denies that she is the
mother of eight children. There are only
five of them, and their mother says they
dren in the South of England.
Mrs. James S. Nickerson, the wife of
an ex-Assistant District Attorney of
Philadelphia, is the latest stage struck
society woman. George Holland and
Marion Manola, of New York, are coach
ing her, and she is already looking about
for manager
"The Charity Ball" at the Lyceum
Theatre, New York, is running very well.
Pretty Grace Henderson has made great
hit as Phyllis.
Cora Tanner will present Fascination"
at the Peoples Theatre. New York, this
week.
Lawrence Barrett's "Ganelon" has
proved great success in Boston.
Each of the Gaiety Dancers wears
twelve skirts; this is six more than worn
by either Lettie Lind or Sylvia Grey, and
it requires seyenty-five yards of lace for
the making of each set of skirts.
'Kajanka." the new pantomimic spec
tacle which is expected to excel in scenic
and mechanical splendor anything that
has been presented in New York since the
famous "Black Crook will be produced
at Niblos on MONDAY night. Manager
Ben Stern's great advertising scheme
letting loose 1900 cats with tags on their
necks-has got him advertising through
the newspapers ii not through the cats.
The arrangement under which Nine.
Modjeska is playing as joint star with
Edwin Booth is confined to this season
only, and it is more than probable that
they will not be seen together again after
the termination of the present contract
Modjeska will probably resume her career
as a star at the conclusion of this season,
Indeed, it is already arranged that Booth
and Barrett will play together again next
season, their business partnership having
been extended until the end of the season
of 1901 with that express understand
ing. The terms of partnership are the
same as those which have Kept them
together in the paso. The partnership,
like all other legitimate business partner
ships, is based on profits, and not on
receipts. Mr.. Barrett assumes all respon-
sibility as manager, and takes from Mr..
Booth all the burdens and cares of bust
ness. 1t is especially stipulated that Mr..
Booth shall not be annoyed by even q
business letter or business call which
Mr. Barrett or the exclssiveness of the
Players Club can relieve him Of. Mr.
Barrett takes all the receipts, as any
other manager does, pays all the bills
and distributes the net proceeds of the
speculation in this ratio:-To Mr.. Booth,
fifty per cent; to Mr.. Chase, his acting
manager. and the man to whom the finan-.
cial success of the enterprise owes most,
ten per cent; to Mr., Barrett, forty per
cent The business next season viii be
conducted on the same basis; but the
expenses will not be so heavy, as Mod
ieska's large salary will not have TO be
deducted before the division of the profits