Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-08
NUMBER IT.


The actress in private life is fascinating
G and delightful lady. She was born ON
March 10, lS4S, at Great GrimSby. Eng
land, the youngest of twenty-five children
born to the same father and mother.
Thomas w. Robertson, author of "CIste,'
was the eldest of the brood to which she
belonged. The family had been on the
stage for seven generations before the ad-
vent OF the Robertson family of twenty
, two children. Margaret'S father was a
lawyer, but he married mate who dearly
loved the theatery and who placed her
darling little Maggie on the boards in the
year 1897, before she WAS five wears old.
lhe hrst appearance Of the young actress
IN London was in 1865 when she PLAYED
Ophella and DeSdemoRa, but without par
tcular success. In 1858, however, on her
second visit TO the great town, she made 4
hit rs Blanche Dumont m the "Hero of
Romance" She married, in 1869, Will
lam Hunter Grimston, whose stage name
was Kendall. The couple are prosperous,
and lead in the production of what is
called the modern drawing-room drama.v
WILSON BARRETT IN @cLIro."
Wilson Barrett has acceded to the
written request of several American
managers and will include -Clitoo in his
repertoire during his coming season over
here. Despite the criticisms which the
production of "Clito'' aroused over here. be-
cause Of its alleged immortality, it proved
| an unquestiouable financial success and
our American managers have not forgotten
| that fact. 1t was in "Clit6'' that Miss
| EaStlake made her greatest personal artistic
success in this country, and some of the
! critics thought she overshadowed all others
| In The cast "Clito" will be elaborately
| mounted as before and besides Wilson
Barrett and Miss Eastlake, George Barrett
will be in the cast.
STAGE NOTES.
a. NJ. Palmer and wife sailed from Eng
land for home September 4th.
John Russell and his "City Directory''
are doing big business in the West.
Leonora Bradley has closed her engage
ment with the Lion and the Lamb" com
pany.
Harry Phillips is in New York making
arrangements for Kate Castleton's Paper
Doll' tour.
II. S. Taylor's new venture, "Kicks and
Kisses" will open at the Hollis Street
Theater, Boston, September 9th.
Willett Seaman the well-knowu baritone,
has not signed with the Emma Juch Grand
English Opera Company, as reported.
Mrs. w. j. Lawrence will not return to
New York this season. She has been ad-
vised by her physician to remain at NAL
vern, England.
Manager Hayman, of the Baldwin and
new California Theaters, San Francisco,
announces that he will shortly reproduce
Little Lord Fauntleroy."
The two principal female parts of the
forthcoming production of Shenandoah"
are played by Miss Effie Shannon and Miss
Dorothy Dorr-Shannon-Dorr.
Charles Pope, formerly manager of Pope's
Theater, st. Louis, has been rewarded for
his campaign speeches by being appointed
United States Consul at Toronto, Canada.
The Emma Juch Grand English Opera
Company, under the management of Chas.
+. Locke and J. Charles Davis, will begin
its tour at the Academy of Music, Phila-
delphia, October Dist.
Beerbohm Tree is credited with the de-
sign of producing dramatic adaptation of
"Don Quixote" Mr.. Irving once enter
tanned a similar idea, butts slow in advanc-
ing to its realization.
"a Possible Case" unde-- the manage
ment of J. NJ. Hill, will begis. its season at
the Chestnut Street Theater, Philadelphia,
on September 9th. Herbert and Belle
Archer are in the cast.
NJ. B. Leavitt will travel personally with
his new spectacular pantomime burlesque,
"The Spider and Fly" This will be the
only attraction Manager Leavitt will have
on the road this season.
Next year there will be "on the road"
at least four plays in which the central
figures will be juveniles these are Little
Lord Fauntleroy," "The EarPs Heir"
"Bootle's Baby" and "a Little American
mankind" produced at the Fourteenth
Street Theater, N New York, is one of the
best melodramas seen for many years. 1t
is gorgeously mounted and splendidly cast.
Frank Mckee will manage Mankind" in
the future.
Marie Gordon, who was the first wife
of the late John 7. Raymond, and
who is the sister of Mrs. Walter Bowers, is
living quietly in London. She is engaged
to be married to the private secretary of
the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, it is reported.
Ada Deaves will sever her connection
with ''Bluebeard, Jr.," and join her sister
Rillie in their new "Chaos Flat" "Blue-
beard" continues to draw crowded houses
to the Chicago Opera House, where it has
already made fortune for its proprietors.
The new part which Stuart Robson is to
create at the Chicago Opera House in
Steele Mackaye's "Arrant Knave," is
something between Theodore de Banville's
"Gringoire" and Paul Terriers "Tabarin"
the two characters in which Coquelir
displays the most powerful mastery of his
art.
To the great number of English COM
panies which will overrun America during
the season must be added one headed by
Lydia Thompson, who will appear in
comedy instead of burlesque. NJ. B.
Leavitt lost $4,000 last season in finding
that the American public does not care to
see Miss Thompson.
'If Any One Should Ask You," is a new
and very clever song which the popular
comedians Donnally and Girard will use
in Natural Cas-" which will open its sea-
son at the New York Bijou Theater, Sep
tember 9th for two weeks. The company
will be the strongest ever organized by
Donnelly and Girard.
The California Opera Company, one Of
the most successful on the road last year,
Will open lHelT ItSuldr ScdSOu d. Oh A@Ouio,
September 18th, in 'Said Pasha" with en-
tirely new costumes and scenery. The
company is composed of Ida Mule, Ada
Somers, Alice Gaillard, John E. McWade,
Fred Lennox, Francis Gaillard, Stanley
| Felch, Fred Urban, c. A. Schreye and
forty-fve others. George Towle is musical
director, and Ben Tuthill, as usual, mana
| ger.
! Robert Buchanan's English version of
Roger la Honte," the French melodrama
that was founded on a sensational romance
printed in lie Petit Journal, will be pro-
duced by Beerbohm Tree at the Hsymar-
ket, London, September 9TH. Mr.. Bu--
ehanan is understood to have furnished
his adaptation with prologue in which
some of the previous acts of Roger and
his comrade in arms, Lucien de Noirville,
are presented to the eye of the spectator
! instead of being merely described, as in