The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-08-25
THEATRICAL
NEWS ITEMS.
Leading Actors and Ac-
tresses Preparing for
the Fall.
JULIA MARLOWE'S PROSPECTS
Margaret Mather's Gretchen Co.'S
tums- The Cash Girls Ballet in
the "Spider and the Fly"

thu opAuVl dHN wv FAY
Messenger and Vaughn found large
audience waiting for them when they
reached the New Grand Opera House
at Asbury Park ON Tuesday night.
Everyone went home very much
pleased with 1.-THE Tourists and its
mOral:--
A pretty maid Is nice to see, and she is nice to
WOO.
But it matters not how sweet she be if she isn't
sweet on you.
Fanny Davenport is enjoying her
self at Santa Monica, Cal.
Pauline Hall will reappear on Sep
TENDER IL at the Casino.
The new drop curtain of the Four
teenth Street Theatre is very fine.
Lawrence Barrett will sail from
England on Wednesday.
E. B. Norman, Mansfield's London
stage manager. has just arrived on
the Wyoming.
The Theatre CoiniQue in Harlem
opens its season tomorrow evening.
w. III. Crane will play from January
20, until March s, at the Star Theatre.
Lizzie Evans and her company will
appear tomorrow evening at the
Windsor Theatre.
1T Was Dream is the new topical
parody by Sidney Rosenfeld, to be
sung by Roland Reed in "'rne Woman
Hater-n
Bessie Taylor is at Nantasket Beach
turning over her pretty new costumes
in her trunks which have just come
from France for her to wear in
PASSIONS Slave"
Jennie Yeamans reports that she is
passing the summer by the sea in her
commodious villa ON Sixth avenue.
New York.
Lizzie Mccall, it seems, has a par
ticular dislike to reading her own
obituary notices.
A handsome sister of Miss Eastlake
will be a member Of Wilson Barrett's
new English company.
May Howard, a twenty-three year
old beauty of Rice and Dixey's Cor
sair company, whose ''at homen name
was Bertha Unnevers, is enjoying life
on her second husbands s(Mr. Kim
merly's) yacht, which she christened
''Nadjy.n
Pretty Anne O'Neill, who made her
debut in Harrigan's company last sea-
son, is to play the ingenue in Lord
Chumleyn this autumn at the Ly-
ceum.
The Louisville beauty, George
Davids, will appear for the first time
in New York at Burr Mackintosh's
testimonial matinee on Thursday.
Victoria Vokes is staying at her sis
ter's (Rosina Vokes Clay's) fat on
Fifth avenue.
Julia Marlowe is now without doubt
the coming tragedienne, as the fash
ionable young women are accused of
having adopted her quaint, whimsical
jerk of the head.
Rhea, who is, summering in the
mountains of Maine, will open her
season on September in Buffalo.
Patti is to take her farewell-farewell
of New York on the 18th of next April.
There are seventy people coming
over from England in the Faust Up
to Date company, with Florence st.
John for leads, which will open at the
Broadway Theatre on Dece mber 8.
When one meets lady fiourishing
around q pretty ivory and Russia
leather card case, one may know that
it was ore of the souvenirs at the
Tooth performance of 'sThe Brigandsn
last Wednesday evening at the Casino.
Rudolph Aronson's picture graces one
side and a handsome engraving OF the
Casino the other, while the inside is
arranged with card pocket and a
bevelled glass mirror
Young women in San Francisco in
September will have an opportunity
to study Margaret Mather's costume,
as the Gretchen Is the toilet craze of
the moment.
Adelaide Moore, who can be seen in
ssThe Love Story during the coming
week at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, is
decidedly handsome.
1t was very cruel of Mile. Mantle to
tell Bernhartit that she reminded her
of pair of castinets.
Forty young women will take part
in the cash girls ballet in M. b. Lea
Wits production of 1.-The Spider and
Fly.n Ii they are not little more
nimble on their feet than the usual
article. the audience will bundle out
without waiting for any change.
1t does seem as ii 1t would not be
necessary to send to London to get
people for kicks and Kisses" but it
has been, aud Violet Nenanl, of the
Drury Lane, and Agnes Miller. of the
Strand, must have been imported for
the osculatory business, as M. and
Mile. Star, who are coming from the
NOuveau cirque, Fafis, are evidently
to do the kicking.
1t is to be hoped that IA Poor Re-
lation" will be wanted to stay when
he turns up at Daly's Theatre tomor-
NOR evening. This particular one is
not only iinpecunious but proud.
Modieska is becoming very costly in
her habits all at once. After wearing
one saffron hued China silk as Juliet
for the last thirty-fiye years, she has
now turned around and ordered
thirty-five new gowns.
Bolossy Kiralfy is said to have
looked very eareworn since the elixir
has been pronounced a failure, as he
had ordered a reckless amount of it to
be served to his "Antiopen ballet from
their pasteboard golden goblets.
Sylvia Gerrish and Isabel Urquhart
are usually to be found on the Long
Branch boat at nine o'clock OF Sun
day morning, and they stay very often
at the Branch until Monday after
noon.
Lena Merville, of "The Oolah, joins
Aunt Bridget" on September o.
r III Rvtev and Madelina Tueetfe