Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-28
COLONEL TOM MAGUIRE.

ing mortgage on the rest of the universe.
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COLONEL TOM MAGUIRE.
Old Tom,' as he is fondly termed bv
| all the members Of the theatrical profes-
sion, is seen ON Broadway, New York.
every afternoon, presenting, if ANYTHING,
| more youthful appearance than half the
| young actors who frequent the Upper Ri
alto"
In his day he was one of the wealthiest
| and most successful theatrical managers in
the United States. All the great stars.
| from Frederick Cook and the late Edwin
Forrest down to Booth and Barrett, have
at some time appeared under his manage
ment- Over thirty years ago Tom" Ma
! gulre spent mint uf money in order 10
! present to his patrons the famous Jenny
| Lind. Although verging on to three
score years, he walks at least once dav
from FHticth street TO Wall street and
| back
STAGE NOTES.
Miss Rose Coghlan is at Monterey.
Frederic de Belleville is in Berlin. Ger
| many.
Rosina Vokes is at Lake Hopatcong, the
S"SS' VI LULA"
Mazzantini, the famous bull-fghter, was
| once tenor.
Laura Joyce Bell intends to star in COM
| edy next season.
The McCollin Opera Company are play
ing the Texas circuit.
"Bluebeard, ,Jr.7 is to have long sea-
son at Niblo's, New York.
Emma Abbott is in Bayreuth, Germany.
She sails for home August 10th.
Leona Dare, the queen of the air, is one
OF the chief attractions in Paris.
Miss Alice King Hamilton is writing a
comedy to be called a Young Mans
| Slave"
Madeline Schiller, the pianist, has re-
turned from Australia, and will make her
home in London.
Miss Florence Thropp is enjoying her
self IN London, where she has already
made many friends.
J. NJ. Hill has a new dramatic prodigy
named Gladys Orme, whom he hopes will
eclipse Margaret Mather
Nine. Adeline Patti is expected at her
home, Craig-y-nos, August 20th, on her re-
turn from South America.
Ullie Akerstrom will appear at McVick-
ers, August 18th, in her own play, enti-
tied Annette, the Dancing Girl"
Turtle" Jones, the pantemimist, who
was in this country with the Hanlons, re-
Gently committed suicide in London.
Jean de Reszke, the tenor, has been suf-
fering from blood poisoning for some time
In consequence of bite from a favorite
cat.
Helen Bertram, who created the leading
role in The Kings Fool" has taken
Marion Manola's place with the McCaull
Opera Company.
The entire book of Psalms is being set
to music. NincenzO Sasaroli, an ambitious,
inspired Italian, has undertaken to accom-
! plish the task
Miss Adelaide Moore, who will present
"The Love Story" at the Fifth Avenue
Theater on August 10Th, is spending the
early summer in California.
Stuart Robson first made hit as Benia-
min Bowbell in Buried Alive" Balti-
more, 1857. Robson is the only survivor
of the cast of sixteen people.
Captain Alfred Thompson, of burlesque
fame, is to design the dresses for Dixey's
new piece, Seven Ages" Dixey is sum
mering at Manchester-on-the-Sea.
Miss Alice Chandos is in Paris, where
| she will spend the summer, the guest of
her cousin, Countess de la Dardye, who has
recently inherited a second large fortune.
J. X. Emmet has a big success in his
new play, Uncle Joe" his New York sea-
son of six weeks at the Fourteenth-street
Theater being the largest he ever played
in that city.
Joseph Lewis and Son" is the title of
new play written by Charles Dickson. 1t
is a Hebrew" drama, and will, it is said,
be presented in California, with M. B.
Curtis and Lewis Morrison in the cast.
Etelka Gerster is at Berlin, Germany,
and it is denied that she has lost her voice
entirely. She sang at concert in Berlin
last week, for the benefit of the Johnstown,
Pa, flood sufferers, and raised about $40O.
Neil Burgess is improving so satisfac-
torily that the doctors think he will be
able to return to the stage in the fall. His
hands and legs were dreadfuily burned
by an explosion of chemicals four weeks
ago.
"The EarPs Heir" the new play fer
Tommy RusselPs starring tour, is by John
A. Harrington John Carboy"). In it
Master Russell will assume the character
of two boys. 1t will be put on about Au-
gust 10Th.
In the company to play "Richard Ill"
with Richard Mansfield, Madame Ponisi
will be the Duchess OF York, Atkins Law
renee the Richmond, d. III. Harkins the
d.
the Lady Anne.
John r. Rogers has accepted for his
| wife, Miss Minnie Palmer, a comedy en-
titled Behind the Scenes" The play is
by Messrs Charles A. Byrne and Archi-
bald Gunther, and will be given trial in
London in December.
The local people who recently sang
"The Mikado' so successfully in this city
are organizing to give two light operas
early the coming fall. Charles A. Neale
is to be musical director, Maurice Hage-
man stage manager, and Mrs. w. C.
Fitch is to manage the business affairs of
the organization.
Thatcher. Primrose and West dissolve
partnership August Both. Their business
in San Francisco was phenomenal. Next
season George Thatcher will Join
Barney Pagan and organize separate
troupe. Primrose and West will continue
their partnership, which has lasted so
many years, and organize their own new
company.
Mrs. Scott-Siddons will give series of
her dramatic recitals on the Pacific coast
this fall under the management of Mr..
| Fred Pelham. Her season will open at
Denver September 10th. All of the rrin-
| cipal cities will be visited, including Sac
ramento, San Francisco, Portland, Ore,
| Victoria, B. c., and she will return East
via the Northern and the Canadian Pacific
Railroads, closing her tour at Winnipeg.
Daniel Frohman's New York Lyceum
Theate- Company played to large and de-
| lighted audiences in this city on Monday
and Tuesday evenings. The personnel of
the company is as follows: Herbert Kel-
cey, Henry Miller, Nelson Wheatcroft,
Charles Walcot, Charles Dickson, Walter
Bellows, Fred. Tibbetts, w. j. LeAloyne,
and Georgia Cayvan, Grace Henderson,
Louise Dillon, Mrs. Charles Walcot, Mrs.
Thomas Whifin, Olive Brooks.
| Dur;no a short Thunderstorm ar Aptrip,