Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-03-01
theatrical Notes,

Charles lhomas, for 5000,
James o. Ba rows has be engaged
to play the IRISH Sergeant in tie New
York production of " Shenandoah"
Sadie Martinez, Fannie Rice and j
Lillian Russell W Il be- members of the
! New York Casino Company next sea- !
son.
Louis Harrison and James T. Pow
ers, the Rats of the first " in soldier
company, are to form partnership
I for next season.
/ Edward f. Rice has arranged the
music r new b RESCUE that is ex-
pected to successfully rival " Evange /
line" and " Conrad, the Corsair.'
/ Pauline Hall will not be Il member /
/ OF the New York Casino Company I
next re son. 1t is said she will star
at the head o. ew opera company. /
/ Kyrle Bellows real name, diveste
of Ill the glamor that indiscreet friends |
have attached to j., is simple, plain,
ordinary. commonplace Harry His- !
gins.
/ The Cnion-Square Theatre, New
York, will celebrate the anniversary OF
its DIES ruction by fire by reopening I'M |
der J. NJ Hills management.
/ Florence sylvia, who figured extern
sively quite recently in the lo'al pa
pers, has signed with NJ. b. Leavit. to
90 with one of his burlesque compa-
mes next season.
Razzle Dazzle" is no longer the IA
voritc New York air. 1t has been sue
ceeded by When Chung Lung
struck high c." 1t is sung by Louis
Harrison in The Pearl of Pekin.'
1t is said that Mrs. Francis HOdg-
son Burnett is dramatizing Little st.
Elizabeth, " A story which she wrote
some time ago and which appeared
in one of the monthly ma. azines.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward has made an
emphatic protest against the stage
representation OF "Robert Elsmere'
and Mr.. Palmer has given up all idea
of producing Mr.. Gilette's dramatiza-
ton of the novel.
Mrs. Ore Owls, formerly Miss May
B rte, OF Chicago, sang a ballad recent
ly at concert given in London, and re-
ceived two encores. She was pupil
of Sig Mancusi's.
Manager J. M. Hill has proven that
he knows how to run hotel as well as
manage dramatic company. He
has a new restaurant in Boston similar
10 the one established by him in Chica-
go.
J. C. Duff has sailed for Europe fo-
the purpose of engaging IN Italian
opera company. He has not de ided
on any one vet except Schalchi, whom
he will try to Undue; to be the contral-
10 of the company
Joseph Heine, the blind violinist,
will ,hortly commence tour OF the
Pacific Coast under the management
# J. p. Howe. Twenty years ago he
vi tied San Francisco and gave Sc
les of concerts at Platts Hall.
Kate Mayhem made her San Fran
cisco debut at the Sta dard Chen
called Maguire's Opera House, four
teen years ago as the soubrette OF the
Hooley Comedy Company, # which
w. III. Crane was the com dian.
Signor Eurico CampGbello's series
of o, cratic conc rts at Honolulu did
not turn out as well as expect d, finau-
cially. At the third concert 1.-The
Happy pair" by Tyre Smith, was Civ
en-. The attendance was very light
and the concerts not particularly in
'eresting.
Emma Steiner, Il fine musician and
lady o. C nsiderable executive ability,
is directing the instrumental music
and preliminary details for the pro-
duction of "The Kings Foow at the
Grand Opera House, March 1lth.
Charles Stow, of Buffalo, has writ
ten an original American drama en-
titled An Iron Creed" which will
illustrate the nobler and more gener-
Gus qualities of the Hebrew race. 1t
will be produced at Fourteenth-stree,
Theater, New York, April 9Th.
"Said Pasha" opens the Star
Theater, New York, next Monday, the
company having played one week in
Norfolk, Pittsburg and Richmond after
the Philadelphia season, and then
journeycd to New York, where they
have been rchearsing this week.
Herman, the prestidigitatuer.
bought, last week, the entire scenery
of Mckee Rankin's Macbeth for $500.
It cost over $4,000 to paint it. Her
mann as usual is mo delighted than
if he had invented new trick.
at" Il tale of tie Kanaka King
DOM" the Libretto by Adait w. lker
and the music by Senior Don Marine
Mccoy, will possibly be produced short
ly. at is musical satire on the
court and eople of the Hawaiian
Kingdom.
Patti will make ansther tour of the
United States under the management
of Henry Abbey. She will visit San
Fra, cisco after the season in the
large Eastern cities, cpening in New
York next Nov. mber in either
'Lakme" or" Juliet"
Ia many of the London theatres six
pence Is charged for programme siv-
ing the cast of the piece being per
formed. The critics are not exempt
from the rule, and i. is the rather in
consistent custom to give a man II
seat exp citing him to CRITICS. the
per orma, ce and then tax him for
knowledge as to wh) a'e playing the
parts.
Mr.. II. J. Stewart, NJ. b., will give
lecture on ecclesiastical music under
the au.pices of the Guilds of tn ee
Episcopal parishes on Saturday even
ing, March 81. NJ. Stewart has proved
his practical knowledge of church
composite, by his oratorio, and his
theoretical Knowledge is kuowu to be
wide.
Miss Dora Wiley returned from Aus
tralia by the mail steamer Mariposa,
lat Saturday. She will play the part
of Jed's niece in Richard Golden's new
play, Jed Prouty," next season.
Pr vious to her departure for the East
Miss Wiley will play short engage
ment with Ka'e Mayhew's company
of tho Standard