Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-06
DRAMA AND SONG.
NOTES OF LIFE AND NEWS OF
THE PEOPLE OF THE STAGE.
Observation-Disclosures and
Experiences.

1t is announced that Grace Hawthorne
will positively make tour of the United
States next season. She will appear in
Sacramento.
Nine. Emma Albino is about to visit
California, where she has not yet been
heard. She is to be piloted hitherward by
Signor Diego de Vivo.
The latest fad in Gotham is " the hair
album" The nice boys wear them enclos-
ing the locks pretty actresses have clipped
for them from-their wigs
The drama of "The Fall Of Rome" is
to be played out of doors in Philadelphia
the coming summer. 1t will enlist 100
actors and 400 supernumeraries.
London statistics show that during last
month seventeen little American In
dians were born in West Brompton and
EarPs Court where the Wild West
showed.
Chevalier G. A. Chizzola has again come
to grief, the creditor of the Boufes Pa
risien having closed its DOORS Chizzola
is pretty well and unfavorably known in
America.
The story that Louis James and Marie
Wainwright, his wife, had parted COM
pany, is untrue. March 18th they were
playing together at Chicago in Gilbert's
Gretchen"
The London Gaiety Burlesque Company
that is astonishing Chicago this week, has
1O5 members regularly upon its roster-a
remarkably large payroll even for bur-
lesque troupe.
Mary Anderson's dates have all been
cancelled, and her English company, after
accepting three weeks salary, disbanded.
Mary has gone to the south of France to
regain her health.
By careful nursing little Josef Holman
has been removed from deaths door,
through which at one time he was likely
to slip. He will make his Temperance
in London in September
Minnie Maddern's company has col
lapsed, and Daniel Bandman's was wrecked
in Connecticut. The sober New England
case of DIR. Jekyl and Mr.. Hyde.
Hermann, the magician, is to be here
next fall, and has, as new attraction,
Ann O'Delia Diss Debar, the spook artist
medium, who was the pivot of recent Court
proceedings in New York, for victimizing
wealthy believer.
There is wisdom that playwrights should
ponder upon in this remark of the New
York Herald: "A play, to hold the atten-
ton of an audience, should have the ele-
ment of surprise in it. 1t should not give
away its secret at the outset"
The New York Spirit of the Times has
the hardness of heart to say that many
of the actresses now reported i'll would
speedily recover if the newspapers would
cease publishing paragraphs about their
illness. This is sure cure"
Miss Dow, who taught Miss Julia Mar
lowe all she knows about the stage and
who was seriously injured at the Chicago
Opera House while coaching her pupil, is
still at hospital in Chicago, and it is
feared will never recover her mind
The next novelty which will be intro
duced at the Eden Musee will be in the
form of a microscopic exhibition. One
microscope which will be exhibited is said
to be the largest in the world, and to be
capable of magnifying ten thousand times.
The news that stroke of paralysis has
Frustrated Edwin Booth brings to mind
the fact that he made his real start, the
initial movement toward greatness in Sac
ramento, in the old Sacramento Theater.
that was located on Third street, between
| and j.
General Sherman and General Daniel Z.
Sickles are both inveterate Z" first nighters."
The first always talks loud, disturbing the
entire audience, and the other always in
immaculate evening costume, comes dur
ing the first act, and attracts so much at
tention that he greatly annoys the actors.
At recent masquerade in New York a
well-known and very thin actress said to
her manager, "Ohl Billy, Billy, do tell
me what to personate at the masquerade
tomorrow night. 1t must be cheap, you
know. Yes, something cheap, and in
which | will look natural" "Well, nv
dear girl, gid your head and go as a pair
of longs"
Louis Harrison is one of the best read
men in the profession. He can talk about
picture in way that would drive many
professional art critics mad with jealousy.
Modelling in clay is, however, his greatest
JOY, and when not on the stage wiles away
the time in his dressing-room by making
big Jumps of clay look ike eccentric peo-
pie he has met during the day.
The huge bouquets which were wont to
ornament the lodges of the opera boxes in
past seasons are conspicuously absent this
year, and flowers are seldom carried, and,
except perhaps small bunch of violets or
heliotrope, rarely worn to the opera The
newest opera glasses are small and light
,aIa llx- 81,
ported upon long sticks of tortoise shell,
which are often ornamented with the mon
ogram or initial of the owner in tiny silver
or gold letters.
The Cricket on the Hearth does not
cherrup cheerfully in Maggie MitchelPs
household, as she wants divorce from her
husband, II. I. Paddock Miss Mitchell is 81
years old, and was married to Mr.. Paddock
since October, 1868. She is worth about
100000, and this fortune is now managed
by her leading man, Charles Mace. whose
theatrical name is Charles Abbott. He is
South Boston man, and the husband of an
actress named Nellie Taylor. Miss Mitchell
has been on the stage for nearly forty
years.
The Minneapolis Journal of March 2Sth
says: Washington Irving Bishop, the
mind-reader, went through a wonderful
test yesterday afternoon which may cost
him his life. At l:15 he met the crowd
gathered at the West Hotel in anticipa-
ton, and selected committee consisting
of James Worrall, w. G. Byron, General
Hahn, E. j. Phelps, Drs. Evans and
Laton, to hide the needle. Then he went
TO dinner with two members of the COM
mittee. Meanwhile the committee drove
down Nicollet avenue directly to the ex-
position, where the needle was placed in
an old red flannel shirt The committee