Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-04
STAGE AND ACTORS.

by New York playgoers.
Mary Anderson is in Chicago, where
she will play till February l6.
Matte Ferguson is playing with W. ] :.
Seaman now in New York. in "Myles
Aroon, and is making success OF it.
Miss Genevieve Ward is starting out on
her last Forget Me-Not'' tour in
England, her rights in the play ending
next August.
Henry E. Dixey is to produce bur-
lesque of Faust - The libretto was
written by Joseph Talerar of London, and
the music by f. L. Rice.
Booth and Barrett will open the new
California theater May 10. They will
remain four weeks in San Francisco and
viii close their present tour about the
1st of July.
The well known actress Mrs. ID. P.
Bowers is said TO have two proposals I'M
der consideration for next season, one to
play with Edwin Booth and the other to
join the stock company of A N. Palmer.
E. H. Sothern s tour embraces a trip
to California and return engagement i'll
Chicago, which viii extend his season to
July &, after which he will be given a
rest of four weeks before opening his
summer season at the New York Lyceum
Shakespeare must feel very much ire
vived - after the gorgeous Shakespearean
revivals presented by Mrs. Potter and
Mrs. Langtry in New York. 1T is said
that the works of the Bard OF Avon
are produced superbly in everything but
The words New York is indulgent,
however, and this trifling detail is over
looked because of the splendid spectac-
MAR effects and dazzling electric lights.
which were quite unknown in the days of
Shakespeare.
The present of the season is the Ken
dial fan, designed by no less person than
our popular actress, who has proved her
self possessed not only of histrionic but
also of inventive genius. Her candle
shade, which she patented not long ago,
was quite the rage for time, but her
latest invention has all the advantages of
the Old-fashiOned retiCule without its in
nyeniences To the uninitiated this
treasure appears as 4 handsome black
lace fan, but when examined by one who
knows the 'secret springs, the useful
ness of the parasol containing fan and
watch sinks into insignitcance for con-
cealed in Mrs. Kendall S new patent are
scissors, mirror, hairpins, powder-puff,
tiny watch How our grandmothers
would have stared at the thought of being
provided with all these neeessaries of q
toilet table in the person of an innocent
looking, and, to all appearances, simple
black FAM London Letter
Notoriety seems TO be the prime quail
fication of the modern actress, Judging
by the eagerneSs with which theatrical
fO lnit Gc4o
OF the stage women who have become
prominent in any manner, either through
success or misfortune. Mrs. Potter, who
first attracted attention by reciting the
odious ''Ostler Joe'' poem at Washing
ton, and Mrs. Langtry, who became
talked about because of the Prince of
Wales alleged infatuation for her, gained
access to the profession by the noto-
riefy they had achieved outside of it, and
now Mrs. James @ Blaine, ir., who has
been divorced from her young husband,
is going to storm tie stage and hopes for
success because OF the extensive adver-
Using she has received through her mar
ried misery. Mrs. Blaine has signed q
three years contract with Manager FrGh-
man of New York, and in a short time
will come forward to contend with Mrs
Langtry, Mrs. Potter, julia Marlowe and
the rest for the laureIs of the stage.
There is quite crusade in London
against encOres i'll comic opera. The gal
lery protested five minutes against ain en-
core for Miss Wadman on the first night
of ''Paul Jones. 1t is quite probable
that encores viii abandoned for a time at
least.
Taking the crowded state of the New
York theaters as Il test, what 81 lot of
people with spare cash there must be i'll
the Empire city Just now. The leading
houses, from the Star TO the Broadway,
are positively piling up the money. 1t is
a managerial millennium - New York
Herald.
Henry Irving has received much praise
for the lessons he Taught Americans in
stage management, but the lavisherS of
this praise forget that Henry Irving and
Wilson Barrett and all their disciples
simply exalt and glorify the theatric eff
feet for the purpose of covering up dram
attic feebleness and hstrionic poverty -
7 Minnie Palmer.
Edwin Booth recently proposed Bob
Ingersoll s name for membership to the
new players club which he founded, and
it was black balled. The cause is said to
be not Bob's opininion on religion, but
on many actors, which he has expressed
most freely, and in no complimentary
terms At any rate, he was thoroughly
i'll every respect.
The first month of q Antony and Cleo
patra' at Palmer's ended Saturday
night. From the opening performance
the theater has been steadily filled, and
the popular triumph of this strange pro-
duction is no longer matter of doubt.
Mrs Potter win continue to essay EsCle-
opatra three weeks longer, aud then
she will go off on q tour, taking with her,
for the first time, New York record of
value
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the au-
thor of Little Lord Fauntleroy -
is writing a new play for the Lyceum
theater. New York, which Manager
Frohman hopes to present either
next year or before the end Of
the present season. This win be the sec
ond play for. stock company that Mrs.
Burnett has written the first having been
: 'Esmeralda, - which ran a season at
the Madison Square theater.
Miss Kate Mayhem, an actress for
lnerly well known here, returned to the
stage as star last week in San Fran
cisco, in Fanchon, - and was given
most cordial and enthusiastic reception.