Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-03

ard Theater, New York, October 9th.
The A. NJ. Palmer company will opel
at the Metropolitan on August 10th il
Captain Swift" The appearance of thi
celebrated company will be one OF tn,
society events Of the season.
The Chicago Opera House season for '9t
is solidly booked with the leading attrac
e tions of the country, and over sixteer
weeks of the season of '91 and '92 hav,
already been booked
Miss Louise Montague who is playing
the Prince in "The Crystal Slipper" ha
been very seriously i'll, and was unable t.
play the part for week or ten days. She
f has now fully recovered.
+ Miss Maud Harrison, Miss Nanni,
Craddock, Miss Emily Seward and Mrs
E. j. Phillips are such thorough artists
that they establish themselves as favorites
as soon as they make their entrance upon
the stage
Ed. Rice, of Rice & Dixey fame, will
produce "The Worlds Fair" next season
1t is to be costumed in more magnificent
manner than anything he has ever pro.
duced. Sam Harrison, the "Only Sam
, will be sole manager.
Fay Templeton will not be able to ap-
pear in New York, owing to her old con.
tract with E. Z. Rice. The matter has
gone into the lawyers hands and if COM
promise be not affected, Fay will return to
Paris for another years rest.
The illustrated souvenir issued in CON-
memoration of the three hundredth per-
formance Of Messrs. Gill & Dixey's "Seven
Ages" and its eight weeks run in Chicago,
is one of the handsomest things of the
kind yet presented to an audience.
Our Mary dear has left us, and crossed the
raging main;
Shall we ever, ever see her fair sweet face
again?
Let us hope that she'll be happy with the hus.
band she has won,
And that some day he'll come back again with
Mary And her-son.
William A.. Brady has returned to New
York to superIntend arrangements for the
production of Hart Jackson's spectacular
melodrama, "The Bottom of the Sea-"
which is to be given a magnificent pre-
sentation at the New York Grand Opera
House early in the season.
Margaret Mather has returned from
! Europe. Her production of "Joan of
Arc" it is claimed, will cost 100000.
There will be upwards of $50 people in
the cast. The mountings, stage settings,
costumes, ETC., will eclipse anything the
! lady has ever attempted before.
! P. E. Graham, the well-known comedian,
who will next year tour in "The Sea
King" has pretty place on Staten Is
land, where he amuses himself during the
warm months by farming. During the
evening he works on a new opera, which
will be finished by September.
| Richard Golden and Charles MacGeachy
are yet in Maine, usually on a sleeper dur
ing the night, between Portland and Buck
sport. Mr.. MacGeachy, who is native of
Jamaica, West Indies, thinks that the
Maine coast is the prettiest part of Amer
ica, Jamaica not excepted.
The wonderful production in the Chi
cage Opera House. in Chicago, entitled
"The Crystal Slipper" is now in the fourth
week OF its run, and is still crowding the
house to overhowing Mr.. Hayman has
arranged to present this spectacular in its
entirety in this city in the early fall.
Arrangements have been made to build
Chinese theater in New York similar to
those they have in San Francisco. The
title of the opening play will be "Lee Xiii
| Han Ken Mo Leon Yu Kien Fa You San
Neou." 1t will take one month and a
half from the time it commences until it
is finished.
Gus Williams and John T. Kelly are
working very hard with the author of
their new play. "You and l." preparing
good business and side-splitting comedy
scenes. An excellent company is engaged
to support them, and Messrs Randall and
Dickson have booked long and favorable
tour for them.
w. w. Randall has received s., 900 from
John K. Rogers to cancel his contract with
Minnie Palmer. Miss Palmer will proba-
bly, never go on the road again, but will be
seen at the Hermann Gaiety Theater in
comic operas, perhaps for the next three
years. Louis Harrison is spoken of as the
comedian of the company.
Mrs. Crabtree, mother of 'Lotta," at
tended the closing performance of "The
Fakir" at the Hollis-street Theater, Bos-
ton, lately. On hearing Flora Moore sing
"McGinty" she was so pleased that she
offered her 5000 to repeat her performance
at the Park Theater the following week
that Flora accepted.
Al. Hayman, the well ll-known San Fran
cisco theatrical manager, who has been
instrumental in sending us Mr.. Palmer's
company, who will appear here on August
18th and goth, has been very successful
the past season. Besides the two "Shenan-
doah" companies, that have played to
enormous business, he controls four thea
ters and is interested in quite number of
other enterprises.
]. Charles Davis starts next Sunday for
preliminary tour over the ground TO be |
covered by the various attractions con-
trolled by himself and Charles E. Locke |
next season. Mr.. Davis trip will extend |
as far as Victoria, B. G. Mr.. Davis will /
return to New York in time for the OPEN
ing of Herrmann's New Gaiety Theater,
which he and Mr.. Locke have leased for
term of years.
Clara Morris is busy at her home on the
Hudson completing preparations for her
important transcontinental tour, which
commences in September and will take in
every city on the coast The tour is under
the persona! direction of Manager Hay
man of the California and Baldwin Thea
tiers, and this greatest of Americas famous
actresses will be seen here in the fall in
one or two of her celebrated impersona-
tions
The transcontinental tour of "The
Prince and the Pauper," with Elsie Leslie
and Daniel Frohman's magnificent COM
pany, has inst opened in Denver under the
most favorable auspices. The house was
packed, and enthusiasm reached high
pitch. No drama of modern times has ap-
pealed SO quickly to the interest alike of
every class of theater-goers 1t will be
ssen here with Elsie Leslie and the entire
company some time in August.
Hoyt and Thomas will have four COM
panies on the road next season: "A Trip /!
to Chinatown" purely a farce comedy in
which the scene Is in San Francisco, the
plot hipging on the happenings at mas
luerade ball; "A Texas Steer,n comedy I
Of "The Henrietta" order; "a Brass Mon
key" and "a Midnight Bell" "a Trip to
Chinatown" will open in the West, and 90 a
direct to San Francisco, with Lena Mer- G
vile and John Connors as the principals.
One of the theatrical novelties of the {
season will be the "U. s. Mail" a musical, Il
atirical farce-comedy from the pen of t
George c. jerks, brilliant journalist of v
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