The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-03-23
STAGE NOTES.

"a Possible Case" one of j. NJ. Hills ven-
lures, closed its season last night.
Clara Louise Kellogg is said to be doing big
business in the one-night stands out West.
The gross receipts of the present Patti-Tamagno
season in this country are expected to exceed
million dollars.
Booth and Barrett will play together again
next season, but Arthur B. Chase will retire
from their management
Omaha theatres will next season give Sunday
night performances, like those of Chicago, st.
Louis, and San Francisco.
WI Scanlan has a contract to play at the
New York Grand Opera House every st. Pat
rick's week for the next five years.
Benjamin +. Butler, Jr., son of Col. George H.
Butler, has been engaged by Sydney Rosenfed
as press agent for THE Stepping Stone.'
Mr.. White, a negro, who was the violinist in
the employ of Dom Pedro, of Brazil is making
a sensation by his playing in London and in
Paris.
1t is said Tammany Hall will certainly run
Harry Miner, the theatrical manager, for Con-
gress in one of the New York City Districts at
the next election.
Margaret Mather is ABOUT to dsband her COM
pany and close her season. Bad business is no
doubt the cause of it. 1t is fact that Margaret
does not improve with age.
Anson Pond, the wealthy young New Yorker
who is ambitious of becoming dramatist, and
who wrote Her Atonement," has written an
other play. 1t will be produced next fall.
Whitney Mockridge, the tenor, who has sung
| acceptably at number of local concerts, has
engaged to sing leading tenor roles at the next
! Worcester Music Festival in September next.
| SO great has been the success of w. H. Cranes
Senator" in New York that the engagem ent
has been extended to May 10. Mr.. Crane gave
matinee for professionals on Thursday after
! noon.
| A Philadelphia lightning calculator has figured
out that during his recent engagement of twelve
nights in that city Wilson Barrett made twelve
| speeches before the curtain, in answer to calls
| from the gallery.
Chevalier Scovel has brought a suit against
Manager Foster, of the Boston Ideal Opera Com
| pany, for Si5O0, alleged to be due him for salary
and diverse moneys advanced to Manager Foster
on account for the Boston Ideals.
Gossip hath it that Mrs. Kendall, in conversa
tion with lady who has resided so long in
England as to be taken for an Englishwoman
even by Mrs. Kendall, said that American women
were "dclightful but so deliciousy vulgar"
Miss Letitia Aldrich, the young society lady
of Washington, who recently gave matinee
performance of Maid Marion" in that city, il
at present reading number of plays with view
to starring next season.-N. y. Dramatic Ners
A Philadelphia manager, who is looked upoI
at home as monster of enterprise has heard ol
the success of Hazel Kirke" in New York in the
last century, (theatrically speaking) and he il
going to put it on in the Quaker City as the very
| latest novelty.
Tho ruck of would-be stars that are loafna
| hph hp
ment to rise on us is getting to be alarming
Young Alexander Salvini is the latest to Join
He will come up as Don Cesar de Bdzan, will
Wesley Sisson to pilot him.
Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., is reported to bC
progressing quite rapidly toward recovery. She
is now able to be removed occasionally from the
bed on which she has lain since early last au
tumn. Her apartment is visited daily by mum
Der of faithful frends.-N. Y. Mirror.
A great deal of the nlushy aud gushy stuff
written about actors and actresses in the dra
matte sheets is not exactly insane. although it il
inane; but now paragraph is going the rounds
giving the crazy utterances OF Grace Filkinl
during the delirum of typhoid pneumonia
A Society of Dramatic Authors is being formed
IN New York. The writers said to have Joined i
are Bronson Howard, Clay M Greene, William
Gill. David Belasco, Henry c. DeMille, Charlie
Alfred Byrne, Archibald Clayering Gunter, A
ID. Gordon, Paul NJ. Potter and Leonard Grover
William J. Florence has begun writing hi
J memoirs. They will not cover the American