Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-07-27
HUsIc AND THE DRAMA.
FLASHES FROM THE Fo0TLIGHTs CT
MANY THEATERS.
What the Actors, Actresses and Manag-
ers are DoiOg During This Hot
Weather-Etc.

"Uncle" Dick Hooley is at Long Branch.
Richard Golden and Charles McGeachy
are in Maine.
Nellie McHenry has made decided hit
in San Francisco.
Lena Merville has been engaged by
Hoyt and Thomas for next season.
Kate Castleton has new play for the
next season by Mrs. c. A. Doremus.
DR.. Haycock's new Lyceum Theater at
Duluth will be opened December 18th.
Miss Lila Linden has been engaged by
| Manager Samuel P. Cox for Natural
Gas"
Bronson Howard has entered into a
managerial copartnership with Charles
Wyndham in London.
John H. Russelps comedians in "The
| City Directory" have caught the San Fran
ciscans in great shape.
Archie Gordon has sold Stuart Robson
new comedy called "a Natural" which
will be done next season.
"Jack" Hamilton and George Keogh will
next season take out John A. Stevens
play of "The Mask of Life"
William H. Gillette has been removed
to Nantucket, Mass, where it is hoped the
sea air will aid him materially.
John Ernest McCann will have his book
of poems published by Brentano early in
August. 1t is called Songs from an At
tic"
Grant Parish, of "Parish Referee" has
been engaged as advance for Lydia Thomp-
son, who will next season star the country
in comedy.
frankie Kemble will play Faust and
Murtha Porteous Marguerite in the Amer
lean Faust Up to Date" Company which
will soon tour the country.
Maggie Fielding has gone to her home
in Chicago. She goes East again in few
weeks to assume the part of A Home
Ruler in the "U. S. Mail"
Messrs. Locke and Davis are making
great preparations for their spectacular
production of "Nero," which is to open at
Niblo's Garden, New York, October 18th.
Miss Fay Templeton will sing solos of
her own composition in Hendrix Hud-
son." which she will produce at the Four
teenth-sreet Theater, New York, August
18th.
Miss Clara Louise Thompson will play
the leading female part in Chapman and
Sellers big production of "FIying Scud,"
which opens at the Grand Opera House,
Boston, September lst, for run.
"The Crystal Slipper" at the Chicago
| Opera House. and "Castles in the Air." at
the New York Broadway Theater, are the
only two operas doing large business in
| the country these warm months.
Mr.. Edward Stevens, the comedian of
"The Sea King" will next be seen with
Miss Fay Templeton in Hendrix Hud-
son." He will create the role of Kill Won
Kull, editor of the New Amsterdam
| Kicker.
| Frank David goes with the "U. S.
Mail" next season, taking the part of Hi
! Hand, tramp printer. His typesetting
scene in the first act is regarded as one of
the most grotesque pieces of. burlesque
ever invented.
Clay Greene's new version of "Uncle
Toms Cabin" in addition to pony, a
donkey and twelve bloodhounds, will next
season include twelve Florida alligators.
| Mr.. Milt Barlow, the old-time minstrel,
will be Uncle Tom.
Webber's "Uncle Toms Cabin" will
| open the season at Nihlo's Garden, New
York, August 25th, for two weeks. Uncle
Tom was never on the road-during his
| twenty-eight years Of traveling-in such
magnificent shape as he will be this year.
"a Fair Rebel" story of the late war,
which was produced September 10th of
\! Let h. L
sented in the leading cities next season,
with Miss Fanny Gillette as the heroine
and Mr.. Edward R. Mawson as the hero.
Mr.. Gilmore is negotiating with A. NJ.
Palmer, who is in Europe, for an extern
sion of time for "The Sea King" at
Palmer's Theater. 1t is likely the COM
pany will remain in New York until Aug
ust 10th, when it will start on its road
tour.
Miss Helen Dauvray will be under the
management of Mr.. Charles E. Power
during her coming tour. "The Whirl-
wind" the new comedy which Sydney
Rosenfeld has been writing for Miss Dau-
vray, is completed, and she will begin her
season with it.
Mr.. Oliver Doud Byron will take the
title role in his new play, ''The Plunger,"
in which he will star the coming season.
Mrs. Kate Byron. his wife, will be in
cluded in the cast, and D. X. Higgins, the
author of the play, will be seen in one of
the comedy parts.
"The King of the Knights; or, Life in
the American Coal Mines" is the title of
new labor drama, by Miss N. McKenna,
which Messrs. Dixon and Mack will take
out next season. The company will in
clade Miss Beatrice Norman and Miss
Evalina Dougherty.
| Franclyn Reglid has been engaged to
4 create a comedy character in Stuart Rob-
sons new play, "Is Marriage Failure ?"
Mr.. Reglid is handsome young man, of
| pleasing manners and well-modulated
| voice; he dresses with good taste, both on
and off the stage, and is good actor.
| A new song, the only serious one in the
opera, has been introduced into "Castles
in the Air." in the last act. 1t is duet
between De Wolf Hopper and Miss Bella
Fox, founded on the old nursery rhyme
about the pigs, some of which went to the
market while the others stayed at home.
| Among the people engaged for "Blue-
beard, Jr.; or, Fatima and the Fairy"
which will begin its season about the Sec
ond week in September, are John D. Gill
bert, Jessie Villers. Jennie Reeves, Ted
PEPPER, the DeManning Brothers, Grace
Hollingsworth, Lottie Neville, Alexander
Spencer, Douglas A. Flint and Alice Will
| lard.
| Daniel Frohman has returned with the
| following plays: "Wood Barrow Farm"
a three-act comedy by Jerome K. Jerome I;
"The Solicitor" three-ac. comedy by J.
H. Darnley; "Fen Toupinel," three-act
comedy by Alexandra Bison; 'The Idler,"
a comedy by Haddon Chambers, and
"Nerves," a three-act comedy adapted by
J. Comyns Carr
Miss Rosabel Morrison has received a
number of colored plates from Remwitz,
the famous painter of medieval scenes
They give her the correct costumes of the
| era of Goethe's Faust" and Miss Morri-
son claims that she will have the first Mar
guerite dresses ever seen in America that
are actual faithful reproductions of
much.inpugned original.
There will be three "Wife for Wife"
companies this season. John A. Stevens
will head the first, which will open at the
Peoples Theater, New York, September
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