The evening world., 1890-01-02
WHISPERS IN The FOYER.
Gossip Of Importance About the
Theatrical Profession.
New Years Matinees Were n De-
clded Failure.

The matinees yesterday were rather dis
couraginR affairs. The audiences "A q rule
were slim in size and half-hearted III quality.
But tradition was kept up. II ia the thing
to have New Years matinees, and 30 they
were given. Said q manager, II wanted
to announce hat | would have no afternoon
performance New Years Day, but | was told
that this would be queerly construed. SO |
yielded to my advisers, l IMPOSE | had as
man. people In my house MS other managers.
But II wasn't cheerful. Unless you have an
attraction that is filing the theatre to over-
flowing at every performance don't give n
New Years matinee. II doesn't nay. Even
the Christmas. matinops were. pretty bad.
Thanksgiving has been our only help"
Manager Joseph Reynolds was. presented
with a silver pitcher. yesterday by the at
nolds IL very popular, and this was n genuine
token Of esteem. This was not the case with
= woll.known star on one, occasion. He had
been presented with q silver cup amid i'm
menae enthusiasm, but no sooner had the
crowd In the theatre. diRrereed than he
walked 10 the door and. paid tho Till Of the
man who had presented the cup There are
presents and presents.
Fred Hall. the hrcthr- of Miss Pauline
Hall. Of the CASINO. is seriously i'll with
DntllIllunlu. MI DNll w " .lltUlnNT OF W.T..
AronsonS, company, playing 1.-The Brig
auds, y and appears in that opera al Pipe,
tho innkeepcr.
daughter of Lewis Morrison. now playing
Faust " IN Philadelphia, is shortly 10 DO
married. The lucky man is l.. j. Abraham,
MIR. Morrison's manager.
play.let, wig and Gown. OF which MIR.
SsSil clsy, her GnsGaSd. had S"e6 great
Sidney, and deals with n joyial young
woman. who one day just for fun puts on
the wig and gown nf her LAWYER lover, a
number OF people discover her thus attired
and take her for a barriater. She allows
them to continue In their error. aud, IN
fact. helps them to do 30. There y . great
deal OF merrimont got out OF this situation.
II Ia gravely related that DIR. Hamilton
Griffin, MiRs Mary Anderson's father, was Mt
Monaco last week. and that while in that
not the bank, but the back of a donkey he
was riding. Cost $50 francs.
Francis Wilson hopes great things from
latest opera. He secs many. opportunities
for himself, in the part Of the Dukeor Plaza:
Toro. Wilson, with, Mesrrs., Nixon and
II will be put on. regardless of expense, for
as long a.. IL can. safely be. run. There il
now n good deal of "Gondolisr" talk in the
city. People want IL to be q success. There
IL greet demand for q good comic opera at
the present time. The country is hungry
for one.
Little Elsie Leslie In THE Prince and the
Pauper' does not seem to he astonishing
anybody. Here IN something anent the pro-
duction that reached the city yesterday:
'"Twain'e Prince and Pnuper' liz doing
fairly well. 1t IN one OF those productions
that oyerreaches children and doesn't reach
adults. The work Is perfectly staged and
well acted. L. II. Vanderbilt is particularly
good"
T. W. Summers. announced as an Amer
lean actor, In presenting a play called "A
Noble Brother" in the English provinces.
A MANCHESTER paper gushes over him; and
Booth and W. J. Florence. In Mr.. sum.
mers's care n man certainly isn't a prophet
in his own country.
st. Clair and Carlisle, the La Cledes. Dan
Hart, Sophie Thorn. the Aarons, the Wat
sons, the Lannon'S, Carrie Belmont and Gus
La Rose are among the attractions this
week at the New London Theatre on the
Bowery.
A pleasant little event occurred at Albany
Carleton Opera Company presented to W.T..
Carleton a handsome. solid silver toilet SER
vice of seven pieces. Cartoons speech of
elected great enthusiasm In his COM
pany. every member Of which was concerned
in the presentation.