The morning call., 1890-09-21

Personal ana Other J0ttlDRS.
Following THE Midnight Bell" at the
New California, comes Mr.. Thomas W.
Keene lie will be supported by an excel
lent company. "A Sill Alarm" is next in
order.
Mr.. Charles H0yts new farce-comedy,
"A Trip to Chinatown" was produced on
the 18th inst, at Decatur, H., and
achieved an unduubted success. The author
was called before the curtain. The company
is an excellent one. Frank Mckee wires
Nh Charles w. Thomas. in this city, that he
may rest easy" on ''the trip"
All ''cuss words" have been eliminated
from 1.-THE L. ). Mail"
Mrs. Kari Formes will have charge Of the
vocal part of the concert TO be given at the
new Steinway Hall, on the 10Th of Novem-
Der next.
On next Friday evening. the 26th inst,
Bay City Lodge, No. III, X. of P, will give
an ente rtainment and dance at Saratoga
Hall. BY special request, the Sheridan
Dramatic Club have kindly volunteered to
produce My Partner, which they rendered
some few weeks ago. The stage directions
will be uuder the supervision of X. G. and
| l.. K. Levy.
Mr.. William IL. Rieger, whose sweet tenor
voice is well remembered on this coast, is
| the recipient Of weli-deServed praise from
| the Eastern critics, whom he has been
| delighting with series of con-
| CeTlS. NIL IsleSeI SIllce HIS last appearance
| in San Francisco has given his vocal organs
| a thorough course of training under COM
| petent instructors, and is now devotng him.
| self 10 the concert stage In New York City.
| 1t is among the possibilities that his voice
may be heard in local halls ere long in the
| old. familiar ballads with which he was
wont to delight his hearers.
| Mr.. J. X. Pryor, owner of the original
| Panorama Building, corner of Eddy and
| Powell streets. proposes to convert 1t into a
theater. He has sold the panorama picture
of the Siege of Paris to parties in Aus
| tralia.
Harry Meredith, author OF "a Man From
| Maine" was prisoner at Andersonvlle for
one year.
! Baldwin of parachute notoriety will jump
| no more. He has settled down in England
| on 100000, gained in two and half years.
| a good man has started business in Lon
| don as "balet-girl evangelist" and de-
| votes himself to awakening the moral sense
| of the alry-costumed coryphees who plrou-
cite about the stage 10 the delight of the
| bald-headed contingent in the front rows.
Neil Burgess seeks to enjoin Frank u.
| Chapman from infringing his patent racing
scene in the presentation of The Flying
! Scud."
John Mccain, an alleged theatrical man,
! ager, is languishing in Chicago jail
charged with having obtained sum of
| money from footlight-smitten youth
| named Toledo for the purpose of starting
| travelling dramatic company ON Western
| tour to begin at Sterling, III. The show
| did not materialize.
The annual report of the Actors Fund,
| just issued, shows that its total assets foot
| up to S72,575 40, and that the total disburse-
! ments for the year ending June 4th amount
| to $50, so So.
A younger brother whom Marie Tempest
| had not seen in ten years was among the
| spectators during recent performance at
| Palmer's Theater. Miss Tempest saw him
from the stage and nearly tainted from
! emotion.
Marcus Mayer has secured the rights of
"Rboda," comic opera produced some
twelve months ago, which had run OF ten
weeks at the Comedy Theater, and has had
two successful toursfn the provinces. The
| opera is by Walter Parke and Signora An
tonic Mario. Mr.. Mayer has purchased the
opera for Miss Pauline Hall.
The Gilbert and Sullivan quarrel is ended.
Mr.. Fischer, the counsel for Mr.. Gilbert, APP
piled August 10th for postponement for a
week OF the dispute between him and
D'Oyly Carte for the accounting Of his share
of the net profits derived from the comic OPP
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