The morning call., 1890-09-28
Personal and other Jottinss.

1.-The Priyateer" will be continued at the
TivOli. Emily Soldene intervenes on Thurs
day next, October I'd, with a benefit, the
programme of which is mentioned elsewhere.
The Baldwin opens week from Monday
with w. L. Carleton's excellent opera COM
pany.
Patti has abandoned the opera stage, and
for the future Will sing only in concerts.
Al Hayman has arranged with Mr.. A. M.
Palmer to present his company in Chicago
and through the Western country in the
London success, "a Pair of Spectacles," the
play with which Mr.. Palmer will begin his
regular season.
Mrs. James Brown Potter opens in Cal
cutta October 1st, for long season, with a
company of her own, consisting OF fourteen
players and two scenic painters. She IS the
only American in the company.
Kiralfys water Queen" Company, with
ballet and all their scenery, have closed
contract to appear at the AlcaZar in Febru-
airy. Goodyear, Shilling and Elitch'S Min
strels are also booked for this theater during
the same months.
The subscriptions toward securing the
musical library OF the late Karl MerZ. now
at Wooster, Ohio, by the citizens of Pitts
burg, already reach $685. The amount re-
quired is $500, on or before the LIST prox.
Pittsburg proposes to have the most coin
plete collection of music literature in the
United States.
Divide Musin, the violnist, has returned
from Europe. His company for the coming
season of thirty weeks consists OF Annie
Louise Tanner, soprano; Inez Parmater,
meZz0-soprano; Karl Storr, barytone, and
Edouard Scharf, pianist.
The Dramatic Times of New York says:
Emma Abbotts name is mentioned in con-
nection with Senator Fairs, of San Fran
cisco, as q possible marriage. Fair Is
divorced man; Abbott widow" The Times
is right and free enough about Abbotts
position, but is fouled on Fair. He Is not
divorced man, and, consequently, the para
graph gees for nothing
George Osbourne has joined line Shat
chen" company in Cincinnati.
Nine. Modjeska will in future manage
her own theatrical business affairs. EX-
perience has taught her this is better than
trusting them to second hands.
Mr.. James Z. Murdoch, the retired actor,
is now clese on 10 81 years of age. He Is a
| grand old man, tall and erect, powerfully
b uilt, and his every move is grace. ltself
Even in his old age his voice still retains It's
power an d sweetness. His home is In I'm
cinnati. where he entertains a great deal.
BE is very methodical in all he does, aud
pays the closest attention to daily exercise.
Miss Davenport has agreed to pay Sardou
$4,000 for the American rights to - Cleo
patra." TO avoid piratical depredationS
the French dramatist consents to hold the
piece in manuscript for a number OF years,
Miss Davenport paying a certain sum an
nually In lieu OF his loss in royalties thaI
would otherwise be Forthcoming from
The publication of the work IN Paris. Mel,
New York, while Nj. GARNER will fill the
role in Bernhardts production.
Fitzgerald Murphy has dramatized Toll
stOiS . The KreutZer Sonata"
5. W. Herbert affirms that his cup of mis-
cry is just about full to overflowing. For
1ang vppkS ha had hppp StuHV1Up
Spanish dialect for the role of Columbus IN
the Worlds Fair, and it was not until the
other day that he discovered that Chris
topher was an Italian.
The Rev. Virgil MaXey, an evangelist well
known in the South, is actually going to
carry out bis intention of combining acting
with preaching. The t. ur began with The
New MagdaleD." Mr.. Maxey appearing as
the stage clergyman, Julian Gray, at the
Casino, Victoria, Texas, August 18th, with
the Stutz-Maxey Company.
Mrs. Louise Rial has made a big success
of the principal female role in " Jim the
Penman." She will star next season.
Fifteen theaters are open IN Chicago and
but three of them pay. Rents in Chicago
are pretty steep, and business is not wh1Dit
might be with some Of the theaters.
II is reported that the friends of Mary An
derSon and her husband are urging her to re-
turn to the stage, If only for brief season.
and the belief is that both will consent. In
that event Miss Anderson will, of course,
be under the management Of Henry f.
Abbey, who holds an unfuiilled contract
with her.
Zoe Tuttle, the Madeline Twist of the
Shenandoah" Company, is said to have
been quietly married last month at Chicago
| to prominent California merchant Miss
Tuttle will remain with shenandoah"
Herman Merivale's "Ravenswood," found
| ed on SCOTS Bride of Lammermoor," was
produced at the London Lyceum September
will Aficc Ellan Earry nc and
Mr.. Irving as Edgar. Both were repeatedly
called before the curtain, and the play made
a decided hit. The pathos Of The third act
was spoiled by disturbance in the stalls.
joseph Hatton, the novelist, after Yainly re-
mOnstTating with man who was keeping up
a running fire of soto voee criticisms on the
performance, slapped the offender in the
face. A scuf1le enSued, which nearly gave
rise to panic several ladies fainting with
terror. The combatants were soon sepa-
rated, however, and order restored. 1t was
agreed between them to complete the light
outside, but when Mr.. Hatton reached the
street his opponent had vanished.
TRUTH" Bronson Towards drama, has
been received at Charles Wyndham's Lon
don Criterion Theater with great success.
WynGham is Towards brother-n-law, but
does hot appear in the cast. lie has been
| cast out BY the press.
Over 800 Of Imre Kirafy's ballet-girls in
''Nero," with the Barnum and Bailey Circus,
| struck at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, lately, LOT
| Sl2 30 per week each, an advance of 81 90
on the weekly salary. The girls won.
| Kelly 81 Icons minstrel venture in Chi
| cage has come to grief, and McNish's "Out
| of Sight" company is actually out of the line
| of vision, having disbanded.
| Marie Williams, a leading burlesque act
| ress, late of 1.-The Crystal Slipper" and
| Hattie Richmond, a well-known actress, at
one time playing an important part in La
| Tosca," ought to be required to take the
| pledge before being professionally engaged.
The first-named, according to newspaper
report, was arrested in Chicago a couple of
| weeks ago for chronic alcoholism, and the
second spent night in the Armory for the
| same cause. Miss Richmond gave herprom-
| Use TO abandon drink and was released.
Minnie Stewards Midnight Calf COM
! paDy lately played to an SIS audience at
| Shenandoah, Pa, and ate S72 worth of food
| at the hotel, which led a Sherif's officer 10
sit upon their trunks. This settled THE
| Midnight Call"
Tony Pastor has contracted to pay Jenny
| Hill, the London music-ball soubrette, $4,000
for six weeks term i'll this country, to be-
gin in January.
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