The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-05-18

object big benefit was gotten up for the
actress. She was about thirty-seyen years
old
Manager Harrison, of Jacobs Hoboken
Theatre, sewers his connections with that
house and Mr.. Jacobs after the present
season. He has been engaged to repre-
sent Mr.. Oliver Byron, who will appear
next season in his new great play, 1.-THE
Plunger.n Manager Harrison is an old
time road manager and can do good work
tor his new venture.
Kate Castleton begins weeks engage
ment at the Academy Of Music in her
new play. "A Paper Doll" tomorrow
as Miss Castleton is a charming little
actress and well known to the theatre
going public, it Will no doubt prove a sue
cess in this city
Barry and Fay will begin a two weeks
engagement of fun making and open the
spring season at Proctor's TheatTe, New
York, next Monday evening. "MeKen-
mas Filtration" will be the medium
through which these funny men win
amuse and produce laughter, cure dys-
pepsia and Danish melancholia. People
have cried Laughing at these stars in this
piece before and all classes of theatre goers
are charmed by its infectious humor.
The fun making is clean and healthy
New songs and jokes have been intro
duced that never fail to excite some
manifestation of pleasure, even in the
cynical and sober faced observer
"A feature of interest at Robert n Dun
cans benefit at the Union Square Theatre
on Sunday evening, May %, will be the
debut of little Mabel, the daughter of
Stanley McKenna, the well-known jour
nalist. Among others who will appear
are Helen Russell, Helen Leslie, Isabelle
Urquhart and the New York Madrigal
Quartette.
The jubilee of Herr Barnay, the we'll
know actor, was celebrated at the Ber-
liner Theater, Berlin, on the I'd instant.
Deputations from nearly all the theatres
in Germany attended, and many hand
some gifts were presented, among others
being the Order OF St. Stanislas conferred
on Herr Barnay by the Gar of Russia
The fashion of taking certain profess
sion, and more or less caricaturing it on
the stage as has been recently done here
with "The Senator "The Editor" etc,
is spreading to England. A new play by
James Mortimer, entitled 1.-THE Queens
Counsel, is down for production at the
Comedy Theatre, London; while another
by J. H. Darnley to be seen shortly at
Liverpool is entitled "The Solicitor. p
Margaret Mather will produce Joan
of Arc" at Palmer's Theatre, on Septem-
Der l, for O run of four weeks, contract
to that effect having been signed by A.
NJ. Palmer and her managers the
other day.
THE Grand Duchess is In rehearsal at
the Theatre DIES Varieties. Paris The re-
vival is looked forward to with interest
in view OF the fact that, for the first time,
Jeanne Granier will attempt the role OF
the Duchess de Gerolstein.
Paul kauvar was produced by William
Terriss at the Drury Lane Theatre, Lon
don. on Monday evening and is said to
have scored a success.
Otis Skinner sailed last week on the
City of Chicago TO support Adelaide
Moore for eight weeks in London this
summer. Mr.. Skinner will be Margaret
Mather's leading support next season.
One of the funny things in Cerise &
Co., the new London farce, is the intro
duction of woman's hat exchange, an
institution where society women may,
upon paying q small Su Inscription, change
their hats and bonnets dd tHfnitltm and
thus paraiyze their women friends with
envy.
Sardou's play "Marquise, which has
been running successfully at the Res1denz
Theatre, Berlin. has just been condemned
by the Court Chaplain, Pastor Stocker,
as immoral.
Mrs. Langtry recently compromised q
suit with Haddon Chambers, the author
of Captain Swift for s1,250. She had
agreed to open her season at the St.
james Theatre with new play by Mr..
Chambers, but. failed to do so.
William J. Florence will sail for Eu-
rope early next month to join Mrs. Flor
ence in Europe. He will return in tim g
to open the season with Joseph Jefferson
ate in Septem ber
Sarah Bernhardt has postponed her
London engagement twoweeks, as she is
suffering from rheumatism.
Samuel Drake, who is cousin of
Joseph Jefferson, and who was once a
member of Edwin Forests company.
was admitted on Tuesday to the Home
for Old Men at st. Johnsland, l.. l.,
through the efforts of the Actors Fund.
Mr.. Drake is sixty-f1ye years old.
1t is said that Sadie Martinez will be
leading lady of T. Henry Freneh's
Comedy Company, at the new Madison
Square Garden, he xt season.
1t is said that Miss Marie Jansen has
been engaged by Mr.. John Stetson for
the title role in his coming production of
"Iolanthe,' and Miss Palliser, of Gianetta
fame in the D'Oyley Carte's Company,
for Phyllis in the same production.
Isabelle Urquhart has concluded to
give up comic opera for dramatic work.
She leaves the Casino in June.