The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-04-27


mensely. Mr.. Robson's business has
been the capacity of the house, with
enough money turned away to fill another
playhouse
The baneful spot on the corner of Sixth
avenue and Third street, known as ''The
Haymarketn has been leased for ten
years by Mr.. Worth, who will erect a
weli-equipped museum On the site. These
ten-eent resorts of amusement by the
way, have enjoyed remarkable pros
periuy during che season now ending, and
this is not alone the case in the metropo-
lis. but in hundreds of cities throughout
the Union. Five or six dime museum
men IN Boston can draw their individual
checks for 100000, neither of them worth
a nickel few years ago, and in Chicago
several of them have even greater for
tunes Worth and Huber, of the Four
teenth Street Museum in New York, are
clearing yearly handsome profit, and
John Doris places net him not less than
81 600 a week. while Tooyey's museum, In
Harlem, clears about $500 a week Many
more are making money, aud a respect
able museum once opened has never been
known to have been shut up at a loss.
INGREDIENTS FOR MODERN RUSSIAN PLAY.
Siberian exile.
Prosecuted heroine.
Fur-trimmed costumes.
Boots (ad ltb)
Black whiskers.
Deserted hut, with log fire.
Set snow storm.
Sleigh bells.
Nihilists.
Knives.
Return of Exile to Prosecuted Heroine
Red light.
Curtain.
Virginia Marlowe has been engaged for
he Shenandoah" company next season.
Adele Payn has returned to New YORK
to reorganize her company previous to
opening at the Peoples in May.
Loie Fuller is reported to have joined
the London Gaiety Theatre Company as
understudy for Nellie Farren and Marion
Hood
Mrs. Annie I. Harrigan, wife of Ed
ward Harrigan. has filed plans with the
Building Department. for a theatre on
Thirty-tifth street, 100 feet east of Sixth
avenue. The house will be opened in the
fall by new play written by Mr.. Har-
rigan.
was reported by several newspapers that
the reason she left John Stetson's 'sGon-
dolierso company was on account of ill
health. Miss Grub. who is in Baltimore
at present, asks The Mirror to say that
the statement was entirely unfounded;
that she has never enjoyed better health
than now, and that her voice is in better
condition than ever.
Fanny Rice has signed with Rudolph
Aronson TO remain permanently at the
Casino TO. another year. commencing
next October. She will not play during
the summer.
The Nelly McHenry company are busily
rehearsing their new play Lady Peggy
in New York this week, and Miss Nc
Henry and Fred E. Queen have few sur
prlses in new medleys and dances for the
first production which takes place at the
Haymarket Theatre at Chicago, May 4
The cast is as follows:-Lady Peggy, Nell
lie McHenry; Nobby, Fred E. Queen;
Raymond Liable from London), John
Webster; Cuthbert Thorp. Harry B.
Hudson; Douglas Thorpe (his nephew,
Sidney Booth; Henri D'Estrange, Emile
I1aCroiX; Tom Walden, James Macready;
Policeman. H. B. Bsrnum; Mary Som
mers, Louise Rail; Daphnes Thorpe, Clara
Baker Rust; Topsy Turvey, Josey Gro
we'll. Act 1.-THE Old Pawnshop. Act
2:-rhe Thorpe villa on the Hudson. Act
3;-The 'Old Boat House" with its novel
sensation Act 4: - Lady Peggy "at
homen
There are conflicting rumors circulat-
ing about Miss Pauline Hall. One report
states that she is i'll in Philadelphia, ana
another that she has already begun the
which she will be the head. Her contract
with the Casino will expire in May, and
probably it will not be renewed.
Robert b. ManteI has been honored by
an amateur society in Brooklyn which
has adopted his name.
Tommy Russels trouble with Mr..
French occasioned very little surprise to
those conyersant with the inner workings
of the company These pet juvenile
actors are as subject to change and cap
rice as the average prina donna, but ike
young kittens they generally land on
their feet somewhere.
Mckee Rankin's "kanuck" Is due at
the Bijou in June for run. 1t is said to
be the portrairure OF non-professional
relative in Windsor. who is almost as
well known and popular as the actor him
self
Hattie Harvey, pleasing young actress,
who halls from Chicago. has been invited
to spend the summer at Adelina Patti S
castle in Wales. During her sojourn
there she is to present in Madame PATHS
new theatre two new plays, Broken TO
Harness." by Mervyn Dallas, and THE
Heroine" by Chicago author.
The Tooth performance of The Sena-
tor" took place at the Star on last Tues
day evening. The event was celebrated
by the distribution of the handsomest
souvenirs ever seen in this city. They
consisted of photographs of w. II. Crane,
by Sarony, framed in figured satin with
the programme printed on the back. This
style precludeu the appearance OF adver-
tisements of any kind.
My Love Is Like a Song.