The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-04-13
NOTES OF THE STAGE.

NOTES OF THE STAGE.
Henry Irving has been dining with the Prince
of Wales.
Jimmy Pow ,rs will go back to his first love,
farce-comedy, next season.
"La Mexieana," Brazilian opera by Chas-
saigne, is in rehearsal at the New York Casino.
Robert Downing's leading lady next season
will be an actress of the name of Estella Davis.
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Carrie Swain, American theatre-goers will
learn with pleasure, has found Australia much
to her liking, and will stay there.
The receipts of the Booth -Modjeska tour since
its commencement have reached S276,00o. In
Chicago the three weeks showed $4,000.
Annie Ward Tiffany, who has a capital Irish
dialect part in "Shadows of a Great City," will
next season star in new play by F. r. Shewell
Five thousand Elks are expected to meet in
Cleveland in June, the occasion of their annual
reunion. A number of the Washington boys
will be there.
Richard Golden sent out curious Easter ad-
vertsement for his play, "Old Jed Prouty." He
flooded the mails with Easter eggs carefully
wrapped III COGtOu.
Pauline Hall has her life insured for 100000
Somebody unkndy suggests that il it was her
voice she had insured she could have collected
the policies long ago.
Mile Rhea is said to have lost So 800 during her
recent engagement in New York. This, no doubt,
was why she and her old manager, Mr.. Frank
Cotter, parted company.
THE Gondoliers" will be withdrawn from
Palmer's Theatre, New York, on April II, when
the English company will sail for Europe, where
a tour of the English provinces will be made.
The Kiralfy brothers, who have been at logger
heads for months, have made up, and in conse-
quence the country will have to endure another
dose of Around the World in Eighty Days"
The widow of Bobby Newcomb, the clever ard
graceful variety dancer, who is still we'll remem-
bered, died the other day in California She left
@ fortune of 100000, which Bobby made with his
lively jgs.
AT the San Carlos Theatre, Lisbon, on the last
night of the carnival, performance of the
Barber of Seville" was given, all the parts ex-
cept that of Figaro being taken by females, and
well taken, it is said
Harry Kellar, the magician, has been very i'll
in Chicago. He is supposed to have exhausted
himself in trying to master the great Chicago
now you-see-it-and-now-you-d on't-see-it Worlds
Fair guarantee fund trick.
A man named walron was elected from the
Park Theatre at Indianapolis nearly three years
ago for being drunk and noisy. He sued for
$4,000 damages, and has been awarded $1,000.
The case has been appealed.
Mike" a baby play in three acts by Mrs
Francis Hodgson Burnett and Mr.. Stephen Town
send, was produced on Monday in London al
Terry's Theatre. Some of the cablegrams say
the play was success, Others that it failed.
Thomas A. Lyme, said to have been the oldest
American actor, died in Salt Lake City last week
he was born in Philadelphia in 1906 His frs
! appearance was at the Walnut-street Theatre, il
his native city, about 1925 in the part of ilIidn
! Tell.
E. II. Sothern is likely next season to add two
new plays to his repertory-"All for Her."
dramatization of "A Tale of Two Cities" by
Herman Merivale, author of "Forget-Me-No N OF, :
and "The Junior Partner" by Madeleine Lu
! cette.
Sarah Bernhardt consoled herself for not act
ing the Virgin in the Passion Play" by giving
reading of the play in Paris on Good Friday
For this number of English clergymen have
started movement to boycott her when mex
she appears in London.
George II. Sims's religious nature seems to have
been stirred to its depths by his recent pilgrimage
to the Holy Land When he got back to LondoI
| he Immediately proceeded to pour out his soul by
writing burlesque on Carmen" which Nellie
Farren may include in her repertory on he
American tour next season.
Nellie McHenry thinks she has the stuff in hel
to make a second Rosna Vokes. She has giveI
orders for several short plays of 1.-THE Circu
Rider order, in which she will appear. Nel
will have to get over her bad habit of perpetu
ally playing to the audience before she can d.
much in the way of rivaling Rosna
A new tenor of whom great things are ex
pected has been discovered playing the bull
ndde in Dresden orchestra. His name Is Bruno
Heydrich, and already he has been engaged TO
heroic tenor parts for five years at the Dresden
Court Opera House. He has alse been asked Ii
sing Tdnnhduser in next years Beyreuth festiva
performances.
A special feature of the performance of tn
Theatrical Mechanics benefit at the New Ma
tonal Theatre, Tuesday afternoon, April 22, wi
be the musical typewriter, which will be pei
formed upon by Mr.. w. A. Haley, assisted b
Master John e. Haley, also the inventor, Mr.. W
E. Wood. Mr.. w. Il. Carleton will sing a sole
assisted by his company. The third act of 18th
Burglar" which will be rendered on this occG
sion will include MIR. A S. Lipman Miss Sydne