The morning call., 1890-11-23

the new Broadway. Denver, that the daily
papers there used the title OF the play ior
the legend of political cartoon. ana also
copied in the way Of carlcature, one OF INC
c0mpany'S iithoS.
Efie Shannon was married to Henry Guy
Carleton, according to Dunop's Stage News,
last April. The fact only leaked out on the
10th inst. Stage people are not such great
gossips after all.
Miss Little Post, owing to severe illness,
has resigned from the McCaull Opera COM
pany, and is on her way to New York. one
night stands and hard travel did it.
The Kendall press agents are Still BUSY
with the distinguished couples private
affairs. They announced this week that
Mr.. Kendall is great lover of-riee pudding.
Emma Thursby has invested in llne
building site near the National Bridge, va,
where she will erect costly summer resi-
dence.
Charles L. Davis is erecting what promises
to be the prettiest theater in Pitlsburg.
The ground alone cost him $4,000.
Lowell Mason, the well-knUwn New En-
gland musician, chaperoned his son, .. d.
Mason II, and his wife marion Manola) OH
their wedding trip to Europe.
James I. Powers. who is soon due at the
New California, opened at the Columbia
Iheater; Chicago, in "A Straight IL Up o, %
since he played the plumbers apprentice.
Money goes with the business.
The Mad-house Theater, constructed
especially for the daft patients at Black
wells Island, n. y, will be opened on
Wednesday, December Sd. The Excelsior
Literary and Dramatic Club OF Harlem,
which has agreed to furnish the entertain
ment, is in doubt which OF TWO pieces to
choose for the opening One-"De Lunatleo
Inquirendo," or The Madness Of Ham
iet."
Richard Stahl has been engaged as
il oil n tow IF he OF
pany. lie ought TO score success.
Mr.. Sullivan, actor, says that Duncan
Harrison wants him to try Richard Ill,
or something of that sort; but. lie adds
just imagine what raking I'll get from
the newspapers if try one OF those pieces
that Booth and Barrett and all those fellows
played iD.'
Miss Florence Sinjin is putting her I'M
pressions OF America in book form. and VIII
publish in London. N W We shall know
what she thinks OF Marcus r. Mayer, the
Baldwin and our San Francisco public
Sinjin was singed here, as well as IN New
i ork, and, therefore. her words will be those
of frankness and candor.
Clement Scott, who has seen Bernhardt III
Sardou's Cleopatra says Sarah alone is
the soul of the performance, the rest Is
twaddle.
The recent challenge of a Partisan critic
by Maurice Bernhard for finding fault with
the young mans mother in Cleopatra re-
minus the New York Dramatic Mirror Of
the Henri ROcheiort incident. Rocheiort
had spoken disparagingly OF the great act
ress. Master Maurice called upon NJ. Roche
fort and demanded retractiOn or PREPARATION.
My dear young man" said RGchetort, cool
as a cucumber, Il can't fight you, you know.
''You can't fight me, sIr! What do you
mean?"
Why" reioined Rochefort calmly. "tor
all you know 1 might be your papa"
In MI 1l.I lia ,y.fV \ A.
LEM" recently given IN Austria, the heroine
has to die. her death being brought about by
a villain who shoots her with pistol. AT
the critical moment the weapon misses IRE,
but the actor was equal to the emergency,
and declaimed at once, Die, then, the first
victim of smokelesS pUwderP'
1t is said that Robert buchanan has asked
young Aubrey Boucicault to JOIN him In
literary partnership. and that both have
begun work on an 1rish drama.
novelty in ''Unc Toms Cabin" now
being played in the English provinces is a
ballet OF dyed-in-the-wool negro girls. They
are a great success in 'Pas de Texas.
The only difficulty is that the white players
demand increased ventilation OF the stage
when the nights are warm.
E. S. Willard, an English actor Of repute,
has made great success in 1.-The Middle
man" play which he introduced 10 the
New \ ork public.
Edwin Booths fifty-seventh birthday oc-
CURED on Thursday, the 18th inst, and was
celebrated at the Lyceum 1heater, Balti-
more, where he was playing with Lawrence
Barrett. Ffty-seyen! Edwin is getting Ga
in years, and this season, II is whispered,
will be his last before the public. He has
had his portrait painted by Louis Dietrich,
Baltimore artist and will present it to
Belair, the county seat of Hartford County,
Md, III which be was born, where it will be
placed in the courthouse.
Ia New York Mrs. kendal's days are
filed with social engagements. Receptions,
calls and other duties invoked by wide ac-
quaintance among the four hundred, COM
blned with professional work, make her a
very busy woman.
Rose Eytinge's stalwart son, Benjamin f.
Butler Jr., is connected with the city de-
rartment of the New YORK Word. He is a
clever yerse-wrter as well as an active re-
porter and generally IL chip OF the old block,
his father, George.
Louise Rial, wife of Jay Rial, is winning
much praise from the press of the South
west for her aching in Jim the Penman."
She makes line PRESERVATION of Nina.