The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-05-04
NOTES OF THE STAGE.

Joe Emmett is reported to be very i'll again,
and has closed his season.
A dreadful possibility of next season is said to |
be Edwin Booth with whskers.
Mrs. Langtry's engagement at the st. James
Theatre, London, is said to be losing one right |
along.
Henry E. Abbey and his partners are negotia- |
ting with Marie Van Zaudt for an American con- !
cert tour next season.
A new theatrical secret society, called the
Loyal Order of Moose, is said to be growing quite
strong throughout the country.
Evans and Hoey who have made fortune out
of "a Parlor Match" will have new farce
comedy next year by Fraser and Gill.
Ian Robertson, an actor of force and unusually
marked individuality, will be among Mrs.
Leslie Carter's Company next season.
William Stafford, once Shakespearean star is
now filling leading parts in blood-curdling
border dramas in the low-priced houses.
A play called THE Blue Officer" with its
scenes laid in Russia failed dismaly at its first
production at the eMadison-Square, New Y York, on
Monday night.
A bill has been introduced in the New York
Legislature making it "a misdemeanor to enter
a theatre, concert hall, or fair without paying
an admission fee."
Emily soldene. once queen of the burlesque
stage, with an income of a couple of hundred a
week, is now singing in San Francisco variety
hall for $50 per week.
Denman Thompson points with pride to the
fact that he has not missed a performance of
"The Old Homestead" during its almost contnu-
Gus run of four years.
John j. McNally. dramatic editor of the Boston
Herald, pleads guilty to the authorship of
farce-comedy called "A Straight Tip" which
will be brought out next season.
Richard Mansfield and George Keogh, his
manager, are said to have come to blows in
Boston the other day Which took the belt is
notkuown. Keogh, OF course, has resigned"
sydney Rosenfeld's stepping Stone" has come
to grief, owing to the non-paymenu of salaries.
The company struck on Monday night in New
York and Palmer's Theatre was closed in conse-
Quence.
The wonderful success of Bronson Howard's
Shenandoah" promises TO glut the stage with
war dramas next season. Fort Donelson" is
the name of the latest one to be announced. 1t
will be spectacular.
Helen Dsuvray Ward may, and then again she
may not, return to the stage next year. She in
ssts just now that she WILL that her play will be
called THE Whirlwnd," and that if it doesn't
make a success she will fall back on "One of Our
Girls"
Manager Aronson, of the New York Casino,
has paid in royalties TO the owners of "Erminie
over one hundred and tweny thousand dollars
1t is probable that more money has been made
out of this light opera IN America than any other
one ever put on.
Marie Wainwright was i'll and unable to appear
at Harrs's Theatre, st. Paul, on Saturday last
She had been ailing all the week with neuralgia
The newspapers started highly sensational re
port that she had hemorrhage of the brain. Sht
closed her season last night in Chicago.
Mckee Rankin has new play in a compare
lively unworked field of character-thar of thu
French Canadians. The play is called "Th
Canuck," and will be given its first production
in New York the latter part of July. Mr.. Ran
kin will appear as Jean BdptiSte CGdedur.
We are assured that Mrs. ChurchilI-J odre. tn
Englishwoman who has come over to star thi
country on the strength of her relationship to
duke, possesses some brilliant gifts. Probabl
they are her diamonds of which she is under
stood TO have brought over a large invoice.
Lillian Lewis has given TO waiting world an al
ticle on How to Prevent wrinkles in Stockings.
Now that this vital question is disposed of, wi
some as prominent actor kindly favor US wit
an essay on the equally important query, "Ho
TO Prevent Holes in Socks I"-N5U York Miro
A testimonial concert has been rendered I
Julie De Ruyther IN New York on May 10 undt
; the patronage of Mr.. and Mrs. Grover Clevelan
Hugh j. Grant, Colonel and Mrs. J. A. Cockeril
Mr.. and Mrs. Chauucey NJ. Depew, Mr.. and Mr.
= E. b. Harper, Mr. Albert Weber, and many 9th
prominent people
L Richard Mansheld's season at the Madiso
Square Theatre will begin tomorrow night wit
= the production of Edmund Kean," and will la
until October q, with the exception of the mon
Il of July, when the theatre will be closed. DuriI
Il the season Lord Dummersey," another ne
4 play, will also be presented.
= The Dramatic Mirror has started a moyeme
.e in New York TO have The Star-Spangled Ba
IS ner" played by the Orchestras at the close
" every performance in the theatres of that cit
d Nearly every theatre manager in New York b
k joined the movement. Ii is a good idea, and o
)l local managers should follow IT,
% When the news Of Tommy Russell's dischar
r from the Little Lord Fauntleroy" COmpal
$ reached Philadelphia one of his boy admirers z
h up petition TO have him reinstated Two hu
e dred and ninety-eighr signatures were procure
7, the petition was sent 10 Manager French, and {