The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-02
Notes of the Sta

Cyrene, another new Spanish dancer, has
scored a hit at Boston.
This is said to be the most successful season
Roland Reed has ever known.
1t is said Francis Wilson'S Merry Monarch"
will soon set up his throne in London.
Sibyl Johnstone displayed her shape for the
benefit of the baldheads of Harlem the past
week.
JEANNE Winston has refused to play with
Margaret Mather, and has Joined the Carleton
Opera Company.
Minnie Palmer is soon to bring out a new
opera by Strauss, it is said, at Herrmann's The
atre, New York. She has engaged Lily Post and
Hubert Wilke for her company.
Marcus Mayer has five years contract to as
sumo the management of Fanny Davenport.
He will commence work in that capacity with
the production of cleopatra" in New York City
this winter.
1t is said that Mrs. James G. Blaine. Jr., will
join the Kendall company at the end of their sea-
son here. She is now convalescent. and, it is re-
ported, is able to walk without the aid of
crutches.-N. Y. Mirror.
Fanny Davenport opened her season at the
Chestnut-street Opera House, Philadelphia, in
Fedora" Monday night. The house was
crowded. Miss Davenport was called before the
curtain after each act.
Mrs. Bernard Beere is to bring her own COM
pany with her from London. She will also be
accompanied by her scenery and costumes. Sew
eral managers in this city have already tried to
book her at their theatres.
Lovers of che bassoon will perhaps be inter-
ested in the fact that hitherto unpublished
concerto for that instrument. with accompani-
ment for violin, viola, and voloncello, by Paga-
mini, has been discovered at Stockholm.
Lolita is not going to get entirely left out of the
Spanish craze that is now raging. She will not
add bOlerO or fandango to her terpslchorean
repertory, but she is learning to play the man.
dolin, and will perform on it in her comedies.
Ferris Hartman. the comedian of Conried's
Comic Opera Company, has made positive hits in
THE Kings Fool" and 1.-THE Gypsy Baron" His
funny business is said to be devoid of horse
play" so often seen and heard in comic opera.
Upon the application of Leo Goldmark Judge
lngraham has granted temporary injunction
restraining Emma Juch, Charles E. Locke, and
Charles L. Davis from producing "Lohengrin."
Goldmark claims to have the exclusive right to
produce the opera in this country.
The members of the Marie Wainwright COM
pany have subscribed S25 to be presented to the
heroic elevator boy of the Leland House, at
Syracuse, N. Y. number of the members of
the Cora Tanner and Louis Aldrich companies
owe their rescue to the boys bravery.
Leander Richardson and Clay NJ. Greene are
writing new play for Miss Johnstone Bennett,
to be called "A Business Woman" There will
be novelty in "A Business Woman" Miss
Johnstone Bennett will be seen as a feminine
barber, shaving the leading actor, or pretending
to do so.
Miss Annie RUSSELL Miss Frances Rousseau,
Miss Ida Fitzhugh, and Miss Lulu Nichols, who
appear prominently in THE Kings Foolr and
1.-The Gypsy Baron" as presented by Conried's
Comic Opera Company, are described as pretty
young ladies, with comely figures and musical
talents that place them in the front rank of
comic opera singers.
Probably no suit ever seen on the American
stage produced as much of sensation as the suit
which Miss Sybil Johnstone wore as la in ''The
Clemenceau Case" But somebody suggests to
Mrs. Leslie Carter, who is soon to make her debut
in New York, that she can produce a greater
sensation still by appearing in her famous Chi
cago divorce suit.
The news that Julia Marlowe had broken down
in health and has had to cancel all her dates up
to the lst of January was received here with gem
une regret. Miss Marlowe's charming girlish
ways have won the atfectioIate regard of nearly
all who have seen her, as her undoubted talents
as an actress have aroused general admiration.
1t is to be hoped that she will speedily regain her
health.
Arthur Dacre, specially imported from London
to act leading man to Mrs. Leslie Carter is said
to be handsome six -footer, with refined bearing
and frank, hearty manner. He was the orgi-
nal Jim the Penmdn in London. Mr.. Dacre is ac-
companied by his wife, Amy Roselle, who is an
emotional actress of some note in England She
is trying to find a manager who will give her an
American tour.
The attendance at many of the New York thea
tres has fallen off within the last week. and the
managers say it is because of the interest taken
in the coming election, which does not allow peo-
pie TO give the usual time to other occupations.
Some of the houses have Suffarad little NOT at