The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-07-20
NOTES OF THE STAGE.


kee, has been fined slOO for refusing colored
man and orchestra seat
A new play by Fred stnson, called IA Divided
House," will be produced in Boston August H.
Maud Banks will be in the cast
Mrs. G. Ogden Doremus, the New York society
lady who devotes much attention to theatricals,
has written play for Kate Castleton.
Ardti's opera, "The Spy" founded on Cooper's
novel, which was produced successfully in New
York some years ago, is to be revived
1.-THE Girl with the Tin Heart" is the title of a
farce-comedy with which theatre -goers will have
their souls narrowed up next season.
Grant Parish, formerly of this city, has been
engaged as advance for Lydia Thompson, who
will next season star the country in comedy.
Alice Garlic will be a member of Fay Temple
toms Comic Opera Company, which opens in
"Hendrick Hudson" in New York on August IS.
Stuart Robson is said to have been much broken
by the death of his wife. He has new comedy
for next season called "a Natural" by Archi-
bald Gordon.
j. Polk, the rather well-known watch-me-
while-1-convulseyou comedian, will appear
next season in play founded on Will Carleton's
ballad, oyer the Hills to the Poor House,
Roland Reed. who has made good deal of
reputation the last three seasons in roles once
played by John Il. Raymond, will have new
comedy next season adapted from the French by
Bouccault.
Miss Della Stacey, formerly of Washington,
left the Casino Company Saturday night to open
with Jimmy Powers. Mr.. Powers was very anx-
ious to secure her, and had part written spe-
cially for her.
A dramatic version of Thackeray's beautifuI
story" Henry Esmond, ~ is being prepared for Mr..
and Mrs. Kendall by Mr.. w. G. Wills, the noted
English dramatist. The kendals are expected to
| appear in the play next season.
James G. Duf's company. which will include
two imported English members, Marie Tempest
| and Mr.. Salvage, will open in the new comic
| opera, 1.-The Red Hussar," at Palmer's Theatre,
| New York, two weeks from Monday.
Miss Juette Corden, the pleasing young So
| prano of the Bostonians, was married in Boston
manager of the company. Miss Corden will re-
tire from the stage after her marriage.
Baroness Burdett-Coutts, who has conceived
a violent admiration for Agnes Huntington, is
said to have set aside Sl25,OO0 to defray the ex-
penses of that young woman's coming operate
venture in Paul jones' in this country.
Lawyers in New York and elsewhere who
make speciality of theatrical divorce cases say
the coming season will witness the severing of
more marital bonds between actors and actresses
| than ever before. The details OF some OF the
cases, it is said, will be especially spicy.
| 1eOrSle WHO pays Iub AhOHeUWIheT III
| ~. S. Mail" this season, is the bewitchng little
kicker who made such hit at Roster and Balls,
New York, three years ago. Her song of "Jen-
ME, johnson" caught the public, and her high
kick Occasioned so much talk in the papers that
she had to tone it down bit.
"Christopher Columbus; or, The Discovery of
America by Mr.. Edgerly, of this city, which
was produced at the National Theatre with such
weird effect not long ago, will be presented at
the Windsor Theatre, in the Bowery, New York,
on the 18th of August. Mr. Edgerly's drama is
expected to startle the self-sufficent critics of
| New York.
Julia Marlowe, who is spending the summer in
the Jersey Highlands, is said to be one of the
liveliest and most romping OF girls when she is
out of DOORS can swim like a fish, row boat
eight miles and think it fun, and is, in fact, only
young girl when she is out of the forcing glare
of the footights and away from the theatrical
atmosphere.
1t is said that the Spanish tenor Gayarre, lately
deceased, left list Of the various salaries earned
by him during his twenty years career The
total is 81 lS6,OO francS (a00ut S637 UOU.) lie
commenced his artistic existence in 1869 at Va
rese. near Milan, with a salary of S22. His terms
gradually increased until 1876. when he was paid
his salary went up to $4,000 for the season. He
received the same m ,sga smouRt at Barcelona in 1881
that of the season of 1880 at Madrid, when it
reached S25,0OO.
Francis Wilson has returned from Europe and
called his company together for rehearsals of
work has been prepared by j. Cheeyer Goodwin
who contributed so many successful adaptations
to Alice Oates's repertory in the years OF her
greatest popularity. Mr.. Wilson'S company will
be nearly the same as last season, including, as
then, Miss Marie Jansen, Miss Laura Moore, Miss
Nettie Lyford, Charles Plunkett. and Harry Nc.
Donough. The new faces are Willett Seaman
Jr., the tenor, and Gilbert G: Clayton, come
dian, lately with the Pearl of Pekin" company
New York, gasping in that bake-oven atmos.
phere which settles down there after few days
| Ia alu ,oll n,rf
tions to the 18th of August when at least five
theatres will be opened with moderate novelties
These will be Daly's Theatre, with Sol Smith
Russell in Boucicaut's play; the Fourteenth
Street, with Fay Tempeton in Hendrix Hud,
SON." the Academy of Music, with the Hanon-
Volter and Martinetti English Pantomine Com,
Peoples Theatre, with an attraction not yet an
nounced. Francis Wilson will also probably
open August Is at the Broadway Theatre in
'"Ihe Merry Monarch"
Miss Johnstone Bennett, who is remembered
here for clever work with several companies
has won the reputation in New York this sum.
mer of wearing the most masculine costumes OF
is slim, erect, and boyish, her features not par
ticularly feminine in delicacy, and she swings
along the streets and Stares freely at men and
women in a way that is indescribably suggestive
of a college boy in new suit of clothes. The
other day Miss Bennett strobe down Broadway
wearing a very high choker a four-n-hand
scarf, white waistcoat with chaln stretched
across it, and small straw hat precisely like q
, mans. She wore "SpatS" on her boots and there
was rose in her buttonhole. The other young
women who wore mems shirts and similar things
gazed after her with look of keen and poignant
envy a legitimate outcome or Miss Bennetti
notoriety comes in the form OF the statement
that she will star next year
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