The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-24

American stage VINO Keep engaged SO 1ar anead !
as Lackaye His services are always in demand |
In New York. and while reaping lots Of glory 1t
is safe to say he isn't getting left on gold.
Notes OF the Stage.
Adonis Dixey's recent Chicago engagement Is
said to have cost his manager a $4,000 loss.
"The Congressman" IS the name of new COM
edy written by VIII r. Wilson and Julius A.
Lewis.
Efae shannon, the clever actress, has been en-
gagged by Henry Guy Carleton. the dramatist
for life.
Philadelphia is to add another theatre to her
already large collection. It will seat two thou
sand people.
Chicago is to have still another new amuse-
ment place. this time grand opera house to cost
half million dollars
]. B. Polk will play the title role in "Dr. Bill"
soon to be produced at the Madison Square Gar
den Amphitheatre, New York.
The New York Lyceum will open for the sea-
son on Tuesday evening with Jerome X. Jeromes
play, "The Master of Woodbarrow."
Kate Castleton has become dsgusted with her
new skit, Just for Luck" has disbanded her
company. and will not go out for the present.
Manager E. E. Rice has revived the title, "Rice's
Surprise Party" and the company which will
play 1.-THE Worlds Fair" this season will be
known by it.
Augustn Daly's company will sail from Eng
land for New York tomorrow. They will have
two weeks vacation after they arrive before be-
ginning the new season.
The Boston Museum will open tomorrow night
with all adaptation from the French by Bouci-
cault which bears the remarkable title, Leave
Me Your Wife" Roland Reed will take the
leading part
Following Professor Herrmann's Trans-Atlan-
tiques at the National Theatre Gus Williams and
John T. Kelly vii their Fta new W mHsica Tssa
Smith and Richard Carroll.
Franklin Fyles, the noted dramatic editor of
the New York Sun, who is especially famous for
his stock of tropica! adjectives, has written a
play called Overlook in which Annie Boyd
will star the coming season.
Frank Pearson, of this city, who has been sing
ing with success in the Hinrich Opera Company
in Philadelphia this summer, will be one of the
leading bassos in the Hammerstein Grand Eng
lish Opera Company next season.
The Fay Foster Burlesque Company, which is
backed by wel-known Washington banker,
and which will appear at Kernan's September l,
turned hundreds away at Miners Eighthavenue
Theatre, New York, Monday night.
Charles Coghlan has been engaged by Mrs.
Langtry as her leading man for her production
vember. Charles had determined to give up the
stage, but was called back by thenod OF the Lily.
Tom Carl, w. H. Macdonald. and Barnabee.
| who are known in every city in che country
| through their connection with the Boston Ideal
and later with the Bostonian Opera Company,
are about to start an operatic school in Boston.
The London Vanity Fair sums up the abilities
| of the DAILY company in these words: $50 far as
Shakespeare is concerned. they are very earnest
but the thing is outside of them as q whole AS
for their farce, it is funny, but-tOujOurs per-
drir."
Vernona Jarbeau is living in pretty summer
| house at Lawrence L.. l., making bread and
| butter, raising chickens, which she converts
into salad and pot-pie as soon as they are ripe:
| and learning new play. She has made a lot of
money and her heart is as light as her biscuits.
If anything can retrieve the failing fortunes
| of Margaret Mather those who have undertaken
| the management of her tour this season will
| certainly do it. In addition to having Arthur b.
Chase as manager Miss Mather will also have
that thoroughly capable gentlemen, Mr.. Frank
Is. Cotter, as business manager.
Seforita Rosita Tejero Torres who will ap-
pear with Herrmann's Vaudeville Troupe at the
| National Theatre tomorrow night, is called in
Spain pr,inerd balLertnd de range EspdnOl-that
is, the "hrst lady dancer of Spain." She is the
| great rival of the famous Carmencita. and is
said to be very beautiful girl. Like Carmen
cita, she was born in the Canary Islands.
Curious and devious arc the ways of the theatri-
cal boomer. Mr.. j. B. Roberts announces that he
will star the country this season in his own ver-
sion OF Faust which ran one hundred nights
at the Chestnut-street Theatre, Philadelphia -
People who keep track of theatricals will be
puzzled by this until they learn that this re-
markable run occurred at least twenty years
ago.
Fay Templeton and her new burlesque, Hen
drck II udson," were rather unkindy treated by
the New York critics this week. They said that
the buresque was of the traditional type, and
that Fay had grown rather stout. People who
witnessed the opening performance at the Four
teenth-street Theatre, however. aver that it
caught the audience and that "Hendrick' con-
tains plenty OF fun.
Miss Annie Gleason, the American girl who
opened the Theatre Communae, Milan, three
years ago, as high soprano in ia Sonnambula, ~
and has since, been singing under name OF Mile.
Opera Company through England. has returned
to America, and will be heard in New York this
season. She is spoken of very highly by the for
eign critics. Mile. Alameda will hereafter APP
pear entirely under her own name, Gleason.