Arizona republican., 1890-07-06

panies booked and among the dramatic companies may be named Vernona Jarbeau, Patti Rosa and Maud Granger The lovers of amusements will be pleased to know that the outlook is so promis- ing and will show an appreciation of MT. Patton's exertions to please them dur ing the coming winter.
 Though Mary Anderson is considered a Kentuckian she is really native of California, Sacramento being her birth place. July 2S, 1859, is given Gs the date of her birth. This makes her two years the senior of her husband, Antonio de Navarro, whose age is mentioned at twenty-nine.
 Frederick Ritchie, the popular variety manager of Butte, Montana, who has been seriously ill with pneumonia for some time past, is regaining his health and will soon be able to attend to his numerous amusements and mining enterprises in Montana. Fred. has stuck by Montana through many vicissi- tudes and trials. He is one of the elected one of Gods people, if ever there was one. He has made several fortunes in Butte, but unlike many others has not carried it away to spend in idle ness elsewhere, but has helped to de- velOp the country with which he has cast his fortunes. May his shadow rapidly increase to its normal propor- tions and his house never know losing night.
 Colonel McCaull returns to the comic opera field next season. His health is said to be rapidly improving. The new who will have control of the stage, Helen Bertram and Chauncey Olcott, and will open in New York about the first of August with a production of Millocker's "Seyen Suabians."
 F. N. Crouch, the composer of "Kath- leen Mavourneen, was conspicuous figure in the procession at the recent unveiling of the Lee Monument at Rich mond, Va. He was arrayed in full uni form of Confederate gray, having gone on from Baltimore to meet, probably for the last time, his soldier comrades of the old First Howitzers. Crouch is said to be nearly ninety years of age, yet hale and hearty.
 Bronson Howard, the playwright, has been warmly received on the other side of the Atlantic. Mrs. Humphrey Ward, author of Robert Elsmere," has shown him great deal of attention, and he has been invited to visit Andrew Lang, Hall Caine and other noted British men of letters. The time has come when liter ary or dramatic success on this side of the Atlantic meets recognition in Eng land.
 Unless the ear-marks deceive me, the talented Peter Robertson is once more in control of the dramatic columns of the San Francisco Chronicle. There has certainly been a change and the new work is decidedly Robertsonian. Should my surmise be correct, would congrat- ulate both the Chronicle and Mir. Rob ertson. Somehow it is as hard to think of the one without the other, as it would be in the case of Mir. Young Mir. Fitch, Mir. Hudson or, that most important of all the staff, Jim Chesley.
 
 "Judah," the new play by Henry Arthur Jones, which will be presented Tn this country next season by E. S. Willard, has been praised without stint m London. Yet the newspaper accounts of the play do not indicate that its story IS either pleasing or probable. A queer glrl, Vashti Dethic, supposed to possess hypnotic powers, becomes an inmate of nobleman's house in order that her soothing and healing influence may be eXerted upon the nobleman's daughter, an invalid. The girl is supposed to live without eating. Of course she is an i'm Possor, but the fault is her fathers more than hers. The man, Dethic, is vulgar and brutal humbug. At the nobleman's house Vashti is watched SO closely by a Keen scientific person that her father is unable to supply her secretly with food, and she is almost starved to death. tnally Dethic manages to get food to her at night, but he is watched, and would be exposed and denounced but for