The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-08-03
A THEATRICAL " AD."
How like Palmay Won a Wager
From the Prince of Lichtenstein.

| A story has come from Austria to the
effect that like Palmay, the well-known
soubrette of the Vienna Theatre, recently
won most amusing wager from the
Prince of Lichtenstein, who was so GER
tain that the actress would lose that he
insisted on laying her thousand forms
against pair of riding boots
Fraulein Palmay agreed to sell vege
tables for a whole morning in one Of the
public markets of the Austrian capital
without being recognized, although she
stipulated not to put on any disguise be-
yond the ordinary attire of a farmer s
wife, consisting OF calico skirt, wooden
shawl and wooden shoes. The soubrette.
accordingly, appeared behind stall in
the Am Hoff" market on a Friday morn
ing at two a. m. with a huge basket
loaded with green stuff and spring Yege-
tables. she did roaring trade until the
sun was high in the heavens, and acted
her part SO well that no one-not even
the market men whose chaff she returned
with provincial dialect-suspected who
she was. The market people, however,
were greatly surprised to see the stranger
greenswonian finally jump into SPLEEN
did carriage and drive away with the
Prince and two of his companions who
were lounging around disguised as peas
ants.
Theatrical wagers will, no doubt, be-
come the fashion now with wide awake
press agents who wish to boom their re-
| spective stars. Meantime, one of the
| guild of managerial globe trotrers is al
| legged 20 have made bet for the trifiing
amount of S17,2S4 in order to keep his
/ own name before the public.
Notoriety comes high, but they must
haveitl
VERSATILITY IN ACTRESSES
1--WE had to make mp our minds very
much more quickly, in the matter of cos
tunes, when / was with the late Mrs. f.
/ B. Conway's company in Brooklyn
| the bill three times week, ex-
cept when stars came along with their
/ repertoire. Stars didn't carry their own
companies then, and the parts would
be given us on Thursday to be perfect
/ in and play them on the follow
line of business there, known as old
women and responsible" 1t simply
means doing anything useful, and did
/ it, from singing and dancing an Irish jig
/ in knee breeches TO corkfng my face and
PLAYING the King of Abyssinia in
| Brougham's burlesque Of "Much Ado
! A bout Merchant of Venice, p" introduce
/ ing an Essence" in big niger shoes.
/ And wien the chanbermaid was i'll
! studied and played her part; in fact, l
| would have gone on for anything, from
Hamlet to Little Lord Swaddlenkins-"
Stage Notes.
.sThe Brazilian enters upon It's last
week at the Casino. The manaF ement is
making extraordinary preparations for
the production of Mime. Angot" on
Monday evening, August IL. Since the
| arrival of Camille D'Arville rehearsal Is
bof nj a T.
| ing next week three dress rehearsals viii
| be given Mons. Leon Espinosa, bale I
master ut the Madison Square Garden,
has been engaged to arrange and place
upon the stage the famous "Millers
! dance" of which he is the originator,
| gsvotte for Clairette The original bale
| and oavotte music composed by Lecocy
| for the Eden Theatre production and
never before used in this country, will be
utilized in the coming performance. The
sale of seats for the opening performances
| begins tomorrow, Monday, morning al
| ten o'clock.
A Turkish exchange speaks OF an inn
| portaut discovery recently made at the
excavation of the buried city of Troy. 1t
is an ancient theatre in the form of a
| semfcircle and having seating accommo-
dation for about TWO hundred spectators.
| Greek inscriptions on the walls demon
| strate that the construction dates from
| the reign of 1iberius.
A serious attempt is being made in
London to establish Theatre Libre. j.
T. Green is at the head of the enterprise
and purposes hiring the new Novelty
! Theatre. A. W. Pinero, IL. A. Jones,
| SYDNEY Grundy and e. r. Sims have all
| promised to write plays for 1t.
Kitty Cheatham writes to II friend that
she is charmed with London and with the
English people. The London critics
Archer, Scott, ct al have accorded her
more praise than she was vouchsafed by
| the Park Row fraternity last season.
| De Wolf Hopper; Della Fox and Marion
Manola form a magnetic trio in Castles
| in the Air. which is still breaking the
record for summer business at the Broad
way. Oniytwo weeks more OF the OPP
| erals engagement in New York remain.
| The one hundredth performance, which
occurs on August IL. viii be marked By a
handsome souvenir of photo gravure por-
| traits of the company. neatly bound and
artistjcaliy finished
Belle Billion, the defendant in the ash
| nine young Lord Dunlo's suit for divorce.
| is the daughter Of an English color SER
gcant. She was reared in the dang arous
almost here OF Aldershot and driftedinto
the European cufes chantants. A geatle