The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-10
NOTES OF THE STAGE.

Cottage City.
MSS Fanny Davenport sailed from Liverpool
for New York on Wednesday.
Sara Bernhardt is writing the story of her life.
Lipptncotts Magazine will no doubt secure the
MS. for publication.
A spectacular melodrana called "99," founded
on Victor Hugo's LES Miserables," will be pro-
duced in Chicago on the 24th
The american Musician says there are four
kinds of opera-Italan opera, German opera,
light opera, and De Wolf Hoppera.
Mark Twan's "Counecticut Yankee at King
Arthur's Court" has been done into a spectacu-
lar burlesque by Howard p. Taylor.
Mark Smith will be member of William j.
Gilmore's Opera Company, which will devote it
self altogether to 1.-THE Sea King" this season.
Comedian Crane has signed contract with
Clay NJ Greene and Gus Thomas, the well-known
playwrights for a new, and of course original.
comedy.
"Just Our Luck is the title of the new play
which Mrs. Doremus has written for Kate Cas-
tleton. who opens her season at ST. Paul on
September2
Miss Bettina Padeford will be member of the
Conreid Opera Company the coming season. So
will Mr.. Rafael, who was last season member
of Stetson's "Gondoliers" Company.
vernona Jarbeau is in receipt of an auto
graph letter from Sir Arthur Sullivan giving
| her permission to use selection from "The
GOndoliers" in her performance this season.
| New York is to have permanent circus added
| to its a!mostinnumerableot other amusement over
lures. A stock company has been formed with
an alleged capital of $I5O,OOO to build and run
| the circus.
Charles Wyndham has secured the English
rights of Gillette's new comedy, "All the Com
| forts of Home" 1t will be done at the London
| Criterion at about the same time as in New York,
| September s.
The extravagant but rather labored manner in
which some of the London critics gush over Ada
Rehan's Rosaltnd leads to the suspicion that Au-
| gustn DAILY has deemed it worth his while to
| talk to them.
The Liliputan German Opera Company, of
Berlin, which opens at Niblo's, New York, is
made % up of diva dwarfs & each of whom is less than
number or standard operas.
"The English Rose," new Irish play by the
brothers Gatti, has been successfully produced
at the London Adelphi. The American rights
of the play have been secured by Dan Frohman
and Mr.. Fields, OF the Boston Museum
Mrs. Blaine will be unable to make her ap-
pearance this autumn, but her friends hope
| that she will have recovered sufficiently to
debut before the season ends. She is
tremely plucky little woman.-N. Y. Mirror.
Atthe New York Casino "The Brazilian closed
| its run last night. Tomorrow night Mime. An
got" will be revived in spectacular STYLE with
Camllle u arVllie IN the leadln9 role she is said
to be a better artist and q more attractive woman
even than Lillian Russell.
The dramatic editor of the Philadelphia Item
pauses between the ships of scissors to remark in
| an l. I-know-it. alld ye-see tone of voice that the
coming great American actor is young AleXan-
| der Salvini, who possesses more genuine ability
than any actor on the American stage"
Rubinstein has been sojourning at Bad Bad
weller. Germany, where he lives almost like
cluse, keeping himself shut up in his room, por-
ing over piles of manuscript music from one
days end to another. He says he will never
travel so far as America again and hopes to die
soon.
JEANNE Winston was annoyed by some re-
marks passed on the yellow silk tights she wears
in "The Beggar Student" and said: "a man
pres bad tae pa 9o
play for people to admire my stockings but for
love OF my art"
Mr.. Hobart Brooks, who will next season man.
age the NJ. S. Mai'' company, is married to a
niece of Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, and Baby Nc
kee and Baby Brooks. the latter the son of Mr..
Brooks, are often playmates. The "U. S. Mail"
by the way, contains an amiable burlesque on
| one of the White House inmates.-DunlOps
Stage NelUS.
Col. John A. McCaull has secured as De Wolf
| Hoppers successor a bigger man, if not as good
| a comedian, in the person of II. II. Cotton. The
latter resembles Hopper in appearance, but is
| two inches taller. He will undoubtedly be the
| biggest thing in light opera. He will make his
debut with McCaull's company in "The Seven
SuabiaIs"
The long and prosperous season of "Castles in
the Air" at the New York Broadway Theatre
will close at the end of this week. Then De Wolf
| Hopper and his company will take a two weeks
rest, resumlng their work at the Brooklyn Park
| Theatre. The one hundredth performance of
| "Castles" tomorrow night will be accompanied
| by the inevitable souvenirs.
A blacksmith shop, with real forge, will be
one of the realistic scenes in Mr.. Duncan B. Har-
rison's new play of Honest Hearts and Willing
| Hands," in which Mr.. John Lawrence Sullivan
and Mr.. Harrison will star next season. In this
scene horse is shod by the worlds champion
prize fighter, who is by trade blacksmith. To
see John L. doing something really useful will
be great treat.
In the leading role of 1.-The Master of Wood
barrow" jerome X. Jeromes new play, young
Mr.. Sothern has part unlike anything which
he has heretofore eSsayed. From the intorma-
tion about it given to the public it seems to be in
| Mr.. Sothern'S line, but Will tax his artistic
requirements more severely than any of his
| other roles. Mr. SOthern will begin his season at
the New York Lyceum on August 26.
The first "hrst night" of the New York theatri-
| cal season was at the Star Theatre Monday
last when 1.-The Balloon" and "A Woman of the
| Worldn We're given. The first is screaming
Balloon," by George Manville Fem and j. H.
| Darnley, originally belonged to William IL.
| Crane, who intended TO produce it had not "rhe
Senator" proved such phenomenal success.
Edward L. Kidder playwright who strives to
| make ND by the quantity of his work what IL