The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-21


Wilson Barrett and Hall Gaines old-style melo-
drama, Good Old Times" which was produced
in New York last week, is built on familiar lines,
but with much cleverness and strength. It
seems to have been successful.
Adelaide Moore, the young English actress just
fresh from London season in Romeo and Ju-
liet," is about to start on tour in the New Eng
land circuit in that play, "As You Like It."
THE Lady OF Lyons" and "Galatea."
The report comes from Australia that Mrs
James Brown-Potter is desirous of retiring from
the stage and returning to private life. She has
our unqualified permission to retire from the
stage but as to returning to private life don't
know.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says: George H. MUIR
ray, advance agent of The Sea King has great
ear for music and had he taken it up as a profes-
sion in early life would now have been cele-
brated. If two flies do not buzz in harmony he
becomes nervous"
The Rev. Virgil Maxey, an evangelist we'll
known in the South, is actually going to carry
out his intention of combining acting with
.The New Masdaien." Mr.. Maxey appearing as
the stage clergyman, Julian Grey.
The Prince Regent of Bavaria has determined
to prohibit another representation of 1.-THE Pas
sion Play" at Oberammergau. This decision has
been reached because syndicate of yiennese
Hebrews are said to be running the affair and
deriving immense profits from the crowds who
have flocked to see it this year.
Jerome X. Jerome is thirty years of age. He
was an actor for a couple Of years before attain
ing his majority, and then he became a reporter,
and msse5 op
constitute his list of acted pieces: he, will soon
visit New York as the guest of Ed. sothern.
Miss Elsie De Wolfe, pretty society young
woman of New York who made fiattering rep
utation as an amateur actress, is said to be pre-
been In Europe all summer laying in wardrobe
of vast extent and fabulous gorgeousness. She
means to succeed If fine dressing can help her.
A gem from Boucicault: I'm every great char
acter there are three characteristic man as God
made him, as he is to himself, naked the man as
tirey real; the man as he is to the world with
everything on. Hamlet in his soliloquies is the
first man; IN the presence OF HoratiQ ne Is the sec
Edwin Booth is troubled with form of sci
atica. He has frequent vertigo, and often when
he rises to walk his legs are unsteady, and he is
obliged to lean on chair for temporary sup
port. Mr.. Booth is recovering from the attack
but there is grave reason to think that he will
never again play with the old fire and energy
". 7. Mirror.
The German company of liliputian actors and
singers, who began their American career at
Niblo's Garden, New York, last week, seem to
little people, about three feet high, and they ap-
pear in a sort Of musical farce comedy of spec
chiid's play. but it IS something new, and that's
what New York always wants.
Agnes Huntingtons American managers are
working up society boom for that actress.
The New York papers draw exciting pictures of
a mob of the Four Hundred besieging the hotel
Agnes, on the strength of being taken to dinner
by English dukes and exchanging banter with
EnGsh ,6 6sh3ps tG at 5GeaGR 3 * teas has been
Fat Fay Templeton is likely to lose good deal
of her surplus adipose tissue through worry.
She has had nothing but trouble, poor thing, ever
since her season began. Her diamonds were
seized by cruel custom house men, her managers
circulation that her troupe are discontented be-
cause the ghost is irregular in his promenades.
These reports, however, Fay's managers deny.
De Wolf Hopper will be at the National Theatre
next week, accompanied by Thomas Q. Sea-
brooke. Alfred Klein, Della Fox, Anna o'Keefe,
and all of the famous company of singers and
comedians who aided him In making success of
his new opera, Castles in the Air" The produc-
that given in New York, and it is sure to catch
the town.
Annie Pixley asserts that she spent $4,000 in
replenishing her wardrobe while in Paris last
GUNNER. No use in singing over the Garden
Wall, " either for Annie isn't isn't the kind Of girl to
to go. Her new dresses can't be described ac-
curately at all in the present cramped state of
the English language. The best that can be
done is to say they are dreams of beauty, and
let them 30 at that,
A realistic feature of the spectacle of Nero"
the production which is expected to soon
set New York agog, will be the introduce
ton in the arena EN- pae.o scene of eight cageless
trepid lion tanner of Paris. For the pro-
lection of the audience during the arena scene
skeleton curtain, consisting of a network of solid
steel. will be lowered between the stage and au-
ditorium. The services of five hundred people
will be required in the production, which, it is
claimed, will entail an outlay of $4,000.
The International Vaudeville Troupe, which
will be at the National Theatre this week, has in
advance of 1t a clever young man. whose artis-
tic advertising devices have attracted great
deal of attention. He produces beautifully let
tered signs with astonishing rapdty, and drew
billboard near Gerstenberg's with mammoth
advertisement He did the job in an hour and q
half. His name is Charles W. Waite, he is yet a
beardless boy, he never had any instruction in
this sort of work, and he has been doing it for
three years.
ceau Case" in New York last Monday night did
not fall to Pearl Eytinge, the star of the cast.
but TO Wilton Lackaye, John E. Kellerd, and
Alice Fischer. The heroine of the piece should
Pearl Eytinge. as the Ssl put it, was "of the ap.
parent age of forty, and of the estimated weight
of two hundred pounds" Lackaye received, as
he has done times almost innumerable from the
New York critics. very fiattering notices for his
work in the play. On Wednesday night the fair
and fat Miss Eytinge retired from the cast. and
stone is a pretty and shapely girl, and created
sensation by appearing as the model in a COM
plete suit of skin-tight hesh-colored tights. 1t
was thought the police would interfere, butthey