The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-07-27
NOTES OF THE STAGE.

Lena Merville's talented limbs will illuminate
one of Hoyt's farces next season.
Henry Irving is said to intend appearing soon
as Mdhomet in a play specially written for him.
Bessie Bonehll, the London music hall pet, will
be among the attractions of Tony PASTORS COM
pany next season.
:. 1t is said Richard Mansfield will soon appear as
q fairy good-uncle in dramatization of one of
Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales.
London found Sarah Bernhardt's Joan of Arc
dull. Think, then, what it will be with Margaret
Mather maundering around in it.
Clara Morris is determined to make herself
comfortable in her old age. She will travel in
special car of her own next season.
Edwin Hoff, of this city, is singing with success
in Ben Woolf's new opera, "Fauvette,'' which
was recently produced in Boston. The opera
is q 20.
1t will be learned with real regret that Cora
Tanner has been in Paris two months selecting
clothing with which to hide her hstrionic talent
next season.
Nat Goodwins manager has been taking the
London public into his confidence to the extent
of informing them that Nat franks only a little
behind Jefferson" as an actor in America.
Emma Abbott will sail for home from Europe
this week with trunks full of new costumes and
few carefully selected old operas to try on her
admirers during her first farewell tour next
season.
Tamagno, the great Italian tenor famous alike
for the tenacty with which he hangs on to his
high C's and his small change, is about to retire
from the stage. He is said to have purchased Il
fine estate at Varese.
Another preacher is about to become an actor.
His name is Virgil Maxey, and he is nephew
of ex-Unted States Senator Maxey, of Texas.
1t is not stated what line OF the profession he
will adopt, but from the fact that he expects to
act on week days and preach on Sundays, it is
only Il fair assumption that he will alternate in
comedy and tragedy.
Frederick Pauding. who started out many
years ago as tragic star and kept it up until his
money was exhausted, having got another for
tune of $4,000 through the death of an uncle,
will try 1t again next season. This time. how
ever he will not appear in tragedy, but in FIVE
act melodrama called $50 We Go; or, the Strug-
gle of Life" There is plenty of sensation in the
piece, it is said.
1.-THE Tale of a Coat is the fantastic title of the
new play which Boucicault has adapted for Sol
Smith Russell. The hero is journeyman tailor,
and an unfinished coat on which he is at work is
| used as an object in the plot OF the piece The
author says it is a simple story in which New
| York life and character is developed. Russell's
the coat 6ts the dogs he will try it on New York
| two weeks later.
The Emma Juch Opera Company will open
more new play-houses next season than has ever
| been done by any one company. Among them
are the following: The new Broadway in Den
| yer, the Davidson Grand at Milwaukee, the new
| Alhambra in Chicago, Herrmann's new theatre
in Brooklyn, the new Duquesne Theatre which
| David Henderson is building at Pittsburg, the
Imperial Theatre ut Vancouver, and the new
| Opera House at Seattle.
| Marcus Mayer, the Napoleonic aide of Henry
e. Abbey, has severed his connection with thai
! gentleman's enterprises, and will hereafter at
tend to the American end of the business OF
Mayer. Bashford Abud, the English theatrical
| firm. Now that Abbey has Marcus with him ne
| longer some of the Abbey attractions may go tc
the National Theatre in this city, which they
have not done for couple of seasons, owing tC
Manager Rapley's disinclination TO have Marcus
about the house
Fanny Davenport will sail for home ON the
Both loaded down with new costumes and inspi
ration for her forthcoming production of "Cleo
! patra." Fanny Davenport was the guest re
| Gently of Sardou at his country home, Morly le
Roi. Nine. Sardou and her daughter, NJ. Dumas
fills, M. Monan, NJ. Massenet, Mile. Blanca, Mel
bourne Mcdowell, and other guests sat down tt
a magnificent breakfast given in honor of th'
AmeTdieaa li actress: some Oh the great author,
noted port given him by the King of Portugal.
While many leading actresses are afflicted will
too much flesh, many actors are trying various
systems of diet to put decent covering on the
skinny bones Roland Reed is trying mush anC
milk John II. Sullivan attempts il by eating
pot of Boston baked beans at every meal, Edwin
Arden believes in milk with a dash of Jamaicl
rum, Tom Murphy in the rum without the milk
Nat Goodwin in lots of ale, Steele Mackaye il
elaborate dinners, and Scanlon in lots of Irisl
potatoes. Sol Smith Russell has tried everything
on earth, but gets thinner as he grows richer.
Charlie Murray in his New York letter to tn
Pttsburg Dispatch says: ut is u popular sup
position, based on the yarns of New York cor
respondents, that certain handsome and popula
actors are besieged with love letters and othe
attentions from stage-struck society women
Never was u greater mistake. The masher &C
tor never mashes anything above the socia
grade of servant girls and abandoned women
OF these he numbers scores of captives. The so
ciety woman of New York has no higher Opinion
of an actor than she has of negro minstre
Relegate all future stories OF this sort 10 tn
limbo of 'unimportant, if true along with tn