The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-16

hes the trite saying, "a wise man changes his
mind and fool never"
Nym Crinkle, the well-known writer and dra-
matte critic of the New York World, said of the
famous bridge scene in Steele Mackaye's sensa-
tiona drama, Money Mad:' Nothing in all the
imported sensations of English melodrama can
compare in structural audacity and pictorial eff
fecttveness with the bridge scene as Mackaye
presents it. The very idea of swinging a cause
way fifty feet long across the stage for the pass
age of a steamer at least sixty feet in length
will hll the average theatre-goer with wonder
and admiration for months"
There is great activity in the millinery and
dressmakng circles preceding the opening of
the grand opera season at the National Theatre,
commencing tomorrow evening, by the Emma
Juch organization. Our leading mllliners re-
port the number of orders received for opera
cloaks, costumes, and hats to be greatly in
cess OF anything ever known here before so
early in the season. This speaks volumes for
the class of people who intend patronzing our
largest opera company during their Washington
engagement.
Edward Elusive Rice has found new capital
ist as well as new playwright. In the latter
he processes to have uubounded confidence, and
perhaps it will be justified, because the drama
tist is a bright writer for the Omaha Herald, w.
r. Goodall, who has finished 81 comedy called
IAN Absent Minded Man. John W. Norton
will be the financial sponsor for the venture,
which will probably be made at st. Louis in a
month or so. There is fair chance that Rice
will put "The Worlds Fair on the shelf in order
to test the Omaha writer's farce.-Dunlop.
The monthly meeting of the trustees of the
Actors Fund was held last Thursday afternoon,
when Treasurer Frank w. Sanger reported the
disbursement of S2,77s.74 for relief, funerals, and
necessary expenses. The first benefit for the
fund this season will be under the management
of Messrs. Sanger and Frohman, and will take
place at the Broadway Theatre on December 4
Among those who will appear the Kendals,
w. II. Crane, E. H. Sothern, the Lyceum Theatre
Company, and others.
The undraped drama has spread from the pur-
lieus of Broadway to the swell precincts of the
Bowery. One of the aristocratic variety resorts
on that walk Of the bon ton arrests the attention
of the passer-by with huge placard which bears
the legend, Twenty models in the great studio
scene. All real-no dummies" And yet they
say that the wheels of dramatic progress are
clogged.
Emma Juch is the proud possessor of the most
extensive and valuable collection of stage
costumes and jewels in existence, her ward
robe not being equaled by that at one time pos
sessed by Sarah Bernhardt. She has costumes,
weapons, and jewels manufactured in every
quarter of the globe and carries an insurance of
100000 on her property.
Sam Devere who readily made $3.50 per week
with his banjo and original Jokes and songs, is
making fortune this season with his own COM
pany of special artists. He is booked at Kernan's
Theatre November "a, Thanksgiving week. and
will treat Washington to a most clever enter
tainment.
Emma Field, who was with the "Mr. Barnes of
New York" Company last season, and who,
although engaged this year, had been unable to
play owing to illness, will join the organization
at St. Louis, replacing Annie Haines, who is
reported to have played the character very ac-
ceptably.
The companies stranded last week were numer-
Gus, Agnes Herndon at Columbus, Ohio; Joseph
inc Cameron at Beverly, Mass; the Eva Mount
ford Company at Detroit, Mich. the frankie
Jones Company at Topeka, Kan, and Katie
Rooneys Company at Philadelphia being among
the number.
"Suzette," the light opera in which Minnie
Palmer has been playing in New York, has just
passed its two hundredth performance at the
Paris Gazette. Betting is even in New York that
it will never get beyond its tiftieth performance
in that city with Minnie in it.
The verdict of New York seems to be that
"Claudius Nero" is fine as a spectacle but
mighty poor as a drama 1t was seen for the
first time at Niblo's Tuesday night. Wilton
Lackaye in the title role has poor lines and
could not make much of them.
Kate Pursell will present her drama, "The
Queen of the Plains" at Newark tomorrow
night. After that engagement of week she
will close her season temporarily, in order to de-
vote her time to her mother, who is dangerously
i'll.
Mr.. r. E. Graham, the comedian OF 1.-The Sea
King" has made another hit in Montreal, where
the newspapers speak of him as one of the best
actors that ever came to Canada. Mr.. Graham's
own play. LARRY the Lord" in which he will
star next season, has been finished.
very pretty waltz. called "Devioma," by the
popular author, Orlando Gray Wales, has just
been published by Ellis & Co. Mr.. Wales has
dedicated his latest piece to his friend, Lieut..
Edgar Russell, of the Third Artillery.
Joe Emmett lays his success to material used
for awnings made up into a skirt that he wore,
when, early in the seventies, he played maid OF
all work in a piece called 1.-The Girl of the
Period" Joe is painfully modest.
play containing the story of "Saml of Po :
SEM" called "Plasterck u Co., of Posen," with
NJ. B. Curtis as Saml, will be produced in New
York about Thanksgiving week. 1t was written
by C. A. Byrne and Archie Gordon.
Cora Tanner will withdraw zone Error" from
the stage in a fortnight She will produce in
Newark on the 24th instant new play by
Martha Morton, entitled "The Refugees
Daughter"
The De Wolf Hopper Opera BoufTe Company
has heen secured by Manager Sanger for sea-
son of twenty-five weeks at the Broadway The
atre New York. beginning next Nav