The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-07-06

$4,000; Popular Concerts, $4,000, and besides
these sums 100000 additional for the general en-
courapCment of musical and dramatic enter
prises.
Chicago is buried beneath Affections this sum
mer, The heat is deadly, the fight over the
Worlds Fair site is agonizing, and "Adonis' has
been revived at one of the theatres.
Mr.. Ffrangcon Davies has been engaged to
Sullivan's new serious opera, "Ivanhoe," which
will be produced in London in the fall
Edmund c. Stanton, director of the New York
Metropolitan Opera House, has engaged Miss
Minnie Hauk for eight performances next sea,
son. Miss Hauk will appear in Carmen and
other operas.
Bronson Howard has been paid about 100000 in
royalties since his shenandoah" was prQ2duced
last September, He received Sl2,5OO for Young
Mrs. winthrop and got about the same amount
for his "Henrietta."
James O'Neill, who for several seasons devoted
his strong lungs and rich accent exclusively to
Monte Cristo, is reliably reported to have made
q genuine success with his revival of THE Dead
Heart" in Chicago recently.
Despite the ushers' obstreperous uniforms and
other drawbacks, the big Madison Square Garden
in New York is success. The receipts for the
first week were $4,000, and the attendance for
the second week was 10000 greater than for the
first.
The narrowing announcement is made that
Lizzie Evans may go abroad next season to de-
of "Fogg's Ferry" But then the Kendals are
coming over here again, and we may pull
through.
"The "hustler'' is earning his salary in the the
atrical calling this season. Advance puhery of
the fall and winter productions was never more
eloquent. Yet the next dramatic season, viewed
from this distance, does not promise to be par
tcuarly brilliant or satisfying.
Europe does not seem to agree with American
theatrical people this summer. n large proper
ton of those who have gone oyer oyer have ave Reeome
Golden are the latest on the list. They are re-
ported dangerously i'll in London.
From present indications there will be several
JodnS Of Arc in the field next season. Sophie
Eyre, it is said, will have an adaptation of Sar-
dou's version, and will shortly leave for Paris TO
get her costumes. Bernhardt will do the orig
inal French version when Mr.. Abbey brings her
over
Despite all sorts of fantastic advertising. in
cluding overdoses of choral and fainting fits on
the stage, Bernhardt is not drawing well in Lon
by the English clergy when she ANNOUNCED her
intention to play the Virgin in the Passion
Play" at Paris is being carried out.
Two plays by Jerome K: Jerome, the clever
author of Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow"
will be produced in this country next season
! They are New Lamps for Old" which has been
Farm" in which E. H. Sothern will reappear at
the New York Lyceum. Jerome's plays. as we'll
as his books, are very popular in England.
Although the McGinty song has become a
chestnut 50 far this vic vicinity is GoneerRsd it is
publishers say that over 250,O00 copies have been
sold. The song has served both author and pub
Hspay w ynn Th3 the yFGs e the song Us
written he and his partner. Sheridan, were earn;
ing $50 week. When the musical news arrived
that McGnty had gone to the bottom of the sea
the salary of the comedians rose to 500 a week
The publishers, too. came in for a material share
of the profits. AT the time the song was pub
lished these two young Germans were dragging
out precarious existence in Brooklyn trying to
l1Nin on fhEa
in cheap music Their store was poorly fur
consumed each night in the attempt to
pay current expenses. Along came Flynn
Wth his be manuscript a6WB orders NcGnty eame
from orchestra leaders for orchestral arrange
ments. The press was kept busy night and day
to supply, the demand The young Germans
golden sign, and filled the rejuvenated place
with pianos.
1t has been pretty satisfactorily demonstrated
during the past season to at least several of the
try that the public have tired of witnessing the
infant prodigy as represented on the stage. Not
withstanding this fact, Archibald Claverinf
Gunter has Just completed his latest story
Small Boys in Big Boots which, like its prede
cessors, Mr.. Barnes, of New York" and Mr.
Potter, of Texas" is destined for the stage, Mr.
Gunter holds that mothers as fond of children
to-day as they were when 'Fauntleroy" wa
originally produced at the Broadway Theatre
and that they are quite as wiling II not anxious
He considers the cause for apparent lukewarm
ness on the part of these mothers to be tn
scarcity of the 'Fauntleroy' type among thei
young Americas and therefore he has writte
story introducing half dozen boys with sepa
rate and distinct personalities and characteristic
mothers with assorted children" No doubt tn
book will prove an excellent advertising mediuI
for the ultimate stage production of Small Boy
IN Big Boots"