The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-14
Stage Notes.

Stage Notes.
Carmencita, the mysteriously doomed Spanish
dancer. is going to appear in pantomime called
1.-THE Dumb Girl of Seville"
Edwin Booths friends are again alarmed about
him. He has become very weak, and leans heav-
lily on cane when walking.
James Owen OConor promises the country, or
such portions of the country as will stand it. a
serio-comic Hamlet this season.
Joe Jefferson is said to be the most popular
summer resident of Buzzards Bay, and no doubt
it doesn't cost him q cent, either.
On one night of each week of the coming sea.
son the JCfferson-Florence Company will give
"Cricket on the Hearth" and Capt. Cuttler
Nat Goodwin has invested in the American
rights of an English drama called 1.-THE Viper on
the Hearth" He will produce it this season.
"Out of Sight" was tried in a New Jersey town
last week, and it made hit. Frank McNish is
said to be capitaly fitted in the principal part.
Neil Burgess's County Fair" began its second
season at the Union Square Theatre, New York,
on Monday night 1t seems to be down for an
other long run at the house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall are now playing 1.-THE
Squire" in the English provinces. The scenery
for the presentation of the play in this country
by the Kendals is being prepared in New York.
Rehearsas of Poor Jonathan" MillUcker's
opera, which was played in Berlin for over two
hundred nights, began Monday last at the New
York Casino, where it will be produced October 15
The Kiralfy brothers have just received from
India the famous elephant MaZuck, which will
perform in the spectacular production of
"Around the World in Eighty Days" at Albaugh's
next week.
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forts of Home" f" made an immediate hit in New
York Monday night. The first and second acts
overflow with action and fun. The third act is
rather slow.
Mazda Craigen. Boston actress will be lead
ing lady of Margaret Mather's company this sea-
son. Jeannie Winston will be leading man. If
she doesn't get tangled up in lawsuits which
threaten her.
"Rhoda" is the name of new comic opera that
Marcus Meyer has secured in London for Pauline
Hall. 1t is by Walter Perke and Sgnora Anto-
MO Mario. and ran some time at the Comedy The
atre London.
The receipts of the Ober Ammergau Passion
Play performances have exceeded 100000 marks
showing an increase of 100, 600 marks over the
amount taken in 1880. OF this the actors get
about 2OOOOO marks
The separation between Marie Wainwright and
Louis James is now complete. 1t is stated that
all prospect of reconciliation has vanished and
that Mr.. James is particularly bitter against his
wife and former co-star.
So great is Francis Wilson's success in "The
Merry Monarch" at the New York Broadway
Theatre that it is believed he could remain there
until spring with profit. Only three weeks more
of the present engagement remain, however.
Rosina Vokes's coming season will be thirty six
weeks long, and she will appear in twenty-five
cities. She has number of new plays, and re-
marked as she got off the steamer at New York
the other day, II am awfuly glad to get back to
America"
A melodrama by Hall Caine and Wilson Bar
rett. called GOOD Old Times will be produced
for the first time in this country at the Four
teenth-street Theatre, New York, tomorrow
night. Atkins Lawrence, Charles Coote, and
Eleanor Carey will be in the cast.
Minnie Palmer will have in her lght-opera
company, which produces "Suzette" In New
York on September %, Bertha Ricci, Harry Hill
lard. j. II. Bell, and George Lauri Barton Key
will be stage manager. "Suzette" is an opera
which was once in the Bostonians' repertory.
Young Ed. Sothern seems TO have made great
popular success in Jerome *. Jerome's play,
1.-THE Master of Woodbarrow." :" at the New York
Lyceum. So great is the demand for seats that
an extra matinee will soon be given each week.