Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-09-28
STAGE NOTES.


Litty Lind has left the London Gaiety
company.
Frank Evans is to star in "The Runa-
way Wife"
Hoyfs newest play, "a Texas Steer" is
said TO be his best.
Mckee Rankin's "Canuck" has proven a
success on the road.
Estelle Clayton has written a play called
The Runaway Match"
"The English Rose" is having a splendid
run at the Boston Museum.
"Bluebeard, Jr' has made another sue
cess at the Chicago Opera House.
''U. 5. Mair is on its way to the Pacific
coast, making money wherever it is seen.
Frank Lander has been engaged by J.
NJ. Hill for Juvenile role in Reckless
Temple"
The McVicker Theater in Chicago will
Ie -strilt and not turned into stores as re-
ported.
Byrne and Kerker's Castles in the Air
has made a tremendous hit at the Boston
Globe Theater.
Charles Hoyt says that "a Trip to
Chinatown" is the best farce comedy he
has ever written.
"Faust up to Date,' the American ver-
sion Of which was made by Richard Ne
vile, has made hit on the road.
Harry Brown and his wife Lille West
are in great distress over the loss of their
little son-the apple of their eyes.
Next season Miss Ada Deaves-by long
odds the funniest comedienne on the stage
will star in play now being written for
her.
Lew Rosen, author of "The Hustler"
has returned to New York. Flora Moore
has retired from the company, and Mollie
Thompson has taken her place.
Miss Ada Deaves has made tremen-
dous hit in Two Old Cronies." Her song,
81 am Chestnut" and very clever skit
dance, has made her immensely popular
Mime. Angot' is in its second month at
the New York Casino, and Rudolph Aron-
son is more convinced than ever of the
wisdom of reyiving the old French operas,
for they contain much that is good.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall are now playing
'The Squire" in the English provinces.
The scenery for the production in America
is now in preparation by Mr.. Miners artist
at the Fifth Avenue Theater, New York
Nat. Goodwin is in New York, looking
the picture of health. He begins his sea-
son in the Northwest October 9th, and will
produce Leander Richardson's play, "The
Nominee" at Hooley's Theater, October
Goth.
E.G. Gilmore and Eugene Tompkins
control and own the most valuable theatri-
cal properties in America. They are joint
owners of the big Academy in New York;
Mr.. Tompkins is the owner of the Boston
Theater in Boston, and Mr. Gilmore owns
and controls Niblo's Garden, New York.
The season of the Howard Atheneum
Star Specially Company of Messrs. Rich
! and Harris has Just been inaugurated. The
company is rich in taking specialties
brought from the other side. Among The
mirth producers of the organization, how
ever, our own whimsically humorous Bob
Slavin is easily the central figure.
"a High Roller" is the fetching title Of
the spectacular farce comedy which Clay
NJ. Green is now, constructing for Barney
Pagan and Bob Slavin, who are to discard
minstrelsy next season and enter the
legitimate field of amusement under the
guidance of Managers E. G. Gilmore and
Alex. Comstock of the Academy of Music,
New York.
Adelaide Moore begins her tour October
26th in New England. Her repertory
will include "Romeo and Juliet" and one
or two other plays. She is also negotiat-
ing for the American rights to comedy
now making a successful run in London.
Moore will have the support of an excel
lent company, and all the plays in her re-
pertory will be handsomely staged.
Of r. E. Graham's performance of Bam-
boula, in "The Sea King" the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette says: but
Mr.. Graham, as Bamboula had the book
all to himself, and better amused audi
ence never sat in theater. In makeup
voice and action he was excellent, and
never before were we so moved to laugh
ter by his humor, and never again viii the
remembrance Of his Bamboula fade from
our minds" Mr.. Graham has made a big
hit in the part.
Miss Lulu Klein, who takes the part Of
Alberta Packer, in Zone Error" at the
Fifth-avenue Theater, New York, studied
for the stage in Berlin, and was for sea-
son one of the prominent members of a
German stock company in San Francisco,
She was the original Hertha in the Ger
man version of "a Drop of Poison" and
played the part of the actress in Elm
Toller EinfalP' All the Comforts Of Home)
with Frederi h Mitterwurzer, the we'll
known German actor.
The Hanlon Brothers will produce
their scenic and dramatic spectacle PAN
tomime entitled "Superba," on September
29th, in New York. 1t is the result of
two years labor, and the mechanical
effects, countless and original stage tricks
are likely to prove revelation to the
theater-gosr. One hundred people will
be employed in this production, which
will include pantomimists, acrobats and
grotesque dancers. The scenery will
prove delightful surprise and the whole
production promises to surpass all the
Hanlon former ventures.
Since its first presentation, the "Old
Homestead" which returns to the Acad-
emy, New York, October 9th, for another
year. has been produced over 1000 times;
the books show total attendance during
that period of over two million souls,
an average of 200 persons daily. The
total receipts to date amount to consid-
erably over million dollars. Divide
the net receipts of the play to date among
the few persons interested and each has a
fortune. 1t surpasses the record of any
play that has ever been presented, not
only In this country, but the whole world.
The Importance of the drama in the
daily existence of New Workers is well
illustrated in the number of columns de-
voted to things theatrical by all of the
metropolitan dailies. Each paper makes
special feature of theatrical gossip and
the sayings and doings in and about the
play houses are eagerly sought for and
printed and as eagerly read. Inasmuch as
the average New Yorker finds the most
of his recreation within the walls of the
theater the prominence given theatrical
items by the press of the great city is not
at all surprising.
An idea of the magnitude of the pro-
duction which Messrs. Locke & Davis are
to give their spectacular drama, "Claudius
Nero at Niblo's, in October, may be
cleaned from the fact that the stages of
three city theaters are now being used in
preparing for the presentation; one for re-