The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-27

Mann ana others appeared UtIOIt lie Cutiiihiitee
aud argued so convinciugly for The proposed
bill That the House had scarcely been cillleg 10
order before favorable report was sent Ill. ! ne
theatrical people, with the aid OF Congressman
Mason. Baker aud others, are SaDeune that tue
blu Will become a law
Edgar Weiro. young English actor. has Deen
engaged by Louis Aldrich TO play the Leading
juvenile part in THE Editor the coming season.
Why, how now, Louis?
Mr.. W. r. Hayden. Stuart Robson's manager,
does not believe the comedians collapse on
account OF the death OF his wife is permanent.
The London Gaiety Company, including MISS
Florence Slngin, returned to London, friday
18Th July.
Marcus Mayer has severed his business rela,
tlonswiln Henry E. ABBEY aud In future ~ WI" III
devote his attention to enterprises III when De
Is personally Interested
Miss Emma Thursby will make tour OF the
Pacific States next fall under the management Oh
Ii. Wolisohn.
Emma Abbott is announced to make fare
well tour Of America next year. JanauscheK
began making farewell tours in 1865, and she Is
TO appear next season in a new play.
William Gillette c'Held by the Enemy'') IS
steadily recovering his health at Agnes Booths
hotel at Manehest r-by-lh sea.
Wilson Barrett has closed his American tour
and returned 10 London. He will not come back
here next year and possibly never. for his last
visit was far more disastrous than the first Miss
East lake has retired from the company. she
viii star in the English provinces next season.
Maud Branscombe, of Photographic fame IS
coming over The sea TO tuln up her eyes once
more 10 the tune of American dollars. She was
a beauty in '76.
The mistorunes of the great have invariably
New Vnl sIae appears; bs says w5 5s
Sarah Bernhardt was suffering most from her
ntamed knee and The alternative of amputatlo1
loomed In tie distance a message was received
from F. I. Barnum Offering the tragedienne
large sum for the amputated leg. The enter
prlslng Snowman added magnanmously that ne
would see That the precious limb was caieluliy
embalmed, and treated throughout The tour lie
proposed making with il with all the respect due
the illustrious artistic OF which 1t had been
RI a will
TO Mr.. Barnuln's surprise, and report has IL
that Nine. Bernhardt has felt very Ill ever
since.
NJ. B. Leavitt, manager of the Busll-street
Theater IN this city and or numerous other thea
lers IN various parts of the county, returned
from Europe The week before last One OF his
most important transactions abroad was tile
securing OF a vaudeville company OF European
performers who will be sent direct from HaVre
TO The City OF Mexico, TO play over The Mexican
circuit.
Ire announcement that Mrs. Leslie CarterIs
going on the stage is stimulating Others Mrs
Mira beals, who VIII be remembered as the
plaintiff Ill the Boston libel suit Of Beals VS..
Thompson some time ago has decided TO make
her debut as an actress. The divorce courts
turn out, apparently. more female asprants Tor
hlstflonic h0n0rS than Steele MacN ayes or
Bouclcaulps schools for acting Nobody sue.
ceedS so well as dIvorcee woman who has
been party to a scandaium magnaJum.
The Old-lime theatrical manager Lelgh ).
Lynch, who TOOK Alice Lngard to Australia
about 1875, is now negotiating business 1eals
between American manufacturers and English
capitalists.
George S. Knight is every now and then held
up on tie points OF paragrapher's pen ana
shown TO the world as "a hopeless wreck"
IL may b well 10 know beforehand that MI.
Willard, the English actor who is coming over 10
play IN The Middleman," pronounces his name
"Niltdrd'-Ihe accent on the lard. That rad
ical departure fIOm the natural American
method OF pronunciation IS observed by all Lon
don. The English not consistent. 1hey
close up some names and spread others out. no
good and sufficient reason therefor being given
II either case. such pronunciationS are merely
caprlclOus. There is no rule for either spelling
or pronouncing family name.
Al Hayman and Charles Frohman have Sc
cured the new play by Buchanan and Sims,
which is to be produced August 12th at The
Adelphi Theater London. 1t is the first time
these important authors have worked IN colab-
Grafton.
Miss Elsie Leslie was the guest of Edwin
Booth at the Naphtha Launch Regatta on Long
Island Sound week before last The little act
less and the tragedian had Jolly time together
the bright repartee OF the child seeming TO de-
light The usually grave actor.
George Barrett, the clever comedian, who has
been very successful IN his brother Wilson's
company This season, says mot for thousand
week Will he return 10 America" He likes the
people and the country but The distances are a
little tGo heavy for him. Notwithstanding, he
may return at the head of his own company 10
play the big cities only.
q. F. Sinclair, an old English actor, has come
upon straliened circumstances. When the
TACT was made known 10 Henry Irving he sald
Tell Mr. Sinclair to draw on Inc Tor GlO0 ayear
for the rest OF his lile."
The veteran dramatic soprano Nine. Ma
teIna, Is about TO retire from the operate stage.
1t Is estimated that the managers OF the MadI-
son-squafe Garden Will lose not less than $780,
900 ON The ballet and the Strauss Orchestra
CAPTAIN Alfred Thompson is no longer director
OF production at the Garden lie could not agree
with Manager I. Henry French
4" The Worlds Far" the new farce-comedy
which Paul NJ. Potter has written for Rice's Sur
prise Party, Will introduce Columbus, who Is
supposed to have been sleeping all these years
IN Philadelphia. and show us how The discoveler
AT performance of married Life" given in
London The other day for tile benefit of Buck
stones daughter, Miss Terry appeared as The
maid servant with only line TO speak. oddly
enough" says the London Stage, =" this most
practleed actress was rendered so nervous by the
reception she received that she stumbled with
her single line, announcing Miss Kate Phillips
Instead Of Mrs. Doyle"
Edwin Cleary. well-known American actor
LETT London last week for the Argentine Repnb-
lie with fifty actors under contract TO produce
the newest English and American operas In
South America. David Garrick LOngworthy
who used 10 be with Days company, goes with
The company.
The scandals respecting the management of
the Ober-Ammergau passion Play" have be.
come so notorious that there is 4 strong prob
ability of The Bavartan Government interfering
and prohibiting repetition OF the representation
after this year. There is a general complaint
that the affair has degeneraIed from a religious
to money-making scheme, IN which the actors
and Their fellow peasants are equally Interested.
Mrs Shaw's whistle has raised the wind" in
PHEASANT ItdlIlgs oHe Is uOW ulhucut Nneic SDc
was once poyerty-stric Her present posi-
ton is that OF sitfieuse TO the autocrat of all the
Rus>iaS and that means rubles and diamonds
galore.
A Professor Geyer OF Cincinnati is reported
by German paper contemplating European
tour with bass fiddle Of his own invention,
which is 1412 feet high and ~ feet broad. The
1nsuumen Is manipulated from step-ladder.
Our Ieutonic contemporaries, says contempo-
lary, viii swallow anything If ii Is only Yankee.
But an Italian, Mr.. FiippO Alto of Barla, simply
puVeiiZeS Inventions in tile musical line. he
plays small trumpet with his nose and smokes
Il cigar at the same time. lie calls IL the nasi-
hautu. Europe is thirstlng for musical novelties
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