The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-23
Gossip of the Stage.

Myra Goodwin has stranded in New
Orleans. 81 o.
A comedy called "The Influenza" has
made hit in Poland.
j. Fl. Ryley and Madeline Lucette have
severed their connection with the Arthur
Rehan company.
Sarah Bernhardt will appear as the
"VIrgin Maryn in a new play soon to be
produced at Paris.
Maurice Barrymore will star next season
in new play by Gus. Thomas, called "a
Desperate Remedy"
James O'Neill will revive Mr.. Henry
Irving's version of 1.-THE Dead Heart" next
season, shelving "Monte Cristo."
Madame Modjeska's physician says it will
be fully a month before the actress sprained
ankle will be well enough for her return to
the stage.
Miss Minnie Radcliffe, who plays
dearest" in the Fauutleroy company, is q
wonderfully interesting little parsonage.
She is graduate of the Boston theatre, aud
one who does that Thespian college credit.
Mr.. Peakes, who plays the part of the
earl's solicitor in Little Lord Fauntleroy,' u
is well known in Savannah. He is singer
| of some note and if seen as "Gaspard' in
| the ''Chimes of Normandy" he would have
| been recognized at once.
Not the least important factors in the
success of a company and the play it pre-
| sents are those in immediate charge. In
| Acting Manager James Jay Brady and
Business Manager Fritz Morris of the
| Fauntleroy company, Mr.. French has two
| lieutenants on whose efforts he can rely.
| Both are clever gen tlemen, excellent news
paper men, and boomers of striking
| originality.
Mrs. Kendall is said to be the only actress
that has ever been received socially in New
York. Patti, although she had the run of
all the courts Of Europe, never got there"
and Mary Anderson, despite her great
social success in London, never succeeded
in getting beyond the Sorosis; indeed, it is
said that the GOODNESS of the Americans
toward her socially has been the cause of
her breakdown. New York society is the
most exclusive in the world. It respects
wealth, but not genius.
Kate Castleton has mania for ''dog col.
lecting." The fad is an entirely new one
in theatrical circles, but the pretty soubrette
is nothing if not original. In the kennel at
her pretty Oakland Call estate, there is a
collection which is pitched up in the top
circles of canine aristocracy. A potpourri
of pugs, skyes, and every other pattern of
doggie has received che stamp of aestheticism
and fashion. One OF the number, hand
some st. Bernard, which belongs to her
husband, Harry Phillips, weighs 100 pounds,
and is valued at $4,000
shenandoah" said Mr.. Morris of the
Fauntleroy Company, (which will tour the
south next season, is the greatest play of
the present day. 1t is now running in its
seventh consecutive, month in New York,
and it has played to the biggest business of
the season in Chicago and in San Francisco
It is play of many parts; it is comedy, q
drama, love starry, and meio-drama. 1t
is replete with all the glamour of warfare
without the nose, 1.-THE din, or the usual tinsel
battery Of that kind of play. 1t is intensely
patriotic. Shenandoah" has the elements
OF half a dozen plays rolled up into its few
acts. It is owned by Manager Al Hayman
of San Francisco, who is making a fortune
ont of it.