The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-28
Stage Notes.


of his acrobatic sermons in the New York Acad-
emy of Music.
Adalina Patti has just received 100000, the ad-
vance payment for her coming series of eighteen
concerts in England.
Now rumor has it that this will be Florence's
last season with Jefferson. Next season the genial
William j. will star alone.
st. Louis didn't take kindly to Julia Ma, lowe
recently. Agnes Herndon or Lillian Lewis are
more to the st. Louis taste.
Miss Nellie McHenry and her latest success,
"Chain Lightning" is coming Eastward, having
finished their California tour.
w. II. Crane says that the American public is
hungrier for American plays just now than at
any time within his recollection.
Lolita has been very well received in Brooklyn
in her new piece, "Fleurette,' three-act adap-
tation from the French opera of "Fantine."
Pauline Hall has secured the American rights
to three successful European operas which she
will produce this season as opportunity offers.
William Ludwig. the great Irish baritone, is
making tour of the English, Irish, and Scotch
cities before starting on his return to this country
Mr.. A. B. Anderson, formerly of this city. will
not manage the tour of Josephine Cameron this
season. They had a misunderstanding and the
engagement is off.
Among the features of Tony Pastors Company,
which appears at Kernans October 9, is Miss
Bessie Bonehl, the celebrated English char
acter and descriptive singer
"a commendable feature of the performance
Of The Red Hussar' at Palmer's," says the New
York Times, "is Herndon Morsell's manly and
unaffected performance of Ralph ROdney.'
Emma Abbott is now said to be the wealthiest,
and by far the wealthiest, stage person. Her
fortune is rated at S3,0O0,0OO, and yet Emma
works away as if she hadn't quarter to buy
breakfast.
Efie Elsler, who has been supplied with long
series of misit plays by ambitious dramatists,
has at last it is said, obtained one that comes
pretty suiting her figure. 1t is called miss
Manning
Pauline Hall claims the proud distinction of
having been Photographed more times than any
other woman on the American stage. Pauline
should be careful about making claims of this
kind She may make herself out decidedly an
tique.
Frederick Warde and Mrs. D. P. Bowers ap-
peared in a spectacular revival of Shakespeare's
Henry VIII" at Buffalo recently and are said to
have made a hit. The play has been diversified
by choruses, minuet dances, and triumphal
marches.
Fred. Bryton owns more dogs than any other
member of the profession. His pack consists of
just fifty-two, ranging in size from a blooded
blonde Danish hound of gigantic proportion to
a dminutve King Charles, small enough to go
in his overcoat pocket.
Pauline L'Alemand, the bird-voiced German
American girl who made such hit with the
American Opera Company, will have troupe of
her own this year to present grand opera.
Camilla Muori will bea member of it, alternating
with L'Alemand in leading roles.
"The Princess of Erie" is the name of the new
play that Henry Guy Carleton has written for the
Lyceum Theatre Stock Company. 1t is not yet
known whether the season will be opened with
that play or with "The Idler," a comedy by Had
don Chambers, author of Captain Swift
The McCaull Opera Company will present their
very successful production of MilUcker's latest
work, "The Seven Suabians," at Albaugh's Grand
Opera House next Monday evening, October g..
"The Seven Suabians" is said to be far superior
to either 1.-The Black Hussar'' or "The Beggar
Student"
rough estimate of the receipts of Francis
Wilson's seven weeks stay at the Broadway
Theatre, New York. places them at between
$4,000 and $4,000, and it is thought that 1.-THE
Merry Monarch can be looked forward to add
comedian this season.
William II. Thompson, one of the best charac-
ter actors in America, has been added to the
company that will support Mrs. Leslie Carter.
He will personate an eccentric old scientist in
"The Ugly Duckling." e. j. Henly will join
Mrs. Carter's company November 10, after a
short engagement in Barrymores new play.
On the secou night of the production of "The
Clemenceau Case" at the Standard Theatre New
York, the receipts were $780, On the third night
Miss Sbyl Johnstone appeared as the artists
model in suit of four-o ounce skin tight heshings
On the fourth night the receipts rose to $1,000,
and the theatre has been packed every night
since.
Margaret Mathers essay in "Joan of Arc"
will be made at the Fifth-avenue Theatre, New
York, on December g. 1t is announced that the
stage settings and costumes, from designs by e.
Hamilton Bell, will equal anything yet at
tempted. The version OF the play which Miss
Mather will use is by William Young. 1t is in
six acts.
The New York Lyceum Theatre Company,
fresh from their Chicago and st. Louis triunphs,
opened last Monday night at the Broad street
Theatre, Philadelphia, and played during the
week to a series of crowded houses, presenting
"The Charity Ball." the greatest success in which
they have yet appeared. After a second week in
the Quaker City the company will be seen here,
at the National, where they open on October 6.
Next Saturday night Francis Wilson and COM
pany, at the Broadway Theatre, will close what
is probably the most prosperous run ever
achieved by comic opera in New York. The
receipts of the forty-nine performances of 1.-The
Merry Monarch" will certainly reach $4,000.