Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-04-06

| their services to the Board of Directors,
through Director Stanton, at a reduction
OF 90 per cent. on their salaries, provided
they are given three years contract. III
this be true, it shows that Director Stan
tons fight for the continuance of German
opera was the result of definite policy,
the success of which has vindicated his
foresight and sagacity.-Americd Musi-
clan.
STAGE NOTES.
Jennie Yeamans has sailed for Europe
Miss Edith Murrilla has become Mrs,
Frank B. Blair.
William Terriss has signed for three
years with Henry Irving.
Frederic de Belleyille has signed Charles
Frohman for next season.
The present successful tour of "Blue-
beard. Jr.," closes April Goth.
Gossip says that clever Jake RoSenthal
and pretty Flora Moore will shortly wed.
Nellie McHenry has purchased new
four act comedy drama entitled "Lady
Peggy"
Edward Michael is now resident mana.
ger in London of the Dalziel-Dunlap Cable
News Company.
Major Charles E. Rice, of Mccarthy
Mishaps" Company, will clear $4,000 on
his present season.
"The Countersign," play founded on
scenes in the late war, will be brought out
in New York before long.
Harry Hine has bought the farce CON-
edy "U. S. Mail" and will tour it next
season as "Mail Pouch 21O."
VIM. Redmund will star alone next sea-
son, Mrs. Thos. Barry, his former associate,
having decided not to travel.
c. D. Hess is now in the City of Mex
leo, with cyclorama of "Christ's Trium-
phant Entry into jerusalem"
A Hebrew play called Isabel" by
Frank Rothschild, will soon be produced
at special matinee in New York.
Richard Golden and Dora Wiley sail
for Europe in June, at the conclusion of
"Old Jed Prouty's" tour of Maine.
Gertrude, daughter of Major Charles E
Rice, was married at Boston, March 9th,
to DIR. S. Weston Thayer, of Boston.
Miss Elsie de Wolff and Edward Fales
Coward are spoken of as the next pro-
fessional graduates from the amateur
ranks.
Will L. Lykens has signed five years
contract with Fay Templeton. She will
begin in a production of "The Grand
Duchess"
NJ. B. Leavitt's New Broadway Theater,
Denver, will have a stage constructed OF
steel. The scenery is to be worked by hy-
draulic power.
The tiger which Sarah Bernhardt car
ried with her during her last tour in this
country died at Jardin des Plantes, Paris,
recently of la grippe.
Colonel John A. McCaull has purchased
the American rights of Millocker's opera
"Sieben Schwaben," and will make it the
feature of his repertoire next season.
Minnie Palmer will open her next sea-
son under the exclusive management of
w. w. Randall, in new play by Charles
Alfred Byrne and Archibald Gordon
Rumor has it that David Henderson has
engaged James 7. Powers for the coming
revival of "The Crystal Slipper" opening
at the Chicago Opera House, April Goth.
Maude Granger has secured from Mrs.
Lucy Hooper, the well-known author and
society woman, a four-act emotional drama
originally produced in Paris under the
title of "L'Heritage DHelene."
Max Freeman has been relieved Of his
duties as stage manager of the Casino by
Rudolph Aronson. He will stage Byrne's
"Castles in the Air. for the De Wolf
Hopper Opera Boufe Company.
The joint starring tour of Gus Williams
and John T. Kelley will be under the di-
rection of Hermann and Lederer. and the
season, which will be long one, will
open at the Globe Theater, Boston, August
25th.
"The City Directory" has now passed its
fiftieth performance at the Bijou-an un-
usually long run for a farce-comedy. and
its prosperity does not seem to have dimlu-
York until June, and then it goes West
under Al Hayman's management for an
eight weeks season.
'Little Annie Rooney" has made a pro-
digous hit in England. The Umpire, an
unusually well informed newspaper, says:
There is a company out West playing
'Hamlet" with marked success, which is
attributed to the fact that new feature is
introduced, the melancholy Dane singing
'Little Annie Rooney" just after the
soliloquy.
John Slater continues his wonderful
tests every Sunday evening at the Metro
politan Temple in San Francisco. For
three years he has mystifed the people OF
that city and has not yet been caught in
collision with any of his subjects. He
tells people in the audience events in their
lives, some which have occurred the same
evening and others that have been for.
gotten by them for years.
The Thursday afternoons" at the New
York home of Miss Leonora Bradley, or
Fourteenth street, are among the most
recherche in Gotham. The lady's pretty
parlors are usually filled by the best actors
and prettiest actresses in town, and we'll
known artists, lawyers and literary lights
meander through the gay throng. Not tc
be there during the afternoon from to
o'clock is to be out of the fashion profes
sionally. Miss Bradley is among the most
popular women in the profession, and
makes charming hostess.