Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-03-09
and out of town papers. and il is more

have been imagining that Mr.. A. /. Foster woul(
have had manliness enough to come forWart
and exonerate me- He has net done 50. Bu
| he has written me a note-though he keep
himself hidden-denying that he said to any
one in the Herald Office that he had engaged me
to play the part of the Young Messiah.
He evidently had naisled the reporter so the;
he misconstrned every word l said, and had
without reference to me or what might suffer
By it, been to the Herald Office and commenced
the talk of his play and plans. 1 am perfectly
willing to confront both him and your repre-
sentative who visited me, and show to your sat
istaction that l have been made the tool by
which he could gain some cheap advertising
but at the same time will not be made vic
tim OF without strong protest, and shall leave nc
means untried to free myself from the abuse
that is unjustly leyeled at me.
meyer mad the least intention of engaging
| myself to play the Young Messiah, and l court
the strictest inquiry into the matter. stand as
| a woman demanding simple justice, and trust
it will be accorded me. JENNIE WINSTON.
| New York, February &C. 1890.
| STAGE NOTES.
Minnie Maddern has closed her season
at Toronto.
A comedy called 1.-THE Influenza" has
made hit in Poland
Miss Johnstone Bennett has Joined R.
Mansfeld's company.
Frederick De Bellville has joined ''The
| Stepping Stone company.
Frank Mckee is managing the Hender-
son "Gondoliers" Company.
William Gill and Robert Fraser are
writing new play for Evans and Hoey.
"The City Directory" is the biggest
farce-comedy hit New York has, had in
years.
AL Hayman and VIII J. Davis have
leased the Chicago Columbia Theater for
five years.
J. H. Ryley and Madelaine Lucette
have severed their connection with the
Arthur Rehan company.
"The Stowaway" continues to be one of
the best-paying melodramas on the road.
1t will go out again next season.
James O'Neill will next season revive
Henry Irving's version of "The Dead
Heart" shelving 'Monte Cristo."
Mary Anderson writes that she will
shortly contest the suit which Abbey,
Schoeffel & Grau have brought against
her.
Mrs. Kendall has sold "Passion Flow
ers," play written by her brother, the
late G. w. Robertson, to Charles Wynd-
ham.
Samuel P. Cox will manage Donnelly
and Girard in "Natural Gas" next sea-
son. Albert Riddle will continue as treas
urer.
Stuart Robson's receipts at Philadel-
phia during his week in that city was
over SS,000 "An Arrant Knave" was the
play.
Miss Bertha Foy, the younger of the
Foy Sisters, will next season startle the
theatrical world with three-act mono
logue.
Cora Tinnie, who lately joined the D'Oyly
Carte 'Gondoliers" company, will go to
England with the company after its Amer
lean tour.
Major Charles E. Rice's "McCarthy'.
Mishaps" company did the best weeks
business done this season at the st. Charles
Theater last week.
Madame Modjeska's physician says it
will be fully month before the actress
sprained ankle will be well enough for
her to return to the stage.
Grattan Donnelly has written new
farce-comedy called IA Pair of Jacks, y
which manager VIII Wheeler will try at
at Scranton, Pa, April 7th.
Maurice Barrymore will star next sea-
son in a new play by Gus. Thomas called
"a Desperate Remedy" beginning at the
| Standard Theater October 9th.
Frank R. Jackson, the constable Will
cox" in "Old Jed Prouty," has been re-
engaged for next season, as also his wife,
Annie Phillips, the "Widow Stubbs' in
the piece.
Manager T. T. Marks has returned from
| Europe, after an absence of four months,
during which he has organized the Inter
national Vaudeville Company, which be-
| gins its American tour at the Union Square
Theater August 18th.
Mrs. Leslie Carter will have a repertoire
of three new society plays when she begins
her tour under E. d. Prices management
at the Broadway Theater, after the Bern
hardt season. David Belasco is to super
wise the artistic productions. The com
pany will be very strong.
Stuart Robson will produce "An Arrant
Knavep at the Twenty third Street Thea
ter, April 2lst, when the magnificent pro
duction will have run. Its great sue
cess at Philadelphia warrants the predic
tion that it will remain on the stage il
New York long into the hot weather.
Mrs. Clara Baker-Rust is in New York
She was the wife of Fred Rust, who dice
| from the effects of fall from a burning
hotel. He was one of the most popular
men in the profession. Mrs. Rust is seek
| ing an engagement, and as she is a clever
leading lady, she is sure to find a manager
The Standard Theater in Chicago i:
now among the prettiest theatres in the
Inter City. 1t has been newly
decorated, has new chairs, new curtain
and is in every way new theater. Mana
ger Jacob Lit books only the best attrac
ton for it, and as it is situated in th'
most popular part of Chicago, its futur
looks very bright.
The reports about Miss Marie Halter
being in New York or Philadelphia arr
all wrong. Miss Halton was in Paris las
week hearing an opera which has beer
written for her, and in which she will sool
appear in London. On Wednesday, Feb
ruary 10th, Miss Halton was at Mont'
Carlo. She has been indisposed, and vii
remain on the Riviera few weeks.
| Mrs. Kendall is the only actress that ha
ever been received socially in New York
Patti. though she had the run Of all tn
courts of Europe, never "got there" ane
Mary Anderson, despite her great socia
success in London, never succeeded il
getting beyond the Sorosis; indeed, it i
said that the coldness Of American
towards her socially has been the cause 0
her breakdown. New York society is th'
most exclusive in the world.-Dunlop'
Stage Nears.
Richard Mansfield has bought the righ
to play the principal part in the drama
tization of Leander Richardson's novel
"Lord Dunmersey" The dramatizatiol
is made by Clay Greene and Mr.. Richard
son, and the gross price paid is $4,000.
should hesitate to make this statement
only that l have personally read the con
tract The novel from which this play i
made has had stupendous success.-A. I
Dunlop, IN Stage Nelcs.
The benefit at the Broadway Theatel
New York, for Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr
netted 81, ,000. 1t also showed Miss EIit
P. Otis to be by long odds the best anna
teur actress in New York. Miss OTIS edit
the Saturday Reriev st present, but whe
she tires of it more than dozen manager
stand ready TO star her. Among the man
clever thing she did was a comic song an
danca in everv Irav halter thoo .rvfbin