San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-11-07
LATE STAGE WHISPERS.

in Germany.
And now il is said that Mrs. James
q. Blaine, Jr., will join the kendall
Co. at the end of their American
tour.
Julia Marlowe sprained her ankle
at Philadelphia, on Monday, and may
not be able to keep some OF her en-
gagements.
Sam Harrison has resigned from
Rice's "World's Fair" and will go
with John H. Russel's Fay Temple.
ton Co.
Marcus Meyer has five year con-
tract to manage Fanny Davenport.
He will begin with the "Cleopatra"
production in New York this winter.
The Emma Juch Grand English
opera company will appear next
week at the Brooklyn Lee Avenue
Academy. The company has SO tar
done phenomenal business this sea-
son.
Miss Laura Burt at moments no
tice last Thursday appeared as June
in "Blue jeans" at the Fourteenth
Street Theatre, and made an instan-
taneous hit. The part was originally
played by Miss Jennie Yeamans,
whose voice completely failed her,
and will probably incapacitate her
from appearing again for some time.
The next production at Herrman's
theatre will be Strauss opera, an ac-
cepted foreign success; and Miss Min
ME Palmer, who by the way has pro-
ven herself capable of holding her
own with the best comic opera ar
tiste, will be surrounded with new
cast, in which Herbert Wilke and
Lilly Post are the principals
Dixey's manager, the youthful Mr..
Warburton, of Philadelphia, amuses
himself by sending eight dollar tele-
grams to leading ladies in New York,
offering them small positions in the
Dixey Co., for which he condescends
to pay S25 week, advising that times
are hard, and that they better accept.
The leading ladies are both in
dignant and amazed at: the young
manager, but fail to answer.
The four lions introduced into the
spectacle OF "Claudius Nero" at
NibIo's Garden, is one of the big sem
sations of the hour. They are made
to do all sorts of things, and are treat
ed by their owner, Mr.. Darling, much
like overgrown kittens. The reason
he never whips them is rather cur
ious. "IfI did," said Mr.. Darling,
it couldn't hurt them much, and they
would find out that the crack of the
whip which they now fear, is q de-
fusion and snare, and amounts to
nothing.
In "The Last Word at Daly's,
Miss Rehan has besides a new accent
which strongly suggests Modjeska,
several new gowns which made the
women lose. the context of the play
for fully five minutes at a time. The
most striking one was of white India
crepe on one half of the figure and of
embroidered gold on the other, with
line of black fur between. When she
turned the embroidered side to the
audience she looked like living
statue of gold. The effect, with her
wig of golden hair was barbaric and
beautiful.
Mrs. Leslie Carter is an exceeding
ly graceful and beautiful woman, with
winsome manners and fascinating in
dividuality. She is rather deliberate
of movement and speech;has no quick
startling, stacy gestures or poses, and
possesses that sweetest thing in wo-
man; low, rich voice, to which 1t is
a pleasure to listen. Her coloring is
exquisite. Her hair is like FURNISHED
gold. Her great eyes are tlnged with
blue and gray lights, and her COM
plexion is like an azalea.
The business of the numerous Cleve-
land Minstrel companies is limited
only by the capacity of the theatres
in which they appear, and 1t is a cold
day when the receipts of the three
shows combined do not exceed $1,000,
With one show in California, another
in the South, and still another in
New England, there is string of
Cleveland's Minstrel printing that
extends from ocean to ocean. One
day last week the Cleveland min
strels were heavily billed in one hun
dred and fifty-six of the principal
cities, extending as far west as San
Francisco and as far east as Bos-
ton. The total cost for photographic
printing on bill boards at one time
for dates to be played by the differ.
emit companies, aggregated over
$4,000. Most of this was for prelimi.
nary advertising, and not the regular
billing, as four or five agents with
each company are all thoroughly
equipped with different styles O.
printing. Between now and the
dates they appear in the different
places, Mr.. Cleveland goes over tn,
entire route. The largest number O
people who have paid to see Cleve
lands three minstrel companies il
one day (six performanees) was nine