The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-23
Notes of the Stage.


Agnes Huntington and Paul Jones" have re-
peated their New York success in Boston.
Boston found Campaniui's voice quite as good
as new when he sang there recently in concert.
Harry Paulton, the somewhat soggy English
comedian, mas gone home to accept an engage
ment in one of the London theatres.
Bronson Howard, IN London, is busily work
ing upon new comedy. which he hopes to have
ready for production next November.
Margaret Mather begins rehearsalsof" Joan of
Arc" at once and the production is to be a very
magnificent one. What with perform inces
every night and rehearsas every day, Miss
Mather will have very busy time.
The managers OF Nero" believe the great
Roman spectacle will fill Niblo's Garden, New
York, during the entire season, and
rangements have been made for a successor to it
on that stage.
just because story got into the papers to the
effect that Stuart Robson had narrow escape
from being shot through the car window while
travelling recently from Indianapolis to Cincin-
natl cynical stage writers are inquiring if Rob-
sons business isn't as good as usual this season.
Maggie Mitchell, with commendable enter
prise, never misses chance to add to her reper-
tory. Her latest acquisition is u four-act comedy
called Lady Tom" by Charles T. Vincent. She
will produce it, and thinks so well of it
that she will devote most of her time to it.
Harry Kernell has an excellent company this
season, which will appear at kernans Theatre
December l. and varies the monotony of after
pieces with charming one-act smusical comedy
entitled "McFadden's Elopement," introducing
Miss Lolita Hyde,
The educated lions, which one of the main
features of the dramatic spectacle of Nero" at
NjblO'S Garden. weekly
airy of $500. or course, their trainer naturally
comes in for the lions share of this, as well
his own share.
The Parisians are looking forward to the
production of Sardou's new drama, "Thermidor"
with eager expectations. The play made Il
very strong impression when read recently to
the committee of the Comedie Francaise Con-
stant and Jean Coqueln will be in the cast when
the play is produced
Business at many of the New York theatres
has not been up to the standard of late. The
trouble in the stock market is prominent among
| the causes assigned for the drop. The great
horse show has also had something to do with it,
| and no wonder, as it is said the receipts of the
| show for one day were $4,000.
"Pippins,' burlesque by j. Cheever Good
| win, librettist of 1.-THE Merry Monarch" and
John j. Braham. will be produced on Tuesday,
| November %, at the Broadway Theatre. Amelia
| Sommerville, Katherine b. Howe, Estele Morti-
| mer, Marie Carlyle, Alexander Clark Snitz Ed
wards and Louis De Lange will be in the cast.
And now it is said that the graceful and sylph-
like Estele Clayton is to be Tza, and that this
| particular "Clemenceau Case" company is to be
managed by Mr.. j. NJ. Hill, and decorated with
! Dumas's original model and scenery made from
models of the original Paris canvases Last
| season Miss Clayton went through the country
under the elegant guidance of gentleman
named II. Henry. She had of h er own,
and the country folk visited her there and
! gaped.
| a new play is being written for Tommy Rus
| sell, of Little Lord Fauntleroy" fame. The
| author is Mr.. Octavus Cohen, editor of the
| Charleston Is. o. World The time is during the
reign of Queen Elizabeth, and one of the charac-
| ters is William Shakespeare, the immortal bard
! of Avon, who will be portrayed on the stage,
| perhaps for the first time. The play will proba-
| bly, be called "Ioey Rattles or, The Waif of
| Devon" and will be produced about the middle
| of February.
The new production which Marie Wainwright
is to make next season will be Amy Robsart,"
one of the most successful plays in the repertory
! of Adelaide Nelson. Miss Wainwright and
| Julian Magnus, her manager, have been
| gagged for six months in making preparations
for this presentation, the date of which is still
nearly year in the future. The version by
| Andrew Halliday, which Miss Nelson used, was
secured, and this has been rewritten to suit more
| modern stage requirements.
Mr. Charles b. Hanford, of this city, whose en-
! gagement as leading man with Miss Julia Mar
! loves company has been abruptly broken off
| by reason of the dangerous illness of the star.
has been engaged to play the part of John Muir
| ray, Jr., with money Mad" and made his first
| appearance with the company at Albaugh's last
night 1t seems a curious coincidence that he
| should be playing part created in New York by
! Wilton Lackaye, another Washington boy, whose
theatrical career began in the old Barrett Club of
| thg city, of which Mr.. Hanford was manager
A tank-drama heroine on the road writes in the
| following pathetic strain to friend in New
| York: "Our management has not been behaving
very well, neglecting to heat the water, and
| three times have tainted in the water from the
! shock of going feet foremost into the icy BATH
| The last time was totally unprepared, and the
moment struck the water curled up like a crab
in a boiling pot. Mr.. @. cut an entire scene and
made genuine rescue. They had to hold me on
my feet in an insensible condition to take cur
tain call"
The plans Of Messrs. Abbott and Teal were
somewhat disarranged by tho death OF Dion
Bouccault They had built great expectations
! on his dramatization of THE Luck of Roaring