The morning call., 1891-10-25
Personal and Other Jottingl

Marie Wilson. pupil OF Miss Ella Par
fridge. will give piano recital at Steinway
Hall, October 2Sth, at o'clock in tie even
ing, sharp.
The extra concerts by the great band of
the Mexican Zapadores will be given this
afternoon and evening at Woodward's Gar
dens. These performers make music worth
listening TO.
James Huver, an attache of the Bush
street Theater, once or twice reported dead
has turned up at his old quarters after a
summer sojourn in Santa Cruz Mountains,
looking as large as life and twice as natu-
raj"
The Kendals have stirred New York soci-
ETY. with an amiable and gentle flutter, and
the Star Theater, where this fortunate En-
glish couple are playing, is a center of at
traction. Well-informrd people say that at
the American Juror fer the Kendals Britons
laugh. So 40 the Kendals themselves, prob
ably; but 1t is in their sleeve aad all on
their side.
Mr.. Edmund c. Stanton, who for the past
six years has been director of the MetropOli-
tan Opera House, has accepted the position
of cashier in the New York Life Insurance
Company at a salary of 81, 600 He will
retain his connection with the METROPOLITAN
Opera House as Secretary of the Beard of
Directors.
That Mr.. John Hoey should have been
visited by financial trouble has been much
regretted by theatrical people in New York.
He was a generous patron OF the drama,
and Mrs. Hoey, his wife, was a favorite ac-
tress at Burton's during the time OF Mary
Taylor, Mrs. Vernon, Nine. Ponisi, and
other celebrities.
The receipts of the Actors Fund for the
year ending June l, 1891, were S3l, 1854 %.
The expenditures for the same term were
S2S, S79 SO, chiefly for funerals and doctors
bills.
Certain stars who have hitherto drawn
well in New York are now doing badly.
The public are seeking new stars and new
plays.
Mr.. Lew Rather, pioneer minstrel and
old-time fav0rite, has been rendered bene-
fit by the Society of True Friends and many
admirers. it will take place at the Powell
street Theater, November 7th.
Mr.. Thomas w. Keene will appear in this
city, from November 30th to December 18th,
in full line of legitimate characters.
Manager Al Hayman is pursuing ALA
bama" pirates in Kansas.
Haddon Chambers has completed a new
play for Mrs. John Wood. He will return
to America soon.
Henry Irving and Wilson Barrett are
troubled again by the imitat0rs of their
mannerisms, which are SO pronounced as to
invite imitation. This time the copyists are
Messrs. Arnold & Lewis of London thea
Ter, VINO, III Inc part OF TWO Seedy lhesplanS
in the comedy called "a Society Actress"
present colorado counterfeits Of those wor-
thy artists.
Mr.. Charles GayIer, the veteran dramatist,
has been i'll in New York of late, but is now
reported conyalescent He recently sub
mitted to several operations. Gayer has
been cut up by the press in his time but he
feels the yiviseetion of the surgeons more
acutey than he did the slashIng of the
critics,
Nine. Janauschek has struck O popular
play in 1.-The Harvest Moon" Competent
critics say that it is powerful meiodrama,
the somberDess of whose story is relieved
by many bright CLEANS Of comedy, and that
the character of Mrs. Oakley, mistress of