The record-union., 1891-05-10


day and Saturday.
SHENANDOAH"
Bronson Howard's greatest triumph,
Shenandoah" will be produced at the
Metropolitan Theater on Friday and
The people of Sacramento will be glad to
have an opportunity of seeing once more
this beautiful and thrilling play. The
story is well-known, and many of our
people have seen the play once, but they
will flock to see it again and again as
they have done in other cities.
FooTLIGHT FLASHES.
Clay NJ. Greene has arrived in New
York from London.
The office OF Dunlop's Stage Neacs has
been removed to 115S Broadway, New
York.
1t is said that the Hoyt and Thomas
plays on the road have this season cleared
Sl15,000
Rhea's new play for next season is
called the "Czarina, OF Catherine /. of
Russia
Lydia Thompson has engaged her en-
tire company now with the "Dazzler'' for
next season.
Nellie McHenry's new play, "A Night
at the Circus" has made very great hit
in Philadelphia.
Robert Graham's new musical farce
comedy, Harry the Lord" will begin its
season in September.
Louise Montague has been engaged by
Frank Reynolds for his production of
"a VOLTS Wedding"
Agnes Herndon proposes to star again
next season in ''La Belle Marie" She
Will be her own manager.
light Bells" three-act comedy
drama, by John Byrne, will be tried at
Bridgeport, Conn.,, May 11th.
The total theatrical business this year
in Philadelphia falls about twenty-five
per cent. below that of last years.
Bessie Bonehill, the bright and we'll
known English character singer, is re-
neWlng her successes through Scotland.
Mrs. Leslie Carter is in Paris, and E.
u. Price, her manager, is in New York
dong press work for Richard Mansfield.
Charles A. Pratt, for many years with
Emma Abbott, has purchased half in
terest in the Coleman House, New York.
Mr.. Melzer, of the New York Herald,
and Paul Potter, of the Illustrated Inner
lcGn, are writing play for Mr.. Mans
field.
Alice Atherton recently returned to the
stage after an absence of two years. She
is now playing with Willie Edouin at the
Strand Theater.
David Henderson's new production at
the Chicago Opera House, of ''Sinbad the
Sailor" will be the most gorgeous spectac-
ular spectacle ever produced in America.
Selma Fetter has replaced Estelle Clay
ton III the ''Dr. Bil1'' Company. Miss
Clayton will star next season under the
guidance of her former manager, c. W.
Durant.
The Ibsen cult is gaining ground in
| fl1aS ~
about getting his first inning. In his
own country he is deservedly called the
Goethe Of the North.
Edith Kenward, who will be remem-
bered as the original Kangaroo in "Dr.
Bill" has entirely recovered from her
long Illness, and is at present playing in
lbsen's drama in London.
George Z. Marion. the dialect comedian
and character actor, who stars next sea-
son in the new farcical concert entitled,
| MIR. MacarOni," is being congratulated
daily by many of his friends and well
wishers on the brilliant prospect of his
future success.
Fit Raymond returned to New York
from Boston last week, and on the train
met Sara Jewett, of whom she writes:
''She looked well, and almost like her
own self. Her speaking voice is melody
itself, and her illness seems to have left
no trace on her pretty, pure face'
There will be eight comic opera COM
panies singing in New York during the
hot weather. king Kalico" at the Acad-
emy, ''Ship Ahoy' at the Union Square
English opera at the Grand, ''Apollor at
/ the Casino, the "Tar and the Tartar at
! Palmer's, Wang" at Broadway, and
companies at Hammerstein and at Ter
race Garden.
Maraquita Hewitt's three-act ''funny le-
! gitimate comedy" 1.-The Syndicate" will
! be put on the road next season by j. II.
Davis and Hendricks. So far Frank Lane
and Frank David have been engaged for
the leading male parts, and the manage
ment promises that the entire cast shall
! be equally as good as these clever young
actors. Isabelle Coe has been offered the
| position of leading lady. The season will
! begin early in September, probably with
run at New York theater-
/ \ boycott of American actors in Lon
! don is imminent??? There is yet an
! other American success in London. This
time it is the daughter of the Congress
man for Mississippi. Miss Katherine Lu-
cile FoOte, who plays under her real
name, has made SO much of small part
in Wilson Barrett's company that she has
! been invited by Willie Edouin to play
! Niobe, the leading role in Harry Paul
| toms comedy of the same name, which
! will shortly be produced at the Strand
| Theater.
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