The record-union., 1891-10-24

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viii revolutionize the present booking
and agency system in vogue in New
York.
III. S. Taylor has engaged Emma Va
ders for five years, and will star her in
two emotional plays now being written.
Harry b. Smith, dramatic editor of the
Chicago Tribune, has written a farce
comedy for Jack Mason and Marion Ma
nola.
Nellie McHenry's new play, "a Night
at the Circus" is a great go. It packed
the Haymarket Theater in Chicago last
week.
Julia Nelson, the English actress, and
Fred. Terry, brother of Ellen Terry, were
secretly married last week in London,
England.
Charles Frohman has secured the Amer
lean rights to 1.-THE Man with Hundred
Heads" now running with great success
at Berlin.
Fourgeois, the French Minister of Pub
lie instruction, has conferred upon Emma
Eames, the singer, the decoration of Off
cier d. d'Academie.
Nine. Trebelle-Bellini, famous con-
tralto, on account of an attack of paralysis,
has abandoned the stage. She sang in
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Miaco and Morris have signed a con-
tract with Eva Ray Hamilton for two
years to star in burlesque. Eva will thus
have to display herself in tights after all. .
Edwin w. Hof, the young and hand
some American tenor now singing the
title role in robin Hood' at the New
York Standard Theater, has made very
marked hit.
Miss Eastlake's tour came to an ab7
rupt end at Philadelphia on Saturday.
She has cancelled all dates and discharged
her manager, Clark S. Sammis. She will
probably start again.
The copyright law enabling pIaywrights
to publish plays is likely to result in
charges of plagiarism. Sydney Grundy
has been reminded that his Deans s
Daughter contains lines suggestive of
passages In ''The School for Scandal"
There was little girl,
With little white curl,
Right in the middle Of her forehead.
When she was good, she was very, very
good;
When she was bad, she was horrid.
John Doud, dashing young juvenile
man who achieved success in important
roles with Louis James last season, is to
star IN a powerful romantic drama next
season under the management of Henri
eta Weems. The enterprise is backed
by wealthy Virginian tobacco planter.
Flora Moore is negotiating with Frank
Tannehiil, Jr., for his remarkably sue
cessful farce-comedy "Zig-Zag." Sc
curing it she will engage a strong COM
pany for q tour of the South and West,
where her performance of Teddy, in the
Bunch of Keys is SO warmly remem-
bered.
The English papers say that Mary An
derSon, who is said to be preparing her
dramatic "reminiscences for the press, has
filled out considerably since her mar
riage, and except for her perfectly-shaped
head and well-known smile, no one
would recognize the giddy thing who
danced about in "a Winters Tale" or
posed as Galatea.
A new actress is to be introduced to the
New York public next season in the per-
son of Phoebe Davies. She is Califor-
MIA girl and has never played east of the
Rockies. She, in conjunction with her
husband, Joseph Grismer, who is we'll
known East as leading man of splendid
ability, are TO star in a new play by Clay
Greene. They open at the Madison
Square Theater on the Goth of August
Dunlop's Stage News.
And now Marcus Mayer, the biggest
fraud who ever disgraced California by
naming it as his home, is being paraded
in certain Eastern dramatic papers as
1.-The Hon. Marcus Mayer, ex-State Sen
ator of the State of California" If Mayer
ever held any position in this State other
than that Of tiunky we never heard Of
it. Du3Gop'S Stage NelCs is generally a
very reliable sheet, but it seems to have
been hoodwinked by this "bilk.'
Augustin Daily and Ada Rehan have
been down to Lord Tennyson's estate,
Aldworth, in Surrey, to hear the poet
laureate read to them his new comedy
just completed. This play, in which Miss
Rehan is to appear in the leading charac-
ter, has been purchased as far as the
acting rights are concerned-for England
and America by Mr.. DAILY, who will pro-
duce 1t at his own theater in New York
next winter. After production the play
will be published.
Bessie Booth of the Casino has gone
and married Alexander Florian Hen
riques. Bessie is a blonde of fine figure,
with wavy chestnut hair, and right up the
center of her forehead runs strand of
silver through the chestnut. Henriques
when he does anything, is Wall street
broker. He is said lately to have inher-
tied $500, ,000 and Bessie is in great luck
She made her debut, by the way, as one
of the pages in Richard Mansfield's pro-
duction of Richard ILL., and then it
was said of her: