San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-02-28
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
Julia Msrlowe will play in Phil,
delphia next month.

julia MarlOwe will play in PILLS
aelphia next month.
Col. John A. Mccall is in Baltimor
. hopeless paralytic. He receive
$500 . week for the use of his name i
the title of the Met all Opera Com
pany.
Charles Wyndham has commits
stoned Robert Buchanan to write
play which shall present on the stag
that witty roysterer and prince o
good fellows, Sir Richard Steele.
Jean de Reszke is to receive k200 9
night during the London opera season
one OF the highest figures ever paid
3 tenor, and it is said hat this enor.
nous salary is to be increased when
he visits America.
Sarah Bernhardt says she is in
blissful ignorance of there being such
person as Mrs. "Pottair." But Mrs.
Potter will not go in mourning over
that. She will smile and say, "a
grandmother; what's thst?"
Actors witness Sarah Bernhardt's
performances in New York with puz
zled interest. They understand no
more than the veriest tyro how the
great actress produces the tremend
Gus stage effects that are seen in
her perfoEma noes.
In "Ths Power of the Press,n
which Gus Pitou will put on in New
York next mouth, the principal
scene will show a shipyard with q
vessel on the stocks and ship carpen-
tiers at work on it. Wilton Lack aye
is to play the part of a young ship
sarpenter-a flannel shirt nero"
Clyde Glitch, the author of beau
Brummel," is at work on . comedy OF
American social life for the New
York Lyceum Theatre Company. 1t
is to be completed next autumn. Mr..
Fitch is now putting the finishing
touches to his comedy written for
Mrs. John Wood.
1--WE want no realism" says Mime.
Bernhardt in a letter to the New
York Herald. "What good In IL? The
stage will ever be the home Of fiction,
the prison will ever be thing of
wood and canvass, the edge of the
knife will never pierce the victims
breast, and the blood which flows
from the wound will still be tinted
water. No realism, say. Rather let
rs be the opponents of Dreams"
The skirt-dsncing craze is over, and
the New York ballot masters are
sIerting themselves to meet the de-
Aand for novelties next season. Ono
Of them Is drilling four girls in what
he calls dervish dance. They are
selected bruuettes, tall, slim and
1.-the, and wild whirlings will charac.
terize their exhibitions. Rising on
the big toe of the right foot, they
will revOlve like top, and the one
W no can make the greater number of
revolutions at one effort before next
September will get $40 . week in ad-
dition to the regular wages.
Says T. G. Crawford, the Washing
ton correspondent of the N. Y. Tri-
bune: 1.-TWO theatrical stories were
heard at recent dinner. Tue first
was by Francis Wilson. During the
repast he was so modest and unas-
Stunning that every one was surprised
ut his egotlstical manner when he
began to relate story about Jane
Hading Some one asked him IL he
had ever seen her.
"Oh, yes" said Mr.. Wilson, with .
self satisfied air. "She came to see
nae when L was playing in Chicago.
] gave her box. She was absolutely
snraptured with my playing. She ask
cd the privilege of coming in to SEQ
me on the stage after the perform
ande. was delighted to receive her.
We exchanged compliments Mr..
Wilson speaks French with fluencv
and correctness), and after we ht d
finished the round of the most charm
ing OF things We could think of about
each other, l asked her IL she would
give me some souvenir of her pleasant
call. Would she give me q lock of
her hair? She replied that such O
gift in France would be a compromis-
ing thing, but in America, perhaps
Is was different. The next day I re-
eeived % lock of the great artists
hair tied with a dainty ribbon and
inclosed in q note that only q French
woman could write"
The story thus far was told with
such q staggering all conquering
air that everyone thought that Mr..
Wilson had unconsciously stepped
outside of himself for q few moments.
But his next words corrected this inn,
preston. Now he was Francis Wilson
as he said:
"a few weeks afterward had the
pleasure of reading in New York
newspaper an interview with Jan,
HadiDg. She was asked whom sht
had seen on the American stag,
worthy of admiration. Nine. Hadinl
according to the reporter, exclaimed
with great animation: oh, 1 saw {