Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-13

Mary Cahill has been engaged for the
the soubrette part in "The President -
which has made hit in the West.
The Black Masque," which made a
failure at the Union Square theater in Few
York. will not go on the road.
J. W. Jennings, the well-known come
dian, has returned TO New York from his
wanderings in the Green mountains.
Natural Gas" has been flowing to paying
business through the Western towns, and
Messrs. Donnelly and Girard are conse-
quently burning with pleasure.
1t Is now evident that James c. Blaine
Jr., proposes to fiaht the divorce suit
brought by his wife. The case will come
up at Deadwood in October.
Blanche Mortimer has been engaged by
Parker and Lotto as leading lady for THE
Runaway Wife"
John ". Thompson has been appointed
stage manager of the No. 1 mir. Wilkin-
sons Widows" company.
Aunt Louisa Eldridge has returned from
her tour of Europe in greatly improved
health. The most delightful part of her
journey, she says, was sighting land ON the
homeward trip.
Fannie Brown, once q well-knowu
actress died in Boston lately, and left $50
600 to the dramatic fund" As the fund"
has collapsed, the $4,000 will cause lively
scrimmage in the courts.
j. J. O'Leary has become advance agent
for the Nellie McHenry company, which
has been doing large business in New
England since they opened their season at
the Boston Globe theater. "a Night at the
CircuS' is very big success.
Manager F1eishman of Philadelphia left
an estate worth Sl20,000.
Henry E. Dixey made his first appear
ance at Brockton, Ma s., in 1.-THE Solicitor
on Monday.
And now cruel rumor says that Jack
Mason and Marion Manola have quarreled
and separated.
Mr. Edwin w. Hoff, the young American
tenor who will sing the title role in the
coming production of robin Hood" in
New York, is not alone one of the best sing
ers in the country, but one of the hand
soonest men on the stage.
Harry Courtaine will shortly make his
appearance in an eccentric comedy role in
which he promises to duplicate the success
he achieved as the tenor in French Flats
when he made his first appearance at the
Union square theater.
William Castle the well-known tenor of
former days. has taken charge of the Chi
cago musical college.
'.The Louisianan" will be the piece de
resistance of Robert Mantell's repertoire
this season, though if needed he will be
prepared to play all the pieces he was so
successful in last year. Miss Charlotte
Behrens continues as leading lady with Mr..
A1antell. and in her he has an actress who
is equal to the most exacting situation.
Nestor Lennon has given up the part of
Wilkes Booth in Rankin IL Gordon's play,
Abraham Lincoln The great difficulty
with the younger race of actors seems to be
that they have not sufficient confidence in
their ability to do justice to the erratic but
gifted John Wilkes.
John Ernest Mccain, the poet and
dramatist, was married last week at
''Boulderstone, Dublin, n. H., to Miss
Mass. In his verse Mr.. Mccain loves to
throw roses at his friends. Let the hedge
along his path from now henceforth be lined
with rose bushes in perpetual bloom.
Nina Gale began her starring tour at |
Philadelphia in Oscar Wilde's The Duchesss
Of Padua," which Lawrence Barrett prosI
duced under the name of Guido Ferranti<ss1
Creston Clark was Guido.
Handsome S. Miller Kent was recently
married to Mrs. Theresa Pond at the house
of the brides aunt in New York With d
modesty peculiar to himself, Mr.. Kent de-
sired to keep the joyful event secret. but it
leaked out, and now he is receiving the
congratulations of his numerous friends,
both in and out of the profession. I.
Eva Mann, otherwise Mrs. Robert Ray
Hamilton, made her debut in a smM town
in New Jersey called Boonton in play
called 'iAll a Mistake" To those familiaSi
with the ruin Of Robert Ray HamiltopaH3
the way in which his name was Grdga6
through the mire, the play was siEpiTan
additional horror Eva Mann walked
gracefully on the stage, but when it came
TO reading her lines she wasn't lin it''
After teaching elocutiou and fitting stage
struck folk for the glamour of the footlights
as vel! as dabbling in literary pursuits,