The morning call., 1891-08-30

tUuE Ol WOTlu.
Henry Z. de Miller's Lost Paradise" is
credited with a success In Chicago.
The claque has been discarded at the
Ambigu, PariS-the first theater in that tcity
to break into that tradition.
About four years ago NJ. Audran made a
| contract with the late Emma Abbott to
write Tor her particular use an opera with
| strong dramatic role for the central figure.
Miss Abbott paid NJ. Audran a large sum of
money as deposit. This sum he is now
seeking to repay the Emma Abbott estate.
| IN order to gain release from his agreement,
which he will probably succeed in doing.
Now Henry Arthur Jones charges e. 5.
| Willard, the actor, with spelling his (.oneso
| plays by making unauthorized alterations in
| them.
MIR. Pattee, a member of the Booth-Bar-
| rett company last season. being disposed to
| look out for rainy day, has just patented
| new style of umbrella.
| Gerson, brother-in-law OF Kiraify, has
| been to Spain, and brought back some in
! teresting facts. Among others that the
! Spanlards often go in to see parts of plays,
and pay accordingly So much for the first
act. Tor the second, and so on. Gerson says
also the Carmencitas, Oteros and other
Spanish dancers" advertised in the United
States are fakes" They are not like the
article one runs across in Madrid, Barcelona
| or Seville.
The latest craze. the art of hypnotizing, is
| made tue basis Of the comedy element In
-hS'HSP anu hNdht, lilo COIHcuk OptId
which IS to be produced at the Arch Sep
| tember 14th.
The death of NJ. Auguste Vitu, dramatic
critic OF LIE Figaro. Paris, is announced.
LanGtry will come to the United States
| in January, 1892. for a tour, under the
management of Mr.. Joseph Reynolds. The
impression is that, professionally consld-
| cred, the visit will be a dead failure. She
VIII probably bring Abingdon Baird to keep
| her III order.
(lua Of ba oh h;afa al,o e
| the Comforts Of Home" soon due at the
| New California, is that the people therein,
| tnelr surrounding action and the workings
| OF ,he pot have great reality. They seem
| to be like old friends and incidents that
| some one has just related
Young j. X. Emmett made his first appear
ance as an actor and a star" Mt the same
time at the Paterson On. J.) Opera House,
| on tuesday, August 18th, in " Fritz in Ire
land lie displayed, according to some
his father famous. The New York Herald
| says: Young Mr.. Emmet is to be pitied.
| lie has got a bitter lesson to learn and an
expensive one. A good manager has been
spoiled and an indifferent actor created.
ierchance ne did well, but not well enough
to stand the inevitable comparison with the
artist whose clothes he wore. As | said be-
fore, he did not cit.
Guile. the little French tenor, is singing
! IN the Seidl concerts at Brighton Beach
|
| ing, but sings anywhere and everywhere the
| money is in sight.
Fred 1nness and his famous band is at the
Madlson-square Garden, New York.
She Couldn't Marry Three" produced
lately at the Windsor, is called by the World
| ''undiluted trash.'
Among the curious cargoes that arrived at
Llyerpool, England, August 18th, was one
| OF indian serpentS, consigned to various
| dealers in wild beasts. In the bill OF lading
| were ,}h1 DVthnnS of
MIS-. Emma f. Henken, who during the
summer cut wide swath in Coney Island
society in company with Edward Parker, a
tenor, put IN no defense recently when her
| husband, Alexander Henken OF ia Clymer
street, Brooklyn, Z. d., produced evidence
in the Brooklyn City Court. before Judge
| Osborne, to prove that he is entitled to an
absolute divorce. Mrs. Henken is sister
to John Haberkorn, Margaret Mather's
| husband, and Mr.. Henken says that she is
now with tho HaberkOrns in Pittsburg.
| whence she fled to escape his wrath and to
| avoid the annoyance and publicity which
the suit will entail. Henken paid his wife's
| board during the summer at a COney
| Island hotel, and asked his supposed friend,
the tenor, whose real name is Pakulsky, to
| see that she was comfortable. Not long ago
! he discovered that his wife had changed her
| quarters and was registered at another
hotel as the ten0r's wife. Rowland Glib
| bons, a boarder; Eva Reeves, one of the
| s0Othsayers of the Sea Beach Palace, and
| AbDie Carl, a servant, cOrroborated Mr..
| Henken rs to his wife's department at the
seaside. and Judge Osborne took the papers,
| intImating that he would grant the decree.
Miss Clementine de We're is highly prai sed
by the British papers. Some of them spoke
of her as a debutante, but the Whitehall
| Review says this is scarcely the case,
though Miss de Vere's long, too long, alb
sence from this country has to great ex-
| tent given color to this statement"
An inmate of the Milwaukee, Comfy
| Poorhouse is George A. COwan, an aged
musc-teacher, who advised Emma Abbott
! to study for the stage. He taught her for
| two years, and then at his advice she went
| to Europe to complete her musical studies.
| Her success, she said, was due entirely to
| him, for II lie had not taught and advised
her she would not have been what she was.
1t IS strange Miss Abbott did not recognize
| the old man in her will.
| The death of the famous Nine. Agar of
the Comedie Franchise is reported from Al
| giers.
Being in financial difficulties, Professor
Carlo Erba of the Carlo Felice Theater, at
Genoa, for thirty years, recently committed
suicide by filnging himself from a tifth-story
| window.
1t takes Possart, the German actor, three
| hours to make up for Shylock.
The story that Sarah Bernhardt was an
| American, born in Rochester, \. Y, had its
little lease of life in the press, and then
| persisted with other newspaper "fakes"
| 1t was embellshed during its brief exist
ence with minute and clever details.
Mr.. William Knott formerly of THE En-
| terprise," in this city, is now in Chicago
posing as an author and playwright. A
| novel from his pen called Stolen Sweets"
has made Its appearance on the bookstalls,
and he has the manuscripts Of several plays
| in his trunk
at Albaugh's Opera House, Chicago, in
| "Amorita, and the Washington Post is loud
IN its praise OF the company and its per-
| formauce.
There is said to be chorus-girl in the
| Halien and Hart Company who has been
on the stage only three seasons, during
| which time she has spent four months of
| each year in school ih Massachusetts, and
! successfully paid her way by the savings
| from her salary as a singer.
| Wilson Barrett Is trying to retrieve his
fortunes by starring in THE Silver King"
| which seems to be the one substantial sue
| cess of his career
Walter Damrosch says that the Bal
reuth performances this year have not been
| up to the standard, and he thinks that
COsima Wagner's influence is not good.
| a sketch OF that brilliant young actress,
| Julia Marlowe, by Alfred Stoddart, to-
gether with her portrait, will appear in the
| September Lippinc0tt.
| No prima donna of English birth, it Is
said has appeared this season at Covent
! Garden in London. Abani was born in
Canada, Melba in Melbourne, Nordica,
Emma Eames and Sybil Sanderson in this
country.
Anoperatic manager mourning the scarcity
Of chorus girls said "Farce-c0medy is at
the bottom OF all the trouble. 1t is the
chorus girls Mecca. A year ago I first
noticed that pretty chorus girls were rare,
| and as the season advanced from time to
time | lost the best ones that had The
alarmlng-I use the word advisedly, because
| / 90 NOT see where we VOjnp Si1nnIv
our wants if it keeps up-increase in farce
| comedies this year has completely drained
the market OF chorus girls" And he might,
| suggests the Chicago Times, have added that
| farce-comedy and comic opera combined
have gone far toward draining the market of
| servant girls.
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