Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-27

| ness during this week at Chicago has been
| phenomenally large. Next week they illu-
| inmate Washington, and after that Boston,
| Philadelphia and Pittsburg.
Robert Mantell's season has begun with a
| big boom, and at every house in which he
has so far appeared this season, people have
| been turned from the DOORS Mr.. Mantell
| is beyond doubt the best heroic actor at
| present on the stage, as he is certainly also
| among the most popular stars. John Ernest
McCanu's one-act curtain raiser, "a Lesson
| in Acting" with which Mr.. Mantell begins
his entertainment. has been warmly re-
ceived, and Mr.. Mantell's clever acting in
it highly praised.
Alexander Salvini is arranging a pro-
gramme which will no doubt prove an in
| teresting one during his coming tour. 1t is
! a triple bill, and will introduce him in
| plays which will give him an excellent OPP
| portunity to display his wonderful YER
satility. He will open with the curtain
raiser called ''In the Gloaming,n by George
Backus, which has already been success
at the Madison Square theater. Then fol-
The closing piece will be the new one-act
comedy which has recently been so sue
cessful at the Coincide Franchise, Paris, as
presented by M. Coquelin and his talented
| associates. Mr.. Salvini purchased the
comedy during his receut visit to Paris.
Edwin w. Hoff. who is the original
Robin Hood in this country, will not sing
the part on the first or second night of the
production of the opera in New York, but
on Wednesday, September 80, MIR. Karl
singing the role the first two nights. The
story is located in a picturesque period,
when Robin Hood and his merry men
roamed through Sherwood forest. This
gives opportunity for striking costumes,
and it is well improved. Mr.. Hoff sings
fba af
tains it admirably. His powerful and we'll
managed voice is refreshing to hear, and
ne will be listened to with pleasure from
his first appearance. when he will sing
"We Hunt the Stag"
Leonard Growers comedy drama, 'The
Wolves Of New York" begins its season at
the Union Square theater in October. The
play made good impression at the Boston
theater last season. The variety, novelty
and interest of its scenes and characters,
it's faithful pictures offlow life, its fine con-
trast of city and country, its excitement,
pathos, humor and sensational effects, make
it play which should win a large popular
ity. There is scene in the last act of this
play which arouses the greatest excitemene.-
The buzz-saw, the breaking of real glass
windows, the dashing fire engines and the
struggles in real water. to which audiences
have been treated of late, are not circum.
stance to this scene in the way of sensa-
tional realism.
1t is as hard to find an actor these days on
Broadway as it is to find a needle in hay
stack, says Dunlop's Stage News. The
dear old thoroughfare is yet ripped up
from beginning to end by the laying of the
or fence is covered with theatrical paper
Instead of the merry soubrette that tripped
along during the afternoon, bevieS of happy
school children dance happily homeward in
the autumn air which has just the faintest
suspicion Of crispness. The dramatic
cafes no longer contain cliques of actors
graphically describing how audiences were
''paralyzed" at Oshkosh or Kalamazoo, and
even at the playhouses it IS hard to find the
'profesh," who but a week or two since
crowded the ''front of the house" to sneer
at and condemn show to which they had
been admitted free.
The interest in Mr.. Harry Lacy's new
play, "Jack Royal of the 3D." is wide.
spread among the entire profession. 1t is
said by all who have read the play or seen
the rehearsals that Mr.. A. c. Wheeler has
put three Still Alarms" into one drama
The opening performance on the 2sth in
Philadelphia will be attended by delega-
ton made up Of managers from Boston,
Chicago and New York. Miss May Hamp-
ton, who has been engaged to play the he
roine, speaks in the most glowing terms of
her part aud said yesterday: ssEyery woman
will fall in love with Jack Royal, who is
the manifest man we have yet had in native
melodrama." Mr.. Lacy has had prepared
for the piece an entirely new mise en- scene,
and the great forge scene, it is thought,
will be genuine surprise. He carries
with him his own storage batteries, his
own electrician, and Mr., Nelse Waldron is
engaged as the mechanician. The ceuaapy
will include about atty people
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