The morning call., 1891-02-01
Personal and other Jottinps.

One of the choice morsels of the Bald wins
bill Of fare for the current season, "All the
Comforts of Home" viii be offered to the
San Francisco public week frem to-mor-
row night.
Mr. L. r. Stockwell, Miss Ethel Brandon
and Mr.. n. Long, of the Alcazar stock com
pany, were entertained at dinner by some
leading citizens of Fresno during the COM
pany's visit to that city.
" The Private Secretary" will be played
by the Lyceum Comedy Company (amateur)
at Saratoga Hall February 9th, permission
having been obtained from Manager Charles
Frohman and Mr.. William Gillette, the
author.
The Sheridan Dramatic Club opens the
season of 1891 with :" The Mountebank at
Saratoga Hall February 18th.
Mrs. +. G. Thayer has been engaged at
the Central Methodist Church of this city
(Rev. DIR. Case, pastor,) as leading soprano.
The face value of the stock OF the Metro
politan Opera House, New York, is said to
have fallen from 500 to 81 %, on account
of too much German opera.
The latest wrinkle with the really swag-
ger actress is to be photographed with her
head burrowed in the bosom of some female
companion. It's so unreal
Alphonse Daudet's new play, LOB
stacie," appears to have failed in Paris be-
he is not his fathers son, for no more ten
able reason than that she wishes him to
disbelieve that there is the faint of insanity
in his blood.
81 cannot actf' he cried; my day is past
cannot act with feelings as / shouldr'
He bowed his head before the footlghts' glare,
Aud then e boy yelled out "You never couId!"
A modern philosopher remarks: 1T has
been said that where you find billboard
and goat, there you will find contentment,
a kIllyl In md
glass OF beer knocks that adage out in one
round"
Emma Abbott left directions that all the
content, OF her stage and private wardrobe
should be burned after her death. The gar
ments were accordingly consigned to the
flames at Salt Lake City on the day she died.
The time set for the Press Clubs third an
nual entertainment at the Baldwin Theater
is Thursday, February 10Th.
6 East Lynne" will fill the last week of the
Gr!smer engagement. Old as it is, hack
neyed as it has been, dollars to cents that
the dramatized novel of Mrs. Henry Wood
Will draw the largest attendance OF the sea-
son at this house. 1t is SO full of those
touches OF nature that make all the world
akin, and the average public are so slow to
forget them.
Nadgee Doree is said to be in this city, and
came hither undrr engagement to take a
place in kuapp's Bijou Company, now scat
tered.
lie TWO performances AT the CraIu opera
House last week, for the benefit of st. Vim
cents Asylum, Marin County, will probably
net some 5000.
Mr.. Cyril Young. who is great actor and
y tine singer, Will probably soon connect
himself with the new Tivoli Company, IN
der the Burrell management.
The Beasey children. who are quite phe-
nomenal in musical way, will give the
first of three grand benefit concerts at Irv-
ing Hall, 139 Post street, on Wednesday
NnlNr ~,
place on the 9th, and the third will be a
matinee, on February 9TH. The children
are exciting good deal of interest among
our music-lovers and the public generally.
The concerts will no doubt be well at
tended.
Dauvray is in London doing the theaters.
Marie Van Zandt is earning $1,000 night
in St. Petersburg.
George Henschel is making so much
money with so little trouble at the London
symphony Concerts that the offer made to
him to fill Theodore Thomas shoes as con-
ductor of the New York Philharmonic So
cety is not good enough for him, so he has
cabled declining it.
Franchetti, the composer of "Asrael," has
become insane, and has had to be placed in
private asylum. 1t is to the adverse critl-
eisin received at the hands of the German
critics that his present state of health is
due.
Grace Hawthorne produced "Hero and
Leander at Hastings, England, January
10th, for copyright purposes. w. w. Kelly,
Miss Hawthorne's manager, asserts that
they have held the English rights in this
play for a year or more. As Mrs. }. Il.
| Potter and kyrle Bellew have recently an
nounced that they would do the piece in
England, upon their return to that country,
legal row seems imminent.
The Selectmen of Plymouth, Mass, re-
| fused to grant a license to Clemenceau
Case" company, headed by Lillian Arm
strong, to appear in that town.
Agnes Herndon has been divorced from
Joseph A. Jessel whom she married In
May, 1878.
The Dramatic Times is severe on ex-
would-be light opera singers. 1t says:
Isabelle Urquhart and Sylvia Gerrish, fol
the want oil position, are going to take a
trip to Europe. Miss Urquhart is reported
as having said that She is going to break the
capable of breaking many things, her ven
are going 1t alone, aud say they are not
afraid. They are almost too masculine for
fear.
News comes from the East that "the
Emma Abbott Opera Company is to be re-
organized, and will retain the same name.
Charles Il. Pratt has secured Emma Baker
as prma donna, and the others of the CON-
pany will be the same as supported the late
Emma Abbott" Evidently there is mis-
take, says tho Chicago Inter Ocean; Emma
Baker Is contralto, possibly it is Laura
Bellini.
Wilson of the Boston Musical Herald says
''Maurel, the French barytone, has a theory
that the 0pera-Singer should use a different