The morning call., 1891-11-01
Personal and other Jottinrs.

tomorrow (Monday), November 81.
Yosemite, play by Charles A. Tay-
lOr, will be produced at the Bijou. WedneS-
DAY, November 18th, to benefit the Magdalen
Asylum. Taylor says it is California play,
by California author and California
company-petty claims for consideration to
advance where dramatic art is concerned.
Art belongs TO the world.
The first concert of the second series eff
the Saturday Pops will take place on the
9TH of November, at Irving Hall. Mr.. Donald
de We're Graham will sing Beethoven's
Adelaide" and Messrs Beel and Lands
berger play the concerto for two violinS by
Johann Sebastian Bach
Colonel Ole Folks, the diminutve colOred
tout with "A Straight Tip has already be-
come daily fixture and feature of the
Blood-horse Association meetings.
The Oliver Goldsmith Amateur Dramatic
Association will play Our Boys" at the
Bijou. November 18th, together with Faint
Heart under the stage direction of Mr..
Gerald Dillon.
"Afra" will be the holiday attraction at
the Alcazar
The receipts for the Kendals' first week
at the New York Star was $4,000
Forrest Robinson, who was formerly Eu-
genie Biair's husband. is lying dangerously
i'll with peritomitis in Lawrence, Mass.
Frances Hodgson Burnett's new play.
The Showman's Daughter" has had
trial at Worcester, England. 1t made a IA
vorabIe impression,
Signor S. Gracosa's new play. La Dame
de Chalant," written expressly for Mme.
Sarah Bernhardt, is to be produced in New
York soon.
A distinguished audience witnessed the
opening of Miss Agnes Huntington's en-
gagement In Captain Therese" at Al
baugh's Theater. Washington, Monday
evening, October l9!h. The President and
Mrs. Harrison. Mrs. Mckee, Mrs Dimmock.
Secretary Foster and a party. Sir Julian
Paunceiote and the Chinese Embassy occu-
PIED boxes. and many diplomates and prom
inent officials filed the orchestra chairs.
Miss Huntington aud the opera were welt
received, the star appearing before the cur
tain several times in answer to enthusiastic
calls.
When Mr.. Joseph Grismer and Miss
PhPbe Davies appear in New York next
season 1t will be at HOytS Madison-square
Theater, in new play.
Jane" is said to be the only English
comedy which 1t is claimed successfully COM
bines all the elements which constitute an
Americans idea of bright, pithy humor.
Sydney Armstrong has been i'll in Boston
and Odette Tyler played her role Of Agnes
Rudman with success Miss Armstrong is
said to be completely broken down from
nervous prostrattOn and has been ordered to
take long rest.
George + Marion, who disappeared re-
Gently from the farce-comedy, MIR. Maca-
roni. is credited with making great success
in Boys and Girls" the new McNally
work.
that she had the richest Irish brogue he had
ever heard, and that he hoped one day to
write play to fit her capabilities.
A theatrical fund has been started in New
I FORK to assist in securing the release of Mrs.
MAVERICK, believed to be unjustly impriso ned
ENGLAND cnArpA "a
husband. Professional people had better
conine themselves to melodramatic murder
on the stage.
Edward l. Willard is on his way to this
city with the English play, The Middle
man" His character is Cyrus Blenkarn,
with which, according to a Chicago writer
lie ''sways" the audience.
Ex-Manager Frederick w. Bert is still in
the city.
In spite of the many promises that the
present season would be the best that theat-
rical people have had for fifteen wears, it
has so far been worse than the a, erage. The
big crops however, may even up things
later on.
The Theatrical Protective Union at its
meeting passed a vote of thanks TO Custom
house Inspector Wilbur for collecting duties
from several companies on imported scenery.
The union also recommended that Harry
Miner be nominated for Congress. The
Scenic Artists and Carpenter Ass ociation
also want to make Mr.. NJ liner Congress-
man.
The many theatrical people belonging to
the Actors Fund have determined to eStab-
liSh an orphan asylum where the orphans OF
people on the stage may be properly cared
Tor until they are old enough to look out for
themselves.
Mckee Rankin and Frank Mayo intend to
star1n new play called =" The Athlete"
lis offers chance for these roOusts to in
troduce /" the tug-of-war," in which Mac
would pull against Mayo. 1t might prove
such a hit that the rope only would be
stranded and not the company.
Charles Ii. Hoyt has lately been playing
the part Of Brassy Gall in his own play A
Texas Steer. -: 1924.
Walden Ramsey has dismissed the idea of
teaching elocution in the Chicago Conserva-
tory of Music: He was dismissed first, how
ever, - - =
{ Mr.. J.*B Dickson. one of the managers
Of the abraham Lincoln" Company, who
has recently returned to Philadelphia. says
that the play would be taken off the boards
at:once. He had lost Sll,C00 during six
weeks, and ascribed Its failure TO the out-of-
town press, which:h he charged with having
agreed to down, it wherever it was pro-
duced. -. = " :.
Marie Wainwright tells this story about a
Western sewin9:maid who struck her for
Job MUM" she said, with laborious
place IN your troupe, for me ?" "WhyI
Have you ever acted?" mo, mum. but
this hear work a waitin' and waitin' on
folks all the time is tryiR' TO the narves, an
I'm sore tired of it. Now you play people
don't seem to have nothin' to do but jst
dress up fine; an fool round the theayter
stage for an hbur or two in the evenin' l
thought Id like to try it for change"
Commenting on the new play that Angus
tin DAILY has purchased from Lord Tenny-
son, and In which Ada Rehan will take the
role OF heroine on its first presentation in
America, the London Globe says 1.-THE
new play is styled a comedy and is so in
the highest and best sense of the term"
Sir Edwin Arnold, the author of "The
Light Of Asia, Light of the World" etc.,
will visit America this fall, making his first
public appearance at the Academy of Music,
Philade phia. Tuesday evening. November
81. lie is to entertain his auditors with de-
scriptive talks and readings from his writ
iDgs on India.
So many American minstrels have been
singing in England of late that one of them
says the English no longer tolerate the
cockney and Scotch dialect of home made
negroes at the music-halis.
Inc Royal Aquarium, London, has an os-
tensible mermaid who wags her tail and
talks under water in q muffled tone. Fish
alleged fish-swim around her through the
alleged water.
X. ID. Mclean. a young actor who played
Antony to Marie Prescott's Cleopatra last
winter has come into fortune of million.
Marie Prescott is his wife, they say.
1t Is given out that the great Coquelin will
act with Bernhardt In Chicago during the
Worlds Fair.
Henry Irving has a son who seems TO be
much like his father, mannerisms and all,
though no one has gone wild over him. or
this young man IL Is said: He las melo-
dramatic stride, lauky form, strongly