The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-01-25

son. They will play together one year more.
Nerves." downright farce adapted from the
French by Comyns Carr, was produced with suc-
cess at the New York Lyceum on Monday night.
Good old "Hazel Kirke" will be revived at the
Peoples Theatre, New York, tomorrow night,
by Effe Ellsler who was the original Hazel years
ago at the Madison Square Theatre. G. w.
Couldock, the original Dtnstd11, will also be in
the cast.
Emma Mabelle Baker is TO be the new prima
donna in the reorganzed Emma Abbott troupe,
which will open in New York in a week or two.
Biiou Heron of "Ali the Comforts OF Home''
Company, is in every day life Mrs. Henry Miller,
She the first and best of all the child
Thespians.
Denmau Thompson's revival of Joshua Whit
comb" at the New York Academy has not caught
the public, and he will fall back On 'The Old
Homestead"
An actress named Emma Bell has just brought
$4,000 libel suit against tho Buffalo Courier for
severe criticism of her appearance as IzG in
THE Clemenceau Case"
Manager Charles Frohman is having written for
him composite play by three different authors,
Messrs. Greene, Roomfeld, and Thomas. 1t will
be called 1.-The Three Graces."
An Australian playbill announces among its at
fractions Walt Whitman'S Whimsical Wheezes,"
and San Francisco paper wants to know when
the good gray poet went into the business"
The New York fire department. has ordered
the removal of a number OF seats from some of
the theatres of that city, in order to widen the
aisles and facilitate egress in case of fire panic.
Richard Mansfield will have three new plays
next season-"Don Juan" 1.-THE Man Without a
Shadow" by Mrs John Elliott. (Maude Howe,)
and Charles H. by Margaret Merrington and
Miss Purdy.
A modern philosopher remarks: ut has been
said that where you find billboard and goat
there you will find contentment, but soubrette.
pretzel, a pickle, and a glass of beer knocks
that adage out in one round"
Mr.. r. L. Britton, of Harris, Brtton s. Dean,
of Washington, Baltimore and other cities, is in
Louisville with Architect McElfatrick, and work
will be commenced Immediately upon the the
atre to be built there by this firm.
Mr.. William III. Easton, the Bijou's local mana
ager in this city, has patented an Improvement
on the Merry-go-round, which he calls 1.-The
Perpetual Plunger." 1t is said to furnish unim
tied quantities of exhilarating fun.
Sylvia Gerrsh and Isabelle Urquhart announce
their intention to "do'' Europe together shortly,
all by their lone selves. They will leave in Feb
ruary and return IN June, when Miss Urquhart
will begin an engagement in Chicago.
California paper says that Pauline Halls
weight is increasing despite all her efforts, and
that 'the tension on some of her stage costumes
has reached an alarming point" This must lend
fascinating interest to her performance.
When the play is DER and the lights are down,
And the music sudden stops,
The curtain falls with deep, dull thud,
But the bad bold actor never drops!
Mirror.
New York has grown aweary of German
| opera, and the talk now is of an italian opera
| season at the big Metropolitan next winter.
Henry E. Abbey's friends are booming him as
director of the proposed season of the bel carto.
Alphonse Daudet's new play, IL Obstacle ap-
pears to have failed in Paris because the mother
of the hero tells him that he is not his fathers
son, for no more tenable reason than that she
wishes him to dlsbelieve that there is the taint of
insanity in his blood
Kathleen Kerrgan is the name of a New
Albany Qnd.) girl who recently made her debut
at Macauley's Theatre Louisville, as Pauline.
Kathleen is OF the Mary Anderson type, and her
debut of course, inspired her friends with great
hopes for her future
Reinhold l.. Herman, who was for five years
the conductor of the German Lederkranz So
ciety in New York. has had his opera of "Vineta''
accepted by the manager of the Opera House at
Cassel. Another opera by the same composer is
soon to be performed at the Court Theatre of
Brunswick.
G. Haddon Chambers, the fortunate author of
1.-THE Idler,' has been commissioned to write two
new plays for American managers. One is for
the New York Lyceum, and is to be finished by
next August the other is to be ready by the fall
of 1892. Who the second one is for has not been
made public.
In accordance with his threat, Harrison Grey
arrest of A. p. Dunlop, of the Stage NeaOs. on a
charge of criminal libel. Dunlop announced in
his little paper that the New York Mirror would
suspend publication. Dunlop was admitted to
bail in the sum of $4,000. Harry Miner and J. p.
Jackson becoming his bondsmen.
1.-THE Senator has been played by Comedian
w. II. Crane and his excellent company over
three hundred times. Setting aside the merits of
the play itself, the magnificent way in which the
work is staged and acted would fairly account
for its popularity. Mr.. Crane in Senator Hdnnt-
bal Riuers has one of the best, if not the best,
parts for the display of his abilities that ever fell
to his lot. Mr.. Crane surrounds himself with
good actors and actresses, and he gives them
ample opportunity to make records for them
selves.
The other night at the Broadway Theatre Mr.
Booth occupied a box with his daughter. He
looked pale and i'll, and when he rose and slowly
made the detour of the house in order to reach
tha stage tO cOnpIatulate his friend Rarratt ha