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


character danSeuse.
From the Prompt Side
Dore Davidson is repo, ted to be seri-
ously i'll.
Josh Ogden no longer manages the tour
of Irene Kent.
Marion Chester says she will hereafter be
Marie Sydney.
Mary Anderson is preparing her dramatic
memoirs for the press.
Eva Mann. having failed as a star, has
joined variety show.
Hendricks & Davis ''The President" is
winning money in the West.
..The Volunteer" produced at Cincinnati,
does not look like success.
Col J. Il. Haverly goes with the Emer-
son MINISTRIES to Saa Francisco.
Alan Dale's new novel, "Miss Inno-
cence," fell from the press on Thursday.
Maude Granger has made hit in SIN
heritedn at the New York Windsor
theater.
Edgar Selden will temporarily close his
tour of ''Will O. the Wisp" and secure a
stronger cast.
The summer run of "Sinbad" at the Chi
cago opera house has cleared David Hen
derson S37, 600.
Ardie Davega, who plays the role Of Fan
in The Burglar" company, has made an
unexpected hit.
j. B. Polk, the comedian, has temporarily
retired from the stage to work his gold mine
in Northern California.
New England is said to be the only Sec
ton of this country where theatrical bust
ness is not good at present.
Forbes Robertson, the English actor to
appear in Charles Frohmans production Of
"Thermidor," arrived on Wednesday.
St. Louis, which for couple of seasons
back was poor show town, has suddenly
become one of the best in the Southwest.
Jules kusel, for a long time with E. E.
Rice, has succeeded E. E. Hume as ad-
vance agent Of 1.-The Runaway Wife, COM
pany.
Alexander Salvini is unquestionably the
finest swordsman on the American stuae,
and with but few exceptions the finest in
the country.
Charles Cowles, who made a hit as the
Vermont farmer Ill The Canuck," has
achieved great success as the Stranger in
"a Hole in the Ground
The late John Campbell, the founder Of
1ronton, Ohio, was an uncle of pretty Miss
Pearl Means Of Frohman'S 'Al the Com
forts of Home" company.
George Backus, the clever young come
dian who wrote ''In the Cleaning, u has Just
finished another one-act play which will be
seen in New York later in the season.
Alexander Salvini opened his season at
the Chicago auditorium and received
hearty welcome from an immense audience
that completely filled the vast building.
E. J. Henley and an unknown collabora-
teur has written a modern society drama,
oil Tha Cd 70 ~, ixh T,,
liza Arthur will star during the present sea-
son.
George D. Fawcett, leading man of "The
Still Alarm was married last week to
Anna Foster Crosman, daughter of Maj. G.
Crosman, U. S. A, and sister to Henrietta
Crosman.
Parker & Latto's ''The Runaway Wife,
began its season at Pittsburg on Monday.
They have very strong company this
year and their scenery is entirely new and
very pretty.
White Swede gloves, trimmed with the
narrowest of tan binding, are much used at
present in New York by ladies at the thea
tiers. They look chic, but they make the
hands look larger.
Nellie McHenry's new comedy, "a Night
at the Circus" has caught the popular
fancy. She played at Cincinnati and turned
hundreds from the door before the rise of
the curtain. The play is big hit.
J. Charles, Davis New American Lillipu-
tians have made a fine artistic success.
Fred c. Whitney, son Of C. j. Whitney of
Detroit, has become a part proprietor and
will take an active part in the manage
ment.
Because you own theater in New York
you may not sleep on q bed of roses. Herr
mann, the magician, had judgments en-
tered against him last week amounting to
Sl9,925 for several unpaid promissory
notes.
Miss Gypsy Gray, formerly of "Held by
the Enemy company, has changed her
name to Frances Gray, her own name.
Miss Gray was one of Mr.. Sargeant's pu.
pills at the Lyceum school and is q very
good actress.
That remarkable energetic Western man
ager, Jacob Lift, having made date in
play, The Ensign" has returned to his
'Yol Yonson'' company, which is doing
Tremendous business in the West.
John J. Jeuning, the well-known charac-
ter actor and comedian. who made 'Dr.
Bill' success last season, has Joined Nat
Roth's "Quack NJ. d. company. 1t was
written by the late Frederick Marsden and
sold to Roland Reed but never produced.
The late Frederick Marsden's play ''Eily''
was produced few nights ago At Yonkers
and scored hit Not line of the gifted
authors MSS. has been altered. It was
originally written for Annie Pixley, who
was not strong enough for the part of Ely,
nor had she the required brogue.
Agnes Huntington and her manager,
Marcus Mayer, arrived from Europe Sep
TENDER, 9. Miss Huntington's second
American tour will open October IL at Bal
timore, where she will sing Robert Plan
qpette's .'Capt. Therese" for the first time
in America. In February she will be heard
at the new Fifth Avenue, New York
Manager Samuel Popular Cox writes that
Donnelly and Girard's Natural Gas' il
doing better business than 1t ever did
Last year the clever merrymakers shared
little over $40 0G0 ard the outlooly is now