The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-06-21
Notes of the Stare.

NOTES oil the stage.
Rose Coghlan will sail for England on July l.
Her stay abroad will be short.
w. j. Scanlan has learned to play the harp
and will introduce harp solos into "Mavour-
neen" next season.
Announcements galore of new theatrical
schemes for next season are now to be found
In the dramatic papers.
An enthusiastic Williamsburg critic said re-
Gently of Dixey that 'the facial expression of
his feet was wonderful to see."
Adelaide Randall and Harry Peaks will sing
in an opera company that will play summer
season in st. Johns and Halifax.
Vernona Jarbeau is still on the road, max
ing lots Of money, 1t ia said. Her season will
not close until Augusta, in Denver.
"Birds of Feather iG the name of new
play by Herbert Hall Winslow, which will go
on the road next season. One of it's sensa-
tional scenes will show cotton-gin in full
operation
Mr.. I. d. Frawley, of this city, who has
done excellent comedy work with w. II.
Cranes company for a couple of seasons, is
now playing in the summer stock company at
Dayton, Ohio.
Charlie Hoyt's first successful farce comedy
ga Bunch of Keys" seems not to have ex-
hausted its money-making qualities. 1t will
60 out for its tenth season in the fall with new
gags and songs.
The owner of the new comedy, ''Niobe," soon
to be produced in Boston, believes it will be
great success. SO confident are they that they
have booked it for all next season at the
Bijou Theatre, New York.
Tom Karl, HI. C. Barnabee, Edward Hoff,
and Jessie Bartlett Davis will sing in "Robin
Hood" which will be produced by the Bos-
tonians at the Standard Theatre, New York,
the latter part of September.
The New York Dramatic Mirror has Just
entered on its twenty-sixth volume. The
Mirror is well-conducted journal clean and
well-written and has done much to elevate the
stage literature of the country.
Sarah Bernhardt has just bought by cable
large tract of land at Neuilly suburb of
Paris, for $4,000, all made during her recent
American tour. 1t is said that she will build
a veritable palace after she has finished her
travels.
Amelie Rives Chanler intends to dramatize
her novel, ''Virginia of Virginia." Edward
NJ Alfriend, author of 1.-THE Louisianian, -
wrote to Mrs. Chanler asking If she would
give him the right to dramatize the story. She
replied that she intended to make play of it
herself.
The many friends OF Henry E. Abbey in and
out of the theatrical profession, will be glad to
know that he, too, made much money with
Bernhardt in Australia. He will reach New
York on his return from the Antipodes early
In August.
"Bill Nye has finished 'sThe Cadi," and de-
livered the manuscript to Stuart Robson. The
new piece will be produced at the Union
Square Theatre on September IA, with Thomas
2. Seabrooke as the star. 1t will be produced
under the management of Stuart Robson and
George w, Floyd Lizzie Hudson Collier has
Cancelled her contract with the management of
sThe Merchant" in order to appear In ''The
Cadi.'
"A High Roller" the spectacular farce-com-
edy which will be seen at the Academy of
Music September IA, will be, according to
all accounts, dazzling display of gorgeous
ness in scenic effects, an elaborate production
in the way of dances and marches, and an in
teresting study in its dramatic humor.
Alexander Comstock is at the head of the
enterprise. Barney Pagan plays the wealthy
hero, Eitel Toner, and twenty comedians
with twenty soubrettes will combine their
artistic abilities in the production. No less
than fifty people will be upon the stage at one
time, SO that the action can never flag, and the
interest in the comical complications contin-
ues to the end.
Herr Ludwig Barnay, the noted German
actor, thrashed Herr Klausner, editor of the
B0erSen Courier, in lawyers Office in Berlin
recently. He now publishes in the news
papers a statement to the effect that he
thrashed Klausner because he abused him in
his paper, for no other reason than that he
(Barnay) had refused Klausner passage to his
theatre. 1t was said that Klausner was in the
habit of using these passes to pay his bills
with and had got away with 279 admissions to
Barnays theatre within the last month. This
incident recalls the fact that Davidson, a
former proprietor of the BOerSen Courier, was
horsewhipped by Lii Lehman, the prima
donna, few years ago for like offense.
We all of us have our likes and dlslikes in
respect to literature, art and drama, but the
critic, when he is passing judgment upon an
individual effort, is supposed to be impartial;
1t is his clear duty to estimate the value of
that effort according to the approved and es-
tablished standards of its own class. What
would be thought of the art-ertie that con
demned a Corot because it fell short of a
Murillo? Or of the literary critic that rejected
James Whitcomb Riley because he lacked the
majesty of Homer? Or of the musical critic
that smote Wang because he preferred the
Wagner trilogy? The entomologist does not
carry an express rifle to bring down butter
flies, and the critic who is wise in his genera
tion does not censure plays for no other rea-
son than that they are of kind that give him
little personal pleasure. Mirror.
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