Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-20

| Poughkeepsie Some of the situations have
been changed for the better. and the play
/ made a bowling success. The costumes are
! said to be stunning
| Isabella Urquhart is still in London,
| where she proposes to remain for another
| year studying dramatic art.
John J. NcNaIlv's Boys and Girls was
produced for the first time at Worcester
| Mass, and made success.
Joseph Haworth will this week produce
his new play. The Leaveuwcrth Case, =" at
the Chicago Grand opera house.
Frank David has surprised even his
warmest admirers ny the extent Of the hit
thai he has made in The President
Miss Julia Arthur, who made ringing
hit in the tiasco called The Black NIasGue, -
has been engaged by Manager ]. ". Hill.
Charles Frohman has engaged James
Young, .Ir., son of the proprietor of the
Baltimore Telegram, for the cast of Their
midor.
The Margaret Mather company will add
''I'he Violin Maker 10 their repertoire this
season. Mr. Otis Skinner playing the part
of F'illipo.
The President. which Managers Hem
bricks and Davis are taking towards Cali
fornia, is making d great deal of money on
its journey.
Held by the Enemy the best American
play vet written. is doing = tremendous
business on the road. l; will never get TOO
old to be interesting.
The Devils Editor clever farce COM
edy. was produced ii Philadelphia on Mon
day of last week. for the first time and
made a very distinct success.
u, l.
play, The LouisianiauS, at Troy. y. y,
on Monday. 1t was warmly received and
the clever star made 4 strong individual
hit
One of the biggest money winners in
farce comedy on the road this season is
Mai. Charles f.. Rice'S ''McCarthy's Mis-
hapS' company. 1t will clear over $4,000
if business continues as it has begun.
The Junior Partner one of Madeline
Lucette's comedies, is now in the hands of
Mr.. George Alexander of the ST. James
theater, London. 1t will be remembered
as the play which Mr.. Daniel Frohman for
feited on time limit.
Maude Granger will go to san Francisco
again this season. An extended tour has
been booked by Manager Wilkinson, but the
fair Iaude declares she viii not make an
other tfty-three weeks tour as her last
one was, and the longest ever made in
this country by Il legitimate star
AS We Sow" the new novel by Leander
Richardson, editor of the New York
Dramatic News, fell from the press on
Tuesday. The story has been running AS Il
serial III NJ. Richardson's paper all through
the summer, and has made Il distinct hit with
the readers of that publication.
Alexander Salvini is rehearsing his COM
pany this week at the Chicago Auditorium,
which immense place of amusement he will
open with Don Caesar de BaZann and '"sRe
Three Guardsmen." Besides rehearSing
his company he is TRANSMITTING some of the
French and Italian plays which he brought
from Europe during his recent trip abroad.
The collapse ofsEva Mann's company is
another proof of the inherent good sense
and deceucy of the American people But
few of them will pay even small sum TO
see the most notorious of abandoned women
act, if she acts badly. Her infamous play
was an outrage on the public in which the
woman herself, her manager and her play
wright were equally guilty.
Nellie McI1enry's new farce-comedy, A
Night at the Circus, " is receiving cOmpli-
mentary notices in every quarter and is
undoubtedly a great success. The play
brstles with surprises, situations and wit
Miss McHenry has all the opportunity she
requires TO display her freshness do her lit
tie kicking and dancing, and 70 play the
pretty. dcmure, sweet governesS Us well.
On September LIST, Amy Lee played the
star part in The Pulse of New York -
at eighteen hours notice at HOboken on :c-
count Of an accident to Miss Emmett Miss
Lee received two calls at the end of each
act. As there are eight changes and six
dialects her performance in the part was
considered phenomenal. being pronounced
hit. Miss Lee will continue PLAYING the
part until Miss Emmett recovery.
Maude Granger's company TINS season
will include among others, David NJ. Muir
ray. y. Ii Hastings, Charles H Mestayer,
Jay Hunt. Charles Foster, Clara Louise
Thompson, Lillian Madison, Lea Michael
and Little Charlotte Hunt. Miss Granger
will appear at the Windsor theater, This
city, next week. in ''Inherited.' Her
repertoire will also include Claire and the
Forge Master.
May Howard. the voluptuous artist and
robust vocalist who appears with Donnelly
& Girard i'll their excellent Natural Cas-
has been for five years in the burleSque
line. and has made heap Of money, which
she has wisely invested in Chicago real es-
tate Last season she was partner with
Miaco and Morris, and her share of the
profits Melted her $1,000 She is twenty
six years of age. and her father is a real
estate dealer in Chicago. Her fortune is at
present estimated at s200,O00
Bill Nye's first play-writing venture,
''The Cadi," was presented al BrOckton,
Mass, on Monday The first two acts take
place in Owl Creek. wv, where the
Cadi. otherwise the great man OF the vii
lage, is seen in the various capacities of
frontier editor, postmaster, justice OF the
peace, etc. The last act is laid III New
York city, on the eve of the departure of
the Cadi rs consul to Turkey. Thomas ..
Seabrookc. as the Cadi. won success in the