The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-04-12
AMERICAN PLAYS.
Manager Palmer After English
Failures Finds a Native
Success.


After reading several thousand Ameri-
can plays, all of which made 4. NJ.
Palmer suppose that none could be writ
ten to suit his fancy, he produced one last
week which Maurice Barrymore read for
him, and it has made an unquestlonable
hit This should be gratifying to every
American. for Mr.. Palmer has looked
sneeringly upon native work, and has
only accepted it when forced to do so
fro 10 lack OF English material Up to
within two years ago Mr.. Palmer was the
lu ckiesI manager in America Guided
by the late Mr. Cazauran, he made
success follow success, until he had piled
mp fortune and q very big opinion Of
his own fnfallibility. Then came the
change, although one pretty play
gave room only to another quite
as neat, all failed to draw.
Mr. Palmer BY this time fancied
that these pretty English plays were the
only ones he knew thoroughly and conld
place properly on the stage A Londoa or
Paris success would be sure TO com
mand attention in New York, so he went
on producing them until the tip end of the
season, when in sheer desperation A ugus-
tus Thomas Alabama" was selected. aud
its success has struck everybody--Mr. Pal
mer lncluded-like streak OF lightning
fromR clear sky. How little confidence Mr.. {
Palmer himself had in it is shown BY the
facts that the play can only run for a few
weeks, although Mr.. Palmer is turning
heaven and earth to cancel dates at his
own Madison Square Theatre, so 1t may
have run.
The Grand Opera House. which for some
years was the only theatre in Newark. has
closed It's doors. Lately it has been run
Tor cheap travelling companies. The last
management was under George w. Stan
hope, who on Saturday left town The
house was built originally for a perrna-
nent exhibition Of Newark industries.
Concerts were given in connection with
the exhibition, but the enterprise did not
Day expenses and the exhibition collapsed. +.
It's now proposed TO convert the building
into a summer concert garden,
A very pretty gossip thus explains the
Patti-Hattie Harvey friendship You
see, it was at the Richelieu in Chicago,
and Patti and Nicoiini had an awful rum
pus, which some of the newspaper boys
got hold of Old Papa Harvey caught
the news on the wing. so to speak. and
Hattie and he started out to muzzle the
press, leaving guard behind to cut off
inqulr1ng news-gatherers. They did stop
it By hook or by crook, and PATHS graft
tnde took the shape OF pretty diamond
ring and an invitation TO Craig-y-Nos
Castle IN Wales"
A tragic story is connected with the
singer, and the manner in which her two
brothers, Jean and Edouard. heard the
news. They were at dinner in st. Peters
burg and at the dessert one of the guests
proposed toast to Madame de Reszke.
The toast was drunk and the fact imme-
diately communicated to Madame de
Reszke by telegram. An hour later q
telegram was received from Warsaw
which everyone thought was the &C
acknowledgement of the toast On the dis
patch being opened it read thus: Jose
phine de Resxke is dead,
Howell Osborne left New York on Sat
urday By the French steamer tor Paris.
where he will in future reside. Mr.. Os-
borne has paid mp mis- OLD debts, arranged
his mothers estate, and will in future
have 70 worry along with the income from
two million dollars. Fay Templeton will
accompany him on his travels. She is
now Mrs. Osborne.
The opening OF Mcyicker's new theatre
in Chicago last week was an event. JEFF
ferson and Florence were the attractions.
The house is more elegant than before.
but the OLD architectural plan has been
followed.
A newspaper says that all Mrss Carter
needs to make her successful is good
health. a good play and little more ex-
perience. The Buffalo Courier SAYS
That's all ans OF US need to do well on
the stage"
The Queen OF E1giaud has lately taken
great interest in theatricals. Last week
she presented Actor John Hare with a
diamond scarfpin-the Imperial mono
gram, v r. Il, surmounted by the I'm
perial crown.
Nearly every paper in England is hav-
ing a whack at Ibsen Just now Yet his
plays are being continually produced. In
April his newest WORK "Hedda Gabler''
is to be brought out in London, under the
Joint management of the Misses Eliza
beth Robins and Marion Lee, the Arst
time two ladies have been associated in
management.
"rhou Shalt Not' has m ade an unmis-
taxable failure at the Union Square, and
manage rs on the road have asked can
collation. Of Its dates. The press, instead
of Jumping on It With both feet, family
damned it, and III future managers viii
probably not monkey with the Six Com
maniuens TO any great extent.
The mslsie OF ( The Oracle, the opsr-
eta which follow Poor Jonathan'1 it