The evening world., 1891-03-09
NOTES OF the stage WORLD.
Sarah Has Gone, but Soon Well
Have Barnum.
Misc May Isobson's Promising Class
In Verbal Eccentrlcitics.


in many heart The disphanous ;ragedienne
LEFT yesterday at 8 O'Clock IN the afternoon for
Boston, with the members Of her company.
There waa no SPECIAL train and no private car
and no conventional nonsense about her de-
pariure. She went ON o plain, everyday
(and Sunday train, occupying a special state
room. Sarah opens III Boston tonight in
"La Tosca," which is the most strik-
ing play in her repertoire. because 1t
affords her the most valuable oppor-
tunItiea Saturday was wonderful day at
the Garden Theatre. There was Q veritabie
rush, AFTERNOON and evening, anu the Fire
Commissioners were in a very unenviable
frame Of mind. Several people to whom ad-
mission tickets hal been sold were not al
lowed TO stay dowrstairs, hut had TO move up
ward. Business during the four weeks was
incredibly large. Somebody has estimated 1t
at $40, 900 per week.
The theatres don't like the genial yet ener-
geiio Barnum. During Holy Week he will be
engaged In the psstime known as "b,lling the
town, " and theatrical people are always afraid
OF this. Barnum Ia very dangerous attrac-
tion. or course 1t will be the farce comedies
that will suffer, for farce comedy after all is
u
Miss May Robson, Of the Lyceum Theatre,
has q dialect class and teaches the young idea
how to shoot into verbal cccentricitifs She
has some extremely promising pupils and she
is On example that they will be lucky II they
can follow.
The comely ma!dens OF "a Straight Tips"
forces have oil been photographed, and very
edifyinR IA the result. Miss Della Stacey In
black accordion elegance has one foot deli
cately poised in the air, aud with eyes cast
down seems to say I'm artless but can
kick. Miss Maggie Garrett, has little Puri-
tan frill and Sunday -Go-to-mceting demure-
ness written on her placid brow. Miss Lila
Linden looks mourniully through two big
lus:rous eyes, and there is an "I ought
TO be playing Lady Macbeth" trembl,nSly
ON her lira Miss Emma Hanley, neatly brushed
and oombed, looks completely satisfied with
the world and with herself Especially with her.
selD, and MISS Eloise Mortimer has sutfused
her features with the sadness OF the early mar
tyrs, though Pysche knot Of to-day's mode tells
US tnat she 10 of this wicked century. Yes, this
bevy of damsels is very edi'ying.
Lew Dockstader has been doing Broadway
these days. He has completed all arrange
ments for his own company next season and
booked 1t In the principal cites. He was four
weeks, not consecuuvely, In this city.
Little Miss Louise Beaudet is very pie ased ut
her engagement BY Rudolph Aronsun. MIR.
| Arouson ought to be pleased, too. She is now
re re eGearsing g for the opera % that that is to follow
recovered from % The Babes in the Wood, I"
which she didn't like at all.
II now appears that AuRustiu DAILY was not
to blame for " The Prodigal Son." after all.
| 1t Ia said that Ada Rehan saw the pantomime
| eeven or eight times in Paris, and was SO de-
lighted with It aud 50 convinced OF Its possibil-
tiles that she begged AuRusnn to buy II.
Arthur Miller, Of "sn,p Anoyl" was in town
Saturday TO take peep at the new company
tnat is 10 present the comic opera at the Union
squsre Theatre.
| J. Duke Muuay, Milton Nobles's manager,
was once the Rev. ]. Duke Murray. Nobody
would suspect Mr.. Murray Of an excess OF
reverence al the present time. but the fact re-
SHORTLY after he hau become an actor, met Mr..
np,1ss IN ausaes he 4ssGFafS
%ne Sis Oody % reened @ IN char % few Sogi yarss
away. he was telling anecdotes, and every
body was laughing. Mr.. Mobiles who knew
agent. began to pine for Murray to "poom "
his plays. He made his acquaintance, temple !
him, and the Kew Duke succumbed. HIS
| choice was good one. Mr.. Murray now puts
forth all that eloquence that he used TO expend
on the crowds that used to listen to him as q
boy preacher In the interests OF "From Sire
to Son " aud "Love ana Law
Henry Arthur Jones, the playwright has
been delivering q lecture on /" PsymaKing' ~
in London. He I'D that construction, in
respect TO story and plot. was Inferior TO the
truthful exhibition Of life. There was one
great quality TO be insisted on: no trick. II
would be interesting to know whether MIR.
Jones prepared this lecture before he wrote
Judah.