The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-09-06

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The company which C. D. Hess has been
actively engaged in organizing during the
summer for the support of Minnie Hank
next season is now complete, and will begin
its season at the Chicago Opera House Sep
TENDER 18th.
The Detroit papers are unanimous in Civ
ing great praise to Miss Fannie Bowman
Qate OF the Alcazar but now with Frederick
Warde'S company, for her acting as Mar
celia in - The Lions Mouth" and Henri in
1.-The Mountebank"
a testimonial concert will be given in
honor of Mr.. Eugene O'Connell at Hamilton
Hall, Oakland, on Thursday evening. Sep
TENDER 10th. He will be assisted by Miss
NJ. Louise Brock. mezzo-s soprano, Miss Mar
guerite O'Connell, planiste, ana Miss Con
stance Jordan, accOmpanst. Four hundred
tickets have been issued to subscribing pat
rons.
Under the direction of D. Blakely, New
York, Mr.. JEFF S. Leerburgar will probably
bring the Austrian Juvenile Band and the
Strauss Band to this city in the near future.
David Henderson is now sole proprietor
of the Chicago Opera House.
One of the principal features of the pro-
gramme of the invitation mandolin musicale
given by Professor Samuel Adeisteln at
ManZy's piano warerooms. next Tuesday
evening, will be the rendition of beauti-
lui ltslldn SbItlldtd NY tNdlfc ulduuuIluo
and mandola, with violin anu cello obllgato
and harp and piano accompaniment.
"a Fair Rebel" is said to have made the
only real hit of all the new dramas pro-
dueed this year.
Phoebe Davies has a most felicitous part
in Beacon Lights" which fits her to per-
lection.
The females of the Rassacatumas tribe of
kaffirs are said to possess figures of such
surprising grace and elegance as to rival
that of the Egyptian Cleopatra.
1t is computed by French contemporary
that Sarah Bernhardt has earned 6,516,000
francs during her professional career of
quarter of century. From her first Ameri-
can tour she made clean profit of 100000
! francs, and it is expected that the pecunlary
gain of her present tour will amount to
| 200. 600 francs.
The profits of the Drury Lane Theater in
London last year were more than S2O.OOO.
| Its manager is Augustus Harris, whom
| Queen Victoria recently knighted.
In the eyes of the law, if one piece OF
| music resembles another for four c0nsecu-
tive bars the whole may be declared a pi-
| racy.
| Roland Reed has made success in sgd
ney Rosenfeld's new comedy, THE Club
| Friend"
| Barney Pagan, star of the High Roller"
company, playing at the New York Bijou,
| was summOnSed 10 Jefferson Market Court,
| August 9th. for ill-treating and abusing
Miss Alice Gilbert, member of the same
| company. She did not change quickly
| enough Tor him, and was altogether annoy
| ing in her stage movements.
Miss Jeffreys-Lewis will, this season, play
| the leading role in ''Mr. Potter Of Texas"
Oliver Doud, n nephew OF Oliver Doud
| Byron, good stage manager. is now in the
| insane ward of Bellevue Hospital, New
| York. lie will probably recover after
| long rest
japanese theaters have used the revolving
4 Ito
| coolies underneath turn too quickly, and
the actors are rolled out of sight gesticulat-
| ing and shouting.
The New York Herald offers $500 for the
| best new and original one-act drama or
| genteel farce on an American subject,
written by a resident of the United States,
and submitted on or before December 1st,
| next Plays sent in should contain roughly
4o00 words. The Herald man has no doubt
been goad.d to this by all experience with
| Jerome's barbara"
| Del Puente, the barytone, has repertory
| of fifty operas. He was born in Naples,
| but comes of Spanish family, and made
| bis first appearance In opera at Jassy. Mol
| dayia, with CampaDini. He is 40 years old.
| Nine. NOrdica will probably make her re-
| appearance in "Arsenia" at the Worcester
festival, after which she is engaged by Mr..
| Charles Ellis, the efficient business manager
of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, to ap-
| pear IN a large lumber OF concerts in the
! lChulUH CllltS.
Miss Medora Head OF Kenosha, Wis, who
| has been for the past year studying singing
| in Naples, has recently taken the diploma
OF music in the Royal Conservatory Of Mu-
| sic in that city.
Richard Stahl sailed for Germany last
| week. After visiting his father at Elbing
he will settle in Berlin.
Harry Norman, who was for some years
with the Tivoi company in this city, has
made one of the most pronounced hits in
''Snbad, or The Maid of Basora."
Giannini, the tenor, who in the MapesOn
| days according to The Brooklyn Eagle), used
| to be kept with thirty or forty others in the
| eel lar of the New \ ok Academy of Music,
| and suddenly and violently exhumed When
| ever better man was sicK, or mad, or I'M
| paid, is now singing in Guatemala He is
| likely to get on better ther than in the
| United States, though he is said to have had
| his voice stretched and repaired several
times lately and to be doing pretty well,
considering
Erudite critics that wax elusive over their
| belief that in ''Dorothy's Dilemma" Rose
Cognan made her initial appearances in
| mans costume, forget, says the Dramatic
Mirror, that the actress appeared in that
| kind OF disguise in Jocelyn.
| The Misses II. and j.. Rosenfeld, theatre
cal typewriters, have Obtained Judgment
against ex- Congressman John NJ. Glover of
st. Louis. Mr.. Glover owes the firm 5000
for typewritng 1900 900 words.
| Kelly, the minstrel, formerly of Kelly IL
| Leon, is on a sheep ranch in Australia, but
occasionally sings in the cities. He MUIR
| dered man in New York, but was released
on legal bubble.
Emma Abbott's costumes, which she val
| ued at 100000. were sold at auction in
| New York Tuesday and brought S1954 %.
Malyina Cavalazzi, Colonel Mapleson's
| daughter-in-law and once leader Of tho bal
let in his Italian Of era. is now in the ballet
| of the Empire, in London.
Frank de Witt Talmage, the son of the
famous Brooklyn clergyman, has recently
taken up lecturlng as a profession. He is
| reported to have a fair share of eloQuence
| and many peculiar characteristics. which
| apparently are rightfully his own by virtue
| of inheritance.
G. W. Lederer's new comedy. "Ineog,"
written by Mrs. Romualdo Pacheco of this
| city, and now being played by Charles
Dickson's company, has made great hit in
| St Louis.
Antoinette Sterling. the American con-
traito. and good singer she is, has been
| made the subject of an aneedote that may
be true. 1t is alleged that she has joined
the Quakers in England, and that after sit
| ting for long time at Quaker meeting,
waiting for the spirit to move her to say
something. she arose and sang Rest in the
| Lord" Afterward an elder went to her
and said. Thee knoweth, sister. that it is
against tue rules, but il the Lord telleth
thee to sing, thee must
Like Ellen Terry, Sarah Bernhardt pleads
guilty to nervousness before the rising of
the curtain. ~ am always nervous" she
says, because | am always intensely afraid
of falling below my previous standard of
acting" Unfortunately this is not true Of
too many stage celebrities.
Charles Wyndbam, who Is coming back to
the United States in the winter, has bought
a ranch in Montana for his son Howard,
who arrived Il few days ago to take charge
OF it.
1t is said that the craze for farce-comedy
is a thing Of the past in the Northwest.
European Musical Items.
Translated from the Gazzetta Musicale OF Milan.
Spamhati the ranowned Italian nianIst