The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-05
Notes of the Stage,

Emma Thursby is on concert tour in south
ern California.
Remenyi, the violinist, will make his fiddle
talk to us again next season.
Young Harry Irving will make his debut
In London in October, in revival of 'tSchool.n
Summer opera snaps are swapping all over
the country. There is too much music in the
air it seems
Saturday matinees have been dispensed with
for the summer at the New York Casino and
the Broadway Theatre
Agnes Hunting may appear next season in
a new opera called "The Fencing Master" by
Reginald De Koven and Harry B. Smith
Nat. Goodwin is to pay Gus Thomas and
Sidney Rosenfeld $1,000 for the comedy they
are writing for him. They will get royalty
beside.
Hoyt IL Thomas are negotiating with Lefty
Luid, the graceful London gaiety dancer,
to appear in this country next season in ga
Tripto Chinatown"
Manager Charles Frohman, of New York,
had better beware. Because of his many en-
terprises he is now called the Napoleon of
theatricals. This is ominous.
Wilton Lacllage, having got all the glory
available out of New York, will now try
London for at least a season. He has signed
to play at the st. James theatre there, taking
the part which Jack Mason is now playing in
s'The Idlern
j. M. Hill, who for years was thought to be
pretty near millionaire, is tangled up finan-
cially. An attachment was placed on his
restaurant in Boston few days ago, and it is
said he had to mortgage his New York theat-
rical leases to lift it.
A New York court has decided that anna
teur theatrical clubs have no right to produce
a copyrighted play without the authors per-
mission. The decision was rendered in the
case of William Gillette against the Mans
field Amateur Dramatic Club, of Brooklyn.
number of opera houses and theatres
throughout the country are receiving their
annual scrubbing out and window washing.
But when the leaves of Autumn are taking on
that ruddy tinge that poets delight in, each
house will reopen-''after thorough renovating
and decorating"
While playing with his children, at his
home near Yonkers the other day, Hubert
Wilkes fell from balcony fifteen feet to the
ground. He was rendered unconscious and
sustained painful fracture of the left arm.
He now plays 'The Tar and the TARTAR with
his arm in sling.
Victor Caporel who will be member of the
Abbey & Grau Opera Company at the
Metropolitan Opera House, New York, next
season, created great .firore when he was
here In 1870. His photographs sold by the
thousand to impassionable girls and he was
the rage wherever he went.
The New York Mirror says: "Annie Lewis
has received flattering offer from Jacob Lift
to become joint stellar feature with Ole Oh
son, of the lyon Yonson" company. Miss
Lewis is one of the cleverest soubrettes on the
stage to-day, and unless we greatly mistake
she possesses a capacity for work of serious
order as WE'LL"
Just about this season of the year you will
come across items like this 'sMr. Harold
Footlight, the eminent young Thespian, is
staying at his Summer place in the High
lands. Then you can make up your mind
that Harold is stopping at some six-dollar-a-
week boarding house and that he owes for
his board at that.
An actress named Eva Mountford announces
that she will appear in a new version of east
Lynne" next season, and Ada Gray feels bad
about it. Ada has been appearing In a new
version of ''East Lynne" for the last twenty
years and thinks it very bold Ia Eva to enter
the field as a rival. The public, as we'll as
Ada, will feel bad about it. One person play
ing EAST Lynne is enough to satiate the
wide, wide world.
What is your name?" asked the one
With lowering brow, and eyes of menace,
He turned his pockets inside out;
No use for words-his name was Dennis.
"And what your title, worthy sir?"
To his pale cheek came the warm blood.
Alas! tits Summer now" he said,
And bowed his head. MY name is Mudm
mirror.
Pauline Hall told reporter that she had
not washed her face in five years. She ex-
planned this remark by saying that in her
toilet cold cream was made to take the place