The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-03-29
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--Dramatic Mirror.
This is Miss Clara Morris opinion of
Camille, as expressed to a Philadelphia
reporter:-'I dislike Camille, that horrid,
awful Camille! / despise il, and yet
think it's awfully mean of me 10 think
that way about it--for it has made me so
much money"
The old question, Is the first night per
Torrance favorable to careful criticism?
is under discussion again In London. A
consensus of professional opinion gives II
m affirmative answer. The leading ac-
tors seem TO think that the best effort is
usually concentrated on a premier.
Effie huntington, sister OF Agnes
Huntington, was married last Saturday
at Chicago TO Charles ID. Lathrop, the
Rev. Francis Lobdell officiating. Mr..
Lathrop is well known society man of
Chicago and is reputed to be wealthy.
He is in the coffee business and is secre-
tary of the Chicago Club. The ceremony
took place at the Hotel Irouuois, Agnes
Huntington and Mrs. Huntington, the
mother of the bride, being the only wit
nesses.
An enthusiastic contemporary begins
an announcement:-"A new star has
dawned upon the theatric skyl Robert
Fizsimmons, the long-reach fistic wonder,
conqueror OF jack Dempsey and middle
WetRAt fCkaStlblOu RAk14ob VI LAG eOA4Q.
will APPEAR etc.
The current success at the Paris PaIais
Royal is farcial comedy celied Les
Joies de II Paternite,' arising out OF tue
desire of certain amiable lady, who is
blessed with an only daughter, to become
grandmother. She has found for her
daughter husband whose remarkable
head of hair has suggested Samsonian
virility and a whole batch of bouncing
babies and she is filed with ruge and
disappointment when, after time. no
babies having.s appeared, she discovers
that he wears wig.
Mrs. George w. Lederer on Sunday pre-
scented her husband with a bright and
bouncing boy Weighing eight pounds
Mrs. Lederer is the daughter Of Lawyer
Newcombe of New York, anu her el0pe-
ment with Mr.. Lederer created a social
sensation.
Sydney Chidley, the scenic artist, has
signed a contract with Assemblynan
Mullone TO paint the scenery for the new
Jersey City Opera House.
Tine French authorities are endeavoring
TO put IA stop to any further public dis
plays of certain suggestive eastern
dancers The dances gained considerable
notoriety at the time of the recent Elk
position, aud have since been produced in
various Paris music halls. The law pro-
nounces them both lewd aud indecent.
A curious instance of devotion to art
com es from Vienna. A young singer of
that city has completely ruined her feat
ures by applications of vitriol- She ex-
planned her action by saying that she de-
sired to show that it was by her talent,
and not by her beauty, that she wished to
succeed.
Managers Frank Sanger of the Broad
way and Augustus i. Hartz of the Mans
field company, are both in the hands of
la grippe, which the doctors say has re-
turned to New York. Half of the Casino
chorus are also tucked away in their little
beds with the same complaint.
Rudolph Aronson has entered into au
agreement with Miloecker, the composer
of Poor Jonathan" whereby the Casinos
manager secures all rights appertaining
TO the opera for one year after the ter
mination Of the present contract Mil
lockers royalty, so Mr.. Aronson says,
will be the largest ever paid to the COM
poser OF q comic opera. The Casino COM
pany is now no longer crippled by sick
ness. and the charming Lillian. with all
the rest OF them, appears at every per-
Torrance. Leyy's band gives concert
at the Casino tonight.
Fanny Rice is going to star in new
and original musical Extravaganza called
Everything Goes" The complete title
is said to be Everything Goes but the
Stove, and That Goes Saturday Night"
Having conquered Chicago says
W eStern paper, MIS-. 1eSlle carter closed
in Kansas City last week"
The Albany Times says that the sltua-
tions in DIR. Bilf' are extremely ludic-
roiis, but it is zone of those plays which
no young girl would like to take her
mother to see.n
Colonel Henry Mapelson was married at
the British Legation in Paris March II.
TO Mrs. Laura Schirmer Byron of Boston
IL was once reported of the lady that she
was poisoned in the Imperial Harem at
ConstanIinople, but soon afterwards she
came up smiling.
Arthur Wing Pinero is descended from
Portuguese family which, under the
toward the end OF the seventeeth cen
fury.
The ticket spectators are said to have
lost heavily on the Bernhardt engagement
in Boston.
Alboni celebrated her sixty fifth birth
day March 10, when she sang Gounod's
save Mariap to a number of favored
friends gathered around her.
Pauline L'Allemand and Marie Tempest
will divide the honors at the Casino next
season. Miss LAllemand's engagement
begins August l. Miss Tempests Octo
Der /.
delighted his uncle by marrying a ballot
girl connected with the Tivoli Theatre In
San Francisco.
The last part that Lawrence Barrett
played was De Mauprat to the Richlieu
OF Edwin Booth.
On Monday evening "Mr. Wilkinson
Widow the new comedy by William
Gillette. author Of ''The Private Secre-
| tary" and "All the Comforts of Home
viii be produced at Proctor's Theatre
The new comedy is an adaptation of an
amusing trifie that enjoyed much favor
recently in Paris. In eliminating much
/ of the racy wit that made the plot palaia-
\ bic TO French taste, Mr.. Gillette has
added considerable bumor of a more
I agreeable nature The cast includes
| Joseph Holland. Mrs Dion Boueicauif,
/ Frederick Bond, Henrietta Crossman,
| Thomas Burns, Thomas Wise, George
Thompson, Maud White, Annie Wood
aud Lillian Leach.
AMUSEM ENTS.