The record-union., 1891-06-13
MUSIC And DRAMA.
Summer Amusements in the Great
Metropolis.
''Tom Sawyer'' Not Success-John L.
Sullivan and Duncan B. Harrison
s'The Limited Mail''-General Stage
Notes.
A. P. Dunlop. writing from New York

A. p. Dunlop, writing from New York
under date of June 9th, says:
The season dies hard. Gotham has for
the last week been sweltering in mid
summer heat, and yet three novelties
were pushed forward for metropolitan
approval. The most notable of these was
a little gem in one act by Nugent Robin
son, editor of once q Week, and John
Ernest McCann, the poet, which Robert
Mantell used as curtain raiser" 1t is
called "a Lesson in Acting" and was
done for the first time at the Lyceum on
Tuesday. 1t is a well-invented little
drama, written in pure and poetic Eng
1ish, and possessed of more dramatic in
iereSt than any curtain raiser" seen in
New York for q long time. The next
was a three-act comedy called Miss
Manning" written by j. B. Runnion of
the Chicago Tribune, produced at the
Fourteenth Street Theater, but it did not
fit Miss E1fie Ellsler, whose sutferlngs as
Hazel Kirk nave been on exhibition all
over the country for so many years
With Lotta as the star, and a suitable
company, the play might be made to go
right merrily, which it does not now.
The third novelty was at Jacobs Theater.
1t was said TO be the work of Mark Twain,
and was called tom Sawyer" The
play, if such it can be called, was delu-
sion and q snare. Mark Twain is liter
ally not in it. 1t is merely variety
show, and very badly done at that. The
performance was downright tasco.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN,
The so-called pugilist-actor, will appear
at the Clunie Opera House on next Mon
day and Tuesday evenings, backed by
Duncan B. Harrison's Company, in Mr..
Harrison's pretty Irish drama, Honest
Hearts and Willing Hands," The play
is said to be charming one, but no mat
ter what it is the house will no doubt be
f-tN
Everybody has heard of John, and every
body wants to see how he looks.
THE LIMITED MAIL"
Is to be the attraction at the Metropolitan
next Friday and Saturday evenings. 1t
tells story that is not particularly new.
There is wait, a well-meaning old man,
who is temporarily in the power of a
scheming villain, a conductor who makes
love to the waif, frolIcsome boy who
annoys the lovers, n scOlding old woman,
q witty Irish section boss, and two or
three minor characters. The scenes are
located in and around a railroad station.
Like Hoyt's "a Hole in the Ground" an
attempt is made to Satirize the people
who worry the ticket agent with unneces-
sary questions. 1t is easy TO see that the
author is railroad man, and any man
who has spent portion of his life work.
ing for railway company will recognize
the truthtulneSS of many of the scenes
represented. A telegraph operator, for
instance, will anticipate the love scene
between the sOubrettc and the juvenile
man which is carried on over the tele-
graph instrument. The mechanical eff
teCtS, particularly the running of the linn
tied mail train across the stage, the wreck
of hand car and the Sawmill in motion
are sufficient in themselves to insure the
success Of the play.
STAGE NOTES.
Fanny Davenport closed her season last
week in Newark.
Leonora Bradley is slowly recovering
from a very severe attack Of the grip.
Charles Warner, a well-known English
actor, has been engaged by Charles Froh-
man.
Leonora Snyder has gone to England
to sing leading roles at the Savoy Thea
ter, London.
Augustin DAILY has bought the Ameri-
can rights TO George de Ports Riches
"Amoureuse."
Fit Raymond has signed with the Slo-
cum Opera Company for a summer sea-
son Of ten weeks at Birmingham, Ala.
Frank Mckee owns the right to "a
Hole in the Ground'' for the next season,
and has engaged Charles Cowles for the
leading part.
Messrs. Sims and Buchanan are the
joint authors of new play which has
been bought by Edward Sothern for pro-
duction in this country.
John Hare, a well-known English actor
at the London Garrick Theater, has been
engaged by Charles Frohman for the part
of Martial in ''Thermidor"
Bob Graham will probably go out next
season as his own manager in the Little
Tycoon" and the season following in his
new play, Larry the Lord"
Auguste Van Biene, violinist of re-
pute in England, is going to turn actor,
and will soon appear in Liverpool as Rip
Van Wrinkle in Planquette's Opera.
Mrs Leslie Carter will abandon the
dramatic stage for comic opera, and +. ID.
Price, her manager, Will, by force OF
circumstances, become an impreSSGT4o.
And now il is said that Pasqualina. the
Italian girl, who killed her lover and was
acquitted in New York, will 90 on the