Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-04
The Mise En- Scene.

Henrik Ibsen's only son Sigord is soon t
marry daughter of Biornsjerne Bjornson
the great Scandinavian poet and writer.
: Nellie McHenry is in the South doing ;
large business with "A Night at the Cir
cus,n which has proved as great hit as i
is in the North
The Bostonians have accepted a new CD.
era, words by Arthur Macy, music by E. A
Newcomb, both of Boston. Name of opera
not yet decided upon.
Mckee Rankin has become grandfather
his daughter Gladys, now Mrs. Sydney
Drew, having presented her liege lord with
4 bouncing baby boy.
Boston has half as man., theaters as New
York, and YET together with Bostons sub
urbs she does not boast of anywhere neal
half New Iork's population.
Louis James and Frederic Warde pool
issues next season and star jointly They
| promise to produce the new plays, THE
Lions Mouth; and ''Memnon''
Nina Laurence, who plays Brat in "a
Hole in the Ground" has made a very
marked success in the part and is one of the
clever young women with "a future
John J. McNally is fitting fat Pete
| Daily with u bran new farce-comedy. DAILY,
| it Will be remembered, is the popular COM
edlan who made the hit in "A Straight
| Tip"
The dickey bird says that "a VOLTS
Wedding "A Jolly Surprise The Vol
| Danger Signal" have no0aught the popular
! fancy.
Lillian Lawson, a very young and pretty
| Californian, who some time since made 4
! very successful debut in San Francisco as
| Juliet, has arrived in New York to seek a
| theatrical opening.
| Charles Harris is next year to star in a
| play called The Tennesseans." He is the
only actor that can initiate the dialects of
| the white people of the South. The rest,
| without any exception, talk ''nigger."
! The gross receipts of Salvini's week at
| the Chicago Auditorium reached S35, 900.
| AS Manager w. NJ. Wilkison had rented
| the house for the star, the ''wad'' with
which they left the Windy City was great.
Robert Mantell has made such hit in
Edward NJ. Allfriend's play. The Louis
| iaaians," that it has become the principal
feature of his repertoire Mr. Mantell's
season SO far has been marvellous success.
The absolute wrecks this season, so far,
are the 'hhedive," THE Black Masque,"
and "Fleurette," but the long-wiuded hot
wave has distressed many, and half-dozen
are laborlng hard near the rugged rocks of
collapse.
Charles Frohman's new Columbia
theater, in Boston, is beauty. 1t is to be
strictly comedy house. and in il will be pro-
duced the works Of Bronson Howard,
Sardou, Gillette, Belasco and De Mile, and
Charles Frohman's New York successes.
Rhea is said 10 speak English worse after
every visit she makes to her palatial man
sion in Belgium. This year she talks very
much like the Chinese at Hongkong or
Canton in CHINA jargon called 'pidgeon''
English, which would be immensely popular
in farce comedy.
A noticeable thing about the ladies' who
kindly take off their bounetS at the theater
is the disappearance OF the Psyche knot and
the substitution Of the pyramid coil A
lady's description OF the latter is: Draw
the braid up 10 the crown, not the top, and
tie 1t 10 stand out
There is a project on foot in New York in
the shape Of big theatrical fair in Deem
Der to benefit the actors fund. The
booths arc each to represent particular
theatcr and attended by a bevy of handsome
actresses. Good looking actors are to ap-
pear at certain hours.
Natural Gas" has been blazing away at
Washington this week. and its brilliancy
has reflected hearty laughter and good feel
ing ON very large audiences at the National
thcater Meanwhile the ever popular Sam
Cox quietly scoOped in nearly $4,000 in the
box office for his stars, Donnelly and Cir
ard.
VIII Mcconnell, the Chicago humorist,
says that St. Paul is the agents paradise.
Says he: Just think; first you touch the
local ST. Paul manager, and then ten miles
away by electric road you hold up the Min
neapoliS manager. No other spot in Amer
lea gives the agent such splendid adyan-
tage.n
Manager Allan J. Sheldon will probably !
produce Anna Katharine Green's dramati- |
cation of her novel, The Leavenworth !
Case" at the New York Union Square |
theater during next month. MIR. Joseph |
Haworth has added the play to his re- |
pertoire, having made a great hit in it at |
Chicago.
As We Sow" the new novel from the |
pen of Leander Richardson, editor of the
Dramatic News, has enjoyed the unusual |
distinction OF being completely sold out, SO |
far as concerns its first edition, in one day.
Other editions are being rapidly prepared, |
and the story promises to reach a simply |
sale.
Samuel Grau, brother of Maurice Grau.
died of consumption last week He was
Col John A McCaull's first assistant in the
old days of comic opera. Sam began life
as New York custom house broker and
has passed more theatrical stuff through
Uncle Sans clutches free of duty than any
other man In the country, barring Philip
RanZone.
Edwin w. Hon, the young American ]
tenor who created the title role IN Robin
Hood in the opera by that name. will not
sing the part during the first nights of the
production in New York. On the Wednes-
day following the opening at the Star, how
ever, he will appear, when the Bostonian
S sure of a very large audience, as Mr..
Hoff is one of the most popular tenors in
he country.
Max Figman, at present playing Abb Bata
n Indigo" at the Casino. mas been a men,
Der of the Casino company for one year,
Ind while he was at first assigned to small
parts, his talents have been lately acknowl-
dyed, and having made a hit as Ali Bahia
he will, no doubt, in future be pushed for !
ward by the Casino management MIR. Fig
nan is young man of great promise, who
S sure to be heard from later as one Of the |
'est comic opera comedians Of the future--$l
Leonard Growers latest and greatest
uccess. 1.-The Wolves Of New York., re-
eived its initial production at the Boston
heater in May 1t is rare combination of
Genie, almost spectacular, realism and /
rue dramatic value, lacking the element of I
lap-trap in its composition The comedy I
5 pleasing and at times uproariously funny:
he pathos exquisitely tender Tho story
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