The record-union., 1891-08-29
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Harlemites. and lodging decayed hem
fruit.
Millie Price-Dow will play the Flirt in
ga Trip to Chinatown"
| May Louise Algen has written play
entitled "a Prisoner of War"
Thomas w. Keene's season begins at
! Wheeling, w. Va, August 9th.
Gus Frankel, the clever comedian, has
! been engaged for the Pitou stock.
Lizzie Evans and her manager, Charles
E. Callahan, have parted company.
! Burr Mcintosh has been engaged by
| Charles Frohman for 1.-THE Solicitor"
| w. S. Daboll has signed as the leading
comedian with the Corinne Company.
II. Wayne Ellis has written burletta
which he has named ''Wife or Widow"
| Nat Goodwin has bought John Ernest
McCann's one-act play called Sentence.
Sol Smith Russell has made another
| success in Z. Z. Kidder's Peaceful Val
ley"
Fred. Zweiffel will manage "a Hole
! in the Ground'' this season for Frank
Mckee.
There is to be revival of that we'll
worn burlesque, "Black-Eyed Susan" in
| London.
William H Crane will produce Clinton
Stuart's new comedy, Newport" early
this season.
Auguste Virtu, for more than twenty
years dramatic editor of the Paris Figaro,
died last week.
Richard Mansfield is rehearsing a new
play called Nero" It is said to suit Mr..
Mansfield exactly.
Clyde Fitch has domiciled himself
permanently in London, with quarters at
the Albany, Piccadiliy.
Annie Pixley is not to act this season.
She proposes to enjoy herself in Europe
Instead of going one-night stands.
Augustin Daily is at the Hotel Royal,
Naples; Sadie Martinot and Marie Jan
sen are in Paris and SO is Kate Claxton.
Owing to the engagement of Merwin
Dallas with Nat Goodwin, 1.-The House
on the March" will not be produced this
season.
Edgar L. Davenport of the Boston Mu-
scum and Miss Lou Davis, a belle Of the
Bunker Hill district, Boston, were mar
ried August 18th.
The London music halls threaten fur
ther encroachmentS upon the supposed
prerOgatives OF the theaters. One Of them
IS about to produce play without words.
y new plot called Down on the Farm"
was produced at Willimantic, Conn, for
the first time August 10th. 1t was a sue
SO.0Ss SAihNA AiSAa SNSIS p1OSpSCI o1 D6lllS IL
winner.
L. B. Thalberg, who has been engaged
by Madame Modjeska as her leading
man, is popular London actor, and is at
| present a member Of the London Adelphi
Theater.
ga Turkish Bath was produced at
Omaha, August 18th. Nothing in the
play suggests its name which might just
as well be "A Bucket of Cold Water" 1t
IS q crude show but the people are clever.
Robert Downing will have the follow
ing plays in his repertoire this season,
"Brutus," "Virginius," Gladiator"
Damon and Pythias," Julius Caesar"
Katherine and Petruchio'' and French
Marriage
Mrs. Arthur Dacre (Amy RoseIle) has
been engaged by Henry Irving for the
London Lyceum Company next season.
This will compensate in some degree for
her exceedingly bad fortune in the
United States.
Henry s. New, editor of the Indianapo-
! lis JOUr1t0t, was married last Tuesday TO
! Catherine Mclean, late Of the Faust Up
to Date Company The wedding took
/ place III New York, at the pretty resi-
dence of Frank Mckee, General Mana
/ ger for Hoyt IL Thomas attractions.
The operation upon Henry Irving's
throat was simply removal of part of
the uvula, common eXpedient nova
days, and very trining matter from q
surgical point Of view. He viii be less
liable TO suffer from relaxed throat than
heretofore, but there is no reason to sup
pose that MS voice will be affected per-
ceptibly either one way or the other.
The souvenir presented by David Hen
derson at the seventy fifth performance
OF "Sinbad" at the Chicago Opera house
is the prettiest as well as the most eXpen-
. civ N-.a~, g.FE
lea. Between very handsome cover,
the souvenirs contained dozen splendid
specimens of color work, representing
the various characters Of ''Sinhad" in
costume.
Besides Jane" now running at the
New York Madison Square Theater,
Manager Charles Frohman will soon
have the following companies going:
MEN and Women" an Eastern and a
companies playing ''Mr. Wilkinson's
| Widows" +" "All the Comforts of Home"
"The Charity Ball. Held by the
Enemy" The Solicitor" Miss Hey
lett'' and 'Thermidor."
/ Imre Kiralfy arrived from abroad Au-
/ gust 18th. While away he visited all the
! libraries and museums Of Madrid in
| search of material for spectacle depict
/ ing the life Of Columbus, to be presented
] =
vas del Castillo thought so well of his
plans that project was formed for the
! construction Of an immense building in
the middle of the exposition grounds at
Madrid, where an historical exhibition
will be given in August, 1892.
Maude Grangers tour will open in
New York on the 14th of SepteTn Der at
the Windsor Theater. She will play 'In-
herited," the emotional play by Richard
Davey and Lucy Hooper, in which she
made the recent remarkably successful
fifty-three weeks tour under w. NJ.
Wilkinson's management. Mr.. Wilkin-
son has also made arrangements with
| Mrs. Ettie Henderson for her version of
"Claire and the Forge Master" and Miss
! Granger will also be seen in that play
| during her tour. She was very success
| ful in Claire during an extended run of
the play at the Fifth Avenue Theater a
few years since.