The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-11-15

An amusing story is told in Paris Of an
~impecunious actor in the provinces who
lodged in the same rouse as a young lieu
tenant of infantry almost equally i'm
pecunious. The two became sworn
brothers and borrowed and lent "indis-
c~riminately wardrobes, petty cash and
such small matters-by no means small
to them. At last one fine morning the
comediau-with an air almost tragic
asked of the lieutenant q supreme favor,
the loan of a Shirt, which should be at
once clean and whole. There's the lot;
do you choose the best" said the officer.
The lot consisted of three, on whose CON
dition history is silent. The actor chose
the h~opefulest, with this apology, II
don'tknow whether l remembered to tell
you. but | am going to be married this
morning" Many years afterward this
same actor-then the famous Felix of the
Vaudeville-left by his will a very sub
s~tantial sum to his more needy brethren.
An actor who was transforming re-
turned to New York the other day on
what is technical by known as "on his up
pers." To n more prosperous fellow pro-
fessional he con6ded thus:-"Talk about
realism! Say, Gull, when we showed at
Jackson's Crossing. Iowa, we gave such a
realistic arctic region scene that the town
constable froze to our trunks, and the
audience shook us cold!' Then he all
justed his rabbit skin coat collar and
shifted at a neighboring beanery.
In a letter written to one of her friends
| Nine. Albani relates some of her extra
ordinary experience while singing at the
royal marriage in Russia. "The singers,"
she says, seven to Nine. Patti and myself,
were looked upon and treated as SER
wants." 1t WAS a most novel and, in
truth, notifying experience. We were
placed in a sort OF balcony which was
erected above the banqueting hall, and
as each of our turns came to slug we
went 10 a little opening looking down to
the merrymakers and sang through it.
What amused me especially was this:-
all the time we were singing and
trying to make our notes most effective
the clatter of knives, forks and dishes by
the walters. and the laughter and CONVEX
sation of the wedding guests still went
on. To add to our discontinue, several
times wnen we were engaged in our most
impressive passage, there would be a
flourish of trumpets and some dignitary
would get up to propose Il toast or make
a speech, quite regardless of the singers.
On one of these trying occasions Nine.
Patti was interrupted in her solo by a
blare of trumpets in the hall below, pre-
paratory TO the delivery of another toast.
You may easily imagine the diva's lndig-
nation. She was simply furious ard it
was with the utmost difficulty that we
could dissuade her from leaving the bal
cony before the programme was fin
ished."
There are many people in New York
who would no sooner miss a first-night
than they would miss combing their hair.
Anything that keeps them away they
look upon as a personal grievance. A
number OF them have their names ell
tered upon the treasurers' books of the
prominent theatres, and tickets are sent
10 them as regularly as to the critics.
Marshall p. Wilder is to be expected ut u
n1ffn jprR He nOaS early AMI stands no.
side the ticket taker. so that no one will
escape his eye-and, l may add, so that
he will escape the eve of no one. 1t is a
cheap advertisement. Then there is Ev-
erG j. Wendell, the amateur actor
mense and extremely valuable collec-
ton of actors photographs. Mr.. Wen
dell looks upon a first night as some
people look upon u church s~ociable-a
stamping ground to meet all your friends
and fill up your engagement book. The
fine italian face of the Marquis du Croisic
also looms up Invariably. Charlie kuoed-
Ter the sou of "Knoedler-successor to
Goupil. importer of paintings appears
with the regularity of clocb work, but he
favors farce-comedy Il burlesque.
Others to be looked for are w. E. X.
Wilde aid his wife. Mrs. Frank Leslie.
Better Part;' Colonel L. Allston Brown,
Tom Howard. the execution leader; Mr..
and Mrs. Clarence Lyman Collins, (born
Rosabel Beecher). Ii that quiutessence
of conceit and silks and ~velvets, L. Louis
Onnitavia, the successor of Berry Wall.
asking of the dudes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Drew's infant son.
five weeks old. was christened Sidney
Rankin Drew on Sunday morning at the
Little Church Around the Corner. The
parents. Mrs. John Drew, Mrs. Mckee
Rankin, Augustus Thomas aud Joseph
Thomas were present &C the ceremony.
John Kernell, who enacts the title role