The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-19
Notes of the stare.

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A sister of the late Emma Abbott sold her
costumes IN Chicago last week.
Adonis Dixey is said to be losing his grace.
He is getting msture-looking and stiff.
Minns Gale, long in Lawrence Barrett's
company, is thinking of starring next season.
IAN Electric Belle'' is the title of new skit
written for Nellie McHenry by Grattan Dom
nelly.
Cryptic Palmoni has been engaged to sup
port d. P. Sullivan during his engagement in
Washington and Baltimore.
Grace Hawthorne has certainly been success
ful in one way in London. She has got into
debt to the extent of $4,000, with not a cent OF
available assets.
Mrs. Langtry has scored another pronounced
failure in London in her newest play, LINDA
Grey" She will probably return TO America
soon to refill her purse
Mr. E. j. Swartz, of the Philadelphia Erenfng
Telegraph, has sold society play to James
O'Neill. 1t is said to be on the plan of "Jim the
Penman" and captain Swift"
Stuart Robson will produce "The Cadi" next
season. 1t is by BllNye, and its plot is sue
gested by the humorist's experience as a
lTOHuieT JusCfCe Oh the peace.
Lillian Russell is in great distress. In the
next opera to be produced at the Casino, ''The
Oracle" she is to appear in Grecian costume
and nature has been very generous to the fair
Lillian.
To be fully UP to date the truly popular sou-
brette must be an heress to an unexpected
fortune. Times change and the soubrette
must change with them. Jewel robberies are
no longer In vogue.
Some busybody has found that Douglas Jer-
rold wrote play fifty years ago called "Beau
Brummell," and that the play Mr.. Mansfield
protests is his work, and Clyde Fitch protests is
his work, is very much like it,
William Winter says that Gus Thorn ass sAla
Dama' comes nearer than any of its predeces-
sors to being the great American comedy. It
was Fortune who whispered in the playwright's
ear, go South, young mani"
Mrs. Bowers and Fred Warde have agreed to
disagree after this season. and they will not be
associated next year. The double star" at
fractions generally have not proved either al
together harmonious or highly profitable.
The chestnuts are in bloom on almost eyery
stage in New York. Such venerable ones as
THE Kerry Cow" 1.-THE Two Orphans Joe
Emmett. and "The Dead Heart" are now I'M
weather in the metropolis
Billy Lester, of the celebrated Lester and AL
len, the original new sports. ia out on the road
with a company OF his own. 1t includes many
acknowledged artists and sensation in shane
OF the champion female wrestlers Alice Will
liams. of Vermont, and May Morgan, of Ohio.
Maud Banks, after three years of starring,
Will appear in the meodrama, 1.-THE Soudan"
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save themselves much modification if they
would begin at the bottom OF the ladder and
climb up, instead OF beginning at the top aud
tumbling down.
In recent interview Jane Hading was
asked who she had seen on the American
stage worthy of admiration. She thought a
moment, and then said: 'Oh, saw a most
amusing little fellow in Chicago who mate
me laugh so hard! think his name was Will
lams." She meant Francis Wilson.
"The Old Homestead" which leaves the New
York Academy OF Music shortly, will be fol-
lowed by another drama of rural life called
Home. Sweet Home" It is announced that
almost every kind of animal known to the
farm will be introduced on the scene. Ernest
Whitton and John Fowler are the authors OF
Anent the report that Stuart Robson had
cabled Bronson Howard that he would ',shoot
him on sight" If he altered line of 1.-THE Hen
rietta" in accordance with the desire of the
London critics. fashionable jewelry store in
chicago has displayed In its show window a
handsome silver-mounted revolver In small
glass case. with a card attached which reads,
The Identical pistol with which Stuart Robson
intended to shoot Bronson Howard"
Here are the names of some new plays re-
Gently copyrighted by the Librarian of Con-
gress: "The Reporter" "A New Tramp in
Town." Fox and Geese" '"They All Do It,"
''The Masher Mashed" 'Solomons Temple"
which Ia described as biblical. historical,
scenic, and dramatic composition; "Our Office
Girls" "Chihuahua," "The President" "The
Lady Barbers," ''The Hand of Fate" "The
Struggle Against Fate" "a Struggle With
Fate. ."''The Child of Mary" and "The Billion
are."
When "The Clemenceau Case' was first pro-
duced predicted that its effects would be de-
cidedly injurious on the stage in the direction
Of offending aud alternating many of it's friends.
The result has fully justified my prediction.
This disgraceful exhibition has been presented
In all parts of the country. and. emboldened by
Its success in drawing the prurient minded,
various minor burlesque troupes aud female
minstrel companies have developed similar
genius for coming dollars out OF mud ity. The
is that a wave OF Indignation has
swept across the land, and angry protests have
found expression in legislative measures in
tending to put a stop to licentiousness on the
stage and on the bill-boards. In the majority
of cases these proposed prohibitions indicate
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