San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-12-11
LATE STAGE TIPS.


ChaS. w. Allison has been engaged for
his original part in ship Alloy"
Addie Cumming has retired from the
Sada ScanlOn company, which has not
been doing well of late.
Haverly is once more organizing first
class company, to be known as Haverly'S
Ministries.
J. Charles Davis is in Havana arrang-
ing for the tour of DR.. CarVer'S Wild West
show.
Magr. Leonard Grover. of THE Wolves
ofNew York." denies that his company
closed their tour at Philadelphia.
Manager j. NJ. Hill. who broke his leg
at Bridgeport some weeks since, took his
first drive in Central Park on Tuesday.
The fortune left by w. j. Florence
amounts to about $4,000. He made $50
900 from The Mighty Dollar.
Langtry will, after all, not make an
American tour this season, and her
American manager is frantic. Langtry
wires she is i'll, but the Lily is extremely
wise.
Kyrle BelIew and Mrs. James Brown
Potter. crowned with laurels and things
from the GangeS and the Yang tSe- Kiang,
are now on their way to delight, edify,
anu CUuQutl lut pldNSOlIS vi
Bechuananaland, Africa.
The Earl and CoutnesS of Clancarty
(nee Belle BiltOn) have taken house at
Six Mile Bottom, near Newmarket Eng
land. and are busy furnishing it; but it
will hardly be ready for them in time for
the advent of the little stranger who is
daily expected.
George Edward Montgomery is not in
an inebriate asylum as reported. He
lives in the suburbs of New York city,
and book OF poems he has been writing
will soon be published: He was also at
work on a play for Mansfield, but like
everybody else, quarreled with him before
it was finished.
Col. VIM. Foo:e will soon send on the
road mammoth exhibition. entitled
The Afro American, or. The Evolution
of the Negro Race-The Savage, The
Slave, The Soldier, The Citizen The
first scene is laid in the iungles of Africa,
near the Congo river: the next shows a
sugar plantation in Louisiana, then the
battlefield. and last scene on South Fifth
Avenue, New York.
The marriage fever is raging in Stuart
RobSon'S company. Following the ex-
ample of its chief comes the re-
port Of the engagement Of Miss Far
leigh to Franclyn Reglid-MiSS Olive
May to bright young Chicago journalist.
and Miss Amy BuSby to Mr. Aubrey
BOucicault, son of the late dramatist and
Mr.. RobSOn,S leading man. The latter
marriage will take place in San Francis
co, Feb. GOTH Add to this that last week
Mr.. RObSOn's valet was married to Mrs.
Robson'S maid. and we have probably the
most married" company in America.
Music and Drama of Philadelphia
makes this offer 1t will give 500 for the
best original play Zone, two or three acts)
submitted before March 1st. 1891. The
play will belong to Music aud Drama un:
I'll three performances have been given,
when ii will revert to the author. The
play will be presented at a Philadelphia
theatre, by the best amateur actors in
Philadelphia, the company to be selected
by committee OF amateurs The play
may be domestic drama, comedy drama,
melodrama or farce, and must be sub
mitted, typewriter. The performance
will take place in May or June next.
There have been rumorS for some time
concerning the mental condition of w. j.
Seaman the Irish comedian. The ORA
matte News finds an opportunity to state
that these rumorS are based on a severe
affection of the liver, which is supposed
to keep Mr.. Seaman awake at night and
thus by depriving him Of his rest keep him
from properly attending to his business.
The facts are that Mr.. Seaman has for
lines; that two prOmpterS are kept at the
Fourteenth Street Theatre-One on each
side OF the stage-whose sole employment
is TO follow Mr. Seaman, when he is on
the scene and prevent him from getting
left in the text. The actors memory
seems TO be almost, II not quite gone, and
no newspaper efforts to conceal the actual
condition will in reality prevail
AS long as history shall last and the
stage shall be the place of entertainment
Tor the public, Just Sc long. in all proba-
6lllty. will the name of Salvini be known.
Thomas Salvini, who is among the great
est OF al the world famed tragedians. has
retired forever from professional life and
left career that is one of the grandest
successes, and one that bids fair to be
rounded cut by his son, who inherits a
Ceal OF his genius and talent. Alexander
SaiVlnl. whose present tour is being so
successfully conducted bv Manager
w. NJ. Wilkinson, has taken up the
mantle OF his iIuStriOuS father. At the
urgent request of his sire he is to appear
as OthellO. His father has recently sent
MIN his own prompt book. mantle and
dagger, to be used in the production. The
appearance OF young Salvini in tragic
roles-a monStrOuS stride from the roman
tc-is an event that will be watched
with the keenest interest by the theatre
going public everywhere. In this. the
country OF his adoption, IL will mark the
era OF star that will doubtless prove one
OF the most famous and Respondent in the
dramatic armament.
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