The evening world., 1891-03-09
NOTES OF'TRE stage WORLD.
Sarah Has Gone, but Soon Well
Have Barnum.
Miss May Robson's Promising Glass
in Verbal Eccentricities.

Sarah has gone and there 10 an aching void
In many heart The dlaphanous tragedienne
left yesterday at 3 O'Clock In the afternoon for
Boston, with the members OF her company.
There was no special train and no private car
and no conventional nonsense about her de-
parture. She went on q plain, everyday
tand Sunday train, occupying special state
room. Sarah opens In Boston tonight in
ia Tosca," which is the most strik-
ing play In her repertoire, because 1t
affords her the most valuable oppor-
tunities. Saturday was q wonderful day at
the Garden Theatre There was q veritable
rush, afternoon and evening, ana the Fire
Commissioners were In q very unenvisble
frame OF mind. Several people 10 whom ad-
mission tickets had been sold were not al
lowed to stay downstairs, hut had to move up
ward. Business during the four weeks was
incredibly large. Somebody has estimated 1t
a. $50, 900 per week.
The theatres don't like the genial yet ener-
getic Barnum. During uoly Week he will be
engaged In the pastime known as "billing the
town, I" and theatrical people are always afraid
OF this Barnum Is very dangerous at,rac-
tion. or course 1t will be the farce comedies
circ1s In mild md unostentatious form.
Miss May Robson, of the Lyceum Theatre,
has dialect class md teaches the young idea
how TO shoot into verbal eccen;ricities. She
has some extremely promising pupils. and she
10 an example that they Will be lucky II they
can follow.
The comely mAidens Of "a Straight Tips
forces have Gil been photographed. and very
edifying Is the result. Miss Della Stacey in
black accordion elegance has one. foot deli
cately poised IN the air, aud with eyes cast
down seems TO say " Pm artless but can
kick" Miss Maggie Garrett, has q little Puri-
tan frill and Sunday go-to-meeting dcmure-
meas written on her placid brow. Miss Lila
Linden looks mournfully through two big
lustrous eyes, and there is an az ought
to be playing Lady Macbeth tremblingly
on her lips. Miss Emma Hanley. neatly brushed
and combed, looks completely satisfied with
the world and with herself Especially with her.
self. and MISS Eioise Mortimer has suiYused
her features with the sadness Of the early mar
tyrs, though Pysche knot Of to-day's mode tells
rs that she is of this wicked century. Yes, this
bevy OF damsels is very edifying.
Lew Dockstader has been doing Broadway
these days. He has completed all arrange
ments for his own company next season and
booked It In the principal cities. He was four
weeks. not consecuuvely, in this city.
Little Miss Louise Beaudet Ia very pleased AT
her engagement by Rudolph Aronson. sir.
Aronson ought TO be pleased, too. She Is now
Re Gearnng n for the opera that Is to follow
Hah N ha
which abe didn't like at all.
1t now appears that Augustin Daily was no,
to blame for The Prodlgal Son" after all
II 10 said that Ada Rehan saw the pantomiIne
seven or eight times In Paris, and was SO de-
lighted with II and 30 convinced OF its possibil-
tiles that she begged Augusrn to buy ii.
Arthur Miller, Of "ss,p Ahoy,n was In town
| Saturday to tase peep at the new company
that is 10 present the comic opera at the Union
Square Theatre.
was once the Kew. J. Duke Murray. Nobody
would suspect Mr.. Murray of an excess OF
| reverence at the present time, but the fact re-
shortly after he hal become an actor, met Mr..
sH1ss au,ae @sa;a'EH ne sSSFanS Rev. Duke
% %nie ais body % reciined in chair raj few S'S yards
away. lie was telling anecdotes, aud every
| body was laughing. MIR. Mobiles who knew
| that anecdotes are everything In theatrical
his plays lie made his acquaintance, temptei
| him, and the Rev., Duke surcumbed. HIS
| choice was o good one. Mr.. Murray now pots
| forth all thst eloquence that he used to expend
on the crowds that used to listen to him as q
boy preacher in the interests OF From Sire
| to son aud Glove and Law"
Henry Arthur Jonea the playwright, has
| been delivering o lecture on PlaymaKInx" "
| in London. He said that construction, in
| respect to story and plot was inferior to the
great quality 10 be insisted on: no trick. 1t
| would be interesting to know whether Mr..
Jones prepared this lecture before he wrote