The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-18

! jackson, an aged negress. Mr.. White had
| worn full beard, but in order to fill the
| part he Was obliged to have his face clean
slaven. To this, his friends say, his death
was indirectly due, for he contracted a
severe cold thereby, which was much ag
sravated by exposure incurred by his pres
rmce at the burning of the FIfth-avenue
dheater on the morning of January 81.
bite was born at Newark n. j.. June 4,
!oZl, ana as early as 1S43, at ITALIAN Hall,
81 GRAND street, New Y ork, he was RECALLING
ms audiences with melodious strains from
nIs accordion: In the summer of that year,
at FauXhall Garden Theater, Fourth
avenue, he opened with commonwealth
minstrel organization, in which were Barney
Mililams William Whitlock and Tom
R9oth. They were called the Kentucky
=, Santley, the barytone, is now in London.
March.
Charles II. Hoyt reports he has cleared
T eyer 2o,oO0 SO far this season on The
Texas Steer" alone. This leads all comedy
records
helrmann has patented new trick, by
means Of which he expects to make young
lauF Walk from the Stage TO the gallery with
out visible support.
Miss RosaLel Morrison, daughter of MI
Lewis Morr!son, who is starring in Faust"
Is 10 pc seen next season in new play en-
Titled The Danger Signal The play is
the WORK of MIR. Henry c. de Mile and it is
iOI w ne llilllkt HIS ne Main Line.
Happy Cal Wagner of old-time minstrel
lame Is now in the real estate business in
Chicago.
The . ladder act done in the programme
OF the Hanlon- VOTERS and Martinelli troupe
is not the novelty supposed A man named
Lew dld The same thing in Hamburg and
other European cities thirty years agu with
the Rentz Circus.
IL Is SAID when Sullivan comes upon the
stage aid musingly repeats the line g Let
OF I /. In, 10 tasa
audience for fear of disturbing him.
Mrs. Langtry gave the children of her em-
pI0yeS Christmas tree on Christmas eve,
when suitable presents were provided for
tile iitI Tie ones ones Mrs. Langtry presided. as
sisted By Mrs. lie Breton and her TWO nleceS,
dressed as fairies. Bruce Smith, the scenic
artst, gave shadow pantOmme.
An action for libel seems likely to arise
out OF the " Passion Play" German lady
novelist has Just published story IN when
the Chrlstus of the play is made to fall in love
with lady of dubious prOprety. The scene
IS laid III our time, and, as Joseph Meyer
has played the part of Christus Tor three
decades in succession, he considers himself
llbeled by the story, and has demanded re-
dress
Nine. Patti on December 26th gave a din
neT 10 1000 poor and unemployed at her
home in Wales, and also provided tea for
700 school children later. She and Siguor
| NlcOllni were received by her guests with
| great enthusiasm.
/ Maurice L. Bandmann, the eighteen-year-
| ola son of ID. +. Bandmann and his divorced
WE, Mllllcent Palmer, Is to adopt the stage.
and viii join his mother ON her coming tour
| of England.
One OF the best theatrical cartoons that
| have been seen recently is that III the Christ
| mas number OF the Saturday Review. 1t
| REPRESENTS large bowl Of soup, i'll which
| the failures of the season are struggling,
! while around the tureen stalk the successes
| III happy compiacency.
Phliadelphia did not take kindly TO Mrs.
| Leslie carter, and now, as an answer to the
! many bitter comments made by the Chicago
papers IN her divorce scandal, she proposes
| to appear N that city as ''Erou trou."
| Inc only ones who really lost money in
the Fifth-avenue fire are Fanny Davenport
| and the rest Of her company. All the rest
were fully insured. Apropos of the de-
! Siructon Of this theaIer, Dunlop's Stage
News says; Theaters are said by the
| supersttIOusly inclined professionals TO
| bum by threeS. Lifts Minneapoli, BjOu
! made The second, and for week before the
! fIith-aYenue was destroyed the old fellows
! Were scanning tie newspapers for the third.
! W men 1t came they seemed extremely
| happy, particularly as MIR. Miner himself is
SAID to have broken a big mirror the night
/ before the fire.
a story is running through the inner
! circles of theatrical critiCdom to the effect
! that Manager Cunrtld wrote a letter to Mr..
! James Gordon Bennett bitterly complaining
| OF Dramatic Editor MeltZer's criticism OF
| Poor Jonathan" Mr.. Bennett answered
| the letter by cabling to raise Mr.. MeltZer's
| salary So per week.
Henry f. Gllig of the deiunct American
| Exchange tLlmited) of Europe h1S lost the
| case against Lawrence Barrett, about
which he made such fuss short while
since.