The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-07-05
ACTORS VACATION TINE
Little is Going On Now But the
Hot Weather Comic
Opera.


The last nights of Apollo in the
Casino, New York, are at hand and it
will be retired on Saturday, July IL,
in favor Of 1.-THE Grand Duchess. y
The former opera will be sent on the
road next season with Pauline L'AIle-
mand in the role of s'Pythia;n other
wise the original cast will remain in
tact. Marie Tempest begins her en-
10. In her support will be Annie My
ers, Fred Solomon and one or two for
eign artists whom Rudolph Aronson
will bring over with him. The forth
coming revival of 1.-THE Grand
Duchess" will have the benefit Of
some new business. and dramatic
stage pictures devised by Stage Di-
rector Freeman. In the scene at the
finale of the first act over one hum
bred people will take part. Lillian
Russell is in constant attendance at
all rehearsals and displays great in
terest in the production, the last in
which She will appear in the Casino
Grace Golden will be the Wanda, the
part formerly played by Fannie Rice.
To Digby Bell, as the chief fun
maker OF the Tar and Tartar com
pany at Paliner's Theatre, New York,
is undoubtedly due the largest share
of credit for the success which the
opera has achieved. His methods are
refreshingly quiet, after the violent
buffoonery to which everybody is now
accustomed. Remarkably large au-
diences have attended during the
past week, and they have been of the
sort most welcomed by the box Office.
Among the musical numbers of the
opera the Lullaby and II Want
Situation are still the favorites.
Mrs Florence, by last accounts, was
waiting for her Billy j. on the Liver
pool dock. When she sees him she
will have a fit, as Billy has grown
both o mustache and imperial, both
as stiff as the bristles on razor-b back
pig. This nice old couple will make
tour of America next season and
Billy has gone over to look for a new
play and bring back his wife and her
wardrobe.
Agnes Huntington will most prob
ably be seen next season in new
opera by Reginald De Koven and
Harry b. Smith. 1t is called 1.-THE
Fencing Master"
William G. and Willard Newell, the
twin brothers that looks so much
alike, are to have a plays written for
them, in which they will star jointly.
They offer a big price to any dramat-
ist able to fit them with a play in
which their remarkable similarity can
be used to advantage.
Young Joe Enmet's proposition to
star in his fathers play has been we'll
received by managers, who are per-
| fectly willing to give the young man a
! fair trial at a trifie less percentage
than the father was to have received.
! Young Joe can both sing and dance
| better than did his father, and as he
| doesn't care rap Of his finger whether
he succeeds or not, it is very likely
that Dame Fortune will smile on him
with the biggest kind of q grin. Young
Joe inherited the bulk of his fathers
fortune and lives on Easy street.
Maurice Barrymore in sAlabaman
makes up to resemble Jere Dunn.
Look out, Maurice. somebody in the
audience may have seen the Slavln-
KiIrain fight.
De Wolf Hopper has been sued by
Florence Wiley for back salary
amounting to $780, The complica-
lions that will arise through his suit,
should it ever be tried. will afford the
profession more amusement than any
thing the bald-headed comedian ever
did on the stage.
Joseph Haworth is at present in
Boston, where he Is a great favorite,
and where he is called 'sthe coming
| great tragedian."
Edwin Booth is at his country
home, Rosalind Cottage, Narragan-
sett Pier, Il. L., where he says he will
remain all summer.
| The London Alhanbra's new ballet.
"Oriella," is huge success. 1t was
composed by the new ballet master.
Carlo Cappi. The heroine reside s in
the internal regions and takes
a notion to visit the earth She visits
a seaport in Japan and returns home
via an enchanted garden. The final
tableau is in the bowels of the In
ferno, whose inhabitants are having
a--well, they're having the kind of a
time you'd expect them to have in
that place. The sensational ''effectn
is some sort of huge snake-lilxe crea-
! ture that crawls about the stage
belching fame and smoke, and finally
throws off its skin to discover within
a bevy of pretty dancers costumed
Enthusiastically.
Pauline Hall told Philadelphia re-
porter last week that she had not
washed her face in five years. She
explained this remark by saving that
in her toilet cold cream was made to
/ take the place of cold water. Miss
| Halls assertion that this substitution
insures a smooth complexion, may be
warranted by her experience, but
well, the idea of bearing an unwashed
face for five years is not especially
fascinating. Hitherto moral unclean-
Illness has been held good enough for
advertising purposes, but Pauline is
evidently determined to show her
originality.
The DeWolf Hopper Opera Com
pany enters upon its ninth week oil
Wang at the Broadway Theatre,
New York City, tomorrow evening.
The size of the audiences has been
phenomenal for a summer season,
and If the present average is kept up,
the run OF Wang" will be the most
profitable in the history of comic
opera at this theatre. The topical
songs are never allowed to grow stale,
as the verses are changed frequently
in accord with eurranf ovanfc opd