Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1891-01-04
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.

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MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.
Flashes from the Fcotlights of Many
| Theaters.
| And now report says that John w. Nor
ton is to marry Louise Montague.
| Chauncey Pulsifer has become manager
for Mckee Rankin's The Canuck."
| Louis Harrison has once more gone back
to his first love-"The Pearl of Pekin."
Hallen and Hart Will have a new play
next season called In It." In what?
Leonora Bradley continues with Mar.
| garet Mather for the rest CT the season.
| Maurice Barrymore has left J. ". Hills
forces, and gone back TO a. NJ. Palmer.
Johnstone Benefits new play by Clay NJ
!, Greene, is named "a Business Woman
| Henry Irving is to revive Much Ado
About Nothing on January 5th, IL Lon
don.
| Julia Marlowe is now able to walk about
her room. She will go South in short
| time.
Miss Minnie Seligman has been engaged
for the leading part of Mr.. Potter of
| Texas"
Frank G. Cotter says he is still the man.
| ager OF Margaret Mather, and will go to law
| TO prove it.
1t is rumored in London theatrical
| circles that Mary Eastlake contemplates
matrimony.
Gus. Kerker and William Gill are writ.
ing new comic opera that will be called
The Sphinx"
Annie Lewis is going to star in my
Sweetheart" with yours merrily" John
| Z. Rogers, as manager.
Augustus Pitou will produce new play.
| called The Powers of the Press" at the
Star Theater, March 10Th.
Msthilda Cottrelly has left the Mccall
| Opera Company. She will probably retire
| from the stage permanently.
| A fine oil painting of Jeanne Samary has
been presented to the Comedie Franchise
by her husband, Paul Lagarde.
| Effie Ellsler promises revival of Hazel
| Kirke, with Couldock and other old MEM
bers OF the former successful cast.
| Thomas E. Jackson has been engaged
| for Mr.. Potter of Texas" which will be
produced al Providence January 26th.
Denman Thompson has about settled to
revive Joshua Whitcomb" at the Acad.
emy OF Music shortly after the holidays.
| Robert Downing's new play, THE Sara
cen, has made very strong hit, and will
prove the strongest MOI ey winner he has
| yet had.
Ambrose Thomas, the immortal COM
! poser of "Mignon," is setting "Tasso" TO
music, the libretto of which has been writ
ten by Jules Barber.
Dore Davidson has purchased new plav
| entitled Green Lights 1t treats of police
life in New York, and Inspector Byrnes is
| one of the characters.
| H. s. Taylor signed five years contract
on Tuesday with Joseph Haworth, by
which he is to star him in new American
play and in Hamlet and "Othello." !.
| Mary Anderson refused TO see Henry E.
Abbey when he called on her at Tunbridge
| Wells, lately. She says she will never ap-
pear on the stage again, and wishes moth.
ing to do with theatrical people.
Nellie Cummings was severely bitten by
a bulldog in Philadelphia last week. She
had narrow escape as the dog Jumped
| for her throat when she was giving him
piece of candy. and took piece out of her
cheek. The dog was instantly killed.
The Howard Athenaum Company, which
is to appear al the Metropolitan Theater on
J to- morrow and Tuesday evenings, made a
| great hit in San Francisco. the California
| Theater being crowded every night. The
| triple horizontal bar performers are said to
be wonderful. Cinquevalli is said to be
the most graceful jugglsr ever seen here.
About the Cleopatra" production, Mr..
| William Winter writes as follows in the
New York Tribune: miss Davenport
makes a good, wholesome, domestic Bos.
tonian or Philadelphia Cleopatra, who
| world really do not one of the naughty
| deeds Of the enhancing Egyptian, but
| rather would have married Antony and
settled him as Chief. Justice of Alexandra.
| Melbourne Mcdowell, heavy man, with
vast jaws and tiger like countenance, pre-.
I sented Antony, and created frequent dis
| turbances. Miss Davenport is already be-
| ginning to find that she is handicapped by
that Ananias, Marcus Mayer.
| Miss Adelaide Moore, who is engaged to
appear at the Metropolitan Theater on
Wednesday and Thursday evenings of this
| week in Romeo and Juliet and "a Fatal
Marriage" is spoken of by Mr.. Stevens, of
| the Denver Ne,ps, as follows: The con-
ception formed by Miss Moore is well
| sustained throughout. Her Juliet is a
| more than creditsble impersonation, far
above the average it is one that is pleasing,
| one that is worthy of study and full ap-
probation. She is pretty and graceful,
has winning intellectually and every
| thing she does or says is done or said
gracefully and appropriately. She reads
| the lines more than well. Perhaps the
most appropriate thing to say of Miss
| Moore's Juliet is that it commends itself
| TO admiration by grace of demeanor, gentle
| dignity and the sad love of the part In
some ways she recalls Adelaide Nelson, in
| whose lovely and lovable temperament
| cloud and sunshine contended, making
| changing contrasts of expression and ever
! interesting. As has been said in the Neus,
| Miss Moore would make good RosaIind
or perhaps better Viola, which is the
poetic ideal of sweet, tender and melan-
eholy loveliness in woman And Miss
Moore is sweet, tender and poetic evi-
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