The morning call., 1891-09-20


Mr.. William Beach, competent actor,
will soon join Mr.. Nat Goodwin's COM
pany. The company needs strengthening
! in its UNDERMINING.
Miss Elisabeth Marbury has gone into the
theatrical agency and brokerage business at
| q West Twenty-fourrh street, New York.
Owing TO the fact that there have been
| number of applications made for seats for
the opening performance ON Monday, Sep
| tember 2Sth, of Charles Dickson in Mrs.
Pacheco's new comedy, Incog," the man
| ager OF the Bush-street Theater announces
that seats may be ordered by letter at once,
| the regular bOx-0ffice sale beginning Thurs
| day morning, September 24th, at O'CLOCK
| sharp. ,
Miss Idalene Cotton carries herself well
| as Patsie Blake in 1.-The English Rose.
| She can do what few actresses accomplish
nOwadayS-sing good song.
Next weeks attraction at the New Cali
| f0rnia will be Charles III. Hoyts comedy,
"a Midnight Bell" produced with the
| original New York cast.
Grismer had funny adventure ID Sacra-
mento on the night of the 18th. He WAS
| playing THE Burglar" at the Metropolitan,
| and during one OF the pauSes OF the play,
! with Bill Lewis burglars stage clothes on,
| ventured TO take run up to the Clunie
Grand Opera House to get glimpse Of "a
on the way by a policeman, who refused
any explanation till he hailed him under'an
| electric light, and there recognized the
| actor. There seems good deal OF friction
| between policemen and professionals just
now.
| Mr. Theodore 81. Northrup, composer,
| will be the recipient of complimentary
| concert at Irving ball on Tuesday evening.
| September 29Lh. The gentleman is about
| leaving for the Eastern States. Among the
executants are: Miss Grace Aguilar. So
| prano; Mr.. Herman Brandt, viOlinist; Mr..
Gustave Schultheis. pianist; Dr.. A. I.
| Regensburger, cell0ist; MIR. 5. Adeisteln,
mandolinist; Mr.. Ashton P. Stevens, ban
| joist
Frank Mckee has returned to New York
| from the West where he has been seriously
| Ill. He is now recovering.
Mckee Rankin and Archibald Gordon's
new play, abraham Lincoln" was pro-
| duced at Indianapolis on Tuesday, Septem-
| Der Sth 1t was thought doubtful whether
| the PEOPLE wanted to see Lincoln on the
stage, but If the applause of the audience on
| the first night counts Tor anything A5ra-
| ham Lincoln" seems to be welcome. says
| Dunlop's Stage News.
Stanley McKenna is at the Roosevelt Hos
! pital, New York, seriously ill with con-
| sumption.
Isabella Urquhart is still in London,
| where she proposes to remain for another
| year studying dramatic art.
| At Baifeuth the other day an amuSihg In
cident took place. NJ. Van Dyck, the tenor,
was playing Parsifal 10 Mime. Materna's
| kundry, and in trying to escape from her
| wiles, being overcome with enthusiasm, he
seized hfs hair with both hands. forgetting
the presence of wig. The ludicrons scene
may be Imagined, and poor Van Dyck was
obliged to return to the wings for mirror.
Mr.. +. W. Zimmerman, the tenor, who
left San Francisco for New York recently,
with uiax tn IN tlJa
delssohns next fall, has become favOrite
singer in the great metropolis. His name is
in all the papers and his picture in many oil
them. This may be taken as evidence oil
| advancement.
The Lyceum Amateur Comedy Company
will produce new and brilliant comedy,
The Opera Singer" at Saratoga Hall, 81
Geary street, on Thursday evening, Septem-
Der 9th, with the following young gentle
men and ladies as PARTICIPANTS: Thomas +.
| Nye, George Bush, Edward johnson, j. j.
Cathcart, b. Edwards, Fred W. Holmes,
Frank Carly. KeIcey Burton, Charles Cath
cart, j. J. Josephs, Miss Christine Moran,
Miss Leah Alton, Miss Emma Louise Code.
Miss Milly Miller, Miss Ethel Harrison;
At the close of its engagement at the New
California Theater. The Hustler will
Sacramento, September 2Sth and 10Th
| Santa Rosa, 30th; San Jose, October 1st;
| Oakland, ID and Sd; San Diego, 9Th; River
side 9Th; San BernardinO, 7th; Los An
2eles. 9Th, 9th and 10th; Santa Barbara,
10Th; Visalia. 18th; Fresno, 18th; Stockton,
10Th; Sacramento. 18th. " The Hustler
will then travel rapidly eastward, touching
Ogden, Salt Lake, Denver, st. Louis and
PlttSburg, ell route for New York. where a
prolonged season will be inaugurated at the
| BijOu Theater, November sd
Sir Arthur Sullivan promises to follow III
"Ivanhoe" with a new serious opera fol
| D'Oyley Carte, which will not lie required
till after next year. In tue meantime he
will busy himself in writing new comic
opera for the Savoy Theater. and will prob
| ably compose choral work for the Leeds
Festival His librettst is not named.
Mrs. George 5. Knight Sophie Worrell
| has reappeared on the New 1Ork stage al
the Grand Opera House, in DIR. Bill
| Life has been far from rose-eolored for the
Sophie Worrell of old San francisco days
The famous barytone, Maurel, has writer
a treatise on the voice, in which he asserts
that he has discovered law enabling every
one possessing an ordinary singing voice te
acquire the varied cUlOr Indispensable TO
| dramatic singing. Maurel will deliver a
series of lectures in London and elsew here.
| giving vocal Illustrations OF his system.
Fred lines, one of the many English
bandniasters now dealing in harmony in
the United States, has taken his musicians
from New York and gone out into the faI
West, even To Tacoma, Wash.
| aud DtaNcs db5ouldtfy OliO VI the "rii-
| known Deayes Sisters, and AT present a
member of 1.-THE Two Old Cronies" Com
pany, has brought suit in tie Superior
Court of Chicago for divorce against heI
husband, Thomas w. GOssman. at present
stage manager of the Berkeley Lyceum
| New York. and formerly incumbent of the
same position at the Lyeeuin The tier. Mrs.
| Gossman charges desertion for more thar
two years and claims the custody OF the only
child, daughter - years old. The couple
were married in this city in 1876.
MyrOn Lrffingwell is playing the role Of
Johu Wilkes Booth in the Gorion-Rank il
historical play Lincoln"
''The English Rose" will be continued a.
the Alcazar till further notice.
Arthur Dunn, diminutve and very gro
tesque comedian. will be seen in the char
| acter of The Old Man Of the Sea in ''Sin
bad' during its engagement at the Baldwin
One of the most striking scenic TEXTURES
| of ''Sinbad" is said to be a tableau repre-
senting storm at sea, shipwreck and {
view OF the dismantled vessel lying beneath
the ocean.
The sale for the amateur performance Of
Caste" at the Bijou Theater, Marke
street, on Tuesday evening next, is yer,
large. The receipts will be applied In ali
of the British Benevolent Society.
European Musical Items.
Translated from the Gazzetta Musicale Of Milan.
Sgambati is finishing new Symptom.
which will probably be heard at the orches
trail concerts in Rome this winter
Dvordk's ''Stabat Mater" and Verdi
"ReQulem" will be given in Vienna.
Pucci, the composer Of the successful
opera. lie WILL" is busy composing a ney
work based on an old Italian legend.
Emma Nevada will sing again in SpaiI
and in Belgium.
'.Cavaleria Rusticana," by Mascagni, ant
"Rheingold." by Wagner, with There's;
Malten in the soprano roles, have draw
large audiences in Dresden.
Donizetti's elixir of Love-" with Gar
gan0, au excellent soprano, has had an i'm
mense success In Pisa.
The Bracelet Of Sapphires,' dramatic
pantOmime by Catullo Mendes. and music
by Pierne, obtained q success in Spa.
Two deputies of Parliament of Portuga