The record-union., 1891-12-26
HoYT'S SUCCESS.

It is all right for some writer's to lab
Charles III. Hoyt, but all the same he is
the marvel of the century. He has writ
ten ten plays. each one of them a success
and he is yet looking for his 31st birth
day. These ten plays, or rather nine of
them, for "A Temperance Town" has not
yet been produced, have made over "a
million Of dollars. Of course Hovt
hasn't that money, but five other people
have, or are making fortune out of
them, and Mr.. Hoyt himself has, no
doubt, quarter Of million put away
likely to strike him. "a Bunch of
Keys" and "a Parlor Match" have each
made quarter of million dollars for
their owner, and so far "A Texas Steer''
has cleared over $50, 1000, while the profits
of "a Trip to Chinatown" has passed
the $50, 000-mark for this season alone. If
there is shining mark of success TO be
pointed to, one would have 10 look
pretty hard to discover better mark
than Mr.. Hoyt, who jumped into success
the very first lick, and has been forging
ahead ever since.-Dunlop's Stage News.
THE DEVILS AUCTION"
The costuming of an elaborate spec
tacular production in these days of stage
gorgeouSneSS is most StupendouS I'M
dertaking. Take the famous Devils
Auction" for instance, one of the greatest
successes in this line on the American
stage. A gentleman well verSed in play
house affairs states that owner and con-
troller William j. Gilmore has for this
piece alone provided over 400 separate and
complete costumes, all of them having
been manufactured from special designs
Many of the principals in the new
Devils Auction" wear at least a dozen
dresses during performance, while there
is a constant change for the chorus, ballet
and auXiliarieS. There is an Oetelle
dance which is decidedly the eccentricity
of motion localized. 1t is given by the cele-
brated family Tiepstie, who are amaz-
ingly swift and bewildering in their in
tricate and grotesque evolutions. This
family is a direct importation from
Europe, and to bring these wonderful
saltatorial artists here, owner and con-
troller William j. Gilmore was obliged
to pay heavy sum to secure the can
collation. of their European contract.
~ AND T."
With John T. Kelly as O'Donovan Times
and Dutch Daily as Professor John
Underblotz, are now at the Bush-street
Theater in San Francisco. 1t is inter
spersed with extraordinarily good special
ties by the different members of the COM
pany, in the whole of which there is not
a bad performer. Mr. Kelly, the star of
the company, is Of course the center Of
attraction, and is certainly inimitably
funny, while Dutch Daily, with an excel
lent German dialect, is a close second.
ST. PETER GETS EVEN.
1.-THE Prompter" of the Manchester
Umpire, one of the cleverest Of dramatic
writers in all England, takes the cake
with the following, Tor poems on ST.
Peter. The doorkeeper of the Pearly
Gates is waiting for him. He will be for
warded by the pneumatic tube:
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Espied Deadhead there,
And, as q manager urbane,
He spoke that Deadhead fair.
The Deadhead didn't praise the show
He said it seemed to him
They turned on far too many of
The little Cherubim.
Snow l can point to many things
Improvements without doubt"
"And can point,' st. Peter cried,
''To that, sir;
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