The record-union., 1892-10-08
in Chicago to Il. 1. Jones, non-


natownn Company at the Hoyt Madison
Square Theater next week.
Alex. Comstock has secured for term
of years the services of Edgar Selden,
and viii star him in Irish plays.
|. Mile. Camilla Urso, the violinist was
Knocked down by bicyclist on Sunday
night IN New York and severely bruised.
Effie Shannon is suing Henry Guy
Carleton for divorce. Effie became
famous in single night, but it took
Henry long time.
Alice King Livingston is still in Lon
don, visiting the queer localities and
writing interestingly about them to the
American newspapers.
The Liliiputians are to remain at the
Union Square Theater for at least ten
weeks more. Their new play, Candy"
has made very great hit.
Mrs. Langtry is doing well at the Hay
market with The Queen of Manoa," and
if that fails she is to do an adaptation of
Sardou's "Maison Neuve."
The birmingham Saturday Night asks
''Shall we stand quietly by and see our
greatest actors leave England?" No!
Keep them at home. You haven't any
great actors, anyway.
The "a Trip to Chinatown" Company,
which is to appear at Colonel VIM. L.
Sinn's New Park Theater in Brooklyn
next week, played to S., 200 at the Boston
fremont Theater last week.
Helen Sedgwick has married Alderman
Charles e. Candee of Syracuse Mr.. Can
! dee owns a hotel in Syracuse and is a
politician OF considerable influence. Miss
| SedgWlck's real name was Ella Il. Brady.
1t may be interesting for some people
| to know that Queen Victoria's dolls, of
which much is said at present, were
| dressed after dress seen by the embyro
| Queen. Two of them represent Mile.
Taglioni.
Mile. Laclerque, high kicker at the
Apollo Iheater, Berlin, has been ordered
to leave that city by the not very squeam-
! ish police. She is to appear at the New
| York Casino, and the high muck muck
Of the Prussian police is waiting to see
! what Superintendent Byrnes is going to
do about il.
Miss Sedohr Rhodes, the young Ameri-
! can, who Will make her debut in London,
| October 10th, was born in Waukegan.
near the Windy City, but educated in New
! York. She was christened Sedohr, which
| is Rhodes spelled backwards-a within of
| her parent Travis Rhodes, who was an
Englishman.
Oscar the Wilde is recovering from the
shock to his nervous system caused by
! the Lord Chamberlain refusing to allow
''Salome'' to be produced in London. He
States, and that Bernhardt is the only
woman in the world that can do justice to
his grand creation.
Madame PoniSi, who was announced to
appear with Rose Coghlan this season in
New York, has declined the offer. The
dear old lady, whom all metropolitan
theater-goers still remember lovingly,
| has permanently retired from the stage
She is. however, still in good health and
6DlOVlnty her we'll -e3rpal rest
From the French: An eminent musi-
clan on his summer holiday stops at a
village blacksmith's Jorge to have his
horse shod. During the operation the
maestro amuses himself by trying his
| strength with the hammer on the anvil
until he is stopped by the village black
smith. Don't hit that anvil so hard, sir:
it isn't piano."
cali Baba," Manager David Hender-
sons latest Chicago success, has reached
the I53d performance in that city and the
houses are still crowded. 1t may be in
cidentally stated that the Chicago Opera
house records six years Of uninterrupted
success IN the way of extravaganza, and
this IS the greatest record ever made by
any management in this country in this
line of work.
One of the young actresses who have
pushed themselves to the front rank, this
season, is Miss Emily Lytton of the
Fritz in lreland' Company. Where
ever she has been this season, so far, she
has been praised for her clever work,
and every pen that has written about her
art has also complimented her on her
beauty. Miss LyttOn is one Of the best
dressers on the stage.
Schumann, the celebrated circus di-
rector who was arrested in Vienna on a
charge Of deserting military service in
Germany. was brought i'll irons to Brad
enburg and marched through the streets
to prison guarded by three soldiers with
loaded rifles. He has now been drafted
into the service and assigned to the lowest
place as a private of the Thirty-tifth
Regiment of Infantry.
On Friday, October 14th, ga Trip tc
Chinatown" will reach its 35Oth consecu.
tive performance at Hoyt's Madison
Square Theater, in New York, and or
November 9th the anniversary of wears
run will be commemorated. "a Trip
is the most profitable of all those plays
which have had long runs in the city, as
it has never been forced, and yet the
house has been filled at every perform
ance.
The influence Ibsen has acquired or
the German stage is shown by the con.
tinued attacks he is subjected to and the
many who try to initiate him. Las
| week two new plays have been produced
in Berlin due indirectly to his success
} one at the Lessing Theater, called "a
} Blank Page" by Paul Heyse, and the
other at the Wallner Theater, callec
"Mila," by Arthur Zapp. Both failed te
} 'catch on."
DUnIop's Stage NeaCS. published in New
York City, by A. p. Dunlop, has com.
pleted its tenth volume. 1t fills a place
that has never been filled before by any
publication, and it is perfectly safe to say
that there is no visitor that is so welcome
to the table of the dramatic editor, fol
whose benefit alone it is published. We
have found it more reliable and les.
tainted by prejudice than any of the nu
merous theatrical papers.
Alan Dale's new novel, "Conscience OF
: Ice," is such clever description O
things theatrical in New York that it ha!
become theme of gossip among pro
fessionals, who try TO fit the character.
described in the book to the living ones
This no doubt gives the book the grea
sale 1t has had, but in the dim distanc,
. looms up a libel suit, which if brough
would be one of the funniest cases, from
, a theatrical point of view, tried in New
York for many years.
Patrick S. Gilmore used to say that th,
biggest hit of his life was made shor
time before Grover Cleveland married
r and when he was seated on the Madison
Square reviewing stand. Gilmore at th
head of the Twenty-second Regiment
came marching along, and just befor
l passing the President he signaled for
change of music and gave out Hes Go
3 ing to Marry Yum YUM" Grove
a blushed, the mob howled and Gilmore
shook hands with himself
. Donnelly and Girard close this week a
I the Brooklyn Grand Opera house sea
son that has lasted for ffty-two consecu
: tive weeks, during which they have beer
: in the four corners of the United States
At every point their Natural Gas'' ha
Y been well received, and Manager Samue