The record-union., 1892-12-10
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.
Flashes from the Footlights of Many
TheaUerS.


Flashes from the Footlights of Many
TheaUers.
A. P. Dunlop, writing from New York
under dateIof December Sd, says:
1--WE have not been hit hard by any
new star this week, and only one play,
new to this country, was produced. The
new play is Walter SanfOrds latest mel
odrama, The Power Of Gold,' which
made quite hit at the Peoples Theater
on Monday. 1t is a story of unusual in
terest, depicting English life, with clev-
erly-drawn characters, crisp dialogue and
dramatic situations of great merit. The
scenery is unexceptional in its realism,
particularly the Regents Canal, with a
real canal-boat floating on water and
drawn by two horses, which was greeted
with lavish applause by deeply-inter-
ested audience who frequently attested
their approval. The company is a strong
one; Amelia Bingham, Olive Oliver and
Theodore Roberts deserve special men
ton for their clever work. Annie Shin
die and Charles Frew supplied the COM
edy element which captured the audi
ence.
''Of other novelties Mrs. Bernard -Beere
furnished the principal, with her appear
ance as Adrienne Lecouvreur at the
new Manhattan Opera-house on Tuesday,
and she showed herself again to be an
be her last week in New York, and then
comes Byrne's grand comic opera, The
Isle of Champagne,' which has had royal
reception wherever it has been heard.
ION Monday Edward Harrigan revived
The Mulligan Guards BALI at his thea
ter, and its wholesome humor and catchy
airs have again caught the town. None
of Mr.. Harrigan's representations have
been truer to the life than In his Dan
Mulllgan, and probably none of the songs
have become more universally known,
the world over, than The Babies on our
Block In week the hand organ grind
ers will put back their cylinders of
dozen years ago, and the street whistlers
will pucker their lips to the recalled
tunes. Nothing IN New York pays as
well as this popularity, and Mulligan and
Lockmuller will continue to have their
quarrels for many months to come.
''At the Windsor, Edwin Milton Royle's
play, Friends which was first seen at
the Standard Theater and recognized as
an unusually clever story, has been given
a reception worthy its merit. No changes
have been made since it was seen here,
and the principals as then are Edwin
Milton Royle, Miss Selena Felter and
Lucius Henderson, the latter alone not
good actor but very clever pianist.
During the week J. X. Emmett has
also been in town playing to the biggest
since it was built, in Fritz in Ireland"
FoOTLIGHT FLASHES.
J. B. Polk has been engaged by Helen
Barry.
There will be no Wagner opera in Bay
reuth in 1898.
A. S. Lipman is said to have retired
from the By Proxy Company.
Nat. Goodwin's New York engagement
70 hoaY1 nxtanHn6 fhroa
Ernest Rossi, the Italian actor. has pub
lished a volume on European actors and
actresses.
On the rialto, it is said, that Mrs. Ber-
nard- Beere will close her American tour
in two weeks.
Tom Davis of Lift & Davis says that
Spike Hennessey married a California
c1ergyman's daughter.
Byron Douglass is being sued for di-
vorce by his wife, nee Marion Booth, a
niece of Edwin Booth.
George w. Cable and Eugene Field
have started on the road with a duologue
entertainment in which they are very
successful.
Berlin has a new play house called the
Neus Theater, opened last week, with
GOethe's classic and dreary "Epheginie
and Tauris."
It's going to be cold winter for foreign
stars, and the comet is not the only Wis
itor that has failed to make a hit, SAYS
DunLop's Stage NeacS
Dixey seems to have made failure of
''Mr. Dobbs of Chicago" according to the
unmerciful roasting he received from the
Chicago dramatic editors.
Nine. Modjeska plays "Chopin," ;" speaks
half a dozen different languages, includ-
ing English, which few can understand.
and reads the best literature in them all.
A Philadelphia manager keeps a six
horse coach going about, with announce
ments thrown on its windows bv an in
terror apparatus, the vehicle being in all
other respects conventional.
Charles Barton, late of the New York
Casino, who went to Europe solely for
pleasure, two or three weeks since. has
secured the American rights to ''The
Outsider" Forbes Dawson's melodrama.
He has also purchased two steeplechasers
which are to appear in the last scene of
the third act of the play.
Stuart Robson writes to Selena Fetter
anent her recent marriage to Edwin Mil
ton Royle: Would be more than pleased
to meet the man who won you, if only to
see if you have really selected a man as
handsome as l am. We are scarce. I
know, but truly hope you have caught
one Of u.s."
]. NJ. Scanland Of the Los Angeles Her
AID warns theatrical managers against the
production of a highIy-seasoned drama
entitled Ruth, or Mormon Marriages"
About one year ago he says he intrusted
the manuscript to a Mrs. c. II. King, in
Chicago, and his appeals for its return
are unheeded. Scanland proposes to sue
managers for civil damages who produce
il except on his authority.
Lulu Klein is in ecstasies over Annie
Plxley, whom, she declares, is the love-
lest woman she ever met. "Why," she
said recently, Miss Pixley not only
gives everybody a chance, but actually
suggests ideas whereby member of the
company gets more out of situation. but
she is delighted when the lesser folks
make hits. Really, if there ever was an
hrnrrn LII. L.