The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-01-10

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The San Francisco operate Society Will,
for its fifth performance give at the Powell
street TheateT, for the benefit Of st. J0-
seph's Home, PARK Hill, on Wednesday
evening, January 18th, Franz Won SnppeSS
comic opera in three acts, "A trip to Africa.
Mr.. Fritz LafOntainP, gentleman we'll
known in theatrical circles, is parayzed and
now lying at his residence in this city. g lie
Is in INDECENT circumstances and needs help.
A benefit will be given him at the AlcaZar
on Thursday evening, January 14th. mrs.
Lafontaiue has tickets for sale and Will
supply APPLYING friends. Give the helpless
actor lit.
The Bijou Theater has been leased to Lo-
raine Hollis for a season. She INTENDS 10
produce comedies chiefly and society dramas.
II energy and perseverance against dlthcul-
ties are factors in success the lady ought to
do well. With a well-selected company she
will take the road when the Bijou Iheater
closes.
colored woman in Chicago has begun
suit for $1,000 against Manager Jacobs Tor
refusing to let her into his theater after she
had bought tickets; a culOred man IN Rom
dout has sued Manager Dubois for 5000 for
the same thing, and man in another town
has sued to recover the price or ms slcket,
for he was put behind woman with cart
wheel hat so tnat ne could see nothing OF tue
play and The manager would neither give
him better seat nor make the woman take
the obstruction from her head.
Salvini is doing good work in New Orleans
as Don Caesar de BaZau."
Manager }. NJ Hill is on crutches.
The ssh" now prefxed to Augustus Har-
riS' (the London manager) name Is SAID To
have cost him $4,000.
Western critics have startled Eastern
prOpriety by the heretical remark that Mrs.
Kendall is "Supe,tluOus Lays" iu petit
c0ats-that she is much too old for many Of
the roles she plays.
Joe Murphy, next to r. d. MacLean, is
SAID to be the weaithleSt actor on the stage.
William G. Beach, late OF the Alcazar,
is supporting Nat Goodwin at the Harlem
N. " Opera House,
BARLEY Campbrlps son, Robert, is pre-
pairing t. revive Bulls and Bears" one If
his fathers earliest dramas, with James b.
Radcliffe now at Harrigal'S as the chief
actor.
Haddon Chambers has sent THE Honor
able Herbert" tc Daniel FTOhman; Tenny-
sons altered play has been received by
Augu5tin DAILY; jerome X. Jerome's new
manuscript complete has been delivered to
Charles FrOhman, and Augustus Thomas
dramatlZatiOn of +. HOpkins0n Smiths
Colonel Carter" is in a. NJ. Palmer's
hands. These four plays, probably. will
be acted before the season is over, three by
The stock companies of the managers, and
the fourth by special Charles FrOhman
cast after the departure of The Lost Para
disc" from Proctor's in March.
Joseph Arthur is writing another play,
and il is possible that it will be left for him
TO eclipse his saw-mill with another real
ism, just as Blue Jeans" chief feature
lowered over A:thur's first attempt at stage
realism, the engine scene in The Still
Alarm"
The Musical Courier publishes the follow
ing excerpts as showing in what harmony
great musicians may dwell with one an
other:
l. e.
tell the truth, no musician. His music IS
hollow, disagreeabe and often amateurish."
Beethoven on Weber-"He never could
attain more than the art OF pleasing
Wagner on Scrumann-" He has certain
tendency toward greatness"
Handel on Gluck-"He knows no more Of
countprpoint than my cook
Weber on BeethOyen-"Now cutie ready
for a lunatic asylum"
MendelSsohn on Wagner-"A talented dill
ettante."
Beerbohm Tree speaks of Norwegian
drama, eXemplihed by lbsen. as 'the drama
Of perpetual night"
Mabel Bert, an accom- plished and hand
some player, has recently joined the ranks
of Abbott ~ Teal's "Niobe" forces. She
has made a most distinct hit in the pSrt of
Mrs. Dunn. Miss Bert Ni i'll undoubtedly
prove a valuable acquisition.
Richard Mansfield is really to have his
theater in New York. Forty rich men in
New York and Boston, headed by Mr..
Mansfeld's old patron and adviser, Eben
Jordan of the latter city. have bought site
on West Twenty ninth street, off from
Fifth avenue. 1t is expected that the house
will be quilt within year. and that it will
be to New York what lrying's Lyceum Is TO
London.
a Philadelphia paper congratulates Sarah
Bernhardt on her fairly successful week in
that city though she had eight variety farces
playing against her.
In London it is proposed that, to save ex-
penses of funeral, every play shall be
privately read to an audience Of editors and
actors before it Is put on the stage. As the
reading OF q play is one Of the most sadden-
ing Of experiences, 1t will be hard work
even 10 collect a private audience.
Hahn, the waiter who guided Wagner TO
a place OF safety on the spring night IN
1919 when the soldiers were after the revO-
luiionsts, is now living poverty stricken in
Dresden. Money is asked for him.
Joseph Brooks, manager of w. II. Crane,
in speaking of Cranes new play, For
Money" by Clay Greene and Augustus
Thomas, explained why MIR. Greene's name
will go before Mr.. Thomas on the pro-
gramme. when the contract for the play
was drawn up between MesSrs Greene and
Thomas and myself" said Mr.. Brooks,
''the question came up as to which drama
fists name should appear first The authors
agreed TO decide the matter by tossing q
penny. Mr.. Greene won"
Max Freeman has quarreled with Aron-
son again and left him. A woman was the
cause of it. In other words, Nine Ar0n-
son assumed to manage the Uncle Celes-
tin" Company when Max was in charge,
and with proper spirit Max resented the in
reference ana quit.
The death OF Miss Katharine Rogers in
New York recently was a surprise. Because
of her aversion to publicity no mention of
it was made among the death notices. She
leaves her daughters. three in number, an
estate valued at $4,000.
Move on. gputlemenl Don't block up
the sidewalk! Keep moving! You are not
allowed to stand on this cornerv' Such.
says the New York Gazette, are the daily
exhortations of the police patrol to actors.
agents, musicians. clubmen, newspaper
men and Others who chance to be found
cumming on the Rialto. 1t is time the
same injunction be addressed, il not by the
police, then by the press, to the star mil
llonaTes, whose presence in the money
marts Of the metropolis blocks up the
thOrOughfare to public prosperity.
Nj. Is, Leavltt Is to have another theater
in Chicago, located in the center of the bust
ness portion on the South Side.
Now 1t is the Loyal Order of Moose" in
rivalry to 1.-THE ElKs." A third organiza-
ton will probably soon make its appear
ance to be called "The Caribou"
Mr.. Richard NJ. Hooley has declined to
take part 10 the management of the Schiller
Iheater, now building on Randolph street,
Chicago.
George E. gladden., 30 years old an actor,
who attempted suicide in restaurant in
New York by swallowing a mixture of
laudanum, camph0r and peppermint, died
early the morning Of the Goth ult. Despond-
ency caused by drink.
Oscar Wilde wrote play, which was to
be produced at the Vaudeville Theater, in
Paris. Now the manuscript has been re-
turned to Mr.. Wilde. as Jane Hading re-
fuses 10 lmpersOnate Oscars heroine, who,
The says, is old enough to be her mamma,
Manager Charles Greene is arranging with
Mr.. Edward L. ktdder TO write new play
for Miss Annie Ward Tiffany. The scenes
OF the drama are to be laid in this country,
and the character for Miss Tiffany is 10 be