The morning call., 1892-06-12
Personal and Other Jottiugs.

Personal and other Jottiugs.
Alabama" will soon return to the Bald
win.
"Glorlana" is also due shortly at the
Baldwin, with Henry Miller, Mrs. Dion
Bouccault Joseph Humphreys, May Rob-
son. E. J. Henley and others in the cast
Franclyn Reglid, "the English Bird y
with Stuart Robson the past two seasons,
has been engaged TO support Rosina Yokes
during her next American tour. Reglid is
capital light comedian.
The fay0Tite Irish comedian Charles T.
Mccarthy, formerly partner of the late Sam
Rickers. has been engaged by Manager
Charles Meyer of the Wigw am Theater,
and will appear there tomorrow evening
in roaring comedy called "McNulty' S
Reception"
Sam Jacks big Creole Burlesque Com
pany, numbering 30 people, will make the
jump direct from his Madson-street Thea
ter, Chicago, TO the Grand 0pera-house.
Mr., Jack now owns train of six cars, with
which he transports and houses his largest
company. The train is complete in every
particular. aud his people eat, sleep and
make home of their hotel on wheels
He wrote play but found thasit
Was not the proper stun;
The hero was gentleman:
The villain was tough"
He changed II; made the villain sleek;
The nero poor y clad
And soon both dollars and applause
The prudent author had.
Miss Minna X Gale is to be married some
time next winter to A. G. HAYNES, a New
York insurance man. MutrlmOny will not
however. interfere with her career on the
stage She will still tour the country under
Theodore Bromley's management.
Walter Damrosch is writing an opera,
with HawthoTue's scarlet Letter" as q
theme.
verdi will compose a cantata or symphony
for the Columbus celebration at Genoa,
providing the Baron Franchetti. who has
been commissioned TO write an opera for the
festival, does not object
theatrical affairs IN Australia seem TO be
in almost as bad way generally as in the
old country. Mrs. Bernard Beere does not
appear TO have made a very brilliant success
in Melbourne, and her performances of
Lena Despard, Peg Wellington and Fedora
have not met with much critical commenda-
tiOn.
Robert Griffin Morris and Margaret
Mather have fallen out. Morris says he
wrote THE Egyptian" and that Mather
will neither acknowledge the fact nor pay
him for his work. Mather, on her side,
says the alterations and emendations in the
manuscript have been so many and various
that scarcely trace Of Morris pen remains.
Harry Mann. lately manager Of the New
California 1heater. has purchased house
on Eighty-fourth street, New York, and now
spends his evenings talking Autographs to
John Springer, who is his next-door neigh
bor.
Miss Agnes Huntington will commence
singing ''Psul Jones" at McVicker's Thea
ter, Chicago, tomorrow evening. When the
engagement-one WEEKS over, she will
sail Immediately for England, and remain
there--it may be for years and it may be
forever
In small theater in the English provinces
at the close of the third act the curtain did
not drop the whole length, but remained
suspended half way. Stretched on the stage
lay solitary dead man. AS all endeavors
to lower the curtain failed. the corpse at
length got up aud said in sepulehra tones.
No rest even in the grave" and dragged
the curtain TO the floor.
Marcus Mayer saws Fanny Davenport
netted $4,000 with Cleopatra" this season
and banked IL all.
We seek to please with this new play
The man who now and then
Can raise to heights-as one may say
Beyond his fellow men.
We cater Tor the lofty mind
That scars above SO free
And that Is why the plays designed
70 suit the gallereel -Pick-Me-Up.
IL is matter for sincere eongratulation,
says an Eastern exchange. that Mr.. Sol
Smith Russell means TO play the English
comedies that Mr.. Jefferson recently re-
viyed, when Joseph retires. 1t is moot
point, however. if Mr.. Russell can repeat
Mr. Jefferson in such characters as Doctor
Pangloss, Bob Acres. Mr.. Golightly and
Caleb Plummer.
Lillian Russell (Mrs. Teddy Solomon)
sailed for Europe on June /. and it is freely
reported that Ted and Lillian, when they
meet in London, will kiss and make up.
Miss Jeffres Lewis, who opens at the
AlcaZar on August ! for eight weeks, has
gone TO London in search of new plays.
Jeffries and her novelties will be WELDON
Most of the Philadelphia theaters are
closed, aud the New York season is In the
sere and yellow leaf.
Il is gossiped that Mrs. W. J. Florence
will have 1.-The Mighty DDllar" rewritten
and star in the role OF Libbis Dear.
Henry L. Abbey's plans for the Worlds
Fair year in Chicago include a big spec
taeular ballet and pan tOmime company,
which will probably be seen at the Audi
tOrium. He has engaged the famous Shat
fer family of acrobats, which alone will
entail an expense OF $1,000 week. A score
OF American managers have tried to secure
the Skaters, but no bid has ever been high
enough to fetch them
Modern actor-I can't play In that piece !;
the role does not ft me. Old-time man