The record-union., 1892-12-31

forward a grand banquet was served in
honor of the double event, and so the
hotel IS launched under circumstances
most suspicious.
STAGE NOTES.
John II. Russell has gone on a flying
trip to Paris.
The Hustler continues to be a big
coin winner in the West. 1t is all that
its name implies.
"Glen Da Lough,' the Chicago critics
say, lis weak, very weak, and very stu
pldIy constructed"
The Spanish representation at the Chi
cago Exposition will include a band OF
one hundred performers.
The young women of Vassar College
propose to perform the Greek play, An
tlgone," III the spring, in the original
text
Divide Musin, the violinist, made his
New 4ork temperance after an absence
OF about four years, at Carnegie Music
Hall, recently.
Minnie Seligman-Cutting and her com
pany, in My Official Wife," are to fol-
low John Drew and The Masked Ball"
at the Standard, January sd
The burglars in 1.-The Stowaway' have
become famous, and they have made
more money by cracking safes honestly
than in cracking them dishonesty.
Members of the Paul Kauvar' com
pany who were injured in a railroad
accident in Texas have compromised
| their claim for an aggregate OF 81, 800
At the Christmas matinee performance of
"A Trip to Chinatown" at the Hoyt Mad
ison Square Theater, every lady visitor
was served with one of Sherry's new bon
bon trappes.
Nina Harrington is living in great style
in London. She has a swell establish
ment, brOugham, dog cart, footman,
coachman and tiger. Living must he
very cheap in the English metropolis, for
Miss Farrlngton's salary is only IL los.
The poem entitled Fate" that forms
| such an effective part of Edwin Milton
Royle's play of "Friends," finds a new
claim to its authorship in every city
where the play has been presented. The
dispute promises to become as bad as that
over Beautiful Snow"
Annie Lewis made an awful plunge in
"a Nutmeg Match" in Trenton a few
nights ago. In running to the rescue of
the hero on the piledriver board slipped
and she went headlong over the dock
into what was supposed to be the river.
A stage hand caught her, and she clam
bered back in time to say Pm coming,
Billy" and saved the scene.
The romance, chiyalry, luxury and
hospitality of life in the Blue Grass re-
gion of Kentucky will be shown in the
new play, In Old kentucky" which
promises to be one OF the most important
productions Of the next season. An art
ist is now in Kentucky making drawings
for the scenes, which will be painted by
John II. Young, the well-known scenic
artist.
One OF the most interesting spectators
at a performance of 1.-The Ensign" in
New York was Captain A. 2. Cook, who
served as a Lieutenant on the San Jacin-
to, under Captain Wilkes, when Mason
and Slidell were taken, and who is there
fore very familiar with the incidents
upon which the play is based He mar
veled at the perfection of naval and scenic
detail, and commented on the remarka-
BILE resemblance to his old Captain Of the
actor who played the part.
Society everywhere is making a great
fuss over young Royle, the author of
Friends" and his wife, Selena Fetter.
In Cleveland they were elegantly enter
tanned by Banker Lamprecht, Mrs. Ed
mund Nash Morgan and Mrs. Clinton
Day. The Washington Evening .Stu7' of
December 9th gives an account of a din
ner rendered to Mr.. and Mrs. Royle and
Mr.. Henderson by Mrs. John A. Logan.
at which a number of foreign and domes-
tic notableS were present.
Stuart Robson, who has been very sue
cessful this season on the road, SAYS that
instead OF the drama deteriorating, there
has never been in the history Of the
drama such advancement as the people OF
to-day can point to. 'Playhouses," he
says, ''are now palaces ofmagnificence. the
ranking of actors is d thing of the past,
and as for play-writing it has become as
much science as house-building to the
architect, a structure erected on funda-
mental rules and principles"
When Laura Burt was acting in the Test
last season, an admirer, under some
peculiar impulse, presented her with a
deed of lot in South Omaha. 1t was
just before the big Western boom. and
everyone told Miss Burt that the lot was
only good enough to plant cabbages on.
so she thought too little Of the matter to
even have the deed filed. but kept it in
the bottom of her property trunk, never
giving the matter another thought until
last Friday, when she received an offer
from real estate man in Omaha of s.. 200
for the property.
For disordered liver try BEECHAM's
PILLS.