The record-union., 1892-04-30
STAGE NOTES.

MARIE Jansen is TO leave the Francis
wilson Company.
John Robinson's great circus is to be
mere IN July or August.
Agnes Huntington made a great hit in
aul Jones III San Francisco.
Inc sterling young actor, Joseph S.
haWorth, closed his season last week.
Next season Gus Williams is to appear
III new ecceEtricity called April Fool. :"
MISS Siedensticker has brought suit
against the Hanlon Brothers for SO, 600
for libel.
Stuart Robson closes his season, the
most prosperous he has ever had, at Buff
falO, May 7th.
Fanny Davenport has sent $3.50 to the
Woman's Executive Committee Of the
Actors Fund Fair.
80 in the Shade' is new farce-com-
eqy written by Lew Rosen and Eduard
Hoist soon to be produced.
MISS Alice Livingston denies the re-
ports that she is either going to get mar
rled or retire from the stage.
Rory of the Hil." James Connor
hoacn' S new Irish play, was produced at
Hartford April 18th, and made hit.
Adelaide Prince of Augustin Daly's
company obtained an absolute divorce
!rom her husband last week. Mr.. Prince
is furrier.
During r: B. MantelPs engagement at
the fark Iheater, Philadelphia, he viii
produce Espy w. Williams one act trag-
edy 'Parthasius.'
''Sinbad" continues to do very LARGE
business IN the Northwest where it has
prayed TO more money than any other
organization this season.
Selma Fetter, Alexander Salvini's lead
ing lady, owing to a sprained ankle, has
retired from the Salvini Company, and
Belle Archer has taken her place.
George w. Lederer and Professor Herr
mann have transferred their legal battle
about the ownership of that dreadfully
bad play ~ and ~ to the Philadelphia
court.
Hoyt's "a Trip to Chinatown is still
running to full houses at Hoyts Madison
Square Iheater. The etwo hundredth con-
seculye performance is to take place Fri
day, May 10Th.
Katie Emmet seems to be having a
very prosperous season in the South. At
every stand she is greeted with packed
houses and her receptions amount to
perfect ovationS.
The new play, ''Irish Inspiration" !"
which will be produced at the New York
Peoples Iheater. May 23d. by Manager
Mart Hanley, is the work of John Walsh
and Howard z. Taylor.
Ariel Barney has returned from Lon
don, having engaged the Royal Court
Iheater Company, headed by Brandon
Thomas and Weldon GrOsSmith, Tor a
tour Of America during the season OF
1898.
Charles II. Hoyt's newest play, ga
Temperance Town." is doing a tremend-
Gus business in the West. 1t will not be
seen in New ork until the opening OF
MoIi
ber 3lst.
Jefferson George, husband of Bertha
Rlccl, the singer, died in Texas last week,
aged 80 years. Mr.. George was a news
paper man, and married Miss Ricci about
three years ago, but recently they were
separated.
The wedding of Mrs. Carrie Belle Teffit.
the daughter of Edward b. Rice, and Ed
win Albert Scroeder, the only son Of ex-
Mayor f. A. Schroeder of Brooklyn, took
place April 18th in the chantry Of Grace
Church, New York City.
1.-The Gray Mare" an English DIay.
which is soon to be produced at the New
1ork Lyceum, is being rehearsed by Miss
Edith kenward, the clever English ac-
tress now playing in Cora Tanners Hus-
band and Wife Company.
The losses of Mary Eastlake. the ac-
treSs, on her tour in the United States.
were so heavy that she has been com
PEELED to call a meeting of her creditors at
London. Five shillings in the pound has
been offered, and Will probably be ac-
cepted.
Nellie McHenry's four weeks lust
ended at the New York Biiou Theater in
"a Night in the Circus" turned out very
profitable in spite of Lent and Barnum's
Circus, both of which usually play sad
havoc with things theatrical. She is to re-
turn to the metropolis for two more
weeks, and then after a short rest she
goes westward, playing in San Francisco
late this summer.
Albert Bruning, Mr.. MantelPs leading
man, is receiving high praise from the
press OF the country, especially for his
performances of IagO, Chateau Renaud
and Voltage. He was the leading support
of Edwin Booth, during his engagement
at Berlin, and was by him recommended
to Mr. Barrett, who engaged him as a
member of the Booth and Barrett Com
bination for two years.
Rehearsals Of the coming extravaganza
cali Baba," which will be produced at
the Chicago Opera=house about the Ist of
June, are now in progress, under the su-
pervision of David Henderson. The
American Extravaganza Company is still
on a tour with ''Sinbad," but regular re-
hearsals of the new piece are being daily
ne1Ct, anu IIle DaileC ana the cnOruS are
being drilled in their next seasons du-
ties by Signor Marchetti, the maitre de
ballet, and w. II. Bachelor, the musical
director Of the organization.
The gentlemen who selected the Herald
prize play are being pulled severely over
the Goals, because Hearts has not made
hit. While the play reads very prettily
1t as colorless when upon the stage, and it
is just this difficulty of judging a play in
fyrgNn HI Iah L.,
failures, and has cost each of tie gentle
men in question many thousand dollars.
Ii they are not able to select one good
play for themselves, out of the many
hundred OF plays sent them by trained
dramatist or writers, how can they be ex-
pected to do SO for any one else, from a
heap of plays sent by all the scribblers in
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