The morning call., 1892-02-07

bigger than her body. In other particulars.
alsa the show is a very excellent one.
Dixey goes to Australia next summer
under the management OF h. b. RICE.
Henry Irving is likely again 10 receive an
offer of knighthOod
| Lole Fuller has begun a libel suit against
Mr. Fiske OF the Dramatic Mirror for
| $4,000,
Sir Arthur Sullivan's health is greatly i'm
| proved, but he has decided to remain IN the
! Riviera during the winter months.
Speaking OF George HanlOn, the acrobat,
| turning from the show world 10 the pulpit.
the Philadelphia Music and Drama suggeSt Is
| that 'Ialmage had better look to his laures
| as, while Hinlon can turn a double sum
merSault in the pulpit, Mr.. Talmage can
| only execute mild kind Of tlip-fiIp
Next season Mr.. Frederick Warde Will
associate himself with Mr.. Louis James
and star jointly with him in special re-
| pertOry, including Henry Guy CarletonS
new blank verse tragedy "MemnOn."
! 1t is a weli-knOwn fact, says Dunlaps
| Stage News that actors never bother about
politics, and is equally true that the chile
| trouble, so far, has failed even TO interest
! them. although some of the long headed
managers say that the theatrical business
! will be ruined months after war has been
| declared. A few CT the English actors
| openly espouse the cause Of the belligerent
! little republic, and laugh at the American
| paper fl 'et bOmbardlng Valparaiso. a
| American actor said the other day, well,
don't care if they DO fight, If the war only
! brings a decent national anthem with IT 10
| replace that foreign melody Hail Column
bia, which 1t is now the fashion to toast
! every time show is finished"
Francis Wilson will start on his Western
| and Pacific Coast tour about May 1st. 1t
| will begin at Denver, include San Fran
cisco and end in Portland, Oregon, whence
the star and his manager Mr.. A. ii. Candy.
| contemplate a fitting finale by pleasure
| la 10
| New York.
Mrs. Kendall. who recently offended GER
tain Pittsburg people by sneeriDg al the Tor
nation of the American ladies' ankles, has
just paid ESQ., 600 for the freehold OF
house in Portland place. London. The
| kendas will therefore give up their old
home in the less aristOcratic Harley street.
If the ankle of the American lady is not
! quite up 10 the mark in the Kendall eye the
purse of the American gentleman has evil
IDENTITY proved just the thing
There are four artistic Poles in New ork
at present-Mme. MCdjeSka, Paderewskl.
Jean and Ed0uard de Reszke. They are all
too patriotic for anything; but their anxiety
just now is to know which one is long enough
to knock the financial persmmOn.
Manager J. NJ. Hll has thrown away his
cTutches. He is accommodating fat and for
tune. and he isn't 40at that.
Richard Mansfield cOntded to a Chicago
reporter the other day that he never makes
q
! but when his character Is asSailed he strikes
| back. He also remarked: " The papers
I make or break theatrical enterprise. A
| line Of any sort in one Of tleA IS worth
many square feet Of lettering on the wall.
CIQl mas stated 10 an interviewer III
Milan that Falstatf IS rs good as finished.
The singers parts are all written and there
only remains dialogue intrusted 10 tie IN
strumen Is. he has found it more difficult
to write a comic opera than he nTst
rt44l. Init t4a T. eel f4f
be a success.
There are said 10 be two unacte1 farces
10y the late j. Madison Morton, AN Old
Flame and " Miss Wigs Water Party,
but probably they were in French usage,
says the sun, before Morton sold them, Tor
the farces which he penned were hardly
ever more than translatlOus. Box aud
Cox" for example.
The play that Emma Y. Sheridan has
made for Richard Mansfield and which will
be produced in March is not so much a
dramatizaton OF Dr. Warren's " Ten
Thousand Year as It is an attempt to
put little bat IItmouse, the book s here, on
the stage in form suitable for Man,ield's
impersonaton. The fellow will be made
loyabIe ana good-heaIted, instead OF cad
dish aud COntempuble.
There will be DO successor TO W. J. Sean
Ian in " Mayourneen, IN starring sense,
but &" the plays the thing" and Pltou, the
manager will choose an actor for the part
out of about fifty applicants.
The Cabinet Minister" lived Just one
week ere it was Withdrawn at DAILY 'o-not.
as has been said, because Miss Rchan did
not play the leading part IN It, nor because
Mr.. liner0 would not allow Mr.. Daly TO
tampeT with his manuscript, but because 1t
was a hOpelessly ba1 play from the outset
and deserved death.
The combined effect of the death Of the
| Duke of Clarence aud the influenza cpl
demic threatens to land three-fourths Of
the London theatrical managers In the
bankruptcy court. All the payhOuses ara
| nearly empty every night. Sir Augustus
! pantOmime at Dury Lane Is run at loss,
| ana D'Oyly Carte has postponed the pro-
ductIon Of The Vicar Of Bray" at the
| Savoy.
Mr. Aubrey Bouccault, son of the late
dramaust Dion. and Mr. Arthur Rehan,
manager, have formed n partnership 10
produce new romantic irish drama, The
! Nquireen.' written jointly by Robert Blu
cnanan and Aubrey B0ucicaut
\ Belfast cores pendent writes that the
| accident to Mir Lawrence Irving was not OF
| Suca a serious nature as the first reports
| led Us to believe. The revolver. in fact.
was a little toy one, and the cartridges did
| not contain any powder, but only a little
illuminate, and the bullet Of which. 1t is
said would not penetrate the skin al fifteen
/ yards range.
The business Of Divide Musin on his pres
| ent tour promises 10 exceed that OF last
/
| UD TO May lGth-all nights but three aOSO-
lutey sold our. Masin and his troupe sail
for Australia on the above date on the
steamer Mariposa.
Young J. X. Emmett is beating his
| fathers financial record on the stage
Charlie" Pratt. for many years Emma
Abb0tt's manager, but Of late half owner
and manager OF the Coleman House in New
| York, las sold out his interest In that hotel.
and will return TO operate business. Mr..
Pratt IS said to have found "a second
Abbott"
In spite of prodiglous booming lyon
Yonson' has been bad failure in New
| I OTk. II is said that no character so unu-
terestngly stupid as the Swede has ever
been nut on the stage, and in that way it
has gained distinction, having coined new
word An unutterably stupid bore is called
a on H0nsOn.
de man what wrote dis play is a chump."
said the eminent heroic actor OF a pugilistic
Gole.
what makes you think SOP" asked the
other meekly
why, he's got down here in one place,
Exit Omnes.' Now, who in -i is 'Omnes?'
There amt no such party in the play, sce?'
The report that Janauschek is i'll and had
abandoned her company IS false. Owing TO
! railroad wreck III Georgia and exposure To
a storm she caught cold and was obliged 10
cancel five nights only. She resumed her
tour at Jacksonville, Fla. January Dist.
Young Howell Osborn. who is best known
from his eScapades with Fay Templeton,
was lately thrown from his carriage in Paris
and so badly injured that ne is not expected
to live. This is the youth who found it inn
possible to maintain existence on S35 600
year. but he was always a manly good fell
low, besides being mete0Tic spendthrift.
Sara Jewett is said to be recovering from
her i'll health. Miss Jewett has many
friends, and, in her beautiful little hons at
Cambridge. Mass, she has been enjoying in
comfort the companionShip of q large circle
Of them since her retirement from the stage
Enrnnnnn MmsicaI Ite1ns.