The morning call., 1892-11-06

ter, she will not appear on the stage at all
this season. She Is betrothed TO Paul
d. Cravath of the law firm of Cravath
& Houston, New York. The wedding will
be solemnized in ST. Thomas Protestant
Episcopal Church, New York, at high noon,
on November Is inst. Cravath Is over six
feet in height They will make a stalwaft
couple.
Nine. Melba, the prima donna. and her
agent Colonel Mapleson, have quarreled.
Milton Mobiles will appear at the Grand
Opera house after the run OF Brady's
After Dark"
The Polyphonic Club. under the direc-
tion of X. A. Lucchesi, will give its second
concert at the Metropolitan Temple on
Wednesday evening. November 16 An
elaborate programme. full Of novelties. will
be presented.
Paderewski. who is now enjoying the best
OF health. Will sail from Havre for New
ork November 23 He will come direct TO
THIS city. only allowing himself one days
rest alter his arrival here. a splendid
qrawlng-room car will be fitted up for him.
Ii VIII contain grand piano, so that his
regular practice OF eight ours a day will
not be interrupted with. Though the first
concert is four weeks off yet. Decem ber 8,
the demand for tickets is already enormous.
The sale OF seats will begin December at
sherman. Clay & Co.'S.
Mrs. General Thumb now Countess
MagrD, Count Magri, Baron Magri and a
company Of bright Liliputians will play an
engagement here in a few weeks. play
has been specially written for them called
The Countess"
Nat c. Goodwin has abandoned his West
ern tour He is afraid TO attempt it under
the present theatrical condition of things III
this city.
e. j. Buckley has been compelled by
rheumatism to resign from Mrs Bernard
Beere's company.
Mrs. Langtry is to be modelled in wax and
eoStumed as Cleopatra for the Chicago Fair.
This show promises to become, in part.
sort OF anatomical museum for real and
pretended actresses.
Il am an acquired taste, like Olives"
Lottie Collins remarked. with great frank
ness to an interviewer my song has to
pe heard several times to be appreciated.
Then 1t becomes habit. and"
charles Dickson is to marry Lille Bnrk-
nardt, the laughing girl in Mrs. Pacheco's
'lncog."
Nina Boucieault. the frsgile-looking
daughter of her father" has succeeded In
London after failing in New YORK,
Nine. Janauschek returns to Shakespeare
as Lady Macbeth.
Ouida publishes the assertion that she
doesn't write plays because ''audi-
ences which could accept Mary Anderson
seriously as tragic actress are absolutely
incapable OF knowing what is good on the
stage. a London manager retorts that he
has read ana rejected five or six of OUida's
dramatizations Of her own stories
Garrick and Peg Woffington only received
4l2 or about $50 each a week for their ser
vices at Drury Lane. Modern actors of any
account get about three times rs much. But
the fame Of Garriek and Wellington out
lives the name Of the manager who paid the
9l2.
Wilson Barrett. the English actor, begins
his American season at Philadelphia to-
morrow evening, 7th.
Jennie A. Eustaee, the widow Of the
Alabama" Company, has a clever paper
in the North American Review for this
month on ''ObiectiOns TO Theatrical Life"
Mrs. Bernard Beere says that colonial
performers are more widely experienced
than those OF the Cld country. aud that IL
she reyisits Australia she will trust to them
and not take out an English company.
The Leeds (England) Festival was an as
founding success mUsically, socially and
financially.
The distribution of paper" at the Prin-
cess, London, has at last been made the
subject of legal proceedings, but the man
agement has so far escaped any pains and
penalties.
Alan Dale, dramatic editor of the New
1oTk Evening World. through his attorney.
Louis Steckler, has brought suit for $1,000
damage in the United States Circuit Court
against Charles Broadway ROuss for pub
fishing a trashy novel TO which Is signed
the name of Allan Dale.
The chorus girl for the whipping of whom
In this city some time ago Bernard DyIlyn
was fined met Linn recently IN Cleveland
and flagellated him within an inch Of his
life.
Miss Fanny Davenport thinks OF playing
Nancy Sykes in oliver Twist" next SEASON
The Lyceun Players Qocal amateur will
produce The Private Secretary at Irving
Hall on Thanksgiving night. November "a.