The morning call., 1892-09-25
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manned; so did Pauline Hall, Lily Post.
Marion Man ola and Della Fox. You can't
always tell just who the world wants to sit
up in front. says the Philadelphia Music
and Drama, and who has to be content with
standing room only.
Pitou has had over 200 applications by
professionals to take the place of w. }.
Seaman in ''Mavourneen," and out of the III
all has selected Chauncey Ocott.
Miss Rosetta la Fallle, Edward j. Quill
nan, j. Roberts Kincaid. Harry Melendy
aud Others will appear in a musical and
dramatic entertainment for the benefit of
California Parlor No. /, n. S. G. W., at
Irving Hall, Post street. Oct Der II.
Now starts the youth who means to act
The role of Hamlet tor the West,
Full well rehearsed, but poorly backed"
Aiacksday You know the rest!
His company viii soon disband.
And the season s out he'll yearn
To have chance to try his hand
AT ROsencrantz or Guildenstern.
Miss Dawn Myers made a debut at the
Bijou Theater last Thursday evening in
Clay Greene's Forgiven" She played
Annie, wife of the gambler. Jack O. Dla-
mOnds. and developed good deal OF his
| trionic promise.
In New \ rk there is no alarm in the
atrical circles over the effect of the cholera
upon the thea,ers. 1t is a curious thing that
during all epidemics the theaters have been
unusually well patronized. The depression
of the public over the effect Of the scourge
finds relief in the theaters.
Alexander SalVinPs new play will be
called The Heir of GTammont," and not
Francis H."
A choir Of 100 Belgian workmen has been
singing in England. It's selections are
given without accompaniment and the
singing is said to be remarkable for its
smo0thness and the delicacy of its light and
shade.
There are 5000 actors and actresses out of
work in New York. There is a small lot
of professionals in stage work" in this city
who ought TO be out of it.
Santley, the English barytone, is writing
an autobiography.
The subject of Mr. A. w. Pinero's new
play is taken from Maxwell Gray's novel,
The Silence of Dean Maitland"
| Lewis James daughter, Mary, has taken
| TO the stage.
Willard has struck hands with Henry
Arthur Jones and will produce one of his
! plays in London.
Singer SOuacroix OF the French Opera is
| making q fuss over the attempt to tap"
the theaters by wire and distribute music
| and talk 70 suburban residents like gas and
/ water. lie says he Is under contract only to
| play TO people in the theater, and he says,
| what is true, that the telephone, with its
| swapping and gurgling aud Sizing and its
| chorus OF jingles and "helloS" and dis
| appointed profanity, will give a version Of
| his voice that must damage his reputation.
"Ali Baba," Manager David Henderson's
recent spectacular production, has been a
| tremendous success, and on September "a.
| when ii had been presented $50 times, be
| Issued a souvenir of unexamped beauty
representing the principal scenes in the
| piece.
In spite of his complete helplessness in
the Bloomingdale Asylum, William J. Scan
| Ian, the demented comedian, will continue
| TO draw an income from "Mavourneep,"
| the last play with which he was connected.
| 1t viii be used to pay for his maintenance
| in the madhouse
The village courtroom and the trial of til e
rum-seller in "a Temperance Town." who
| is convicted on 700 distinct counts TO pay
| $1,000 and costs or spend 21,000 days in Jail,
| Is said 10 be as quantity cOmical as any
scene that Charles Hoyt ever conceived.
| Sir Augustus Harris has had prepared a
| libretto founded upon Sir Walter SCOTS
Wentworth" and has commissioned Isl
dOre de Lara to set it TO music. The Englis b
| text will be translated into Italian, and in
this form the work will be produced ne xt
| year at Covent Garden.
Interviewed in Boston recently Mrs.
| James Brown Potter modesty said "a
good deal depends on the personality of an
actress after she has mastered the technique
| of her professon-and | have done that.
Dumas says play Camille the best Of any
actress be has ever seen. He ought TO
| kDow-he wrote the play"
Recently there passed out Of existence
says the Sun, at Stony Brook, Long Island,
\. Y, Thomas Ii. Hadaway, who was,
technically, the oldest actor in the world.
He had turned 81. He had been in retire
| ment for quarter of a century, for he never
trod tie boards after the big fire that laid
| Barnum's Museum at Ann street ana Broad
way in ashes. lie joined the museum in
| 1850. and for fifteen years was attached to
the old house.
Miss Finlayson. recently Of the Bosto-
mans, has transferred her allegiance to
| Dixey She sings the queen In ''Iolanthe,"
| revived at PameI's Theater.
The Countess Of Cancarty c'Belle Bill
! toni has established herself as a prime fav-
| Orite in society in Ireland At the horse
show in Dublin few weeks ago-the great
| social event OF the year-she was much ad-
mired and courted as she moved about
| among the thousands in the show-yatd at
| Balls Bridge with her husband, and was
| voted not only the best dressed but the pref
test woman present. which is saying a good
| deal in Ireland.
An actor. recently returned from Eng
| land, tells OF a drRmatist there who was
searching for leading man whose father
! had been lost at sea. The father Of his
| leading male character in a new play had
| been lost al sea. and lie thought That a
| player thus orphaned could give better
! Interpretation of the part than one not thus
| bereayed.
| One historian of the drama offers, in a
generous spirit. a suggestion for the I'M
| provement Of Irish drama. He desires those
| authors who are to deal with that variety
| of play in future to make the hero man
| who is DESTROYS to pay his rent; the villain
a man who informs on other people because
| it is his business to report Illicit dlstilers
and reprObates TO the authorities, and the
| officer In a red coat man who is actuated
by reasonable desires and commendable
motives. But it wouldn't do
Lottie Collins is off to America, says II
| London paper, where she intends to intro
duce the ta-ra-ra microbe. If the republic
he wise it will quarantine her. 1t did. She
| failed to appear on the night announced
| Quarantine and fumigation combined had
| proven too much for both the singer and
| her wardrobe.
". J. Maffey's grand evening concert
Will take place at the Palace Hotel October
IA. Participants: NINE Breechemin, Mrs
Westwater, Osgood Putnam, Nathan
Landsberger. Otto Bendix. ii. Clay
Wysham, with Mr.. Ii. j. Stewart at the
piano and Mr. NJ ii. Bosworth as col
league. Mr.. III. j. Stewart will direct the
concert.
Are You not going to take holiday this
SUMMER" ] asked charming actcess at
one of the tbeaters still open. Certainly
not" was the reply. why Is that? You
| have an understudy?" / suggested. Yes
anu BIC iaI ioo pietSs uhoWeieu TIC
lady.
If Ibsen's notions respecting heredity
were reasonable, says an English paper,
much might be expected from the offspring
of his son and Biornsen's daughter, who
are engaged to be married. But as all
scientifically informed persons are agreed
that the said theories are bosh the aiore-
said offspring, as yet unborn, may prove
very disappointing.
European Musical Items.
Translated from the Gazzetta Musicale OF Milan.
A marble bust of Verdi by the sculptor.
Augusta Benvenuti, has been placed in the
foyer Of the Fenice Theater in Venice.