The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-02-21
Personal and Other Jottings.

eTick Warde's company, is making rapid
strides in her profession. The Eastern
| papers are tiTeleSs in praising her perform
| auee Of Marcena In The lions Mouth, J"
and Of late she has taken the place Of Miss
Adele Belgrade as leading lady of the COM
pany, appearing as Virginia to Mr. Warde' S
! Virginius.
Henry Miller, and Hugo Toland Of San
Francisco have taken service with Mr..
! Charles Frohman.
! Joseph Murphy's brother, John S., has
disbanded his company and retired from
! the field
Rumors that Louis James and his wife,
! Marie Wainwright, were planning to re-
! sume their joint starring tours after this
season are denied by both. James, it is
! believed, viii stand by his agreement TO
star with Frederick Warde Mss Vain
| wright will continue to star alone.
| Maude BranscOmbe. the handsome ac-
! tTess whose photos were at a premium In
| New York some years ago, IS playing the
/ Prince in Aladdin" at a Glasgow Scot
! land theater In few weeks she will re-
| sumo her place in the London music halls
Maggie Duggan, a burleSquer who won
! American fame by a high kick that has never
! heen oyert0pped, Is now in comic opera in
! England. Miss Duggau WAS tall and gaunt,
/ and her legs were IN keeping; but her kick
! ing has never been paralleled Tor reckless
! abandon.
! T. L. Rice writes to n friend that he will
/ leave Australia for the United States during
| this month february. and also that he has
/ had soma rocky experiences at the antlp-
| odes The general run Of advices regarding
/ Rice was TO the effect he was dong so well
in the Colonies that he intended to remain
! there.
When Beerbohm Tree plays Hamlet he
does 50 with SCant beard and a Wig OF
chpStnUt-colOred hair.
John 5. Stevens says q" Christmas Bells"
! is the best play he has ever written. 1t IS
very "tungUey."
Mason s. Carnes and Edwin S. Belknap,
Of this city, are writing plays in colla6oIa-
ton. They are EuW under contract 10 fur
nish a society play for Daniel Frohman.
Sir Arthur Sullivan is busy writing the
music for the new opera 20 follow the Vicar
! of Bray" at the Savoy Theater, London.
I Gruudy has written the iibretto. The opera
deals with English country life in the sew
( enteentn century.
An actor named Herbert Standing broke
contract with Willie Edouin, lessee and man
ager of the strand Iheater, London. and
/ Joined Mrs. Bernard Beere's company, which
was about starting for Australia Manager
EdUuin took legal proceedings against
Standing which resulted in the latteT's i'm
prisOnmeut for breach of contract. That
was quite the right thing TO do. II some OF
our own tiippant professionals who treat
contract as they do their spring oyercoat, on
or off at pleasure, were brought up all
standing in this way 1t would be bene-
! fetal
/ When Paderewski plays for charity he re-
| ceives $500 Of the receipts. 2And quite
! right too. Some people imagine that per-
/ son should spend lifetime acquiring skill
/ and reputation I'D profession simply TO
! give his or her services for nothing when
| ever SO requested
The garterphone is a little instrument at
tached t. a lady's garter, and it registers
the distance she walks. Ii Is In great de-
mand at present by the physical culture
/ cranks, and the languid belle Of the stage
wasn't in it. until a very charming little
soubrette had one adjusted. Then she sat
in her hammock al day enjoying novel,
! while she swung her pretty foot back and
! forth, and by night the garterphone regis
! tered six miles aud ten laps.
There are not few who cruelty insinuate
! that Nellie McHenry's crank lover" was
/ just a scheme to make Lolita. Maggie
! Mitchell, Aunt Louisa and other young
/ things wild with envy.
Manager (b0astlulIy) - Our theateT has
! been rewly fitted up; the curtain-n short,
everything is iron. Critic - Yes, yes:
| everything except the performers. and they
/ are wooden FleGende Baetter
Peter Jackson, the cOiOred pug, has now
! a company Of his own in Philadelphia.
| Prominent IN the organization are wrestlers
| gent is made MP of clever artists.
| Mascaguis share Of the millions that have
| been made from his "Cavallera Rusticaua'
! is less than $4,000. The opera is now run
! ming in eighteen theaters in Italy.
Ii Is said that but one actor has ever been
! hanged. but a circus manager has lately met
that fate in Greenock.
Dramatic art langushes in Mexico. They
| fine a man heavily if caught walking on the
| railway track.
Mrs. Shaw, who has whistled herself into
| not0rleiy In England, will soon return home
! with her two daughters, both whstlers.
Mr.. Stuart Robson has engaged Jennie
| GOldthwaite for three years.
stage-door drear ehappe near,
swish OF skirts a vision.
A bow. a smile, then after while
| A supper, petition.
| Another night; same vision bright
| Same smile, same greeting happy;
| Same costly grub same graceful snub
| Butte another chappie. T. L.
Signor de Yiv0 has engaged Sign0r
| Michele Guarini as the tenor Of the Tayary
! Operate Concert Company, which will
/ start on the road early in March SgnOr
| Guarini, De NivO says, is a handsome man;
| he has a beautiful, silYeT-liko voice. The
/ Tavary Company viii appear in all the
large cities and travel west to San Francisco
| Ii he finds tie prospect inviting, SgnOT De
Vivo may extend the trip to Australia.
w. 5. Gilbert has gone to Egypt for ma
terial to be used in a new opera.
The New York World says editorally
that the law which closes theaterS on Sun
days is unjustihable, and that New York
| fingers in the Oaleful shadow OF purtanical
! intolerance. 1t argues that TO open the
theateTs on Sundays will give TO those who
have only that one evenings leisure in the
week a chance to spend 1t in agreeable and
! profitable recreation. IL will in no Temotest
way interfere with the liberty and comfort
of those who think it wrong to attend thea
! tiers on SUNDAYS.
Nine. Modieska is fond If a joke, and
| when at dinner party recently she was re-
| QueSted TO recite she complied, and held her
! auditors enchanted by her thrilling declama-
! ton Of Polish selection. AS she departed
she was asked TIE title OF her selection.
| My recitation hasn't any name" she said !;
"my memory failed so badly that | rected
the numbers from to go in Polish"
Dangers Of Great City," DOre David
| son and Miss Ramie Austen's new comedy
Drama, begins short spring tour February
! %. A very strong company has been en-
! gagged to support these two stars.
Miss Marguerite Reid Is the stage name of
young lady, who recently took Miss Marie
! Van Zand.s place as Ophelia and made
! quite hit. Ii any lady embracing the pro-
tesson was justified in dropping her natal
name it is Miss Reid. In private life she is
! known as Miss Kackler.
Emma Abbotts ashes were last week
! finally placed without ceremony under a
|
! ashes included the incarceration of the $1,000
| dress in which she was cremated The whole
remains were contained in a package ten
| inches square and weighing about ten
| pounds. Only seven actors witnessed the
| simple ceremony, and all of them were va
| Tiety performers.
Edwin Booths Hamlet, some critics said,
| never loved Ophelia. Beerbohm Tree makes
! love to her all through the play, and even
! puts a special leap-year willingness to be
wo0ed in turn into the rarely kittenish ways
| Of the melancholy Dane.
| 1t cost Mrs. Hodgson Burnett $4,000 In
clear cash to find out that her play, 1.-The
Showman's Daughter" wasn't liked in Lon.
don.