The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-02-14

whose Identity is not yet disclosed by
Charles Frohman, with whom they made a
contract year ago to write an ambitious
American drama and deliver it by May !,
1892. The play is to be staged deliberately
next season.
1T is possible" says an exchange. that
Charley HOyt regards the number Is in the
same way that Nine. de Stael did ghosts
She used 10 say, it will be remembered, that
she did not believe in ghosts, but she was
afraid OF them. Now. Mr.. Hoyt may not
be supersttlous in regard tu the mystic
number 10 but after lie had made arrange
mentS to produce his new play, "A Tenn
perance Town. in Columbus, Ohio, on
March Is, he suddenly changed the date to
March H. Not only that. but he also Sc
lected another t0wn-Buffalo."
The affection of tie eyes from which
Mounet-S ully, the French tragedian, has so
long suffered, has increased to such a degree
that the glare of the footlights makes him
squint most painfully. He is not quite 80
years old, bnt his health is poor. and the
fine dlctlon for which he used to be noted
has given way to a Tanting voice, so TO
speak, that IS not pleasing. He was once
man oil great physical beauty, but is so no
longer.
The complaint is made by a Chicago
paper that the present theatrical season has
been poor one financially. Scores of COM
panleS have been obliged to disband and
hundreds OF actors have been left out OF EN-
ployment. The cause is found in the fact
that there are too many poor companies.
One-halt the entertainments offered in
chicago this year could have well been
AIRED. Audiences have been bored by
them and the managers and players have
prOhted naught.
Carmencita, the Spanish skirt-dancer, is
suffering from heart disease, but she still
plrouettes. She proposes to leave dancing
this spring, however, and take a long vaca-
ton. 1t may be too late, then. and the vaea-
ton may be longer than she bargains for
The London Stage-''Speak any sort Of
French you like, but for goodness sake use
the same pronunciation" | thought Of
that advice of an old stage manager the
otner day when sitting out the performance
Of THE Tanning of the Shrew." During
the progress OF the comedy there were four
different pronunciations OF Petrucho IN
duiged In. These were PeetroOtcheo,
Pee!rooche0, Peetrookeo and PeteookeO.
Miss Julia Arthur, Canadian girl, made
her first appearance with :. N. Palmer's
company recently in a play wrongfully
claimed by Sydney Grundv, called The
Broken Seal" Her work Is highly praised.
She IS the actress whose success in two
very poor melodramas early IN the season
caused the New York critics to call her
'the coming woman"
Sol Smith Russell was born in New
Brunswick, Mo-, and is now Il years
VI age IL Is Sdlu Oh IluSSeA LLdb uHb Inlu-
| uteS OF MS Storytelling Is worth more to
| sick family than $500 worth of medicine
Mrs. Scott-Slddons has brought her tour
| 70 All abrupt termination. so far as the
stage is concerned this lady has no rason
| d'etre. The curious thing about her is that
| she IS IN reality rich woman, but she cam
| not tiud her property. She gave her money
| 10 her husband years ago, and he, suffering
! from some mental malady, was unable TO
| tell where he had placed it, though no one
| ever suspected that he had dealt with it
! otherwise than honOrably.
Richard Mansfield has not carried out the
| Intention which be recently announced to
abandon all advertising save that in news
paper columns. During his present engage
ment in Brooklyn the deaf walls and the
baT-roOm windows display their customary
legends and devices relative TO Mr. Mans
! held and his plays.
A parody on Yerd's aida" has been
made by a writer named SassonP and was
recently produced at the Theatre Quirino IN
| ROmO, and with success.
Still another star. Miss Henrietta Cross
man. an actress OF pleasing qualities, has
found manager who is willing to make her
tie leading feature of a company, and she is
looking for play that will serve as a me-
dunn for the display of her talents.
IL Is said that majority Of the theatrical
managers Of Paris have combined to put a
stop to the practice Of admitting a prIyi-
L -
plays. They are of the opinion that it does
more harm than good. Way anybody should
want to see a play before it is ready for
public representation IS a mystery. As a
matter OF fact there are very few theaters
where a tirSt-night performance IS much
better than an advanced rehearsal, and wise
play-gOers do not care about seeing a new
piece until it has acquired the desirable
smoothness Of performance in a run Of two
or three weeks.
Il whispers low, II love y0u"; but she turns
And from him slowly. sadly Walks away,
And needless thIt his cheek with rapture burns,
Or that he may have other things 70 say.
Why does she sc0rn the words he has TO speak.
When Lies sweet joyous moments are 50 fewP
That part they We been rehearsiHS for a eek.
And love YOU" is the maldsu's exit cue.
Mirror.
Down in Brooklyn they call Pachmaa the
Cb6piLzee.
The theaters in London regularly EN- ploy
over II. 0C0 people.