The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-25
Personal and Other lettings.

Mrs. FleisSner-Lewis has been engaged as
soprano soloist for to-day Xmas Sunday
at st. Ignatius Church, W hen GLORIA S First
Mass will be sung.
The Mrs. General Tom Thumb perform
ances will be continued at Irving Hall for
one week longer. commencing with the
matinee tomorrow, December 26.
Miss Fanny Bowman. an eleve of the
now. closed Alcazar. and at present with
the Warde-James ompany. has made an
other hit as the messenger of Antony to
Bfutus in Julius Caesar" There Is only
one speech TO deliver. commencing. Thus,
Brutus. did my master bid me kReep'- but
it gets a round OF applause whenever
spoken.
Rosina Vokes delights in her husband,
Cecil Clay. occupying box and whine ssing
her every performance.
Stuart Robson seldom speaks to q men,
Der OF his company.
in any part Of the house." and mo admit
lance while the curtain is up are some OF
the rules of the new Theater of Arts and
Letters In New York. The second and
third OF these rules should be enforced in
every theater to which intelligent people
resort Tor mental recreation and profit.
Charles Fish, the noted bareback rider at
the Winter Circus. has been in the sawdust
ring for over forty-two years.
tombstone Bennett has assumed new
~.
don slavey. IN the first act of Giliette's
comedy "All the Comforts OF Home" The
part was originally played as Tom Mellow.
young ma II, but Gillette has written it tor
girl and the act served as curtain raiser
of "Jane" at the Columbia, Chicago. Miss
Bennett was thus enabled to present the
opposites in standardization be-
ing sloyenly. while Jane is pattern of neat
ness.
The New York critics are begin ming to
Me- Tnr..
oil their pens, as the following extract from
recent number of the Home Journal will
show. Probably dislike for Mrs. Bernard
Beere on account OF her English antece-
dents may have something to do with the
verdict. Says the journal writers:
I'm gesture. la carriage. in details of ex-
planatory action. in rep0se, in the rare
talent OF listening, in climax, in natural
ness. In FIRE, In iightness of touch, In pas
sion and IN variety OF expression Mrs. James
Brown Potter Is notable addition to the
slender list OF competent actresses In this
country. Some weeks ago a tall woman
from London visited us bearing credentials
to the effect that she was The English
Bernhardt' In one act of her new drama
Mrs. James Brown Potter came nearer the
genius Of the wonderful French Jewess
than Mrs. Bernard-Beere could approach in
a lifetime"
Harry Eytlng has retired from the profess
sion TO enter the Insurance business at Buff
tdlOs ~. J..
w. A. Mestayer and Tweed Justice are
writing new piece for Hallsn and Hart.
Lolita has sent her check for 500 to
Aunt Louisa" Eldridge for the stage chill
dren's Christmas festival In New York,
The latest ta-ra-ra- boom decay novelty Ia
horse at the Winter Circus taught to dance
the tune, atiired 10 red skirt and a big nat
The Crust of Society," a translation
from lie Demi- Monde" Of Dumas, recently
brought out In Boston, is damned by the
critics with faint praise. but at the same
time they practically say 1t is immoral TO a
degree, and that no one whose finer sensi-
bilities have not been biunted by this rapid
age should 60 and see 1t. for they will surely
be shocked.
The Critic of November % says that
Joseph Jefferson's landscane, The Old
Mil, 10 the bright particular star Of the