The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-05-15

WIN ~ cHHTdCJerss Is yet moHOlosue.
Jennings plays all the characters. He will
appear as an old Vermont farmer, as a
Seotehman or IAN Irishman, four or i've
times as female and in several impersona-
lions OF city characters As Ophela had
too much OF water, Philadelphia exchange
THINKS the audience may get too much OF
Jennings.
Edwin Booth spends most OF his time at
the Players Club, where he is inaccessible
10 all save few old friends.
Emma AbbOtps beqnest of $1,000 TO the
trustees OF Brooklyn church will be ex-
pended In improving the pipe organ in the
cnurch ana in giving it purer and more
pleasing tone than ii had when Emma had
Its accompaniment to her first efforts as
singer.
Sir Augustus Harris is said to have dis
covered new songstress at Carlsbad Ger
many, where be has been looking 2t the
water Tor the benefit of his health. Her
name IS Springborg Guiding. She Is
Dane who has studied under Nine. Art0t de
Padili
A season Of old English plays is contem-
plated at the GLOBE Theaier, London
Nycherley's The Plaindealer" ana several
Oh CongreVe's works are among the pieces
likely TO be produced.
The Duke of Edinburgh is writing the
music OF grand German opera, the libTetto
OF which Is the work of Carmen Sylvia,
Queen Elizabeth of Roumania. The opera
Coburg on date yet to be fixed in the
presence OF the Grand Duke and Grand
Duchess of Sake Coburg.
Verdi has quite finished his merry
Wives OF Windsor" or "Falstaff," as it will
more likely be called, but the rush to secure
possession Of the opera does not seem to be
very great.
Pop, what does this paper mean when it
says the singing left nothing to be de-
sired 1T evidently means, my son, that
the audience had enoug h of ii. "-PhiiIdel-
phia Record
new musical prodigy has appeared in
London, nine-year-old Russian pianist
with an unpronOunceable name 1t is said
that he VIII not play unless given as many
sweetmeats as he dares eat. The Players
gives utterance TO the heartfelt desire that
all planlsts were similarly peculiar Then,
It says. when we did not want to listen
we need not give the Sweetineats, and
peaceful silence would be more common in
our drawng-ro0ms."
Ann Hathaway's cottage has become the
property Of the British nation. The price
paid was 43000
Charles Frohman intends to lease thea
ter III London and produce all his plays
there.
by way of London comes the story that
New York manager wrote to Mrs. Deacon,
whose husband shot her lover, Offering her
an engagement to star In America
Mrs. Stuart Robson, who is known on the
stage as May Waldron, is lying seriously
i'll at the Burnet House in Cincinnati. She
had an attack of t0nsilitis, which was fol-
lowed by pneumonia, and at last accounts
may q her condition was reported TO be
critical.
Harry b. Hudson, the actor for long
whlie connected with the Boston Museum
stock company, WAS buried April q from
~ greenwich street, New York. Ills
friends were conspicuous by their absence
Evergreen Cemetery
The Frederick Warde-Louis James COM
bination begins its tour in Washington,
ID. &.
Lewis Morrison has purchased a farm near
the residence formerly occupied by the late
Henry Ward Beecher in Peekskill, n. Y.
and Will name 1t MephIstO Villa
Mary Anderson is busy negatiVing rumOrs
and statements that she Will return to the
stage.
Frank Frank Daniels SAYS that he has 93 farce
comedies In his trunk, and the New York
Mirror advises him TO keep them there.
Joseph Murphy Is put down as the rich
est OF actors. He is said to be worth
S4JO,OO0, most Of which represents the saw
ings from his annual income, for he is the
most economical OF stage professionals.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox contributes the fol-
lowing to the album gotten mp as one of the
features of the late Actors Fund Charity
Fair at MadisOn-square Garden, New York:
THE ACTOR.
man, with your wonderful DOVER
q woman. WITH genius and grace,
You C6n help the whole world Oy your power
II you are but worthy your place.
The stage "a force aud factor
Ia mo ding tue thought OF the day,
IL only the heart Of the actor
Is high as the theme or the play
Your words and your gestures Obeylng,
We weep or rejoice with your part,
ne he all his nj rfu
He ought c be great as bis art.
Miss Attalie Claire, of whom Lillian Rus
sell is so iuriously jealous, is going to study
for grand opera, while poor Lillian must
only remain a poor comic opera singer.
Claire is native Of Toronto. Canada. Size
sailed for Paris with her parents on Nav IL.
1t is proposed that she study under Mar
cheSi for two years, and then make her
| debut in grand opera. Meantime the in
tending debutante will be married to Mr.
Alfred kayne in Paris as soon as Worth can
make ready the trousSeau. most unf0r-
tunate step so fan as professional prospects
are concerned.