The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-29
Notes OF the Stage.

Lawrence Hanley has made q hit a. Perry
Bascom. the leading role in ''BIue Jeans"
The Lost Paradise" presented by Charles
Frohman's big stock company, is the attraction
secured by Manager Hanna for July L.
Organist Morgan and Miss Morgan, the harpist,
will shortly give a performance in Seattle, as
sisted by local talent. They have great reputa-
ton.
The Power of the Press" is magnifcently
staged, there being thirteen sets of scenery in
all. The exterior of the Manhattan Club house
is said to be one of the best street scenes ever
put on the stage.
The Music and Drama says: 1.-THE Power of the
Press has fiiied the California right along.
weil-sfaged melodrama il bound to attract il
the piece is worth anything, and the play il one
OF the best of its class
James II. Wailiek plays the title character in
"The Cattle King in bluff and hearty manner
that pleases his patrons immensely. He has
had an extended experience in the border
drama, ana knows well how to reach his
audience.
The ST. Louis Republic says that NJ c. DAILY,
who plays Kershaw in "Jane," has " a wealth OF
facial expression which would be most fertile
subject for a cartoonists PEN" r. F. Cotton 10
another member OF the company who possesses
"a repertory OF expressions"
During the six years that Richard Mansfield
has been before the pubic a star he has had
not quite four months Of rest and recreation.
He will, however, take one this summer at the
close of his present engagement, when he will
go to Europe for few months.
Richard Mansfield is unsparing OF expense
and exacting as to detail. Tho dinner served
by the Baron Chevrialis always genuine ban.
quet with real wines of the best brands served
by the best caterers, as for example, when in
New York, by the Hoffman house.
In addition to his acting Richard Mansfield
speaks ten or twelve languages, pain ts cleverly,
is a thorough musician and profound reader,
thinker and writer. Small wonder that such q
man, aided by indomitable will and perssver.
ance, should have attained the position he now
occupies
1t in not often that q successful black face
minstrel turns into an Irish singing comedian,
and 1t is rather hard to imagine any one doing
it successfully; but that is what Carroll John
son has done, and the measure of his success We
shall have an opportunity OF determining when
he appears at the opera house.
Perhaps 1t is not generally known that La
vinia Shannon, who is playing the actress in
1.-THE Power OF the Press" is the Miss shannon
who starred In "Lady Audley's Secret" some
years ago. Miss Shannon is a capable actress
and had for patron the late Father A. J. Ryan,
the poetpriest OF the Confederacy.
Richard Mansfield has made such success az
q depicter of historical personages that he has
commissioned several prominent authors to
write plays for him based upon the lives Of
prominent mon. Cardinal Mazarin will be the
subject of one of these plays He also contem.
plates an elaborate revival OF the Merchant of
Venice"
A san Francisco paper says: "Riehard Mans
field thrills the Baldwin audiences by his weird
and fiendlsh representation of Mr.. Hyde Many
OF them are simply terrified by it; yet in spite of
this fact there is a fascination which they are
unable TO resist and they remain in their seats
till the end of the play, gazing at what they
actually fear to look upon"