The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-29


at this hall. as it closes on the 5,h to open
no more. Among the special features OF
the show is Il novelty act by R0nnOccO, late
Of the Alhambra, London. Mr.. ROaDOcc0
has been engaged at a large salary to APP
pear in Chicago during the Worlds FAIR,
aud this will be his last appearance In this
city.
Lolita has changed her plans. She will
not come to California this month, but viii
remain in New York under her physicians
care.
In France dramatic authors get 10 per
cent of the gross receipts OF their plays and
100 francs worth of tickets Tor each even
ing they are PLAYED.
Buffalo Bill is 10 have a silver statue at
the Worlds Fair just like Miss Rehan. lie
will persOnate the silver bin.
James J. CoTbett is said TO be as superior
to Sullivan on the stage as he was 10 the de-
feated champion in the ring
The tile OF NJ. SardOu's new play. writ
ten Jointly with NJ. M0reau for the Grand
Theajer IN Paris, is Mime Sans-Gene,"
which NAV be rendered in English as Mrs.
Free-and- Easy" Nine. Sandstone" was
nickname which. in the days OF the first
Napoleon, was bestowed on the wife OF
distinguished military officer notorious for
her iililerateuess. This lady is Nj SardOu's
heroine. The play is described by the
author rs "a dramatic comedy
The lncog Specially Club has rendered
ID0nlAS j.. MCNTdtH a Den6NL 10 take pitce
al Irving Hall Saturday evening, February L.
Manager David Henderson has made n
new contract with Edwin FOy covering
| period of two years.
Mr.. James Ryan, who was here with
! Charles Erin Werner and other attractions,
returned fcOm the East on Thursday last
| lie left san Francisco with John X bu-
/ sons circus in business capacity. and has
! now been engaged as general agent for next
! season, vice The old. tlme-trled DR.. J0sephS,
who has connected himself with Fore
! paugh's establishment.
Edgar Allan Poe's ISRAELI" with a mu-
Seal setting by Edgar Stilman Kelley, Will
be presented at the next Carr b eel concert,
| February T. Those who have heard ii I'D
private consider ii the best work OF the
kind done by SIR. Kelley.
Russell Harrison has had a portrait
painted Of Amelia Glover in her skirt
dance, and II Will be hung IN the White
House until President Harrisons depar-
tuTe.
Lillian Lewis writes to the New Y ork sun
in funny rapture "Zola is a past master o (
realism and MarSten"-he is her husband
"is only a novice by comparison. | don't
believe there Is an actress alive who can
realize 'Therese Raquin' better than l..
Eeonora DusP, the Italian actress, will be
seen in San francisco next season under
the management Of Hermann Streitz.
William A. MestaveT has become the
buS Tess manager OF DdIRUcSs DIdtC, Il he "
actress that IeaYitt has arranged 10 play
across the Rockies for twenty weeks. A
good deal is said about a perilOus down.
stairs fall the Baroness makes III one Of her
plays.
1t is now stated that the receipts of David
Henderson's American EXtravaganZa Com
pany that appeared In All Bahia" at the
Grand Operations recently, reached. up g.
January p, $4,000.
The European professional influx 10
America next season will be as follows:
the k~ndalS will be first in the field, then
comes Patti. CoQuelin, Hading aud henry
Irving. Then Charles Wyndham and Alex
andet's Company from the 81. James Thea
ter. Charles Hawtrey and Hare and Pend
ley are also 10 come, aud +. ). Willard will
play xieen weeks at Hooley's Chicago
Theater during the coming summer. Many
more wish to come. but have not as yet
made arrangements.
Wilson Barrett has been initiated by the
students of NJ Gill College. Montreal, and Is
now "a fellow in firSt-rate standing. The
ceremony was performed with violent en-
thusasm In installments during his late
eventful engagement IN that city. First he
was tossed high in the air, bundled into a
sleigh and dragged TO his hotel amid pyro-
terhn display and the explosion of giant
crackers On the last night Of his appear
ance he was assisted in the performance
of Hamlet by the students, who gave q
farce-comedy complexion to the tragedy Of
the Melancholy ID me, to the great delight
of the public aud OF Manager Rogers, who
was overwhelmed with the receipts and the
popular demonstration in favor Of his star
and company.
II is threatened that Jim Dunlap. who is
out of an Eastern prison after serving a
term as convicted burglar In the cele-
brated Northampton Bank robbery. will be
put on the stage in play containing that
crime.
Tennyson's play Beckett" Is to be pro-
duced by Henry Irving at the Lyceum
Tbeater London. on the 9th prox.
Amalie Joachim has decided to abandon
her proposed tour Of America, and will re-
main in Munich during this year.
A clearinghouse keePer IN Indianapolis
named Mrs. Hess, has taken novel meas
ure to secure board bill. She claims that
money is due her for the keeping of an
actress Of the Wilbur Opera Company and
her child. and she has seized the child as
security for It's payment. legal battle for
the little one impends.
John S. Warde, brother OF Fred Warde.
the tragedian, died at his home recently In
Pla ntield, n. j., aged % years.
Nine. Scalchi. the greatest Of living con-
traltos, is a member Of the Nordica Oper-
attic Concert Comnany, which will appear
in ST. Louis next February.
So the story about Divide Mu'in b Ing
reduced to decrepitude by railroad acci-
dent is an untruth. He had the thrd finger
of his right hand cut slightly by broken
glass, but aside from this and the severe
shaking up he was subjected to he escaped
from the wreck uninjured. Both Musin
and his wife are concertiZing in Cleveland,
and will do other towns In Ohio.
William NJ. Fleiscbman, manager OF Gap
tain Herue, u. S. A." which has been
playing at The Union-square Theater, New
York. concluded on January IA that lie had
sunk enough money in the play, and after
he had liduidated most OF his debts an
nounced that he was through with the COM
pany +. J. Henley and Mr.. James I.
Waldron have taken the play of M
FIeischmans hands. Captain Herne, y.
S. A." IL will be remembered. had It's
premierat the Stockwell in this city.
A Sheriff's jury has decided that James
Owen O'COnnor, the eccentric tragedian. Is
insane. He is in the Morris Plains Asylum.
0'Connor has an estate worth $4,000.
Henry HaIlam, one OF The singers in Lillian
Russeips "Mountebank" company. was re-
Gently arraigned by his wife, Margaret, in
the Jefferson Market Police Court for
abandonment. She named Josephine Stan
ton as the present fancy of the hekle Hal
lam. The deserted wife intends to bring
suit for divorce Meantime the court com
pels Hallam to pay his wife $40 week.
Katie Stokes-Stetson. one OF the actresses
who declined to pay $4,000 Tor exploitation
as the model for the silver Justice. mas re-
turned to the stage temporarily. Mrs.
Stokes StelsGn USED to be famous circ rs
rider, noted for skill and beauty. Now she
is the wife of the millionaire, John Stet-
son. and could have easily afforded the
statue indulgence II she had been so
minded.
The birthplace of T.. II. Sothern, son OF
Lord Dundreary," is New Orleans. lie Is
now 80 years of age.
The famous aud favorte Mathilde Cot
trelly, contemporary with Max Freeman at
the old California, Is now in the stock COM
pany at the Germana, ST. Louis.
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