The record-union., 1893-02-18

in the allegorical finale the rock of ages
is shown in mid ocean with lime-light
effects. In this scene series OF pictures
Will be shown, and at the last the eternal
nome beyond the skies, leaving the cross
IN mid-ocean with little Eva struggling
III the water at the base. In the planta-
ton scene will be introduced a mastodon
company OF genuine colored jubilee sing
ers.
STAGE NOTES.
Harry Lacy has once more disbanded
his company.
Lottie Collins is to have show of her
own next season.
Mrs. John Drew has joined the Julia
MarlOwe Company.
Little Tippett" closed its season Feb
ruary 18th, at Orange, n. j.
lingo Tyrrell has gone to Montreal to
manage the Empire Theater.
Edgar L. Davenport is looking for
good play in which to star next season.
William II. Crane is to remain at the
New York Star for the balance of the sea-
son.
Frank Maeder, the weIl-known man
ager, Is IN New York looking out for "a
good thing"
John j. McNalIy's new piece, which he
is writing for Peter +. Daily, is entitled
"a Country Sport"
Lawrence Hanley has been engaged to
appear in new play at Herrmann's New
York Theater in three weeks.
The Manola- Mason Company will
leave Herrmann's New y orl1 Theater in
about three weeks for the road.
Donnelly and Girard are very success
fully illuminating New England with
their new Natural Gas'' these days.
Oscar Hammerstein viii probably turn
the new Manhattan Opera-house into a
big music hall, like the London Alham-
bra.
When "The Fencing Master' leaves the
New orll Casino, j. NJ. Hill proposes TO
do the advance work ahead of his COM
pany.
Augusta Roche will shortly retire from
the stage her husband having recently
fallen heir to $4,000 by the death OF
relative.
Manager Henry Greenwall has sent r.
Z. Graham and his Larry the Lord"
Company on twelve weeks tour to the
Pacific Coast.
The story that Odette Tyler is soon to
marry a wealthy citizen of Milwaukee
and retire from the stage, is squarely de-
MED by the lady.
The run of "A Temperance Town."
which is now in its tenth week. seems
e
the Boston Park Theater.
Nellie McHenry is having it all her
own way this season. "A Night at the
Circus" turning out to be the biggest
success she has ever had.
Miss Isabelle Urquhart was married in
London last week to Guy Standing, an
actor, Il nephew of William T. Carleton
and son OF Herbert Standing.
"The New South,' which had a verv
successful run few weeks since at the
New York Broadway Theater, is doing a
very large business on the road.
Langtry seems to be in bad luck. Her
new yacht was caught in storm between
Cowes and Marseilles the other day and
put In at the latter port in distress.
Annie c. Henderson, wife of the New
York Times music critic, is a member of
a. NJ. Palmers' company, and is now
playing in Lady Windermere's Fam
Oliver Byron, who started on the stage
as a society" actor at Wallack's and
afterward grew rich with Across the
Continent" is dangerously i'll with pneu-
monia.
Mrs. Edith Hand NEE Pond. daughter
of Major j. b. Pond, has begun suit at
Philadelphia, Pa, for an absolute divorce
from Elmer Il. Hand, to whom she was
married June 6 1888.
A. w. Dingwall, now advance agent for
1.-The Ensign" will manage lin Old
Kentucky" next season for Lift & Davis.
Mr.. Dingwall was formerly dramatic
editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Sir Edwin Arnold has blossomed out
as dramatist, having just published a
four-act play. 1t is entitled "Adiuma: or
The japanese Wife," and is written part
ly in prose and partly in blank verse.
The Ramsay Morris Company seem to
have made as big hit with THE Judge'
as they did with Joseph" and both
plays are sure to make a great deal of
money for the clever young author-man-
ager.
Odeu Williams retired from A. NJ.
Palmer's Stock Company February 4th,
He has been enaged for the next season
for 1.-The Old Homestead" to succeed
Archie Boyd ass Uncle Josh in the road
company.
Hoyfs ga Trip to Chinatown will
celebrate its five-hundreth consecutive
performance at the New York Madison
Square Theater March 10th, and General
Manager Frank Mckee is already pre-
pairing souvenirs.
Unusual interest is being displayed in
Louisville over the forthcoming engage
ment of Edwin Milton Royle's Friends
Company, owing to the fact of Selma Fet-
ter, the well-known leading lady of the
company, being Louisville BELLE
The "Rustlers" of Cheyenne, Wyo., tes-
titled their appreciation of Edwin Milton
Royle's comedy drama, Friends" on its
performance in that city last week, by
presenting the author with bucking
broncho and complete cowboy outfit.
The trial of the suit of Col. w. e. Sim
to annul his marriage to Cora Tanner
Sim, on the ground that she was not le-
gally divorced from her first husband at
the time the second marrige took place,
was begun in the City Court, BROOKLYN.
n. y, February 9Th.
j. X. Emmett has made a big success
this week in St. Louis as he did last
week in Chicago, and both of these great
Western towns agree with New York
that he is the best German-dialect come
dian in America. lis business in both
towns has been enormous.
The Friends Company last week
jumped from Cheyenne, Wyo., to Lin
coin, Neb., in order TO fulfill an engage
ment, an unprecedented journey in theat-
rical records. y special train over the
Union Pacific made an average time of
forty-five miles an hour, exclusive of
stops, a record breaker in the history of
the road.
The remains of the late Frances Anne
Kemble were buried at Kensal Green
Cemetery, in the same grave where her
father, Charles kemble, was inferred in
1884. The funeral was a private one, and
the mourners were Canon Leigh, Henry
X Nemble nephew. Mrs. Henry Gordon
tniecel, Miss Alice Leigh (grandchiId),
and H. J. Leigh.
Edward Vroom is seeking to legally
enjoin Alexander Salvini on the auda-
cious but possibly legal ground that he is
the inventor and owner of the device of