The record-union., 1893-05-06
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.
Flashes from the FootlIghts of Many
TheaterS.

Flashes from the Footlights of Many
Theaters.
Bertha Welby has the grip.
Jake"'Nunemacheri is in Paris.
Charles Frohman has gone to Europe. g
Tim" Murphy has married Dorothy
Sherwood.
Billy" Deutsch has gone to Colorado
for his health.
Donnelly and Girard have refused Sl0,-
oOo for Natural Gas"
James Lewis OF the DAILY Company is
on the sick list with laryngitis.
Fanny Davenport ought to be happy.
She has gotten rid of Marcus Mayer.
Brooklyn is to have new theater, cor
ner of Smith and Livingston streets.
ramsey Norris company in Joseph"
made striking success at the Boston
Globe.
Minnie Palmer has brought suit for
divorce against her husband, John r.
Rogers.
Blanche Marsden and VIM. Lytelps
new melodrama is called 1.-The Way of
the World"
A. Y. Pearson is still in Bermuda, but
VIII soon return to New York very much
improved in health.
Adelande Prince will not go to England
win the DAILY Company. She will be
married IN September.
Nellie McHenry is in Philadelphia
craving crowded houses with her play
"A Night at the Circus"
Louis c. Behman of Hyde & Behman,
new ork variety managers, has the
gout, and yet he is kicking.
j. X. Emmet has made more money
THIS season than his father ever made
playing the same number of weeks.
Gossipers have it that Mae Branson has
captured wealthy young gentleman
from Boston and that she will wed him.
Lulu Kline will be the leading lady
next season of the Albert Bruning Com
pany, which will be seen in a new ro-
mantle play.
Anson Pond of "Her Atonement', and
"A Desperate Man, fame has finished a
new melodrama which he has named
Conspiracy"
May Brooklyn is spoken of in Brooklyn,
where she appeared this week las the best
dressed actress seen this season in the
City of Churches.
won by Woman" A. c. Wheeler's
adaptatlon OF an old play by Tom Taylor,
was successfully produced in Middleton,
n. Y, April 18th.
Young Lawrence Hanley's tour through
Georgia, with Blanche Marsden's tragic
comedy, 1.-The Player" is the biggest sue
cess this season in the South.
VIII L. Lykens is in New York book
ing the time for the new Tootle Opera
house, st. Joseph, No., making his per-
sonaI headquarters at the Coleman House.
Manager William H. Arnold of the
Worcester Mass Opera-house had his
leg amputated above the knee in New
York, the result of being run over by a
street car.
Margaret Merrington, the author of E.
produced, was born in England, but was
educated at the Convent OF the Sacred
Heart at Rochester.
Thomas w. Keene is resting at his
pretty country home on Staten Island,
and will not act again until September 4th, ,
when he opens the season at the Du-
quesne Theater, Pittsburg.
Thomas w. Keene will, on June 10th.
make transcontinental trip, reaching
San francisco in time to take the steamer
for Japan. Mrs. Keene will, of course, ac-
company the great tragedian.
Mrs. Alice Shaw, LA Belle Siffleuse. :"
has returned to London from India, and
her next engagement will take her TO the
variety stage, where she may pucker up
her pretty lips and whistle TO her heart S
content.
Manager j. NJ. Hill is in his old home
IN Chicago, and the familiar and fragrant
atmosphere of the Chicago River has so
invigorated him as to make him look
inner than silk-according to a Chicago
correspondent.
AT the end OF the j. X. Emmett season,
Miss Emily Lytton, who will retain her
position as MIR. Emmets leading lady
next year. goes to Paris to purchase new
dresses for the part she is TO create in MIR.
Emmets new production, Fritz in the
West"
WIN Mcdonnell, the Chicago Joker, saws
that l, 100 theaters have been added to the
list of playhouses represented by the
american Theatrical Exchange during
the past week. By actual count of each
statement made by the joker, his ex-
change now represents 1872, ,362 theaters,
Bully boy!
Grismer and Miss Phoebe Davies. has
made another hit, this time in Brooklyn.
1t is undoubtedly one of the best plays
produced this season. "The New South,,
is in fact ''tind,'' an oasis in the desert
of new plays that have been inflicted
upon the public in recent years. 1t is
strong in its lines, intensely interesting
In its situations, consistent in the deveI-
opment of the plot, and has not moment
OF tiresome business in the play.
This is the newest on John Stetson :
During the rehearsal of The Crust of So
ciety" at the Boston Globe lately, Mr..
Kellard and the stage manager were ar
guing as to the right pronunciation of ex-
am-pla-ry. Mr.. Stetson listened for some
time, and when Kellard, who is very
loud talker, grew excited, he rushed in
between the orthoepists and shouted
stop that d-n noise and speak that
word just as it is in the manuscript. -
The argument stopped short and the re-
hearsal proceeded.