The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-05

ence IL pays to "play the devil.
Mrs. George Drew Barrymore, who lately
left here by the isthmus route Tor New
York. on account OF illness, has recovered
her health. and will appear at the Standard
February 13 in ''The Sportsman"
1t is said that the run of 1.-THE Fencing
Master" is hampered by its deadly dull
libretto.
f. j. Henley is very mad with his hacker,
w. n. Fleischmap. according to Dunlop.
who backed out when his backing was most
needed for Capt. Herne, q. s. N" Hen
ley is looking after revenge. and FlelSchman
is not to be found at his fathers bakery,
corner Broadway and Tenth street
John Il. Rogers has retired from the man.
agement of Wilson Barrett to engage in the
real estate business in London. He made
quasi joke on the subject lately. After
floating a long time on the dramatic ocean
and with varying success" said he, Il have
found land at last"
Maggie Garrett, with the j. T. Powers
company while in San Francisco, recently
made a distinct success at the NOuveau
Cirque, Paris. She has returned to London
and was disengaged.
The widow of Charlie Reed has estab-
lished dressmaking establishment in New
York.
Wilson Barrett's receipts at the Boston
Globe Theater for two weeks reached
$4,000 American taste is capricious in re-
gard 10 English acting talent. Bernard
Beere returned broke TO the tight little
island from the United States.
Miss Emma Eames, the New England
prima donna. is the victim OF misfortune.
She was engaged for series of perform
ances at the Madrid Opera-house. but was
compelled to Telinquish the engagement
after two performances, in which she re-
ceived high praise from the Spanish capital,
on account of q serious sickness. She Is
now an invalid in Paris, placed under the
treatment of he best physicians.
Sardou writes that "Amercans Abroad"
will soon be acted in Paris, but he doubts
its success there because, as he declares,
''iI is a clean, Wholesome comedy, suited TO
American tastes aud not TO the Partisan
auditor, who revels in unwholesOme sub
jects."
Oscar Wilde's satirical attack on London
society in Lady Windermere's Fan" has
duplicated its English success in Boston,
where it WAS performed by a. NJ. Palmef's
company. 1t was performed In New ORR
last week.
Eugene Fougere, whose return to Paris
with a purseiul of American money was
announced, has been hired to change her
mind and she viii reappear at the New
York Imperial for four weeks, beginning
February g.
Speaking of Mime. Elenora Duse's person
alton of Sardou's Fedora, the New York
Tribune gives the following opinions "Ihe
quality that she has not elevated is the over
whelming irresistible authority of genius.
70 say. descriptively, that she does not
reach the height Of Charlotte Cushman is to
indicate but half he truth. She is not the
equal of what Clara Morris was, in power,
and she Is not comparable with Ellen Terry
in the quality that fires the Imagination and
thrills the heart" Duse's managers will be
likely TO get into trouble by her playing
Fedora. Fanny Davenport has the sole
right TO it in the United States Sardou
only gave DuSe The right to act it in Italy
1t has been found necessary to take Hans
Won Buow 10 a madhouse He is incarce-
rated at Pankow. not far from Berlin.
Monsieur Chasse" (''The Sportsman is
not 10 the taste of the German authorities, for
they have prohibited its performance. and
the company which was TO have played it IN
Metz and other towns in Alsace-LOrraine
has returned To Paris.
Emma Juch has revived the memory of
the American Opera Company by bringing
suit against Mrs. jeanette Thnrber for SS9Sj.
4 picture signed Adeina Patti was lately
sold by auction at London. Ii is q moon
light scene and the authenticity is guaran-
teed.
Sir Arthur Sullivan has finished his visit
to Monte Carlo and has taken a house at
ROQuebrune, where he proposes to pass
most Of the spring. He is in fairly good
health and is engaged upon the alterations
necessary in "Ivanhoe" for IT'S ng-deferred
production in Berlin. Atterward he in
tends, IL is understood, leisureiy TO set to
work upon new opera to a liOrettO by Mr.
Gilbert
Bettina Padelford-R Rafael is seriously Ill
with cancer at private hospital in New
York.
Mr. Placide Canonge of PAbeile bee.
New Orleans. La, died on Sunday. Janu-
ary 60 He was the dean OF dramatic
editors aud had served his paper in that
capacity longer than either Mr.. William
Winter Of the New York Tribune or Mr.
George G00dale OF the Detroit Free Press.
both of whom have claims to that distine-
ton in the North. Mr.. Canonge was
native of New Orleans and was educated in
Paris.
Mr. Carl Hertz, who halls from this city
and is now travelling around the world as a
professor Of thaumaturgy, has invented
new Illusion called Vanity Fair" 1t is
thus described by a London daily: "Mr.
HertZ's sole apparatus consists of large
mirror standing some four feet from the
ground, piece Of strong pate glass about
eighteen hY twenty-four inches and q light
folding screen large enough TO conceal the
fair Mile. dalton. The plate glass is laid
on bracket arrangement at the bottom OF
the mirror. and on ii Miss dalton stands,
with her back TO the mirror, trying posi-
ton for her and one which takes her some
little time to make up her mind to; so at
tTactye is the power Of the mirror that she
is obliged 10 turn around once or twice just
to see that she is all right. that her hair Is
tidy, etc However, at-last she manages 10
keep still and the screen is put In front of
her for a moment, the inevitable revolver
fired, the screen removed, when 10 and be-
hold, Mile. d Alton has disappeared behind
it and comes on from the wing"