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The morning call., 1893-06-18

o. w. Wooley communicates to TIE
CALL some interesting facts, gathered by
personal observation, concerning the late
James Z. Murdoch and the Booth brothers
Murdoch, be says. began his stage career
in Philadelphia, and they gave him a iubi-
lee benefit in that city a few years ago.
Mrs. ID. 7. Bowers knows more about
Murdoch than any one living at present.
Alter finishing his California engagement
IN 1858 Murdoch went direct to his home-
farm near Loveland, Ohio, a station on
the Little Miami Railroad, between Gin
cinnati and Columbus, Ohio. He made a
starring tour through the South before the
war, tell sick at Savannah, Ga, and never
after made his appearance on the stage as
a Shakespearean actor.
lie persuaded Lewis Baker to visit Gin
cinnati and lease the old National Theater
from the proprietorSJohn Bates, who also
owned the PEOPLES at ST. Louis. The
National was modernzed and opened by
Lewis and Alexina Fisher Baker with
Ihe Sea OF lee" John +. McDonouph.
now dead, was in the company, and also a
beautiful young actress billed as Henrietta
BAKER, SAID to be niece of Lewis and
AleXlna. Edwin Booth quietly married
the young lady. who might have been
Mary Devitn in private life. for no men
ton Is made where Booth got his first wife.
his second wife was Mary McVicker.
daughter OF Horace McVicker.
Booths brother. Junius Brutus, was
playing an engagement at Pixies Grand
Opera-house in Cincinnati when the news
of President Lincoln's assassination came
there, aud the actors name-Junius
Brulus BOoth-was conspicuous over the
entrance to the theater The signs and
the star disappeared almost Immediately
after the news was received. j. Wilkes
Booth played in Nashville eighteen
months previous, at Duffied & Flynn'S
Theater. He did Iago and Claude Hamil-
that time, TO have ga lost voice"
James Z. Murdoch was very patriotic
during the war. and reclted on all occasions
for the benefit of sick and disa bled soldiers.
T. Buchanan Read, the author of "Sheri-
dams Ride, had an Office in Pixies Opera
house, and Murdoch dropped in one day
and wanted Read to give him something
to recite. The "R de- was written on the
spur of the moment and recited the same
evening. Murdoch lost his favorite son,
Elmer. at Chickamauga. where he had the
rank of lieutenant, and served as an aid
to General Van CleaYe. Mr.. Wooley met
Murdoch at Nashville, going South to get
Elmer's body. Ever since Murdoch's re-
tirCment from the stage be taught eIoeu-
I'll in Cincinnati. Without doubt Law
ren~a Barrett ana James E. j, urdoch were
the finest elocutionists that ever trod the
American stage.
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The Mobiles Series,

Mr.. Clarence T.. Arper at the Grove
street Theater Is working his way through
Mr.. Milton Mobiles series of melodrama.
in very capable manner. Mobiles was
fond of saying his plays were abstracts
and brief chronicles of the time" and that
by all the characters he created ''the mirror
was held up TO nature; but whether on
account OF some fault in the mirror or d
certain cIOokedness in the natural object
the reflections given were not always first
class. We really think for the sake of the
plays themselves the author has done well
in farming them out to Mr.. Arper. 1t is
understood that the energetic managers
Of the Grove street have made contracts
with Mr.. W. A. Brady by which they have
secured for the use Of their stage 1.-The
Bottom of the Sea-" which VIII probably
be put on as a Fourth-of-July piece, and
the favorite drama After Dark"
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tsOueena."

The New York stock company propose
to produce this society play tonight at the
National Theater, corner of Jones and
Eddy streets. taking the place Of FALSELY
Accused" which has been running there
for the last week. 1t is said to be a rather
clever piece of work and was played In this
city for run some time ago. The scenes
are laid In New York and Italy and the
stage calls for elaborate mounting, which
will be given it. SO far this Company has
created a good impression. There is, as
has before been remarked, good material
in its ranks. Snow had his training under
the Frohman management In New York.
Cleaves is a seasoned actor, and trained
with the old Mcguire companies in this city.
The latest accession is Lizzie LinghaD.
widow of Mat Lnghan, who were both
well known 10 our theater-goers when M.
4. Kennedy managed the Grand Opera
house, Mission street, for Mark Mcdonald.
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San Francisco following The Olympic
boom. The long Chicago engagement may
salve it.
j. NJ. Hill has not retired from theat-
rcal management. but has sad good.by
to Marie Tempest. Katherine Germalne
will lead his comc-opera company next
season.
In recent suit in the London courts for
the infringement of the copyright of
play founded on East Lynne" the fact
was brought out that Mrs. Henry Wood.
the author of the novel, never received
penny of royalty for any of the many
dramas founded on it. The English copy
right law does not protect novelist from
theatrical "adapters."
Minnie Palmer worked in an advertise
ment for herself when Booth died. She
gave it out that she was awfuilysolci.ous
about the great actor in his last moments.
and is said to have called at the Players
Club repeatedly on the night he died to
inquire for him. 1t is deeply interesting
TO know. adds a Chicago paper, that Miss
Palmer that was, Mrs. Rogers that is, Will
wed London manager, one who handled
season.
The blase fops and fopesses of New
York have new caprice. 1t is playing
''supe" in ''The Prodigal Daughter" the
racing melodrama at the American Thea
ter. The gentleman jockey and actor,
LtOudtu DOyue, has IeNte III nio uiese-
ing-room every night. and scarcely pei
formance passes that some fashionable PEI
pie are not on the coaches in the race
scene. Belmont. Tiffany. Frank Beard
and Frederick Martin did it first, and now
everybody is making fad of it. Manager
French says he is thinking Of rigging ont
swell coach for his swell ''supes." Its
nothing to what we had in London"
Actor Barnes seid recently. There we
had tons of them every night. 1t was
perfect mania with the swells over there"
Lillian kusselPs latest fad is collecting
seals. She has her watchchain abundantly
covered with them. One belongs to her
grandfather, Judge Leonard of Detroit;
the second comes from her great-uncle.
Eliza Leonard of Canada; third Is her
own, with her crest and monogram on it;
fourth she picked up in London last sum-
mer. because OF its quaint design, and
fifth is the Order OF the Garter. When
Miss Russell is not collecting seals she
seems To be mostly sitting for her portrait.
Her picture has been taken about 1000
times.
The French company PLAYING the panto-
mime IL En- fant Prologue" Che prOdigal
infant, has been engaged for tour of the
United States next season. 1t is described
as a three-act cumedy-drama, and c0nsti-
tItes an entire evenings performance.
There are but six characters, and not a
word is spoken from first to last, but the
spectators sit as entranced and as respon-
sive to every emotion expressed by the
actors as if every thought and sentiment
were tut into words. Nothing is lost and
there is not moments uncertainty. so per-
feet in the art of Interpretation and ex-
preston are these artists.
Rafael Jnseffv, the pianist, is now a
teacher at thu National Conservatory Of
Music, New York.
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More Chinese Circulars.

The Chinese Consul and the Six Com.
panies have lssaed new circulars of
warning. and they have been posted in the
public places in Chinatown. The circulars
call uDon every Chinese to become mem
Der OF the new anti highbinder society.
and threaten to boycott every one who
dues not join.
The circulars also announce that eyery
Highlander who has not left the city with
and prosecuted. The new society claims
that it will succeed in breaking up the
highbinders, but a number of the Chinese
claim that it is only a scheme to force the
merchants to put up lot of money that
will eventually reach the pockets of the
Six Companies.
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+" The MiIk-White FIag. /"

Charles II. Hoyt's latest play. with this
title. is designed to show how thousands
of heroic youths stand ready to risk their
lives for their country In times of peace.
and contrasts a few veterans with the
amateur warriors. The veteran of 100 bat
ties is N ade the guest of swell city regi-
ment. and as its colonel entertains him in
the paatal armory the veteran remarks
quizzically: you've got a delightful
clubhouse here, colonel" Yes. our
pride myself, moreover. In keeping eyery-
thing aud everybody ready for action.
Look at our rcgimental band. They're
patriots every one Of them. Not an Amer
ican among them. They are so devoted to
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fered by those boys in blue who were un.

fered by those boys in blue who were un-
fortunate en- ough to be prisoners of war in
that slaughter-pen. The play, we under
stand, is enriched by dramatic incidents
contributed by l.. r. Stock well, who is him.
self veteran of the late civil war. In the
character of Absalom j. Bates he will
personate New England farmer of the
Josh Whitc0mb order, and he feels per-
fectly at home in the business. In addi-
tion to securing all the outside talent pos
sible, the management has invaded the
Preside and enlisted infantry soldiers
and cavalry 10 give realistic effects to the
battle scenes and vivid idea OF the places
where rolled the storm of freedoms
war" The opening performance will be
for the benefit of Mr.. John Jack, a veteran
in arms as we'll as In acting
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A Burnt-Out Actor.

Mr.. Fred Urban, who has commended
himself to our public these many years as
correct actor. an expert manager, and an
obliging fellow when his services were
needed to forward public charities, lost all
his goods and chattels at the recent Page
street fire. Mr.. Metzler's residence. 1885,
where he was living, went up In smoke.
and the unfortunate actor only managed
TO save his oabe, which he caught from her
little crib IN her nightgown and hurried to
the street pursued by the flames. He is
compelled to begin the world anew, and is
many friends and professional brethren
nave come forward and offered 10 helm him
in his strait This will take the shape
of benefit on Friday afternoon. June %.
at StockwelPs Tbeater, the performance
commencing at 2 o'clock sharp. Matinee
benefits as a general thing are not pro-
ductive of much coin; but we hope con-
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Dull Times in New York.

A New York paper says it is waste of
words to talk about the drama in that city
after June 1. There is no drama after
summer comes. New York people will
not support plays properly after the first
warm spring weather Country visitors
like to go TO the theater when they come
to New York, naturally. as the theater is
city institution, but their tastes are sat-
isfied by burlesQue and comic opera and
vaudeville" as 1t is called, and that we
have with us the year round.
When old Thespls was a-dozlng,
When the theaters are a-closing
And the leading en- stops posing
AS a baronet or earl
When the shows closed for the season
Empty treasury the reason
Aud the star commits the treason
or resigning on the spot:
When the troupe return In sorrow,
From their sympatbizers borrow.
Promising to pay Tomorrow
When they know quite we'll they'l not;
Ihen the lively soubrette, who
Has saved up ten or two
In her yachting suit of blue,
And her yellow hair in curl,
Hummlng DER comic ditty,
StrOils about Atlantic CITY,
Fetching, lovely, charming, pretty
Fin de steele summer girl!
HENRY WHITE
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Bauer's Summer Series.

The third OF Adolph Bauer's summer
series Of Symphony concerts will be given
at the Tivoli Friday afternoon, June 80,
when will be rendered for the first time in
America the complete score of ''The
Golden Cross" with full orchestra.
IgnatZ Brull, the composer, weli-known
Vennese musician and professor ar the
Conservatory of Music. has sent Mr..
Bauer his own instrumen tation and those
who heard the opera last week with small
orchestra can form a faint idea of the
musical beauties TO be revealed in the COM
plrte production of the work. "Cavalleria
Rusticana" was produced in a similar
manner by Mr. Bauer and his subscribers
were so pleased ut that performance that
they have requested the present rendering.
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The Perennial {. Mikado."

Out comes Gilbert and Sullivan again at
the Tivoii-this time in the shape of that
light Of Asia whichyears have been unable
to dim. "The Mikado; or. The Town of
Titipu." 1t is billed for the week COM
mencing June 49, and will give occasion
for the temperance Of the petite favorite,
Miss Oracle Plaisted. in the part of Yum
Yum. 1t appears Miss Paisted has had
the privilege, enjoyed by few actresses, Of
appearing before the actual Mikado of
Japan in this character in his own coun-
try. The dress she appeared in then will
be worn tomorrow night, together with
the pair of charmed bracelets she had
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The Wigwam Show.

Natalie Borondo, the only person in the
world who can handle alligators of the
largest size without fear, will manipulate
group of these hideous saurians at the
Wigwam every evening during this week.
They are full of life and activity, and
fresh from the Louisiana bayous. The
Hawaiian hula-hula dancers finish with
the present week, and then proceed to the
chicago fair to give the dwellers by the
lakes new ideas of the poetry of motion.
There is long list of attractions on the
Wigwam's programme besides the two
mentioned that are well worth seeing.
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A Needed Benefit.

On the afternoon of Sunday, June 25, at
the Grand Opera.house. a performances
will be given for the benefit of the widows
and orphaned children of the brave firemen
who lost their lives at the recent Page
street fire. Over 100 volunteers will assist
Tickets can be had from members of the
Fire Department and q. any of the engine
houses. The entire theatrical profession
of the city have placed themselves at the
disposal of the managers of this benefit,
and the programme will be one of the most
interesting and extensive ever given here.
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(Which. by the way under the English
statute he could not legally do), and on the
day OF the wedding the asylum where
Ellen Carrutners is confined burns to the
ground. Fright restores reason to the in
sane woman. She returns to her own
home, recognizes her daughter, now six
years old, and just then her husband and
his new wife come on the scene. Climax.
Mother and child leave the house despite
all the husbands efforts to the contrary.
THE FINAL ACT
Deals with the illness If the child: death
is imminent, and, believing the child to
be dead, the mother becomes again insane
and takes poison. But the child revives,
then there is struggle to save the mother
for her sake, but all in vain. The DEATH
scene of the unfortunate Helen is startling
runs through the play 'and relieves its
somberness. Miss Granger will be sup
ported by good company-Mr. Frederic
HerZog in the lead.
THE CAST.
Helen Carruthers, ward Of DR.. Raymond.
Observation-Disclosures. Maude Granger
Alice Pelham, niece OF DIR. Rayms snd......
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Miss Alice Irving
Fay Merwin. a friend and neighbor.
......-......-.............M Miss Valerie Bergere
Mary, seryaDt........... ........ Miss Tot Allen
Louise child OF Helen Little Annie Laughlin
DR.. Ambrose Raymond. a physician OF London
..-.-......,...... Mr.. w. II. Canteld
SAMMY sanders fresh young American.
.:......... .Mr harold Hoyt
Perkins. servant to DR.. Raymond d...............
- Mr.. Hubert Carter
Fletcher. superannuated servant.
............- ..............Mr. Charles Fullsinger
Julian Raymond. son OF Dr. Raymond.
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I" The Girl Left Behind Me-"

The play named after this rollicking
military song, and into which the song
Itself IS introduced, runs to big houses in
New York. This tune has for more than a
century been associated with military life
II is played iE England invariably when
British troops depart for campaign, and
In this country 1t has long been favorite
with army bands. General Custer used to
have it played frequently.
w. w. Furst musical director at the EN-
plre, said to Sun reporter the other day ::
Snme young people whose childhood
memories do not go back beyond the late
civil war think the tune of The Girl Left
Behind Me- is war melody. 1t is no such
thhg. 1t is over a century old, having
been played and sung In England as long
ago as 1760. The original name of the
song was Brighton Camp and its verses
celebrate some incident connected with
the heart history of that camp. Brighton
was one OF the many camps on the south
coast OF England maintained until some
years ago. Soldiers were coming and 60
ing between these parts and the air that
Is now so popular with the men who make
business of fighting was popular 125
years ago. 1t was originally an Irish air,
but who composed the music or who COM
posed the verses is now unknown. The
circumstances that called it forth must
have had some romantic value. Perhaps
1t was such story Of self-sacrtice in the
cause OF love as the play which has been
named alter it tells. Certainly it was a
case OF separated lovers longing to be to-
gether again, aud yearning for the day that
would reunite them. 1t is one of the most
nspiriting tunes. and never fails of an en-
llvenlng effect on an audience"
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slderate public will make Urban's affair
notable exception to the rule. He is in
sore need, and this is the time to make
good Iimon's expression when he was
flush, 1--WE are born to do benefits"
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their country can't get them to leave the
armory. They camp in front of the bar.
| can tap that gong, and in five minutes
each man that can stand up will be in
line 1"
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Pinero'S Last.

Mr.. Arthur w. Piuero submitted his
last, and many say his best. play to the
London public on May 81. and according
TO advices received from the worlds me-
tropolis has achieved a decided success,
1t was produced at the st. James Theater
by Manager George Alexander, and was
followed with enthusiastic interest by
large audience from beginning to end. and
who hailed THE Second Mrs. Tanqueray"
as play of the highest excellence. The
morale of Mr. Pinero's work may be
summed up In few words. 1t has the
c0lOring of the French school, but the
lesson taught In the end Is wholesome.
The case may be thus set down: Because
woman has lived irregularly it does not
argue that she must be essentially vicious;
her nature may have been warped by the
circumstances of her life. but it may be yet
full of good and generous possibilities her
heart, in fact. may be in the right place,
and she may yearn to break from the old,
vicious life, and to live better and more
purely and respectfully in the future.
Now, can good, chlyalrous man help such
woman to respectable life by marrying
her? Can happiness for them both be
built up on foundation such as is pre-
sented by the woman's past; and has
man of family and position right to
brave the prejudices of society and risk
the conseqnen es? In 1.-The Second Mrs.
Tanqueray" Mr.. Pinero has answered
these questions in an intensely dramatic
fashion, and his answer is full of pathos
and pity; and the moral of it all is that if
we depart in any way from the straight
path Of conduct we are punished through
the good that Is in US rather than through
the bad.
1t is said this play was in Daniel Froh-
mans possession last winter, and he con-
templated matinee performance of it,
but deemed 1t too morbid in Its sentiment
for successful use in regular way in this
country.
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NEW WESTERN HOTEL,

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The New War PLAY,

Maine and Georgia." written by Mr.
Harry Meredith and reconstructed and
improved by Howard P. Taylor. will be
submitted to the San Francisco public at
the Stockwell Theater on Monday, June
g. and, according to the talk. will be one
of the greatest comic productions yet seen
there. Several new members are to be
added to the company for the occasion.
and the Andersonville prison scene will
enable spectators to realize more clearly.
pctorialy, than they ceuld do from the
most graphic descriptions the horrors suf-
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given her by a Japanese flsherwoman, who
cried Caller herrin'" through the streets
of Toxic.
DISTRIBUTION.
Ine miSado OF Japan. George Olmi
NankfPoo, his son, disguised as minstrel and
IN loYe win um-f um ........... Phil BranSon
ho-ho. Lord High Executoner of Tftipu
errl5 hartman
6ooh.Bah. Lord High Every hing else M. Cornell
Ilsh-l lush noble lord. Frank Ridsdae
Yum -Ium.... Three sisters ( . Oracle Plaisted
Pesp.Rn PPe,.r.1ng - Wards rs OF Fanny Lidaiard
Aatlsha an elderly lady, in love with Nanki-
W.. -.--..--..-. ..-......- ...Graee Vernon
Great preparations are being made for a
magnificent production of "Ali Baba Up
to Date" II will follow 1.-The Mikado"
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Stolen Music.

The necessity for national air that has
not been either borrowed or stolen was
very clearly apparent during the naval
rendezvous at Hampton Roads. says the
Washington Star, and the subsequent
ceremonies in New York. In those places,
il never before, the chilly conviction
struck many a heart, and there was
hourly emphasis of our poverty and musi-
cal dishonesty. When the band on one of
the British ships played God Save the
Queen" young lady visitor was delighted
with what she thought was an interna-
tional compliment, for she imagined tina.
the bandsmen were playing America"
She was not alone in her error; hundreds
of others then in the vicinity did not know
that our greatest of patriotic hymns is
sung to stolen tune, and that tune the
most royalistic of all airs. There was SINH
lar misunders rstandng as to other melodies
They're playing Columbia, the Gem of
the Ocean," said soldier, who from the
wharf was listening to the Blake's band.
His guess was wrong. They were playing
britannia, the Gem of the Ocean," but
he was only one of millions who are not
aware of the fact that both words and
music Of that song were lifted bodily
across the Atlantic. and that somewhere
on the way the word columbia" was sub
stituted tor Britannia" Perhaps The
Star-spaEgled Banner" came nearer to be
generally recognized as our own than any
OF the other tunes. but foreign musicians
did nothing inexcusable when they dis
cussed among themselves the indisputabIe
fact that the words only are American
that the air is an old English production.
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Edwin Booths Dignity.

The dignity OF Booth was part of his
birthright Gentle and kind as he truly
was. he could be majestic off the stage as
well as on when the occasion demanded
it. One night when Booth was playing in
provincial town the manager OF the
house, curiously crude person. was
greatly excited by the unwontsd size of
the audience. Before the curtain rang up
this jauitor-manager went back to the
star dressing-room. and entering without
knocking slapped Booth upon the shoul-
der and said We've done the best we
could for you. old man. The house is
plumb full. Now. Ed, you sail in and
show 'em what you can dor
Booth slowly wheeled about and sur
veyed his visitor without speaking, but
words were not needed to EXPRESS the
plying scorn which cleaned in the actors
eyes, and the scorched wretch fled precip-
itately from Buoth's presence.