The herald., 1893-12-03
Notes from DuuIop's News.


J. H. McVicker, the veteran Chicago
manager, is again very ill.
Tom Prior is in Chicago, rapidly re-
covering from broken leg.
Rosins Vokes, who is playing in Chi
cago, is improving in health.
Anson Pond, author of Her Atone
ment, is finishing new play.
Anne O'Neill is now the leading &C.
tress of W. H. Cranes company.
Julia Marlowe will shortly produce q
new one-act play by Ernest Lacy.
Lila Vans has taken Mabel Amber's
place in Nat Goodwin's company.
Eleonors Duse is prevented by illness
from keeping Berlin engagement.
Bert Coote has left the Straight Tip
company, in which he was starring.
The Lights o. London company dis
banded on ths 18th at Indianapolis.
AL w. Fremont has laid up his III
company on account OF bad business.
W. 81. Sloan, the comedian in 1892, is
a brother of the late George S. Knight.
Henry St. Ormond will probably soon
become manager Of Philadelphia thea
ter.
The Gilbert opera compsny was
stranded at Lockport, n. Y, November
10th.
The father of Gus 3othner, manager
of The Voodoo, died in this city last
week.
Nat Goodwin revives his last seasons
comedy, A Gilded Fool, at Boston next
week.
Juliette Corden has resigned from
Seabrooke's Isle of Champagne COM
psny.
Blanche Weaver has had the misior-
tune to break her ankle by fall from a
bicycle.
Lucille Saunders, the new contralto
of the Bostonians, has made a hit in
Chicago.
Clara Thropp, Walter Brown and
Emile Girard have Joined the Algerian
company.
Kitty Mitchell, who has been starring
in The Crazy Patch, will join Russell's
Comedians.
LIE Bert, the dancer at the New York
Union Square, ia BERTHE Fish, once a
frisker in Adonis.
Frazer Coulter has been engaged to
play the part of the Colonel" in In Old
Kentucky on tour.
E. s. Willard begins nine weeks'
engagement at the Garden theater, New
York, next Monday,
Frank Daniels engaged in Salt Lake
City Annie O'Maliey, who has remark
able baritone voice.
Oracle Earle, late eoubrette of The
Police Patrol, is lying dangerously i'll st
her home in Chicago.
Nelly Farren, long the star of tie
London Gaiety company, has retired
from the stage forever.
Henry Irving will present Shaks-
peare's Henry VIII. during his present
New York engagement.
Two American singers, Esther Palliser
and Belle Cole, are making joint tour
of the English provinces.
Cablegrams from London announce
the success of Augustin Daly's revival
of The School for Scandal.
Roland Reed has engaged Eleanor
Carey, Louise Bamfeld and Earl Brown
for his new comedy, Dakota.
A daughter of Louis James is to be a
member Of the Charley's Aunt company
engaged to play in Boston.
E. E. Rice is getting ready to cele-
orate the Tooth performance of 1892 at
Palmer's on December 4th.
Augustus Pitou will produce in Janu-
ary new play, in four acts, from the
pen OF William @. Hodson.
Nina Saville is very i'll at her fathers
home, Lowell, Mass, and Mrs. Edwin
o. Hanford is i'll at Boston.
The new Diana of the Madison garden
tower has more clothes, but not O stitch
more on than her predecessor.
Robert Reville Barrett, brother OF
Wilson and George Barrett, died a few
days ago at Hastings, England.
Carroll Johnson is "laying off" for a
few weeks, and will not play the one
night towns where he is booked.
Sarah Bernhardt is acting in Paris. the
play being Les Rois, by Jules Lamaltre,
critic OF the Journal des Debats.
E. III. Sothern says he prefers English
to American actors, because the latter
are not at home in evening dress.
A new operetta called Tabasco, libretto
by r. A. Barnet and music by G. W.
Chadwick, is in rehearsal in Boston.
Charles Mitchell is the latest prize
fighter to assault the drama. He is to
be interpolated in The Romany Rye.
Fred Solomon has joined the Maple.
con- Whitney opera company to play
comedy part in The Fencing Master.