The herald., 1893-05-28

the road. Oorbett, Bobby GRylor and
The New South all having been big
money winners.
Joeeph Grismer and Phoebe Davies are
| yet in New York. but start for the Pacific
coast next week.
A hali-dozen managers are laying pipe
for Natural Gas," but Donnelly and
Girard won't sell.
John Webster has arrived In New
York from Paris, and at once joined A
Night at the Circus.
Ali Baba begins its summer run at
Manager David Henderson's Chicago
opera house, May 28th.
Miss Lyls Kavenaugh has been en-
gagged by Harry Dlxey to appear as the
Fairy Queen in Adonie.
Wilson Barrett comes back to America
next season under the management of J..
b. Mccormick (Macon).
Mr.. Stewart Robson's next season will
open September 18th, at Colonel Sims
Park theater, Brooklyn.
Edward S. Paulton has written q
comedy for his father, Harry Paulton.
Its title 10 The Lord Mayor.
Blanche Walehe sprained her ankle
in New York on Tuesday, and will be
confined to her room for month.
Sol Smith Russell will produce his
new play, April Weather, by Clyde
Fitch, at Chicago, about June lat.
Thomas w. Keene will return from
his journey to Japan in time to open his
season in Pittaburg September 4th.
II is said that w. w. Kelly will bring
suit against Grace Hawthorne for rum
ming of and marrying some one else.
w. II. Lytel and Blanche Marsden's
melodrama, The Lights of New York,
has been bought by George M. Welty.
j. Nj. Hill will close TIE season OF
Harry Smiths deadly dull The Fencing
Master in Chicago weeks earlier than
was expected.
Miss May Brooklyn sails for London in
two weeks, but will return in time to
accept either of two offers to create new
parts next season.
Edmund O. Stanton has assumed the
management OF the New York Grand
Opera-house, the lease OF T. Henry
French having terminated May 18th.
Thomas @. Seabrooke is having new
crown built to fit him, the one he uses
in The Isle OF Champagne being too
small for Mr.. Seabrooke's swollen head.
Lawrence Hanley will next season
make another tour of the country in
Blanche Marsden'a The Player. under
the management Of Mr.. Frank Maeder.
There is absolutely no hope of Mr..
Booths recovery, and not even chance
that he will be restored to the condition
he enjoyed before the stroke of psraly-
sis.
Mr.. Stuart Robson will give q special
matinee of The Henrietta at the New
York Fifth Avenue theater Mny '25th,
for the benefit of the confederate vet.
erana in New York.
Clarence M. Dow, the son OF Denver
millionaire, who made himself famous
by marrying Millie Price, ia again mar
ried to . daughter Of Sheriff Inflow OF
Yuby county, Colorado.
Albert Bruning will make flying
trip to Europe during the summer
TO search for old swords and
properties for the new romantic play in
he will star next season.
The stockholders OF the Mackaye
Spectatorium in Chicago have put UP
an additional 100000, and the prodigi-
ous Mackaye show may yet be finished
before the worlds fair is over.
Jean Davenport Lander, widow OF
General Lander, is writing a new play
for Mazda Craigen and Frederick Pauld-
ing. Julius Magnus, now with Marie
Wainwright, will manage the tour.
The council OF Athens, Ga., at the re-
quest of the ministers OF that city, have
decided to allow no operatic or other
performances in that place in which
women appear in tights or abbreviated
skirts.
Mr.. and Mrs. John II. Russell sailed
for Europe ON Wednesday, and the last
seen of John was on the deck of the Ma
jestic trying to explain the plot of A So
ciety Fad to the duchess OF Buckingham
and Earl Dysart.
The Hoyt q Thomas employees in
New York suffered heavily this week
lyn handicap failed to come to
the post in time. They were sporty
boys, all OF them.
An actress named Grace Hawthorn
seems to have committed mstrimony
recently in Manchester registry office,
and it appears to have struck number
of London sub-editors that the fact was
sufficiently interesting to make public.
That dainty picture of New England
life, A Nutmeg Match, travels to the Pa
cific coast next season, and Messrs. Lift
& Davis are preparing for even o more
elaborate production OF the play than
that which so delighted the eastern play
patrons last season.
j. X. Emmet is yet in New York, but
hie splendid yacht is riding at her an
chor in the lower bay, awaiting the ar
rival OF the popular star, who will make
q long cruise as soon as everything ia in
readiness for the production of his new
play, Fritz in the West.
"Aunt Louise" Eldridge is busy these
days coming money for the press club
at their fair In New York. Next season
she will only appear when specially
engaged" or in new productions, but
will not travel further than Boston,
Philadelphia, Baltimore or Washington.
In the forthcoming production of Lift
u Davis blue grass idyl, In Old Ken
lucky, there are to be employed scenic
embellishments of decidedly novel and
attractive character, and to the ordinary
synopsis is to be added detailed de-
ecription OF the country In which the
several scenes are laid.
When the composer, Schulze, was
captured by brigands in the Abruzzi,
they demanded one of his own compost
tions from him, with the result that he
sang an aria from his latest opera. But
before it was ended the entire band
burst into tears, and their captain, Of
fering his hand to SchulZe. releazAd hIm