The morning call., 1893-04-16
Personal and other Jottings.

day matinee and night at Manager Mother
sOle's Macdonough Theater Oakland All
the seats for Tuesday have been already
sold.
Gerald Hertslet writes THE CALL that he
is now playing leading juveniles at the
Tacoma Theater, Wash, his wife playing
ingenues. They have had very profitable
engagement. not only at Tacoma, but also
at Seattle, where Mr.. II. played a round of
princinal characters to the satisfaction of
the pGllic.
Oliver Doud Byron arrived In the city on
Friday last from Minneapolis to personally
superintend the rehearsal Of bis new play
10 be seen at Stockwell's Theater following
The County Fair" engagement.
q surprising instance of quick study is
that Of the child Mabel Bowman. She was
given the juvenile part-a long one-in
The Prodigal Father" yesterday morning,
letter perfect. Another specimen of Cali
fornia's development" remarked the mana
ger, as he listened TO the precOcious Mabel.
Adele aus der Ohe. the great pianist, gave
concert 1t Oakland last evening n t Hamil-
ton Hall, as farewell TO California. She
goes TO the webfo0t country, and if the Ore
gonians have any music in their souls they
Will welcome her. rain or shine.
The piece at the Bush-street last week,
Larry the Lord" and that at the Califor-
MIA, THE Nabobs," were both road shows
of the poorest quality. They were not
worth moments consideration, let alone
waste of two hours in sitting them out.
Lottie Collins is to return to England for
visit. She will come back next season to
head variety organization of her own.
She has, SO far, made 500 900.
Manager j. NJ. Hill is again prostrated
with pneumonia.
Tragedian Thomas w. Keene has engaged
Miss Lavlnia Shannon as the leading
actress of his company for his spring tour.
a London cablegram states that Maurice
Grau has secured the whole company of
the Comedie Franchise for an engagement
in London for one month, beginning June
10.
Henry C. Jarrett, who has been acting
manager for E. $. Willard for two seasons,
VIII leave Tor Japan soon for years vaca-
tion. Mr. Jarrett will be accompanied by
his wife and daughter.
George Parkes, who will be remem bered
for his long connection with Daly's Thea
Ter, will be admitted to the Forrest Home
April 81. He is 60 years old and his stage
career covers period of forty years
Augustin DAILY has recovered S328 in his
suit against w. A. Brady and George P.
Webster for unlawfully using a railway
scene in After Dark, the scene having
been copyrighted by the plaintiff.
By peculiar contract, made before he
was bereft of health and mind. Scanlan's
interest in "MayOurneen" ceases at his
death. Mrs. Scanlan's dover interest is
forfeited to Manager Piton. Lawyers say
the contract isn't worth the paper on which
1t is written.
A collection of postage stamps-the prop
erty of Marcus Mayer-was sold in New
York the other day. Several of the rarer
specimens brought high prices, three SELL
ing for an aggregate of S8S6.
Roland Reed is charged with making use
of the text OF Innocent rs Lamb" TO puff,
for q consideration. three-star Hennessy
brandy. and also Thorley, the florist: Tiff
fany, the jeweler; Hayle. the candy-maker,
and Mailiard, the eonfeetiOner. Thrift.
thrift, Horatiop
1.-The Leavenworth Case" under the
management of Frank Carlos Grifiths, Is
shortly due in this city. IL is said to be q
gloomy piece of work.
Mrs. Corbett, wife OF the pugilist, and
Mrs. w. A. Brady. wife of Corbett's mana
ger, both have parts in "Gentleman Jack"
Jm's particular "pigeOn." They are said
to be the handsOmest women in the cast and
81 80 a head is charged for admission. Al
most 5000 people attended the performance
In Montreal, Canada, recently and toward
the close the crowd acted in disgraceful
manner. The audience in the general ad-
mission portion of the house Overpow weTed
the posse of police that was endeavorng to
keep order, broke down the doors and filed
up the seats. Another row occurred in the
last act, when the crowd made a rush for
behind the scenes 70 tender Corbett an ova-
tion. The police were called in and used their
clubs freely, finally beating the crowd back.
but for while the theaIer was scene of
the utmost uproar and riot. Finally Quiet
was restored and the play allowed to pro-
ceed.
Manager Charles Frohman has made
formal offer to Mrs. John Drew of the
Joseph Jefferson Company of forty weeks
engagement at $500 week.
Miss Marie Burroughs (nee Arrington) a
native of San Francisco and leading lady of
Mr.. E. 5. Willard's company, shares the
henors with Willard by her part in "Tne
Professors Love Story"
Mrs Frederic de Bellevile died at her
home in New York City Saturday, April l.
She was Miss Kate Cleveland of San Fran
cisco, and was q years of age. She went
upon the stage about ten years ago, taking
the name of MasSi. She was De Belleville's
second wife
Few actresses knew that Sarah Hildreth.
afterward Mrs. Ben Butler, was once one of
their number. She was Massachusetts
schoolmistress, who had quite little name
as a church social and Sunday-school exhi-
bition elocutionist. Ore night when she
appeared as Pauline in "The Lady of
Lyons" Butler suddenly appeared behind
the scenes, fierce and stormy, and gave
Pauline until the end of the play to decide
whether she'd be the Lady of Lyons or
plain Mrs. Butler. She chose the latter
character and retired from the stage.
Astley's is in process of demolition. 1t was
there that Adah Isaacs Menken, the clown
Grimaldi and other historic stage and saw
dust celebrities won their greatest successes,
and the name figures in the pages OF dozen
novels of London life.
Mrs. George Goldthwa has not given up
fighting her claims to Alabama" She re-
Gently filed number of affidavits in which
prominent citizens of LeadvlIe swear that
they read the original play, then called
10 nd
Mr.. Palmer produced Alabama"
Carrie MillzDer- Hamilton is not with the
Bestonians during their present tour. 1t
will be recalled that she and Camille Oar
vile were at dagger's points; but the i'm
possibility of having two prima dOpnas was
made possible by starting another company
for Miss Hamilton, in which she is now
singing Robin Hood" in the smaller cities
In the East.
Young Justin Mccarthy seems to have q
penchant for theatrical engagements. so TO
speak. lie was formerly engaged to marry
the daughter of noted London actor, but
the match was broken by the death of the
young lady two years ago. His present
lancee is known in private life as Miss
UlliLhorne. but she has won fame on the
light opera stage in England and America
as Aida JenOure.
An odd sound has this item from criti-
cism-decidedly favorable, by the wagon
Eleanor CalhOun's personation of an
American adventures in =" "LArgent
d. AutruS" which has just been produced at
the Ode0n in Paris: ut was q pleasant
novelty to hear the occasional English
phrases delivered In an ineligible way"
Emma Eames-Story Is lying i'll in Paris.
She hopes to be well enough to come over
for her concert tour OF this country In April.
On Monday, May Is, Miss Georgia Cay
van, the leading lady of Daniel Frohman's
New York Lyeeum Theater Company, will
speak before the Woman's Congress at the
Worlds Fair. She has been requested to
take The Stage" as her subject.
At recital which he gave recently Pacb-
mann was recalled after piece of Pader-
ewskrs. and In announcing TO the audience
the title OF his encore piece, he said :
"Paderewski Is de most modest artist dat 1
have ever seen; l am the most unmodest
artist except Hans Won Bnlow; he Is more
unnhodest dan am"
Mascagni had hard luck at Venice. While
n portion of the audience applauded Il
nh In