The herald., 1893-10-08

I, % the fair grounds the other day he
jumpec from lastly moving train and
! stopped a runaway horse.
1t is claimed that cat has nine lives,
while an actor has three, namely. his
real life. his stsge life and his life in
print. The cat always did get the best
OF the actore.
The Queen of Sheba, Rhea's new play,
promises to be brilliant success. Man
ager Frank Dietz will fill few engage
ments in the east and then bring the
play to this coast.
Henry Hallam, the tenor, lately un-
derstudv with the Lillian Russell COM
pany, has secured divorce from his
wife, Margaret II. Hsllam. on the
ground of habitual intemperance.
Manager Charles Thomas, OF the firm
OF Hoyt & Thomas. proposes to spend a
year in Southern California, hoping
thereby to entirely regain his health,
which wac greatly benefited by his So
journ in the Adirondacks last summer.
The two Court theaters in Vienna lost
$l00,0 900 the last year, Notwithstanding
the snbvention OF $12O, ,000 from the gov
ernment. Each manager receives sei-
arv o! $40 000 per year for getting rid of
the amount Of money mentioned above.
Emma Vaders, whose periodical fits of
emotional insanity require that she
should be constantly watched, settled
the question of large fees for medical
attendance ny marrying young doctor
named Donald Mckenzie in the probate
court at Cincinnati on the 22d ult.
Richard Mansfield announced in a
speech at Boston recently that he had
saved little money and would put The
Merchant Of Venice on the stage, having
already commenced rehearsals. Mr.
Mansfield has got nerve, for he lost
thousands of dollars on Richard III.
Charles Dickson, in Admitted to the
Bar, is receiving nothing but the strong
est commsndation from the critics,
while the business done by the new play
10 equally pleasing to the management.
Mr.. Dickson's natural ease and absence
of sffectation in the part OF Jefferson
Ward are particularly praised.
Manager Charles Frohnaan, who paid
Sims and Raleigh $4,000 in advance for
Fanny, is not ordering any new plays
from that firm of playwr;ghts this sea-
son. Nine thousand dollars is con-
servative estimate of Mr.. Frohman's
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moment he found it was failure.
Americans will be Mortified to learn
that Mrs. Kendal's Paula, in The Second
Mrs. Tanqueray. twas little vulgar.
not to say common, and that the au-
dience, on the occasion OF her first ap-
pearance, developed dangerous habit
of laughing in improper places" Mrs.
Kendall, the same critic asserts, "acted
like rollicking sort of lady," who was
not to be taken too seriously whatever
she might do. Madge, the proper, has
evidently dropped into Costeriem as
easily as Silas Wegg dropped into
poetry.
The amusement Bulletin of Philadel-
phia, states that gloom prevades the
box Offices in that city, and never in it's
history has theatrical season opened
go inauspiciously and discouragingly.
The reason is not aecribed to the exodus
to the Worlds fair, for at no time has
the number of Philadelphians visiting
Chicago been large enough to affect the
atrical business. Neither is it financial
stringency, but, as the Bulletin AYERS, it
is simply the effect OF howl that there
would be hard times, which scared man
ayers into the engagement of inferior
attractions.