The herald., 1893-12-03

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Sydney Rosenfeld and his wife have
been sued on q note for 5000 given fol
money loaned on The Rainmaker o
Syria.
December 4th is the date fixed fol
Roland Reeds production of his new
play, Dakota, &C the Brooklyn Am.
phion.
Mrs. Frank 1. Frayne has had q noun
ment erected over the grave OF her late
husband in Mt. Greenwood cemetery,
Chicago.
Walter Jones, the comedian, has com.
posed the words and music OF sor 2
which Laura Burt will use in In Old
Kentucky.
Butterflies is the title of Henry Guy
Carleton's new play which John Drew is
to produce in Boston the night after
Christmas.
Josef Slivinski, another Polish pianist
who has won much fame abroad, has
come to the United States for profess
sional tour.
Gently destroyed by fire, will be rebuilt
next season.
Kirk Smith, for more then twenty
years with the New York Clipper, has
joined the staff of The New York ORA
matte News.
Leonard Growers The Wolves of New
York company, under the management
of Jay Rial, has disbanded on the
Pacific coast.
America, Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau's
big spectacle, will be presented at the
Metropolitan opera house, New York,
December 5th.
One OF the New York play houses bears
over it's entrance an Illuminated sign
stating that it is Aunt ]. M. Hills
Standard theater."
George Grossmith, the English humor-
ist, returns to this country in January
with a new sketch called "How l Dis
covered America"
Charles Bassett has been engaged for
the tenor role in Julian Edwards' opera
King Rene's Daughters, at Hermann's
theater, New York.
Wilson Barrett has made success in
Boston with his new version of the old
tragedy, Virginius, which John McCul-
Tough used to play.
]. W. Shannon is playing his old part
of 'Caderouse" in Monte Cristo. with
James O'Neill at the New York Grand
Opera house this week.
Gilmore & Leonard are to take out
next season farce comedy by William
Carroll, entitled A Rocky Road, under
j. H. Coles management.
Henry Irving will not visit Balti-
more again. The Monumental City didn't
him and said go when he played there
during his first American tour.
Henry Bagge. Leonard Boyne'e undor-
study in The Prodigsl Daughter. con-
templates going to South Africa at the
head of a theatrical enterprise.
Charles B. Hawkins, now playing
"Joel Gates" in Shore Acres, will star
next season in a new play by John
Fowler entitled Green Meadows.
Mrs D. P. Bowers has been engaged
to create part in Rose Coghlan's pro-
ducton of Woman OF No Importance
ct the Fifth Avenue, New York.
Minnie Maddern returned to the stage
last Monday night at Boston, in new
play called Hester Crewe, in which, by
all accounts, she scored a success.
Spencer W. Cone, late treasurer of the
English Military Tournament, has gone
west to take the business management
of his SISTERS, Kate Claxton's tour.
The gross value of the personal prop.
erty of the late Edwin Booth has been
at $602,675, and deducting
debts, legacies and expenses, at $462, ,335.
Mrs. Pacheco's comedy, Incog, re-
Tom, Dick and Harry, ie now
being played at the Trafalgar theater,
where it promises to have q
run.
Friends OF the late W. ]. Florence will
place bronze tablet bearing an epi-
taph on the granite monument which
marks his grave in Greenwood ceme-
terry.
Sylvia Grey, the well-known dsneeuse
OF the London Gaiety theater, was mar
ried on Monday to R. L. Fenwick, an
American, whom she net in Australis
in 1891.
Ell Captain is the title OF the comic
opera which Charles Klein and John
Philip Sousa are writing and composing
for De Wolf Hopper. Its scenes are laid
in Peru.
Dora Wiley, the sweet singer of
Bucksport. Maine, will shortly be mar.
ried to G. o. Tennis, business manager
VI Aho DioSn OiooA3 nno ioeAio iIOm
the stage.
Harry Woodruff will leave the Char.
lev's Aunt company at the New York |
Standard at the beginning of the new
year and devote himself to the study of |
law at Yale.
Jennie Reiffath has sued Eva Mount |
lord to recover 500 bsck salary and
$3.50 laid out for costumes for thirty
weeks tour which the latter engaged |
her for last April.
Neil Burgess has built near his resi- |
ience at the Highlands in New jersey q
big building in which the mechanical |
effects of his next seasons play are
being constructed.
An actor playing in Harlem says he
was sandbagged and robbed last Thurs
daylight. The only doubtful thing
about his story ia that he carried only
$40 about with him.
DOyley Carte is playing off one Amer
can manager against another in an |
sndesvor to get the highest possible
terms for the latest Gilbert & Sullivan
opera, Utopia Nimited).
Nine. Theo, the French opera bouffs |
linger, who arrived in New York last |
Sunday as the guest of Nine. Maurice |
Irau, will sing in concert before leaving |
or home q month hence.
James A. Herne's play, Shore Acres,
\ half interest in which has been pur.
chased by Manager H. @. Miner, will |