The herald., 1893-07-23

three. act operetta and number of for
eign novelties, which che proposes to
present in this country next season.
Addie Cumming has gone 20 Lenox.
Mass, for the summer.
Dave Robinson of the New York EN-
pire thester will next season manage
the Galveston theater for Henry Green
wall.
Berry Desant will be in advance OF the
Lawrence company next season.
Robert Chester, father Of @. III. Ches-
ter, OF Lester aud Williams, died at his
home in Philadelphia on Sunday.
John E. Hogarthy will next season
manage Rich and Harris A Country
Sport, in which Peter +. Daily will be
the star.
Miss Alma Strong has gone to her
home in Georgetown, ID. @.
Herr Richard Strauss, who is at pres
ent staying in Sicily, is hard at work on
the third act of his new opera Guntram,
and it is expected that it will be finished
in the autumn.
The death has taken place at Copen-
hagen of Herr Hans Peter Hoist, the
Danish drsmatist and lyrical poet. He
was aged 50.
Joseph Grismer and Phoebe Davies in
augurate their second season of The New
South at New York Madison Square the
ater, Monday, August 14tb, an event
originally arranged for the initial east
ern representation OF this highly success
full American drama year ago. 1t was
only on account of the play not being in
readiness at the opening of last season
that Trip to China was not interrupted
in its run.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall will take fourth
trip to America in the autumn, leaving
England about September 23d and open
ing in New York on October 9th.
She: "Why do you always go out be-
tween the acts ?" He: at makes too
much disturbance to go out when the
act is on.''
Joseph Jefferson is at Buzzard's Bay
hobnobbing with President Cleveland.
He has bought an island in Wakeby
lake, near the bay, and says his health
is first class.
1t is again announced that Rose
Coghian has become Mrs. John L. Sulli-
van, and as neither of them has denied
the report it is probably true.
H. B. Phillips, father of Harry Phil
lips, who will next season put Crazy
Patch on the road, is the oldest Ameri-
can actor living.
Arthur F. Carmody. the clever San
Francisco correspondent of the New
York Clipper, is in New York.
Billy Lester, of the variety team OF
Lester & Allen, died at Fair Haven,
Conn.,, on Tuesday from cirrhosis of the
liver.
Anson Ponds A Desperate Man will
be sent on the road during the coming
season.
Alan Dale. the dramatic editor of the
New York Evening World, is spending
his vacation at Asbury Park.
Harry Phillips has already completed
all preliminary arrangements for next
season, when he will present Crazy
Patch, one of the very funniest of farce
comedies. The company has been
booked for 80 solid weeks. including
all the large cities. The ladies of the
company will be headed by Kittie
Mitchell, a charming comedienne and
beautiful woman, who can not only act,
but can sing and dance as well. Julie
Senac, another magnificent specimen of
womanhood and member OF the cele.
brated Senac family. and Mollie Gaylor
are among the lady members. Three
remarkably clever young comedians have
been secured-W. HI. Murphy, Charles
Hogan and W. A. Daniels-a trio that
would be hard to beat as mirth pro-
vokere. Other clever people are being
negotiated with. Harry Graham will be
the musical director, and is now in Eng
land hunting up novelties to in
troduce into Crazy Patch. Mr..
Phillips is also arranging for the
season of 9495 a strong comedy organi-
zation to be known as the American
Comedy company, playing only the
leading theaters from two to four weeks
each. A well known author is now at
work on a new farcial comedy for the
opening attraction.
Marie Wainwright says she will not
retire from the stage, because in the first
place she has found out, all of sudden,
that some property she owns in Califor-
MIA may not be go valuable as she had
thought it to be, and then quite num-
ber of thesters would not cancel time
booked by her with them.
w. F. Dickson, manager of Thomas
W. Keene, will shortly make trip to
Canada.
Max Zoellner has been re-engaged by
Mr.. Augustus Pitou for next season.
Robert Mantell has gone to Salt Lake
City.
The Dramatic News is out this week
in an entirely new dress and new and
convenient form. The paper has been
made a 24-page publication and is ex-
ceedingly handsome. Prosperity sticks
out all over the Dramatic News.
Pretty Matte Ferguson, who was for
three years leading soubrette with the
favorite w. j. Scanlan, has been engaged
for a similar position with Eugene
O'Rourke in the Wicklow Postman.
Agnes Herndon will produce two new
plays during the coming seseon.
Prof. and Mrs. Kellar are now in the
very heart of their long and splendidly
successful engagement at Daly's thea
ter. On many nights their audiences
are limited TO the capacity of the house.
They give wonderful performance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stuart Robson are at
Cohssset. Mass.
w. f. Dickson will continue as mana
ger OF Thomas w. keene next season.
A new book by Ramsay Morris will be
published in August.
Magician Kellsr's wonderful enter
tainment draws large audiences to
Daly's New York theater nightly, in
spite OF the warm weather. He would