The morning call., 1893-10-17

color. He wore no waistcoat and he held in
| bis hand a cloth cap. AS soon as h. was dis
! covered the "nobe stranger was urged TO
| withdraw himself from the house.. He left
without murmur, and the price of the seat
was refund d. his is probably oVerdrawD, as
| the frisEy Frenchmen love TO caricatUre the
| repres entatlves of John Bull.
Fay Templeton's husband, Howell Osborne,
has gone to France TO buy burlesqne for his
| recently acknowledged wife in which she will
| appear at the Garden Theater in New York
| after her tour with MADAME Favart"
| "a pair OF nippers and q half dozen 18-Inch
! gas-burner tips'' is a common order at New
YORK hardware stores by theatrical people
| going on the road By the nippers and the tips
| they beat the country hotels in the matter OF
| gas supply
| According to the New Dramatic News the
! following sounds like paragraph cut from a
medieval tome instead OF cablegram flashed
| under the Atlantic and published In last sun.
| days New York Sun: ''Dr. Jeandet having
| offered TO the Museum of the Coincide Fran
| case fragment of The heart Of Tama, M.
Iallon, an official at Lyons. has requested M.
| Clarete TO accept the mummifed hand OF Mile.
Duchesnois. This lady was the actress who
shared IN Talma's stage triumphs. Claretie has
| refused the hand. In his courteous letter OF
refusal he says that he does not want o turn
| the collection OF the theater into az anatomical
| museum. AS TO the fragment of Tamas heart,
| Claretie thinks it Is worthy place In the
theater collection"
Some OF Charles FL. Hoyrs business in "a
| Temperance Town" is quantity styled by the
New York Sun "old chesInuts In new burrs"
Mr.. Frederick Harrison has an article in The
current number OF The Forum entitled The
Revival OF the Drama" very interesting and
generally regarded as plea for subsidized
iheater.
Zola has made an appeal TO the Russian ad-
mirers Of the lale Guy de Maupassant to sub
scribe TO the fund for the erection OF memo
rial monument.
One of Sardou's many early comedies, unpro
tected in The United States, :" lie Maison
Neuve." is being used by Marie Wainwright in
the form of free translation by Clyde Fitch.
entitled 1.-The Social SWIM"
Agnes Herndon declined Richard MaDsteld's
o ffer 10 play Portia in his forthcoming produc-
tion OF "1he Merchant OF Venice" Beatrice
Cameron Will, therefore, assume that role.
A New York exchange says the effort o boom
young Slegfried Wagner as a conductor for
Baireuh is producing amusement
| Besides Denman Thompson, Neil Burgess de-
clares he has done with the stage so far as his
own work Is concerned. Burgess is very rich.
| He was a negro minstrel at the outset of his
career. His fortune was MADE by nearly two
thousand performances of Abigail Prue.
Dave BelascO entertained Bronson Howard
on his return from the Pacific Coast, and his
fellow members of the Dramalists' Club at the
Holland House, New York, Friday night,
| October 6.
| Ned Harrigan's new play is named "The
Wooden Stocking" The author has the role OF
boss steyedore, the scenes are laid in New
| YORK, ana fifty persons are required Tor the
| performance.
cinderella az School," a buresque in which
| Woolson Morse blended The fairy story and the
comedy OF school" and in which ada Rehan
| figured at Daly's New YORK Theater dozen
! years ago, IS 20 be revived by the De Wolf
| Hopper company.
"1herese Raquln" has been done into opera
| The Eagle OBJ oOklyn) calls the piece Que OF
/ "ghastly gloom'' and the music ''sepulchral"
| "rbe Lady of Venice" the new piece in
| which katherine Clemmons appeared at The
| Broad street, Philadelphia. is called by Stage
! land "a musty play superbly produced.'' OF
! the heroine tie same paper says: "MiSs kaIh-
| crime Clemmons is a beautiful woman who
knows how TO wear superb gowns; but she can
| not act.''
| Denman Thompson declares that his engage.
ment al McVicker's Theater, Chicago, marked
the end Of his Stage career. He has played the
part of Joshua Whicomb in ''The Ola Home
stead" 1884 times. The statement is not gen
orally believed.
| New York has now forty-nlne places of amuse-
| ment
Loitie Collins is an English Jewess.
Eugene Cowles, the Bostonians' basso, has
written a new song, I'm the Purple Twilight"
"Charlty's Aunt" now The most popular sue
cess in London. was brought out at the Globe,
where "The Private Secretary" commenced Its
great career. 1t was written by Brandon
Tn omas, an actor who is remembered for his
work with Rosina Vokes when she first pro-
duced "A Pantomime Rehearsal in New
York at the Standard Theater.
Nine. Marie RoZr, who was member OF Col
Onei Mapleson's family sat one time a3d who
appeared in opera-prlncipally in Carmen
at the Grand Opera-bouse in this city, has been
| invited by DIR. III. S. Perkins. director of the
Chicago National College of Music. to come 10
that city as teacher of voice culture and
| dramatic art.
Miss Margaret Mrrngton has received the
| first donors from the jurors of award for tha
| manuscript lbretto competing for The prize in
the concours Of 1925 -93, IN benalf OF The Amer
| lean National Conservatory of Music Her
work is entitled "Dapbnr.' A number of am
bilious writer's and some who have operas that
''go'' before the public reegaIed 10 the rear
BY this decision.
One can name half a dozen Yankee nightn-
gales constantly deighiIng English audiences
Miss Pallister, Miss Zelie de Lussan Miss Lu-
ellie Hi and Mesdames Albini, Nordica
Minnie Hauk and Emma Neyada-and to these
Miss Nancy Mcintosh now makes a notable
accession.