The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-09

In addition to these principal attractions
there Will be many specialties.
Signora Virginia Ferrari, dramatic So
prano and pupil OF Pedrotti, director of The
Torino Conservatory, Italy, will sing. for
the first time in this city, at her concert to
be given in Pioneer Hall on Thursday even
ing next, April Is, the aria of Nanetta from
Nerdt's last and very successful opera.
"Falstaff." The lady will be assisted in
this concert by the best artists in the city.
The order of future business at the Mae
donouGh Theater.. Oakland, Manager
Mothersole, is as follows: April IS, 10,
Bostonians; Tuesday, robin Hood" !;
Wednesday, matinee and evening. "Knick-
erboGkers"; April "a, % &c. he Nabobs."
by Henshaw and Tenbroeck; April %, 90
Oliver Doud Byron; May /, 9 E. Fl.
SOthern; Nav g. 4. ). G. Z, Neil Burgess
County Fair; May s. 9. Howard Athe-
neum.
Eleanora Duse, although hailed with great
acclaim by Chicago critics, has played to
meager business in that city.
London newspaper relates that few
days ago Queen Victoria was greatly
charmed with piece ofnHsie performed by
the band playing at Osborne. and sent one
of her attendants to learn the name of the
piece. The attendant came back and re-
ported, with some embarrassment, that it
was Come Where the Booze Is Cheaper"
Sir Frederick Leighton is credited with
wearing "resplendent costume" at a re-
cent concert in London. his hope being to
institute a reform in masculine morning
dress. Just what il was does not appear.
Irving's Beckett is i'd to be a remark
able success in London at the Lyceum.
An English paper has the news that 7.
Henry French mas engaged Ernest Benzon
(the idiot who obtained notoriety. as ''the
jubilee plunger," losing all his fortune
on the tur0 to take part in THE Prodigal
Daughter" at his new American thealer
in New York. He is moreover. bring g
over ten hounds given him by the Duke of
Beaufort and dozen well-kn0wn steeplc-
chaSers, including Roquefort, who won the
Grand National in 1885.
A new York writer say: "Th6 drift of
evidence all goes to show that the majority
OF theatrical managers are with me IN my
belief that Chicago, during the Worlds
Fair, Will prove anything bus profitable for
the theaters."
The Japanese show tteir appreciation of
an actors playing in a more substantial
manner than by freely apDlauding. They
throw various portions of their dress upon
the stage, and ut the cad OF the performance
the favored person claims the money that
the donor purchases them with. the price of
the various articles being at fixed rate.
The receipts of the Paris theaters for 1892
fall short OF those for 1891 by little more
thun 100, eco francs. II appears that the af-
fairs Of the National 0Dera-hOuse are far
from being IN Il prosperous condition. and be-
tween the French Minister of Fine Arts and
the managers there is wide difference Of
opinion as 10 the best way OF lettering
them.
Richard Mansfeld's new play. which is TO
be presented first in Chicago This month, is
called The Great House Of Marlborough"
1t is the work of Silas Brandon, young
American author, whom the actor first met
In the South. Tie play deals with life in
New York City about fifty years ago, and is
divided into four acts and i've scenes, one of
ia ,N=ra
story is said to be of great simplicity and
domestic IN charac'eC. Mr.. Mansfield will
appear as jacob Marlborough, a typical old
New York merchant.
Mrs. Lily Langtry, who did not get Squire
Abingdon Baird's money, wants to come to
the United States this summer and give a
series of matinees in Chicago during the
far.
conservative estimate of the gross re-
celpis Of David HendeTson's American EX-
iravaganza Company for the season COM
mencing last June is the enormous sum of
$4,000.
One of the writer's on n metropolitan daily
seeks to account for the iTausceudent dis
plays of the genius Of DHse on the theory of
morphomania. Which suggests the wish OF
the late lamented Lincoln, ADDS the Mirror
when complaint was made TO him OF the
alleged blbulOus habit of General Grant,
that other generals might discover his IA
Yorlte dStiliatOn.
Teresa Vaughn, or as she IS known in pri-
va o life, Mrs. William A. Messenger, has
sued the Boston News for S500O The News
published an article about her that was the
reverse Of haltering.
"How. did The Merchant of Venice take
on the rOad?'
"All right every where except in Utah {;
but there, when Lancelot G0bbo declared
that 1t is wise father that knows his own
child the people all took it as a personal
insult aud left the house. Judge.
The London Referee attacks Madge Ken
dal tor her iHartistic methods. calling them
penny piain-and-two- pence-co loreG." The
paper attri butes the actress new-fouud
faults TO American Influences"
Dorothy Dorr and Harry J. Dam, ex-
Governor StOueman's eX-ptiyate secretary,
were married recently in London.
Henry Irving has accepted little one-act
play by Conan Doyle, in which lie will act
the part OF the octogenarian soldier, a hero
OF Waterloo, who relates his history tn a
visitor, and dies while listening to the mill
tary music of a BODY Of troops marching
under his window.
Sol Smith Russell has signed contract to
play for 100 nights at Broadway theater,
New I ork, next season.