The herald., 1893-07-23

TOUR ab NOIlUlk, Vac DcptCihoCi fths ~
der the management OF Manager A. j.
Spencer, using the great success A Night
at the Circus. The company will be
much the same as last year, the addi-
tions being the De Witt sisters and Will
West.
Miss Alma Strong, for several seasons
the leading lady OF the Rhea and Maggie
Mitchell companies, has been engaged
to create the part of Olga in Darkest Rus
sia, which will be produced Sept. 18th.
Mics Strong is direct descend
ant of John Adams, second president OF
the United States, and her grandfather.
Col. +. Babcock, was the first editor OF
the Hartford Mercury, the first Demo-
cratic newspaper in New England, OF
which the present Hartford Coment is
the successor.
Roland Reed is lookingsat the won
.ders OF the worlds fair this week, the
leader of big party, which includes
his 16.year-old daughter and A1iss Isa-
dore Rush, his leading lady.
Sadie Martinot is summering in Bos-
ton.
E. s. Willard is still in Chicago play
ing to splendid business at Hooley's
theater.
Victorien Sardou cabled to Charles
Frohman on Saturday that the play he
is writing for that manager will be fin
ished by December.
Wemyss Henderson sailed on Thurs
day for England to secure novelties for
David Henderson's American Extrava-
ganza company.
Marcus r. Mayer returns to New York
July 22d. Patti, whom he will manage,
begins her American tour November 9th.
Samuel Popular Cox is on the high
road to perfect recovery and is able to
be seen occasionally on Broadway.
Fanny Rice has returned from her
European trip with several new plays,
one OF which she will try next season.
Ed McArdle will probably sail for Car
acas, Venezuela, next week to establish
q place of amusement in that capital,
similar to the Imperial Music Hall in
New York.
Alma Strong will soon bring suit for
$40, 900 against the Tyler opera house in
Trenton for injuries sustained last sea-
con while playing there.
Miss Lulu Klein is at Lake Weloken-
nebacook, Maine, catching salmon.
Some one has said, ''let nue. make a
nations song5. care not who may make
her laws" The terrible omnipotence
of song was recently illustrated in the
experience of that charming actress,
Selena Fetter, the leading lady of the
Friends company. Miss Fetter WAS on
her way to Salt Lake City to spend the
GUNNER vacation, and while at Ogden
became interested in a group OF Ute In
dians who were huddled on the platform
of one OF the cars. To the intense as
tonishment and Amusement OF the act
ress, little papoose, not more than
four years old, began hummng in
shrill, childish voics-"Ta ra rs boom de
ave." That terrible and abortive musi.
cal (?) conglomeration seems to spare
neither size, sex nor previous condition
of servitude.
Ali Baba, now running at the Chicago
opera house, has two new features
which are in the nature OF sensation
The Rainbow Dance and A Trip to
America, the latter being an allegorical
transformation scene described as being
superior in bri.liancy and good taste to
anything OF the kind ever before wit
messed IN this country. Some 2O00
electric lights are used in the scene, bat
they are so masked that the disagreea-
BILE glare so often conspicuous in stage
electric diaplays ie entirely absent. The
rain bow dance is performed by seven
dancers in q scene entirely black. Even
the stage ie covered with black cloth.
This lights used are OF the most brilliant
description. Sig. Rorsi OF the Casino de
. Paris composed the dance for the Chica-
go opera house.
An earthen jug ornamented with
NEUROLOGICAL relief figures and Malacca,
formerly the property of Shakespeare,
and by him beoueathed to his sister
Joan, was cold st auction last week in
London for 91S2.
The forthcoming season at the Du-
'quesne theater, Pittsbnrg, promises to
be brilliant one. Among the attrac.
tions already book by Wemyss Hender-
son are the following: Thomas w.
Keene, William Crane, Isle of Cham
payne, the Amberg Opera company.
Julia Marlowe, Fanny Rice, A Lady of
Venice, Evans and Hoey, Stuart Robson,
Felix Morris, Richard Mansfield, James
O'Neill, Nat Goodwin, James I. Powers,
Wilson Barrett, Lillian Russell Opera
company, the American Extravaganza
company, Wang, RusselPs Comedians,
Professor Hermann, Francis Wilson
Opera company, Pauline Hall Opera
company and Poseart.
James J. Corbett's season will open
on December IS at the New York Grand
opera, which will be immediately after
bic meeting with Charley Mitchell
Mr. Corbett's season has been booked
solid in first class theaters only, and his
terms are said to be as high as those
PAID any stellar attraction now before
the American public. Gentleman
Jack Is to be rewritten, allowing Cor
bett more scope as a comedian, in which
line of business it is said he excels.
About the most priced among the
possessions of the young author of
Friends, which made such trium phant
tour OF the country last season, is an
orange colored skull cap with this in
scription, in the hand writing of the
great tragedan: "To Edwin Milton
Royle with the compliments and best
wishes of Edwin Booth, May, 1888"
Tine cap had been worn by Mr.. Booth az
Shylock and had been made from part
of hat worn by Mr.. Royls in the part
OF Iubal, and was presented to the young
author-actor upon his retirement from
the support OF Mr.. Booth where he had
his first few years experience aB an
actor.
Gus Heege, author of Yon Yonson, is
still in Sweden, where ne went to study
the people he go cleverly puts on the
stage. When last heard from he was at