The herald., 1893-08-06

play in Boston and Montreal, for one
week at each city, after which he re-
turns to the metropolis playing at the
Hammeretein opera house in Harlem.
Mr.. Hanley will then make short tour
Of the South, playing In the same thea
ters In Virginia, Georgia and South
Carolina. In which he made 30 great
success last season, and then he
journeys toward the setting aup, be.
ginning his western tour at Hooley's
theater in Chicago, March 18th.
Nate Salisbury of the Buffalo Bill Wild
West, has been In New York during the
week the gnest of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Maeder. Mr.. Salisbury expects to clear
s400, 900 during the present season at
the grounds near the worlds fair in
Chicago. Charles p. Elicit of the
Crawford Circuit, who has been in New
York for come time, returned to st.
Joseph last Tuesday. If Messps. Lift
and Davis find the ideal soubrette for
whom they are seeking for In Old Ken
lucky, their new play. they will make
another fortune, but where will they
find the ideal soubrette? They refused
to allow her to dance or sing or wear
short hair, and they say she must be
pretty, amiable and gentle.
Charles Alfred Byrne and Louis Har-
rison seem to monopolize the comic
opera field. Next season they will have
on the road The Isle of Champagne,
Venus. composed by Gus Kerker, which
E. e. Rice win take out; Princess Nico-
tine, composed by W. W, Furst, which
j. e. Hsnshaw will produce, and the
Land of Gold, which will be produced by
I. Henry French at The New York
American theater Immediately after the
present success has had its run. Besides
this Mr.. Byrne has the opera ne wrote
for Patti, for which Signor Pcci fur
nished the music, and which the great
diva will produce at Boston la Novem-
Der. 1t is called Gabrielle, and Patti Ia
charmed with it.
The production of The New South by
Joseph Grismer and Phoebe Davies at
the Madison Square theater ON August
18th, will give New York. theater-goers
q better chance to appreciate the clever
stars than when they played their euc-
csssfui engagement at the Broadway
theater. The stage and auditorium at
the Broadway was toe large to see tha
niceties of their clever stage work,
which in every detail was as good as the
Duse cempany-Phrbe Davies being
compared by many to Che italian act
ress, while many protest that Miss Da-
vies has great dramatic genius, which
the Duse lacks. At any rate the Madi-
eon Square Is small enough to admit
every spectator TO hear every word of
the clever play. and see every bit OF the
excellent acting.
Miss Catherine Clemmons, a new star
who will tour the country the coming
season, is one of the daintiest little wcm-
en- imaginable. She is blonde of
most beautiful type. Her features are
most delicately chiseled, and just the
faintest suggestion of color mounts her
cheeks. Her figure Is 1.-the and graceful
and she is magnetic to an unusual de-
gree. She will be great surprise, II is
said, and the indications now point TO
great success for this courageous young
lady. No end of money is being ex-
pended upon the production Of her play,
A Lady OF Venice, which will be superb
ly mounted and costumed, as the action
OF the play takes place in the fifteenth
century. Miss Clcmmone is no novice,
having been successful star ia England
for the past i've years.
The poor Coincide FraneRise people
are petering out in a woful fashion in
London. They are net out of pocket, of
course, seeing that Abbey and GirAu
have undertaken to pay them 1000
francs a performance, but there is little
sstisfncsion in taking money which you
have nof earned. In other respects
they show signs Of being demoralized.
Their programme, which was all so
beautiiulig laid ont beforehand, is prac-
tically uncertain from day to day it is
done Ia grace de Dieu, Much was ex-
pected oflGMounet Sualy's Hamlet. of
which theysthink great deal In Paris
and the enainent societaire had one of
the best houses OF the season, which is
not saying "a great deal, but it Is not
liked in London because Mcunet Sufly
makes the, melancholy Dane YavinQ
madman.
There is so much superstition in the
atrical and musical circles that one is in
nowise surprised to read that Signor
Mascagni has as profeund belief in
charms as aBy of his compatriots. He
is said to make no endeavor to conceal
this weakness, but carries about with
him a collection of bits OF coral and
wood and small gold trinkets. The
young Italian composer lately openly
confessed that he had arrived late at
Csvent Garden in consequence OF hav.
ing to 20 back home to fetch his
"eharms," which he had carelessly for
gotten. His luck, however, did not de-
sert him, and that in spite OF the dread
provocation that is supposed to lie in
turning back. During the evening Lady
de Grey, In whose box Mascagnl had
place, paesented him with valuable
addition to his waiscost pocket museum
in the shape OF a jewelled eorcnet from
her fan.
And now q German author who has
seen the Hoyt variety show at the Mad
ison Square theater, says that Welland
Strong, the hypocondriac, 90 we'll played
by Harry Conor, is a clean crib from a
German comedy. some OF the dialogue
being grabbed bodily. This is quite a
discovery, because it was thought A
Trip to Chinatown would never have
been written if Pink Deminoes had not
made success. Some of tho lines in A
Trip he's also been taken without the
slightest change from that play, vide
the remark made by the wicked old
man asking il he came to restaurant
to read the newspapere. Hoyt is very
much over estimated man, but the gem
eral opinion was that while his stuff is
bosh, he was at least original. The
more you see of Mr.. Charles Hoyt's
plays, the less you think of them and it
seems that the better you know the man
the less you like him.
Gus Heege, the author Of Yon Yon-
son. in still lingering in Sweden. and