The evening world., 1893-11-24
NEWS OF THE STAGE WORLD.
Matinee by Pupils Of the School
of Acting.
sehsfYsr Family TO Give . Private
Eatertainment.

The institution known as the Fifth
Avenue Theatre School OF Acting
cave another matinee yesterday at
the Fifth Avenue Theatre under
the direction of the very emil
nent Charles Leonard Fletcher. The
actors who owe these schools of acting
A grudge for competing with their own
efforts must have felt satisfied. The
performance was far from edifying. 1t
opened with a one-act dramatization of
George II. Simss poem, called Christ
mas Day at the Workhouse," and this
gave Mr.. Fletcher an opportunity to
give an imitation OF a Bowery actor.
He impersonated the insane pauper, with
strlngy gray beard and whisker effects.
1t was a tragic moment when fiinging a
real plate on the floor, he broke 1t into
real bits-absolutely real bits He ragged
and stormed and ranted. There was, in
fact, "a cry and shout and deuce OF a
rout, and nobody seemed to know what
twas about" Then followed new
suggested somewhat MIR Potter of
Texas" but 1t was badly done by a
cast made up of amateurs and actors.
+. The Texan, whose wife had run away,
/: and who went to London to meet her
! at the first house he .visited-London is
such a, Jolly Militia Little village you know
h who played the part himself, did fairly
NJ well with 1t. Miss Edith Crane gave a
pe weak imitation of Ada Rehan, and Miss
> ditie. The cast also Included Roydon Hy on
4 .Erlynn, John c. Dixon and Miss Marion
y Lester. who is not the lady of that name
in Sol Smith ,Russells company, a fact
at which the lady In Sol Smith Russell's
company, capable actress, will not feel
sorry.
A private entertainment will be given
Schaffer family, of whom we have heard
80 much and seen so little. The Schaffers
have been in Chicago during the World $
Fair.
The stage,struck damsel is quaint
and entertaining creature. Here is an
effusion that was received yesterday by
Tom Ebert, Of the firm OF Roberts &
was written on ruled paper, bearing a
huge golden flower. 1t ran as follows
81 thought 1 will take pleasure in
know that i hav. learned from a young
gentleman friend of mine that you are
the manager of the Theator In New
S0rk The bog ge6Gtslman is Mr. MT Henry
after l telling him 1 have made up my
mind to be an actress eyer since l was
only IA years of age. And now l will
Il
also told him that 1 could have got
in with the Turner's the German the
atrical Co. here in the city. But would
could: I am willing to pay for it. For
want anything 1 must only say so.
affectionate friend, Miss Frances France ''S G.
Haerner."
Frank Mayo, the father Of Miss
oq HMyG had scat In the GAL
performance of king Rene's Daughter
Wednesday night. He was 80 nervous
for his daughter that he thought, that
stairs 1t would upset her equilibrium.
The carriages with foam-fiecked steeds
which wildly raced back and forth be.
tween Palmer's Theatre and Carnegie
haired fraulein in a tattered gown. 9
dissolute tramp in rags, and an Irish
by
viii II. Sloan; OF Rice,s .I4ss" company
They hastened away between turns" to
appear at the benefit for the Catholic
Orphan Asylums, and some breakneck
speeding had to be done to get them
back for their proper places in the bur.
lesque.
Actors believe in hoodoos, and the
attaches OF theatres are in most cases
superstitious. The actors and jockeys OF
THE Prodigal Daughter company really
believe that the thoroughbred horse. Bed.
fellow which Is beaten every night In
the steeplechase, is a Jonah. When the
accident in which four jockeys were In.
Jured occurred, the boy who was hurt
worst was the one who rode Redfellow
When the mat on which the horses run
slipped some weeks ago, the only animal
which fell was Bedfellow. Saturday af.
racers on his way to the stable, ran
away in the street and was cut quite
badly. 1t was. of course, Bedfellow. The
same evening, the unfortunate nag
stepped upon wire supplying the elec-
tric light to an interior scene. and re-
Ceived a shock. 1t was Bedfellow. Nc
wonder that the horse is looked upon as
hoodoo