The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14

NOW, II! tell TO you n secret.
And IN time you'lI the proof
have posed as fair Diana
For the Garden Tower roof
I'll be uerched up there this summer
Just inspect ne as Won pass;
Then criticize the glitter
OF the irish Queen IN brass.
When the English actor Henry Irving
next visits the United States in the fall
the prices OF admission 10 the lower floor
OF most OF the theaters where he plays will
be doubled
A child was born on the stage OF ST.
Louis theater recently during perform
anee OF 1.-THE Country Circus"
An avalanche scene became decidedly
realistic to one of the actors in a Western
play recently. Upon being hurled through
space the hero struck big trunk, instead
of landing on mattress provided for the
purpose, and he is now laid up for repairs.
Minstresy Is to have an innovation next
season, when Cleveland's company will
contain four French female daneers, who
have contracted TO walk in the customary
street parade. dressed in viVandiere cos
tune.
Bernard Dyllyn, the barytone, has quar-
relied with Manager H. Il. Jacobs, because
the latter will not allow him to perform in
any theater under his control. he there
fore brings suit against Jacobs for boy
colt, persecution. business trespass and
SANDER, placing the damages at S25, 900.
Clement Scntt, a noted London critic IS
TO see what he supposed would be a Iypi-
cal American play. He laughiDgly tells
that he saw play. written by French
man, performed by company whose lead
ing lady is Irish and all Of whose male
actors are English.
A number of man uscripts o great must
clans, which belonged TO the late Count
Paar, were recently offered for sale by
auction. Three letters by Beethoven were
sold for Els los. Eli O. ana e10. Letters
~ Inrr - fns
short letter OF Wagner's reached g IS.
Leonora Duse expresses preference for
Boston audiences.
The New York Recorder man says: 81
am asked 10 state that Miss Grace Drew. an
actress, who recently welded Mr., Dam
of California, is not Miss Grace Esther
Drew, actress and writer. The latter
writes that it is quite embarrassing to re-
ceiye good wishes and copies OF How 10
Make a Man Happy and Advice to
Young Mothers etc, when she hasn't
quite decided just what man she intends to
make happy, and as for young mother
well, she bushes at the very thought. |
| make this announcement all the more
cheerfully since / really feel glad that
Miss Grace Esther Drew is not Mrs. Dam,
and especially Dam Of California"
A Mr.. Glamour OF London, who has
| lately been lecturing on Shakespeare,
states that the bard at one time followed
the trade of butcher Dunlop's Stage
News thinks it would have been easier to
prove the immortal William brewer of
sack, hose and buskin manufacturer or
town crier.
A passage omitted from the American
performance of Diplomacy" because con-
sdered a waste of words. is comic
description Of the famous clock at Berne,
with its mechanical figures working badly
but Mrs. Bancroft, in London revival of
the Sardou comedy, makes so much of this
passage by means Of graphic gestures and
funny expressions that one of the maya
zines devOtes pictorial article to it.
Ada Reban's dressing-rOom at Days
home theater in New York is said to be
the most sumptuous apartment ever occu-
pied by leading lady in any theater in
the world.
Regnier, the French actor, had once to
call out 10 a fellow-actor, who was ex-
Dected to enter from the right wing: "Ha
-ha-there you are!' For some unac-
countable reason. however, the actor came
on the stage on the left side. and Regnier,
without being in the least disconnected,
gave his call, and added. with a smile: II
saw you IN the loOkIng-glass."
Theatrical business in Chicago Is re-
ported very bad. With the exception of
Henderson's Chicago Opera-house none
are making money. all on account of the
fair.
Felix Morris has left the Vokes Com
pany abruptly, due il is said. to a serious
| difference between Actor Claude Marlus
| and himself.
j. Austin Fynes has retired from the
New York Clipper, where he had been ten
| years as dramatic editor, to join = +.
Keith's executive forces. Keith is LOOM
ing up among American managers.
Conrtenay Thorpe, formerly with Ro-
sina Nokes. proposes to take a company
Of his own on the road next season.
Benjamin w. Buchanan, 73. years old,
who committed suicide in New York re-
Gently. was the oldest theatrical doorkeeper
IN New York. He was first at Barnum's
Museum in Ann street. then at Bryants
Ministries. both at 472 Broadway, and on
Iwenty-thlrd street, and after that at
Tammany Hall and Madison-sqnare Gar
den. Poor Ben was one Of the very best