The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-30

Both Buckley and Mayer came here from
Victoria. b. c., after tile collapse OF the
Fraser River excitement early in the six
ties As boy, Buckley was on the turf in
the colony.
Morocco Bound" is the name of piece.
called by the London Telegraph "a hybrid
order of entertainment" produced on April
Is at the Shaftesbury Theater. It is from
the JOINT pens of Arthur Branscombe fOr-
merly of this city), Adrian Ross ard Os-
mond Carr. The production was remark
ably successful.
Nine. Eleanor Duse, the Italian actress,
fell sick in Boston recently and her mana
gers had to cancel tho remainder of the
engagement. The disease, however, had
not assumed serious phase.
London has had its first experience of the
"Crinoline dance" and likes IT, 1t has just
been introduced at the Trafalgar Square in
The Baube ShOp." burlesque OF Mr.
Jones Criterion play.
According TO a Chicago paper Richard
Mansfield. as soon as the season is over. viii
make a voyage around the world upon q
yacht which is now being built for him.
John Drew, says the Philadelphia Music
and Drama, has discovered new Del
sartRan mode of expression. AS yet no one
has discovered precisely what it means, but
Mr.. Drew, who employs it, evidently does
so for purpose. In several situations in
"The Masked Ball." Mr.. Drew incliues his
head forward and shakes it to and fro as a
ting a sound that, for want of a more euphon-
ious smile is similar to that given vent to
by man who plungeS his face in bowl of
water and then ch0rtles trumphantly
through his water-e neompassed mouth.
Mr.. Drew was never taught this unique
mode of expression by Augustin DAILY. The
credit of the discovery and its subsequent
use belongs solely to Mr.. Drew, but its uti-
ity is wrapped in the misty passages OF the
unln OwaOle.
tow, - In
owner Ofn0 less than five farms on Staten
Island, y. Y. Thomas wants the earth.
Annie PiXley is reported 10 have made the
comfortable sum OF $4,000 this season.
that *, If you credit managers story.
Sol Smith Russell proposes to push mat
tiers in. a theatrical way for his Worlds Fair
engagement at Chicago. All the plays in
his Tepertory will be presented with strong
casts of well-kn0wn actors and actresses.
1t has already been mentioned here that
Sarah Bernhard PLAYED "Phedre" recently
at the Vaudeville in Paris 1t is now made
known that she has accepted an engagement
for tour years at that theater, to begin in
September next. Her first appearance viii
be Rs Hermione in "AndrOmRque" she
played the title role at the Fraucais), and
after that she will be seen in new play. 10
be written for her by Sardou. Meantime
she is to journey far. She has already
started on brief tour, which is TO include
Bucharest, Budapest, Constantine pie and
Atlitlo, a. " WYNN THAT - dOuc ollt VII sci
SAL Tor Rio lie Janelro, where he Is to play
for fortnight.
The Theater Libre in Paris is decidedly
in the dumps. Much was hoped for from
George LecOmte's "Mirages," because of
the promise of some of his earlier work,
but the performance proved the most gloomy
of a dismal season. The author seems to
have imbibed both the pessimism which is
now the fad with young French writers and
the pathological ObScuTIty of Ibsen. Under
the guise OF study of hereditary tendency
he writes five acts Of inactiOn whose mean
ing nobody can descry, unless it be the
modern noodles who profess 10 find pro-
found wisdom in balderdash.
An odd custom is reported from Russia
by visitor to ST. Petersburg during the
week of carnival No performances in the
Russian language are allowed during Lent,
and, as consequence, when Russian play
is being acted on the last night of carnival
the stroke of midnight ends that play, how
ever far IL may be from the conclusion de-
sired by the author. II may be in the middle
OF an act, but when u O'clock strikes the
curtain falls, the lights are put out, and the
audience have 10 make their way to the
street as best they can. II must be Temem-
bered that Russian performance never by
any chanee ends before midnight
The lbsen epidemi3 is Subsidng in Lon
dOn. The Master Builder" and Dolls
House" have both been Withdrawn and
there remains only Mr.. Beerbohm Trees
matinee of An Enemy OF the People"
After that London hopes for long i'm
munjty from the dramas of disease and
mental disorder of the Norwegian drama
list.