The evening world., 1893-10-25
TALK AMONG PLAYER FOLK.
An English Journalist Points Out
Mrs. Kendals Inconsistencies.
Ono Night Each Week Box Onice
Receipts Taks q Tumble.

Ono Night Each Week Box Onice
Receipts Taks q Tumble.
IT do maintain that II is pleasnnter
10 think that when the curtain has
fallen. and the actor or actress Is at
home. he or She leads, or Is capable OF
lea6ing. the same kind of life the repre-
sentation OF which has moved an au-
d!ence to tears" Read that very care
fully, once. twice. three times. and then
guess who said It, You'll never be able
10 guess. Well, those very words were
uttered by Mrs. Kendall before she grew
bilious, and before she ever thought OF
playing n part like that OF Paula in 1.-The
Second Mrs ranquerny" She spoke
them in September. 1884. at the con-
ercss OF the National Association. held
in Birmingham. England. They are on
record, and the record has just been
deplores Mrs. Kendall $ latest venture.
no :. for hey have meaning that many
Americans whom she has been chas-
tising yi.ago--esquely,, might miscon,
s,rue Says the gentleman who found
articles "Carados:" "Of course, with
regard to Mrs. Kendars latest imperson-
alton alton sa heaven forbid that she should
not ask her to, because ! know she
wouldn't think OF such a thing. At the
same time I'm not 80 sure that the i'm
rully influence the impersonator." That
must be 1t. Playing the shrewish Mrs
Tanqueray 20 often has probably made
a vixen Q. the once affable, smiling lady
viewer that she also draped her rooms
in London with the American nag.
In the mean time Chicago-that most
irreverent city-affects to regard Mrs
lLst kendal,s Indignation as an ad. for her
With courage. worthy. of n better cause,
and with shrewd knowledge of the
value Of advertisement: no matter how
cudgels for Pinero and herself, and is
talking n lot OF hub-dub." OF course.
we. in New York, don't know what
nnb-dnh M. ,,nn means, as still, it sounds like
about the number of girls that adorns
the stcSe. One chronicler mentions the
fact that E. 8. willard has three OF
them. Marie Burroughs. Mamie Grad
ludes, to Maud Adams and Edna Wal
lace-Hocper. as successful San Fran
clscans,, 1t Is we'll to know that Cali
fornia is pleased about something. Its
This is pathetic. Herman Periet. the
conn osci OF Theresa Vaughn's song,
Love, Sweet Love" and the wlelder Of
the conductor 5 baton in 1872" says that
the words OF the song are anonymous
n
Illustrated London paper which some
body hau left in street car. He could
not get them out of his head, and the
Ing q night jump through New England.
by the bye, It Is not generally known that
Perlet came to America as a solo pianist
with Max Strakosch.
take the heppE pacs haf az he ew w
the Fourteenth Street Theatre next
month. Is vigorously denied. There is a
professional matinee performance OF that
day matinees are professional The New
York public does not seem to banker
for them.
Hustled. at the Star Theatre that there
Is one night In every> week. all the year
round, In which New York theatrical
business Mt every theatre takes n drop?
~ Is curious IaCl, ana one tnat no.
body can explain. that such is the case.
Generally 1t Is Tuesday or Wednesday,
but there Is always one night when the
box-office receipts fall simultaneously
times small one-s2O or s5oHbut 1t is a
drop. Is II atmospheric or psychologist ?
Nobody knows. Most Incidents In the
theatrical week can be accounted for.
This dehes all explanations.
week locking very we'll. Two actors,
who watched the famous jefferson, COM
mentcd the other day on the dingy over
coat he wore and the general sartorial
boy" said third, who was very gor-
seous In n well-ntting frockcoat with a
chrysanthemum In its lapel. when am
a. a., rich as Jefferson and as famous,
bother about a starchy chrysnnthemum
In my coat II l were independent. II is
we poor wretches, who have to hustle
lor engagements. who do the dressing
likes" So
The we.l.known character actor Harry
Rogers. OF " "Romany Rye" "Fugitive'
ana 1nm, other melodrnmas, is going to Eng,
roles there. Mr.: Rogers has been In
this country twelve years, and ne likes
t lie has speciality in his character
pH~iiitss, anu tne actors Will SDcCialt!es
are generally the happy ones.
Alexander Comstock has abandoned
all his speculatlons and has been en-
| gaged by the Messrs Rosenfe,d to looh
| after "Olaf' at Nihlo's. How refresh
Ing SAYS the irrcpressible Alexander
| IT VIII be to draw salary each week in
| stead Or beinr comnelIed to hustle tt
pay others" The rehearsals OF "Olaf
are going rapidly forward. Miss Eller
| Burg has been added to the cast, which
INCLUDES Miss Scligman, T. II. Thalberg
Gilmore Scott, Charles b. Hanford, Geo
| Fawcett and others.
The Ramsay Morris comedy compan,
| that has Just returned to the city aftel
plucky struggle with the bad bus!nea.
out of town will probably go out agal,
| just before the holidays.