The record-union., 1893-05-27

suit against Grace Hawthorne for running
off and marrying someone else.
| Thomas w. keene will return from his
| journey to Japan in time to open his sea-
| son in Pittsburg September 4th.
w. H. Lytell and Blanche Marsden's
melodrama, The Lights of New York :"
has been bought by George NJ. Welty.
The Duse has again disappointed a
| London audience and postponed her
debut for week. They don't like it.
The boasts Of slusgers and the pomp of power,
And all the fistic art our thoughts engage
Await alike the inevitable hour;
| The path of brulsing leads but 10 the stage.
| Sir Augustus Harris opened his grand
| opera season at Covent Garden, May 10Th,
with ''Lohengrin." Nine. Melba took
! the part of Elsa.
! Miss May Brooklyn sails for London in
two weeks, but will return in time to ac-
cept either of two offers to create new
parts next season.
Edmund {. Stanton has assumed the
management OF the New York Grand
! Opera-house, the lease of 7. Henry French
having terminated May 18th.
Lawrence Hanley will next season
make another tour of the country in
Blanche Marsden's The Player'' under
the management of Frank Maeder.
There is absolutely no hope of MIR.
| BOOTHS recovery, and not even chance
that he will be restored TO the condition
he enjoyed before the stroke OF PARALYSIS,
The Sultan of Turkey is an excellent
pianist, and spends i've hours every day
IN practicing. He devotes a couple Of
hours daily IN teaching his daughter how
TO play.
| w. a. Brady has probably made more
money thls year than any manager on the
road, Corbett, Bobby GayIor and 1.-The
New South" all having been big money
| winners.
Albert Bruning will make flying trip
TO Europe during the summer TO search
1or old swords and and properties for the
new romantic play in which he will star
next season.
Ihe stockholders Of the Mackaye Spec
tatorium in Chicago have put up an addi-
tlonal 100000, and the prodigious Mack
! aye show may yet be finished before the
Worlds Fair is over.
Jean Davenport Lander, widow of Cen
era! Lander, is writing new play for
Mazda Craigen and Frederick Paulding.
y u1luS Magnus, now with Marie Vain
wright, Will manage the tour.
| The Council of Athens. Ga. at the re-
quest of the ministers of that citv. have
decided to allow no operatic or other per-
lormances IN that place in which women
appear in tights or abbreviated skirts.
j. K. Emmet is yet in New York, but
his splendid yacht IS riding at her an
| chor in the lower bay awaiting the ar
| rival OF the popular star, who will max G
a long cruise as soon as everything is
ready for the production of his new play
Fritz in the West"
| Lawrence Marston of the defunct
Credit Lorraine" is yet in New York
on still hunt after Alexander Comstock
VINO leased Professor Herrmann's New
York Iheater on wind, and then blew
hlinselt away after the first week, leaving
a Dig hole for Marston to till,
| The brooklyn Handicap is run in
the merry week of May when managers,
agents and stars, with money. are nIenti,
tuI in Gotham. This year the talent
cIeaned out the whole lot, and a good
many managers, agents and stars are
without much money to speak Of
! Gus Heege, the author of ''Yon Yon-
so1," has arrived in London on his way
70 l1ull, where he takes steamer for Swe-
den. II Is Mr.. Heege's purpose, during
the summer, to study the home material
OF our swedish emigrants, and for that
| purpose he will leisurely journey across
the peninsula of old Svea, from Gotteborp
to Upsala and Stock kholm. and tbence
towards the land OF the Laps and the
Fins.
a Dark Horse" a comedy by Henry
| w mite, dramatic critic OF the BROOKLYN
Tunes, Is to be produced early next sea-
son py W. w. Freeman, at present man.
ager OF Frank Daniels. Arthur f, Moul-
ton OF the "Hoss and Hoss'' Company is
TO create the leading character. Another
comedy, "A Day in Camp" by the same
author, is to be produced about the same
time by j. X. Strasburger.
The Ensign" the captivating naval
play, which has so materially augmented
the bank account of Lift IL Davis. is GEN
orally accepted as the most faithful ex-
| ponent OF historical events ever placed
upon the stage. There is nothing forced
about The Ensign" and every child is
familiar with the episode in our national
lie which 1t so interestingly reproduces
70 this fact may be largely attributed the
! marvellous success Of The Ensign"
1t appears that the Hon. Charles Hoyt
has not alone made will that leaves all
| his theatrical property to Bert Dasher
| but that IL he dies before he has time to
alter 1T. the theatrical world will be some-
| what aston1shed. Mr.. Hoyt is worth
nearly half million of dollars, and has
not living relative. The theatrical firm
! known now as HOyt & Thomas, will, at
his death, become Dasher q Thomas.
| The beautiful Hoyt home, with its pri-
/ vate theater and spacious grounds at
| Charleston, n. H., will be turned into a
home for INDECENT actresses. 1t Will be
called Flora Walsh Home" and
will be endowed with Sl5O,0O0. Mrs.
! Walsh, Mr.. Hoyt's mother-in law, will
get the $4,000, and the balance will be
| used TO build mausoleum in which will
rest Mr.. and Mrs. Hoyt and Mr.. Hovt's
father