The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-07-22
drac, Cornanroc, Dramrad, Egrafarge,
Ludodul, Sullus, bod, Hallah and Gazzag
POlylop. Fudgei

drac, Cornanroc, Dramrad, Egrafarge,
Ludodul, Sullus, bod, Hallah and Gazzag
Polylop. Fudgei
Joseph Grismer and Phoebe Davies will
have nearly all the original people in the
cast of The New South, at Hoyt's Madi-
son Square Theater, August l4th-Messrs.
Scott Cooper, Charles Mackay, Holbrook
BInn, Ben Cation ana Miss Bebe Vim
ing.
One Of the newnesses of the newly
decorated New York Star Theater, which
young Lawrence Hanley will reopen, on
August 18th, with Blanche Marsden's
The Player is a Turkish cigarette and
cotee-room gorgeously frescoed and up
holstered.
Harry Phillips has already completed
all preliminary arrangements for next
season, wien he will present Cray
fatch," one OF the very funniest of farce
comedies. The company has been booked
Tor thirty-two solid weeks, including all
the large cities.
Marie wainwright says she will not re-
tire from the stage because, in the first
place, she found out, all of a sudden, that
some property she owns may not be so
valuable as she had thought it to be, and
then quite a number of theaters would
not cancel time booked by her with them.
Ramsay Morris is making bets that
next season he will have the handsomest
leading man on the American stage. His
name Is Edmund Maurice, and he comes
from England. Maurice was the original
Bottles in "Bootles' Baby' in England.
lie played the part more than one thou
sand nights.
Edwin W. Hoff, for the past five years
with the Bostonians, has been re-engaged
Dy the same management, most agreea-
bly, to both. as leading tenor of this splen-
dId organization. Everyone has remarked
the great improvement i'll Mr.. Hotf's
singing this season, which is due to his
interchangeable studying with one of New
ork'S most famous teachers. Mr.. II loft
mas declined numerous offers for the sum-
mer, as he intends to devote his vacation
10 stll further improving his voice and
method at the summer residence of his
teacher.
Theauthorship of In Old Kentucky, the
new. play to be produced in September,
has been ascribed to different writers. 1t
Is SAID TO be remarkably strong play
presenting striking picture of Kentucky
lie during most interesting period Of
ner history. 1t is whispered that James
Lane Allen, the brilliant Kentucky wri-
ter, is the author, and that he was
AIDED and abetted by that other dstin-
gulshed hentuckian Henry Watterson.
Ii this be true, it is barely possible that
we are at last to have the great American
play.
Mrs. G. w. Purdy, better known by
her stage name of Fanny Rice, arrived
IN New York recently. Mrs. Purdy went
to Europe about two months ago for her
health, which is said to have been much
improved by her trip. 1t is announced
THAT while Mrs. Purdy was in Paris she
signed a contract to sing there next Y ear
under the management of prominent
manager, and also that she brought back
with her two new comedies, a three-act
operetta and number of foreign novel
ties, which she proposes to present in this
country next season.
Gus Heege, author of "Yon Yonson."
IS still i'll Sweden, where he went to study
the people he so cleverly put on the stage.
When last heard from he was at the Uni
Yersity of Upsala, preparing for journey
through Norway, to end in the land of the
Midnight Sun. From Ultima Thule he
will return to Christiana by water, stop
ping at Tronhjlm and Bergen, and then
cross the North Sea to Hull, England,
where he will take ship for New York.
lie has finished new Swedish dialect
play in which Jacob Lift will star with
him the season after next.