The record-union., 1893-01-21


VII ch is to be altered for presentation in
Berlin.
Manager \. F. Hartz is rebuilding his
Euclid Avenue Opera-house in Cleye-
land.
Donnelly and Girard's new Natural
Gas'' has been very successful on the
road.
Buffalo Bill is to have a sold silver
statue at the Chicago Fair, just like Miss
Rehan.
Rubenstein has finished new one-act
opera. soon to be brought out in st. Pc
tersburg.
De Wolf Hopper will produce his new
opera by Cheever Goodwin at the New
York Broadway Theater May I'd.
The clever comedian, G. w. Howard,
IS confined i'll hospital in Boston, and is
TO nave benefit i'll that city soon.
MoIlie Sherwood has resigned her posi-
ton IN Eight Bells" to join her husband,
VIII A. Mcconnell, the Chicago Joker.
Annie Lewis will make tour of Cali
lorna early next season in "A Nutmeg
Match" Miss Lewis has made a decided
hit in this play.
Nextautumn Z. S. Willard opens Palm
er's New York Theater for three
months run, after that Palmer's becomes
practically combination house.
Lilli Lehman, whose sudden illness
last winter while at the METROPOLITAN
Opera-house led her friends to fear the
most tragic results, is again singing in
Yerlin.
"Morty" Fields announces the fifty
third season at the Boston Museum. The
Museum Company is to appear in New
ork, Chicago and Philadelphia next
season.
Reports from st. Paul and Minneapolis
credit "Hon Yonson" with doing a re-
markable business in those cities. The
orchestra had to be placed on the stage at
every performance.
A new operetta by Adolf Muller, called
die Millionen Onkel," has made sue
cess IN Vienna, the principal character
peing Carl Streitman, so unpopular with
Lillian Russell audiences last season.
Miss Emily Lytton, leading lady of the
}. *. Emmet Fritz in Ireland'' COM
pany, made tremendous hit in Augusta,
Ga, last week. In the South they say
she IS the prettiest woman seen in their
theaters this season.
Nina Bettina created a sensation at
Phlladeiphia by rushing out on the stage
IN the last act OF Miss Helyett" and de-
clarlng she would never, never play in
Mrs. Leslie C&rter's company again be-
cause Mrs. Carter had grossly insulted
her.
"A Trip to Chinatown" will celebrate
1ts 4oOth consecutive performance at the
Hoyt Madison Square rheater on Friday.
January 10th, and the event will be COM
memorated by the presentation to each
lady visitor of bronze statue of The
Widow.
Level-headed old managers say it is
dollars to doughnuts that not a dollar
viii be made by theatrical productions
during the Chicago Fair. In London,
farls' vienna and Melbourne all the
managers went broke" during their ex-
positions.
May Brooklyn has been warmly re-
celved in Boston in her old part in "a la
bama." She Will probably appear in
Jim the Penman' Tor a few nights be-
fore she creates the new role on which
she has been hard at work for some time
IN Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's
Fam
Z. L. Dazey, the author of'In Old Ken
tucky," is now in the mountains of Ken
lucky IN search of material for his play,
winch Is to be produced next season.
Mr. Dazey contemplates making some
changes IN the play as it is now written
and Will spend several weeks among the
kentuckians.
Joseph X. Grismer and Phoebe Davies
are justly proud OF their New York re-
ceptlon. which has been most cordial.
They have both made great hits in Mr..
Grismer's play, The New South" at the
Broadway Iheater, New York, and their
tour toward their home in San Francisco.
where both are deservedly popular, prom
Uses to be very successful.
Patti is going to make another sfare-
welF' tour. The last time she was on this
coast those who heard her feryentlv
hoped she was telling the truth when she
announced that it was positively her last
appearance. She is played out and will
not again hlI houses at large prices as in
the past, especially under the MANAGE
ment OF such a thing as Marcus r. Mayer.
The action at law, Verga VS.. Sonzogno
and Mascagni, in respect TO the libretto ot
CaValIerla Rusticana," has been finally
settled by arbitration. Signor Nerga
from whom Signor Sonzogno took The
idea, and nearly all the substance of his
book" receives from the latter 200. coo
lire (9S.OOO). Half Of this sum is to be
paid down, and the other half by yearly y
lnstallments of G240 each.
While the Hon. Charles H. Hovt is
making law in the New Hampshire Leg
Isiature two OF his plays, "A Temperance
Town and "A Texas Steer" are draw
ing full houses i'll Boston, and the two
companies playing "A Trip to China
town." one III New York and the other
in Kansas City, are doing likewise. "A
Hole in the Ground'' is also a money
winner, and take it all in all, the firm ot
Hoyt ~ Thomas have probably made
more money this season than any other
managers on the road.