The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14

oil the oldtlmers, but dropsy, dyspepsia
and finally insomnia made him think he
would be better off dead than alive.
Nine. Modjeska was reported on the sick
list in Pittsburg May 6.
There is an interesting connection be-
tween Clleyeden House, Maidenhead,
which has recently been purchased by W.
W. AstOr from the Duke of Westminster.
and the national music of England Rule
Britannia" the ode in honor of Great
Britain, composed by DR.. Arne for his
masque of Alfred" was first performed
at Clieveden House on the first of August,
1740. Clieveden was then the residence OF
Frederick. Prince of Wales, and the occa-
sion was to commemorate the ascension of
George l and the birth of Princess Au-
gusta.
The Umpire, an independent dramatic
paper, accounts for the present theatrical
depression in London as follows: "A class
of critics have arisen who sheer at all
forms of theatrical leyity. They are the
cantng Puritans of their day and genera
ton. and these kill-joys have been sitting
on the neck OF the theater for years past.
Small wonder that the public should have
been getting into the habit of taking their
pleasures elsewhere"
The Robin Hood Opera Company has
discovered a most promising prima donna
in Miss Cheridale Simpson. a handsome
Milwaukee society belle who adopted the
operatic stage few months ago.
Harry Dam, formerly of San Francisco,
has become dramatic editor of New Lon
don publication called Talk"
Mr.. Robert Z. Johnston, who formerly
managed Divide Musin so efficiently, has
transferred his services to Henri Marteau.
French violinist, said to draw wonder
full bow.
John Stetson has purchased from Mrs.
Dion Buccicault the exclusive rights to
Led Astray." This is the drama in which
the late Charles X. Thorne Jr. and Rose
Eytinge made their great success at the
Union-square Theater. y. Y, upward of
dozen years ago. Stets0n has engaged
Miss EytinGe to play the Baroness, and
direct the play.
Richard Stabl has finished a new opera
called THE Cobbler."
Girl ushers are coming into use. Phil
adelphia and Chicago have adopted the
idea for all it is worth.
The London Figaro Is inclined to be-
lieve Harry Dams play, THE Silver
Shell" viii be big money winner for the
Kendas
George GrOssmith, the English comique,
has returned to London and will be back
to New York next season with lot Of
! new skits. Grossmith proposes to make a
book about the United States and Canada.
There IS dearth OF matlnees III London,
according to the Figaro, and the same
paper warns ambitious young dramatic
authors to avoid them, for they are fire.
Quenied by no one but irritable critics aud
| deadheadS, who are more critical than the
critics.
A plan that seems TO have been for some
time in preparation for the establishment
of new dramatic educational Institution
was dlVulged recently. 1t is an adjunct OF
the Empire IN. y Theater and is TO be
called the Empire 1heater Dramatic Col
lege. Ii has some Of the aims of the The
alter Of Arts and Letters, but its methods
are such as to probably save it from the
failure and Tidicule into which Mr.. Nc
Dowells enterprise has fallen.
Richard Mansfield's new play. which is
to be presented first at Chicago, is called
The Great House of Yanbrough." II is
the work OF SilaS Brand N, q young Amer
lean author, whom the actor first met in
the South. The play deals with life in
New York City about fifty years ago, and
Is divided into four acts and five scenes,
one Of which takes place on the Battery.
The story Is SAID to be OF great simplicity
and domestic in character. Mr.. Mans field
will appear as Jacob V anbrough, typi-
cal old New York merchant.
The DAILY company, as whole, will not
return TO its home in New York next win
/ ter. 1t will remain abroad. and besides
playing in the new London house make a
tour OF the British provinces. visiting all
the larger cities OF England. Ireland and
Scotland. Mr.. DAILY has been asked to
make the tour often IN the past, and lie has
decided that lie would never have a better
chance than is now before him. New York
however. is Tot to lose Days altogether
This arrangement is contemplate only
for this opening year OF the new theater,
and alter next winter the regular seasons
at Days will be resumed as heret0fJ FORE
the company dividing Its time between here
and London.
TIE story recently eabed from Baireutn
! to the effect that Cosima List Won Bulow
| Wagner had been stricken with apoplexy
| is fatty contradicted She has been seen
out shopping 1t is said tina: Cosima is
not the sort of woman to be knocked over
| by apOpleXy. IF she and apOplexy do
| come into collision the latter it is said,
Will go down.
A new ode by Sir Arthur Sullivan will
! be produced at the opening of the Imperial
| Institute. After that he will com plete his
new piece for the Savoy Tneater to be
| present. ted early in the winter, and after
| ward will compose ? new cantata for the
| Leeds festival OF 1895, if lie can find a
suitable subject Tia composers familiar
and delightful "Mikado" was announced
| for presentation at the Inter den Linden
| Theater in Berlin on April &c. This is
| the fourth theater at which The work has
| been presented in the German capital. Al
| the Walner Theater, played by an English
| troupe. II ran for thirty nights. AT KrolPs,
| also by an English company, 1t ran for
| four months cOnsecutively, and at the
| Observation-Disclosures Theater it had 200
| performances. Its popularity Increased all
| the time.