The morning call., 1893-04-23
Personal and other Jottings.

Personal and Other lettings.
Mrs. Louise Pauline Warner proposes to
recruit her health by few weeks residence
at Sissons, Siskiyou County, in the shadow
of Mount Shasta. She will give some at
tentiOn to literature while there.
Colonel Z. Daniel Boone, who is now ex-
hibiting at Austin 81 Stones Museum,
Boston, recently signed contracts with a
prominent California manager to appear
three months in San Francisco, commenc-
ing in October, and as singular as it may
appear it will be the first exhibition of per-
forming lions ever given on the Pacific
! Coast.
Mr.. NJ. J. Mckenzie and his advanced
| pupils, assisted by the Mckenzie Musical
! Society, Will give second soiree musicale
at Union-square Hall on Tuesday evening.
May 2.
The fourth concert of the sixteenth sea-
| son will be givea by the Loring Club on
THURSDAY evening next, April 81, at
usual has been given to the selection Of the
! programme.
Colonel j. H. Mapleson has returned TO
| England, after brief career in the United
| States having failed in his attempt to get
lease Of the Metropolitan Opera-hoUse New
| York. While Mapv was applying for the
| lease Abbey had that document as good as
| inside his pocket.
Prominent professionals are receiving
|
always May with them. Nat Goodwin has
trouble with his eyes that squints toward
blindness. E. J. Henley has been seriously
! Ill In New ork and was only getting about
! again last week. Manager j. NJ. Hill is
again confined TO his apartments in New
| York by relapse of his recent Illness,
which took the ugly form Of pneumonia.
Sarasate has had thirty-two watches given
| MIN at various times, several in the shape
| Of violins.
| Fanny Burdett, the pretty and shapely
| midget, Cd exhibition at the Ninth and Arch
| Museum, Philadelphia, is soon to be married
TO a wealthy Boston stOckbro The in
tended groom weighs go pounds and stands
! nearly feet high
| Henry Burdin Mcdowell, he of the Thea
| ter Of Arts and Letters, and son of Gen.
| eral Irwin Mcdowell, Is suing a lot of
newspaper and theatrical people for con-
| spITcy, including Dan Frohman, Eugene
| OImonde and +. F. Mackay.
Frederick Warde and Louis James were
! honored by the Mormons when in Salt Lake
| CIV by being permitted TO inspect the new
| S5,OOOOOO tabernacle just previous to its
| dedication. They are the last gentiles who
will have had the privilege OF surveying the
| interior of the structure.
Eeonora Duse, at the close of her tour
goes 10 England for long engagement at
| DruTy Lane, London. She returns to Amer
| lea next season with an entirely Lew roper
| tOire,
Miss Kuhne Beveridge. the Young San
| francisco sculp,ress who DESIGNED the plas-
| ter bust OF John Drew which was given
| away as a souvenir of the two hundred and
| HitIeth performance of The Masked BalP'
| at the BrOad-Slreet Theater. Philadelphia
| April II, Is granddaughter of the late
| Governor Beyeridge of Illinois Her
younger sister, miss of u years, is learn
| ing tbs trade of blacks mithng-thRt is or
| namental blacksmil hiDg-and intends max
ing display OF her Skill al the Chicago
Worlds Fair.
SardOu and PinerO have libraries and
| studies. MessrS. Harris and Petit have Il
earptnter-shop. Their plays have da-
| logue of course but it is scrubbed on the
| reverse side II the scenery. Thus, if an
actor forgetS his lines, he may bite a piece
| off the scenery aud feel safe again.
Nine. Eugene Paprenheim is giving pupil
| concerts in New York.
II is announced that 100 musicians, Sc
lected from the infantry and cavalry bands
! OF the German army, will appear in eleven
/ concerts at the Madison-square Gardens
during the week beginning to-day. April %
| HaleyY's Ia Julve," TO be revived by
Sir Augustus Harris, the London manager,
has not been heard in that city for forty
| years
Tony Pastor discharged a French dancer
| after one performance. Her clothes and
| demeanOr were too loud for his house.
They must, indeed, have been awakening
Louis James has signed with Fred Warde
| for five years.
John Finlayson. father of Margaret Ma
! ther, was granted a divorce in the Circuit
! Court at Detroit, recently. On April II,
| MIR. Finlayson. who is 10 years old, married
Belle UTquart, 4S years old. She is a resi-
| dent of Detroit.
Sadi Martinez has left the Coghlan COM
| pany owing to poor health. She goes TO
| Europe to recruit
Colonel John a. SteCauil. five years ago
| the king OF light opera, is living quietly In
Baltimore. de retains his interest In things
| theatrical, and occasionally, attended by his
| valet, goes 10 the theater. II Is unable TO
| speak, but recognizes friends
Marie Decca the singer has fled bill in
| equity in the Dauphin County PA court, to
recover from her husband. Francis Leon
| Chrisman, and his sister, Bartha Chrisman
the house al Harrisburg. Pa, which, the
| prlma donnasays, was purchased with her
money and placed In her husbands name
| without her knowledge or consent.
The Shakespearean birthday celebration
| at the Edwin Forrest II OmP on April %,
will lie under the direction of Augustin
DAILY. and his company Will provide the en-
| tertaInment
According 10 a report in a dramatic paper
| a company playing Uncle Toms Cabin"
recently stranded at LockpOrt n. Y, be-
| cause little Eva attached the box-ofiice re-
ceipts to buy her eldest son new suit of
| clothes.
Charles R. Thorne, "old man Charley"
as he was Familiarity called, was once asked
what were the chief qualifications for
! tragedlan and Il comedian respectively.
For tragedlan lungs" he answered
''for comedian the ability to do the most
unnatural things furnily."
w. ). Gilbert did his first work for the
| stage when he was % years old, TRANSMITTING
a song which Parepa Rosa was singing
Henry Irving had TO pay $500 for the
| scenery that was painted for the pc rfOrm-
| ance in Windsor Castle. Some people, adds
| the Brooklyn Eagle. wculd be Satisf not
10 appear before the Queen. No payment
| is made Tor these Windsor performances,
the honor of appearing before her Majesty
| being deemed sufficient reward. Mr..
| Irving was presented with n stud and Miss
Terry with brooch. on which were III
scrbed the letters v II. J.
A career has been found for Benzon. the
| jubilee pluDger. He is going to follow the
| example OF brOken-down bagmen, handles
| aud pugilists. He is going on tie stage,
| and just think of it, he has found an en-
gagement with the 'Prodigal Daughter"
| company, which Is about 10 begin business
| in America.
"The Decision Of tue Court" the one-act
| formed by che Theater of Arts and Letters,
IS soon 10 be published by Harper 81 Broth
ers in their Black ana White series. The
book will be dedicated to Bronson Howard.
The music halls on the other side of the
Atlantic are just now ringing with song
written by Lieutenant Colonel Dudley
| sampson, composed by Lady Arthur Hill,
and dedicated to the Marquis OF Salisbury.
| The refrain Of the meaningless jingle is:
| No home rule shall bind US,
| But traitors ever ind
! with thousands more behind u.s.
| For Union and for Queenw
Political songs are invariably a eoncoc-
| ton Of braggadocio and gusb, of which the
| following is glorious and glaring example: :
We don't want te fight,