The record-union., 1893-06-24

FROM the tootlights OF Many The
aters.
A P. Dunlop, writing from New York
under date of June 18th, says:
The middle of June finds all the play
houses yet open, doing paying business.
OF newness there is absolutely nothing,
ana nothing is in sight except the pro-
duction of The Talisman' at the Manhat-
tan Opera-house, which has been post
poned until Monday; 1902 at Palmer's
and The Prodigal Daughter at the Amer
lean continue to attract very large audi
ences and neither will be removed for
some time. The Isle Of Champagne has
also been a money winner in spite of
warm weather, and it looks as if Mana
ger George w. Lederer will keep the
Fifth Avenue open for the remainder of
this month at least. Vaudeville gets live
lier with the increase of summer heat,
instead of succum bing to 1t, and that is
not due to the TACT that some of it is
placed in the roof gardens, for the indoor
variety shows are notably prosperous. In
the exchanges and on the Rialto every
thing is pretty dull, and the outlook for
next season, according to the old stag
ers,' is not very promising. The season
just gone by has not been very protita-
ble one, and the majority of the manage
ers seem to be cramped for money"
THATCHER IN COMIC OPERA.
In these days of large road organiza-
tions it is something unusual to see COM
panies having more than fifty bona fide
mem DerS, and there are only two in eX-
istence to-day that number over seventy.
one is the American Extravaganza Com
pany OF the Chicago Opera-house, and
the other is George Thatcher's Operatic
Extravaganza Company, which will be
seen al the Metropolitan Theater for two
nights, beginning on Monday, July Sd.
This organization is the peer Of any COM
pany OF its kind on the road, there being
no less than twenty-six principals in the
cast, with chorus of thirty-hve. They
will present for the first time in this city
the new spectacular comic opera, "Atri-
ca" which recently made such a splen-
did impression in San Francisco. The
piece abounds in all that is good in the
lighter forms OF entertainment, being
very strong in the way of comedy and
music. AS a production " Africa" is
truly a spectacle all the scenery for the
six companies being magnificent, and
from the brush of John A. Thompson of
the Hollis-street Theater, Boston. over
three hundred costumes are worn IN the
piece, all of which are OF the richest ma
terisl, being made by Dazian OF New
Y Eork.
FOoTLIGHT FLASHES.
Perugini desires to go upon the dra-
matte stage.
Steele Mackaye is said to be seriously
i'll in Chicago.
Pretty Miss May Brooklyn is daily
promenader on Broadway.
Thomas w. Keene has postponed his
trip to Japan until next year.
Stuart Robson has gone on a cruise
along the New England coast.
Fred Peel is under treatment for rheu-
matism az Mount Clemens, Mich.
Young Salvini is summering on the
Palisades overlooking New York City.
w. NJ. WiikIson, young Salvini's
manager, will not go to Europe this sea-
son.
Rose Beaudet sails for London this
week, to return in the later days of Au-
gust
John Harley has purchased "Walker.
London" for James I. Powers and com
pany.
When Charles Wyndham appears in
New York it will be in "The Bauble
Shop"
The old Richmond Theater at Rich
mond, Va, will soon be sold at public
auction.
Ali Baba," at the Chicago Opera
house, has been playing to standing
room only"
Charles Barton has returned to his old
post as business manager OF the New
York Casino.
Charles Thomas. of Hoyt and Thomas,
is yet in the Adirondacks, much i'm
proved in health.
Alma Stuart Stanley, the once great
English burlesquer, is at present singing
in concert garden in Paris.
Harry Phillips is in New York book
ing time Tor Cray Patch" which will
take to the road early in August.
Pauline Markham is still confined to
l. H.
vile, KY, nursing her broken leg.
The Conversorium, Truro, \. S.. was
burned June 9th. The company playing
at the house lost all their wardrobes.
Joseph Jefferson yet fingers in New
York. He has been seriously i'll, and it
Is probable that he will not travel next
season.
Scenic Artist Dangerfeld ofthe Chicago
Opera-house has begun work to complete
new scenery for Manager Henderson's
revival of ''Sinbad."
Charles Frohman's Empire Theater
Dramatic School. under the direction Of
Nelson Wheatcrott,, Will begin its first
season in October next.
It is announced that the engagement of
Adelaide Prince, late of Augustin Daly's
company, to George w. Merritt of New
FORK has been broken OH.
Emily Soldene, once famous as a comic
sydney, Australia, EUelttag Nei0S with
theatrical and musical notices.
John Webster has secured the Ameri-
can rights to Arthur Branscombe's COM
edy, Morocco Bound" now running at
the London Shaftesbury Theater.
Tom Mcguire, treasurer Of the New
York Fourteenth street Theater, is
rapidly convalescing. His physicians
hope 10 have him out within a week.
Albert Bruning writes that he has
caught the biggest trout ever taken in
Raugley Lakes, but be neither sent it for
inspection, nor did !Ie send its weight.
John Drew is in London with his
family. He is so popular there that
Charles Frohman has arranged that he
shall occupy the Criterion next season.
Joseph William Gordon, joint lessee
with Joseph Plowman of the Prince OF
Wales Theater. London, died at his resi-
dence, southampton, Eng, May 9th.
Mrs Martha Haworth, mother of Joseph
Haworth, the actor, and William
Haworth, the playwright, died at her
home in Cleveland on June 18th, aged y
years.
Lyman B. Glove, who has of late had
the management of the Chicago Con-
servatory of Music, has resumed his old
position as dramatic critic on the Chicago
Herald.
Gus Heege, the author of "Yon Yon-
SON" writes from Tronhjelm, Norway,
that he has already gathered material for
a ''corking'' new Swedish dialect comedy
for Jacob Lift.
It is rumored that there may again be
a Wallack's Theater in New York,