The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-05-20
in THREE DANCES.
LOie Fuller the Prime
FavOrite.
EFFECT OF COMPETITION.
Managers Must Follow the Music
Halls.
WALES AND HIS ODD TASTE.
1t Is Said That He Advised Yvette
Guibert to Go TO
England.
WALES AND HIS ODD TASTE

among the theatrical managers OF London
may be gathered from the fact that Miss
Loie Fuller. the American dancer. Is APP
pesring nightly in three houses. the
Trafalgar, the Strand and Terry's, in diff
lerent dances, and with great success at
each establishment. The theaters have
been compelled to adopt the music-hall
system on account of the fact that theater
managers are forced TO furnish extra at
fractions In addition TO 'their regular bill
of fare. If they enter into active competi-
ton with the so-called popular business.
The Court Theater will be opened on
Thursday with Clement Scotrs one
and Koling's Marriage" The latter
scored good reception.
Duse has been playing this week in
SardOu's "DivoreOns" to full houses. The
star has received command to play in
GoldeonIs comedy, "Locandiera. at
Windsor Castle.
E. S. Willard will shortly open at the
Comedy Theater with ''Middleman" and
other plays of his American repertoire.
BOughton, the author of a number
Of amusing short plays, who Was
much employed by Charles Wyndham
to rewrite and translate foreign plays an /
who has been suffering from pleurisy for
some time past, is dead.
Sir Augustus Harris is now arranging a
special season of German opera for Drury
Lane Theater.
The Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on
Thursday attended the concert which was
given in celebration of the anniversary
of the SEVENTEEN year Of the existence Of
the Royal Academy of Music. Professor
Alexander Campbell Mckenzie. principal
Of the Royal Academy of Music, intro
duced new overture entitled Britannia"
in which q number OF patriotic melodie S
we're heard.
Miss Minnie Cortes, the charming So
pranO from Chicago, gave an interesting
concert in Princess Hall on Tuesday last.
During the entertainment Miss COrtes in
troduced to the audience the prodigy VIC
lnist. Arthur Argiewicz Another child
volini>t. Maud Mccarthy. appeared OH
Thursday last under the patronage of Mr..
Gladstone. Paderewskps teacher, Les
chetitzky. has thirty-six prodigy pianists
studying with him at present. There re-
Gently arrived in this city an American
prodigy known as Little Ruby" pretty
young baby dancer. who is said to have
gained considerable fame in New York
and other cities. 1t is said that the Bar
oness Burdett- COutts is interesting her
self in Little Ruby" and that the baby
dancer, who is described as being graceful
and accomplished, will be presented to her
first London audience in the drawing-roonl
of the Baroness.
James j. Corbett starts from Paris 10.
day for Scotland, taking "Gentlemar
Jack" to Edinburgh and other large town:
north of the Tweed. On the conclusion 81
this tour he will visit the English provinces
! and will afterward return 80 the United
States He is regarded as player merely
as medium for The display of COrbetts
boxing. Gentleman Jack" fell far short
of the London standard. Corbett declares
that he and not the author is to be blamed
| for this. II am only beginner in acting
| he says, land we were rebearsing the play
| If there was any scene l did not feel capa-
BILE OF tackling ! had 1t cut nearly out
which was rather hard on the author"
1.-THE Yellow Curtain" has after all
been chosen as the title of The new play
by Henry Hoyt, which is to be produced
by Miss Olga Brandon at the Prince OF
Wales matinee next Tuesday. 1t is Oh
the shoulders of Charles Glenny marquis
Deville Forte) that the burden of the play
is said TO chiefly rest. the part of the Mar
quis, TO be played by Miss Brandon, mo-
offering such fine acting opportunities.
Mile. Yvette Guibert, who has been on a
brief visit to London with Miss LoiC
Fuller, leaves to-day on her return tC
Paris. a reporter of the Associated Press
at the Savoy Hotel yesterday evening
asked her whether she had any intention
of going TO the United States in the I'M
mediate future.
II cannot say" was the reply. 81 wan
to go to the Uuited States very much, bu
my friends seem to think thatmy perform
ance would not be quite to the American
TASTE"
Mile. Guibert said that three years agt
she was OILY earning Is francs day b,
her singing. while nowadays she makes a
much as 1900 francs for a single perform
ance.
when the Prince of Wales was q
Cannes" she continued, "a grand part,
was given there in his honor and / cam,
especially from Paris TO sing at IL. wa
introduced to the Prince, who was kline
enough to say that my performance wa
like that of an actress In the Comedi'
Franchise. He thought ought to give III
| singing In the music halls and 60 on tn,
ordinary stage. and advised me to pay