The morning call., 1894-04-15
Personal and Other Jottings.

ight'-Cbicago Times.
Leila France, the song-wrlter, wrote or
selected all the music for 1.-The New South"
During the g. A. r. encampment at Oakland
the Grismer-Davies company will be the attrac
tion at the Macdonough Theater opening
Monday evening, April 23; In The New
will appear In "The Burglar
Mr.. Ii. j. Stewart will give an organ recital
at the First Unitarian Church on Monday even
ing. April %. The programme will consist of
organ solos and Two violin selections by j. FL.
Rosewad
Aubrey Boucicault appeared on the stage in
London when h. wa. six months old, according
10 his manager. and has never known any life
but that of the theater. To him life has been
series OF easy stages.
Manager Wilbur OF the opera company that
bears his name Is trying to get Madeline Pol
lard into 1t, not because she can sing or act but
because she Is the heroine OF an unsavOry
mess and some people might be fools enough to
pay half dollar to look at her.
Ii may have been for advertising purposes
but ii read well, that William Calhoun, the
Colonel MoberIy of an Alabama company,
pIaving in the South. was .iwanted'' by fire.
eaier In Savannah, who charged that he was
initiating him in his makeup. The manager
told this perfect Souhe gentleman, sah,"
tnat Mr. Calhoun had been a cowboy. that he
was a dead shot with a revolver and was very
terrible when aroused. Thereupon the offended
man swallowed his dignity and disappeared.
The yarn, per cable, about the discovery OF a
Greek hymn 10 Apollo, 1000 years old, is prob
aDly manufactured. Ii is not dead sure that
the Grerks had system OF musical annexation
aud it is not dead sure that we could read il If
they had. As il has no harmony Ii Is OF little
account, anyhow.
The FitZ- Webster company had a dispute in
Florence. Ala. over hotel bill and policeman
first slapped Miss Webster's face; then, when
Mr.. Ftz knocked him down, be shot her. A
corset steel tuned the ball. Some revival OF
chf oil ic nQ al in ha
1t is said that the reason for not observing
the tr-centenary of Palestrina's birth in Rome,
where he lived, was the Pope's hatred OF music.
The event was commemorated Ia other cities.
MIR. Percy Winter, son OF Willie Winter of
the New York Tribune, Is pronounced sue.
cess as E. S. Wizards stage manager.
Sir Arthur Sullivan will be present at per.
formance OF "Iyanhoe' in the Royal Opera
house, Berlin. The opera Will be put on the
stage with considerable splendor, but as it
failed in London, and as ii Is really poor
work IL is very doubtful whether the Ger mans
will like II.
Elean0ra Duse is In Italy In better health
than when she started on her foreign tours.
and so we'll rewarded 10 money that she de-
clines to act In her native land where the
muneration Is so meager that even Salvini re-
mained poor until he went abroad.
Sadie Martnot writes TO the New York Sun
that she expects to appear next season In short
plays, after the manner of the late ROsina
Vokes, and with Claude ID. Marius In her
Maggie Mitchell will delay her return to the
stage till the season after next In her case
delays are dangerous.
Isabel Irving and Elaine Ellison are assigned
by Charles Frohman to be The trousered CON-
panions of tombstone Bennett in next seasons
tour OF 1.-THE AmaZons"
Marie Chester, once pretty and popular ac-
tress, Is now compelled to 60 about on crutches
in consequ nee of spinal ailment.
Giles Shine, who played one Dromlo to Stuart
Robson's other, has left him because Robson
reduced salaries 40 per cent.
Sol Smith Russell will try Europe.
1t is now almost certain that Lillian Russell
will go into grand opera with Abbey next sea-
son. Will she s ay there?
1t is announced that ''Shore Acres" with
James A. Herne at the head Of the company,
will bs seen at Henry Irvings Lyceum Theater,
London, some time next season.
Louis Aldi ich contemplates touring the coun-
try next season In his old success. my Part
ner" Lewis Morrison, it is said, will be
financially interested In the tour.
Richard Mansfield has purchased house in
New York and Will soon become metropolitan.
The Gothamites are hilarious over the event.
Captain John Jack is In Philadelphia. He
fought through the war in the Second Pennsyl.
vana Reserves. His old chief. William D.
Whipple, brevet mal0r-general, United States
army, sent him a long congratulatory letter the
other day.