The evening world., 1894-01-08
STAGE NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Strange Complications in Rose
Coghlan's Company.
Hubert wilke Strongly Objects to
Being Transferred.

The Rialtoites are doing a good deal
Of chattering about the strange compli-
cations in Miss Rose Coghlan's company.
They have been wondering how Aubrey
Boucicault and Mrs. Louise Torndyke
B~ouclcault, his late fathers second wife.
have been getting along together. The
problem has been solved. Young Bouci-
cauit and his stepmother had never
spoken before they met in this company.
They had met as strangers" They
would probably have continued as such
had It not been for Mrs. Boucicault.
When Young Aubrey made his first ap-
pearance with this organization Louise
Thorndyke came up to him, and said:
This is a very embarrassing position
for me, Mr.. Boucicault. l did not expect
II. but here we are, and 1t can be
helped. We had better speak to each
other and avoid exciting comment.
Don't you think this would be advisa-
ble?' Mr.. Boucicault agreed with her,
and the two now say good morning"
and good evening" and smile affably.
The other complication in the com
pany has not been explained. 1t is
the appearance at the theatre every
night Of Mrs. Charles Coghlan and Miss
Gertrude Coghlan. and their APPARENT
friendly relations with Charles Coghlan.
Some arrangement has evidently been
made. but nobody seems to know what
It is, and the persons involved In the
affair are all silent as the proverbial
B%phinxes.
The public is beginning to get very
tired of the perpetual disagreements In
.% .r! c A,SerinIR" and TunaT + w EenSing It Mas ss.
Years, Is very indignant at being trans
vs. erred from the latter opera to the
IN ormer. He was anxious that 1.-THE
p, e enf his salary maS'e With "Fhe Algerian" and
ici here was quite Il. set-to. In fact there
~ las been quite a set-to all the week In
J. The Fencing Master company in Phil
G.. w. Purdy. Miss Fannie Rlce,.s hus-
band, has taken possession of StockwelIs
blesome Miss Rice is playing. there for
all she Is worth. How long Mr.. Purdy
will remain manager OF this theatre is
"hustler." and considering that he was a
4 dental artist before he married Miss
\ Rice. he has made a managerial, record
for himself of which many old-timers
4 might feel proud.
III Miss Carrie Turner is not discouraged
N at the result of her unfortunate starring
career. 1t was of very short duration.
Blame bIl ni herself for that stars never do
1t Is always the fault OF the actors or
the manager. or-or the public. Miss
this time 1t will be unaer the direction
Aof a firm of Albany managers.
The members of the F~orepaugh stock
company returned to the city Yesterday
blame the leading lady for 1t all, and de-
HARE that II 1t had not been for the com
sUaications In which she 1 involved them
rhis is the lady who has been so ex-
~ ensively advertised as wearing a dagger
8ver her heart. as a symbol Of wearing
uD erpetually a secret sorrow. She seemed
o have lent it to the members of the
Ncompany yesterday. .
~ Ths hotels are full Of actors-the lob
Dies. not the registers. All Of these gen
Dg Of taking companies on the road.
lNsy AVE booked time so extensively
hat It is almost impossible to get any
nowadays. 1t is tied up, although 1t will
Probably never be used.
"Lady Windermere's Fam has been very
oddly received in San Francisco. and II
hs been noted the Californians sat stol!dly
Either they do not understand them, or,
understanding them. they set them down
- feeble and unwitty. One or two of the
ii a. navy ~ ~ poll u lllt ~
Iable pungency of these epigrams, but II
<fas no good. Poor Oscar would have
nd a ut, could he have contemplated the
INT crowds listening to what he mod.
btly considers the best play of the cen
bry.
h Philadelphians are telling a funny
story about Joseph Jefferson, anent an
episode that occurred there during his
last engagement. 1t appears that one
morning he received a letter from an en-
terprising manufacturer Of folding beds
Here Is what the letter said: "Sir, l saw
you play Rip Van Wrinkle last night. and
have a proposition to make to you
When the curtain goes up on the third
your long sleep, you might say. a few
words, something like this: oh. how
tired m u ! had slept last night or
ranted safe. durable and eomfortabie
how much better l would feel this morn,
ing am willing to pay you for this. OF
course" This gentleman might use this
argument more advantageously with one
or two New York managers.
All the omance of Nine. Calves nam,
IL ruined by one or two out-of-towr
writer's. who persist in %alluding to tht
This Is worse than speaking of the great
French tragedienne as Miss Sarah Bern
Eardt.
Benjamin Landeck's new and origina'
melodrama," now running in London
must be a weird and awful affair. The
drama is one In which the hero, who Is
4 thief and a murderer, excuses his com
initial of about twelve murders with the
/. iRo,Ssee. that he had never known a mothers
Better use too