The morning call., 1894-02-11
Personal and other Jottings.

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Personal and Other JOttings.
Manager AL Hayman and wife sailed for an
extended trip on the steamship Furst Bismarck
February /. They will return 10 London in
June, the opening Of the season.
Warde aud James will make their bow TO a
Baldwin audience on March II.
1.-The Price of Silence'' will be the next new
play presented by the Palmer Company. IL
follows "Jim, the fenman.
The performance by the German Company at
the Baldwin his evening VIII De Tor tne Denent
of Miss Louise Schmidt-GanghOIerS Dlo
HochZeit Won Valerie"
The feature at Meyers Wigwam is a Chan.
ticleer sting band. and $500 IS the sum oIeieo
to any one who can prove The ''roosters" are
not alive.
Annie Pixley died a woman Of wealth. and
every cent OF ir-S200 .0OO-WaS maze III Tue
exercise of her profession and largely through
the energy of her husband, Robert Fulford
Que would naturally suppose, remarks tne
New York Recorder. this fortune would Oelong
to MIR. Fulford but Miss Pixey's relatives think
otherwise. II X comes TO legal tug, fancy
that MIR. Fulferd can hold his own.
Among the attractions that VIII soon o. seen
at the Baldwin Theater IS the wonderful FeI-
envy German Opera Company, which has been
playing i'll New York for Tie past TWO years.
They met with wonderful success III the EAST
and have several new operas, among them "Ihe
Vogelhauder," which ran for an entire year.
III Is likely that James ONetll Will act on the
advice OF Howard Paul, the English critic, ana
give the Londoners an opportunity OF enjoying
his mastery performance OF Edmond DaDtes In
"M0nIe CristO."
New York leading women get from 500 or
$3.50 week TO $500. be highest salary ever
paid in this country TO leading woman was
given at the old Unon-square Theater where
Rose Eytinge received $500 week. The
difference between that and the salaries she
would receive these days In small OLD WOmalrS
parts is great enough to make her history
illustrative OF some OF the vlclsSltudes IN her
calling
No.
eled from Ada Rehan'S shaDely curves and ex-
hibiied at the Chicago Worlds Fair. Is now
making the rounds OF dime museums. 10
what base uses" etc.
William Greer Harrison's new play, "1he
ONeill, or the Prince of Ulster" will be pro-
duced on March ;. Both In the estimation OF
the author and his many n lends who have read
the play. James O'Neill is The only actor who
can give thoroughly characteristic represen-
tation OF the lrlsh nero.
A TOmantic-Spirtrd maiden IN Boston once
sent James ONeil the following lines:
OF all the stars who tread the boards
From Hamlet TO Mephist0,
None plays his part with more renown
Than i'm 0'Neill in Monte CrisrO."
Manager Edward j. Abram Is trying 10 IN.
duce Louis Aldricn 10 star next season under
his management in "hy Partner" Aldrlch
May Waldron's mother died in Chicago re-
Gently, and she and ner husband, Stuart Rob
SOD, were out of the cast of "A Comedy OF
ErrOrs" for several nights Giles Shine playing
both of the Dromios and Grace Lynch appear
ing as "AdrIana." Mr.. Robson Will revive
BucS stones LEAP Year."
Henry James new play, which Is 10 be pro-
duced IN London by George Alexander, Is said
to be quiet, beautifully written work, dealing
with rustic episode In the period Of the anti
Popery riots OF 1883, and has III lt some Won
derfully delicate cha acter drawing.
AT a lecture on The Decline OF Literature"
the eloquent orator shouted:
"Wbere are the ChaucerS and ShakeSpeares,
and Millions and Sponsors and Macaulays?
Where are they, say?"
And a voice answered sadly from the gallery,
"AI de ,d."-Tld- Bits.
Ben Teal now famous as an adapter and
director. said the other DAY: al wish 10 record
protest against that phase OF public taste
which has almost aIDihil ted our stock COM
panes and substituted for managers and artists
janitors and jugglers. The stock system In its
Integrity, Is the only practical hope for dra.
matte literature aud dramatic art. Directly
and indirectly The here to-day, there to-mor-
row condition OF affairs In theatricals has done
more o make acting lost art, dramalc COM
position less an effort 10 engrUss the best intel
lects tn n all Others causes combined"
A fuil-dressed party OF young men-said to
have been Phadelphans in search of metro
poliian exctemeDt-occupied boxes at kost err
& BlaPs, In New York, on Saturday night, Feb
Iuary 3. While Bessie BeIlwOOd was singing
they >howeIed her with coins. Miss BelwOod
received silver dollar on the eye, and was so
startled that she lost her >elt-cOntrol. She left
the stage, but al once returned and apOlOglZed
10 The audience. Then She turned 10 III boxes
OF the offenders and dared them TO come al ound
10 tie stage door. III L can't whip you Sandow
caDl" she cried The p riormance then went
on peacefully.
James A. Herne is writing. another playa
war drama without gunpowdeT.
Henry Irving has accepted an invitation from
the new award Union To address the students
OF the university during the week OF March II,
when he Will be playing his last week In this
country. In Boston.
II is definitely settled that William H. Crane
will appear as Falstaff 10 The Merry Wives
OF Windsor" next season. To properly person
ate th fat knight has been the ambition OF
Cranes life and the subject OF his study for
Augustus Thomas play, ''In Mizzoura," has
been acted in Seattle WASH recently under
the title of "The Rlscksmilh's Daughter" 1t
Is clear case OF piracy.
WaTde anu james are credited win a streak
OF good fortune in New Orleans, where they are
reported TO have played TWO weeks TO a busi-
ness Of $4,000.
There have been about seventy performances
OF Shakesp ares plays so far this season In
Philadel Dhia, with Irving. Willard and Man
telPs off rings from the bard yet To come.
Paul Dresser was the plumber In Hoyps "A
Tin Soldier" for Two years. and in those DAYS
lie was somewhat addicted 10 drink, habit,
by the way, he has thrown to the winds ON
one occasion Mr.. Hoyt visited the company and
fouDu Dresser and TWO or three other promi-
nent members of the company in an exceedingly
hilarious condition.
''See hete, bOys.' he said, In his peculiar Yer
mont voice, II believe that 1t would be good
idea for US to go out of the show business and
start a distIlery."
How dly true Is this quatrain in Puck:
shrewd wisdom did that schoolboy small
Unconsciously dis play,
when he deiued plagiarist
AS one who wrote play.
Helen Dauvray declares that she will star
AGAIN next season. Surprising she has not the
ability to siar-what then?
Charlotte Thompson, once great, Is now
quietly living on a plantation near Mobile, Ala.