The herald., 1894-01-21

English managers have exhausted
themselves by trying to find reasons fol
the wretched business at the theaters
this season.
Lolita Crabtree, who has taken up hel
residence here for the winter. has con
tributed 5000 to the relief fund for the
unemployed.
The 10 cent tax on passes at the the
aters in New York, Boston and Phila'
delphia Melted the Actors Fund nearly
$500 last month.
II. Grattan Donnelly's new play,
Darkest Russia, was presented Tor the
first time in New York at the Fourteenth
street theater on the 8th.
The bulldog whlch plays its part &C
intelligently in The Dancing Girl has
increased in value exactly 900 per cenl
since it's debut as an actor.
The Captain Herne, U. S. a., com.
pany lost all it's scenery, wardrobe and
effects in the Albany theater, which was
destroyed by fire on the 9th inst.
Patti Rosa, who is doing fine bust
ness en- route to this coast, will try the
experiment of triple bill, after the
style of Rosina Vokes, next season.
Los Angeles enjoys the distinction Of
having more theatrical people in the
city than were ever there before at one
time. Most of them are out OF employ
ment.
The chorus OF the Calhoun Opera com.
psny numbers "a carefully drilled sing
ers and possesses the distinct novelty
that the ladies are all young and very
pretty.
The old-time saying that fires go in
trios is verified by the destruction OF the
Boston Globe, the Charleston Grand
opera house and the Albany theatsr, all
in one week.
Rich and Harris have retired from
the management and proprietorship OF
Africa, and will make up for its Losses
with A Country Sport, which has made
tremendous hit in New York.
Fifty Brooklyn society girls blacked
their faces with burnt cork and gave q
negro minstrel performance on the Sth
inst, at the Academy of Music, for the
benefit of the Memorial hospital.
The fire which consumed the Albany
opera house burned out the fire alarm
station and destroyed the telegraph sys'
tenn 30 that the department had to use
telephones for the fire alarms for several
days.
May Hillman, a young actress who
came to this coast with Leonard Grover
and his Wolves, is reported to be in q
destitute condition in Los Angeles and
is naturally anxious TO secure an en-
gagement.
A novel feature introduced by the
Calhoun opera company this season, in
the Black Husssr, is the dancing by
eight beautiful girls, led by the Sisters
Broccee, dancers from the Folies Ber-
ceres in Paris.
James o'Neill has been so i'll this
season that he has been compelled TO
disappoint audiences several times, The
California climate will brace him up il
it continues as bracing as it has been
for month or more.
The receipts of the Actors Fund bene-
ct in Chicago were only $l,700. This
shows how much the public will do for
sick and Suffering actors when called
upon directly. The only way to secure
recognition is the enforcement OF the
% per cent tax.
Evans and Sontag Up to Date will be
the attraction at the National next week,
Evans and Morel have been specially
engaged and will loot the box office and
shoot policeman every night. In con
sideration of the latter service both viii
be pardoned by Governor Markham.
The Voyage of Suzette," on which
T. Henry French expended $4,000 in
costumes and $4,000 in the production,
is to be Withdrawn from the stage of the
| A \, ALI hre
lost So, 600 week on it go far. "Pool
Girls" by Guy de Msupassant, will
succeed it.
Clara Morris, who made an effort tC
use her husband with some degree Of
financial success as a manager several
years ago, gave it up as a poor invest
ment; but she has lately discovered
that he can be made useful as well as
ornamental on the stage, and he is now
playing in her company.
The Princess Nicotine company can
not have done 30 tremendously well il
New York, as the opera will be taken or
the road with Lillian Russell and hei
prospective husband, Perugini, at the
head; while Camille D'Arville's com
pany in Prince Kan, or A Trip to
Venus, as it is now called, will 60 to the
Casino.
The fresh freshmen of the Chicago
Dental college attempted to run thea
ter in Chicago one night last week. and
for time made row that necessitated
calling for the police. One big police
man simply tod the young ruffisns that
be would do come of them personal
damage if they did not desist, and they
showed their usual cowardice by be.
coming quiet as lambs.
Harry w. Roseborn, hacker of the
Rainmaker of Syria company, appealed
from the judgment against him for un-
paid salary to poor chorus girl on
purely technical grounds, attacking the
constitutionality of the law that per.
mits execution against the body. His
appeal was dismissed. and the decision
will not only make him pay the salaries
of the chorus, but will probably prevent
the swindling of smsll-sslaried people
that has been carried on extensively in
New York.
THE Y. w. C. A.