The evening world., 1894-03-16
STAGE NEWS AND GOSSIP.
maud, the Lightning Calculator,
Is, Indeed, a Prodigy.
Garfield and Richards to Star Next
Season.

A you have got to do Is to tell him
the day Of the month and the year Of
your birth and he'll tell you how much
money you owe" remarked Manager
oscar Hammcrstein, f~acetiously, at Kos
ter q Bial's yesterday afternoon. There
was n private performance before sew
eral prominent physicians and members
of the press, given by Jacques maud,
described as a man with two brains.
Mr.. Hammersteln's Righteousness at first
seemed to be merely the airy persifage
for which he is justly renowned, but be-
fore Inaudi had finished his words
seemed none too hilariously %jocular. The
prodigy proved to be a prodigy, in
deed. He is a wonder. His lightning
calculations simply astounded those
present, who tried their hardest at first
to ascribe them to trickery. Inaudfs
manager asked the audience to name any
three figures, which he proceeded to
chalk on a blackboard until there was a
line of twenty-four figures. Beneath
this twenty-four more audience-given
maud, who had his back turned to them.
Their. without the least hesitation, he
subtracted one line from the other men
tally and gave the correct answer in
stantly. His next feat was to work out
five sums mentally at the same time.
They were set by the audience. There
was subtraction, addition, multiplication
of four figures, division and a cube root.
Before. the blackboard manipulator had
worked them out himself maud had
them all done, and the W were cor
was able at a moments notice to name
the day of the week of any given date.
only once did he make a slip. A gentle
man called out his birthday and wanted
IN Rnnu isnnn yshnf IlN ha ,rnl horn
maud promptly replied Friday" "oh,
no., said the gentleman, Il was born
were born on Friday But surely ]
ought to know protested the gen
tleman. maud, however. wouldn't give
IN. and the gentleman vas forced to be-
lieye that he was himself mistaken. DIR.
SrltHka had a long conversation with
maud. but no trickery was discovered.
Whether this performance will interest
neutrality-suspicious. folks remains, Of
course, to be seen.
George Richards and Eugene Garfield,
the two comedians now with Hoyt's skit,
"A Temperance Town." are going to star
niftTit sea in "a Play bearing the odd q
farce-comedy-oh! dear. no-nothing so
common as that-but a comedy-drama, IL
you please. The author is Fred j. Bea-
man, esq, and don't. for goodness sake,
forget the esq.
Mrs. James. Brown Potter and the
beautiful kyrle Bcllew open their next
American season in San Francisco, July
ably work their way East. Their ambi-
ton Is still ~undaunted. and although
Mrs. Potter seems to be doing very little
shs' is aG n]na t"Ter9S e maRings a the Iiy,a ssafSs y
it. That is something, nowadays.
The Della Fox Opera Company is the
title or the organization that is now
being booked for next season with Della
Fox at its head. This little lady has
at last arrived at the much desired
stellar goal. She will see her name in
big, letters all over the land, and she
ever She wants 1t, and she will be able
TO "bCss' 1t over every Tom, Dick and
Harry in the company. and-well, nine
stars out of ten are satisfied with these
privileges.
1t the Irving Place Theatr last night
Der Inconsistencies Won Ammer-
gau' vas presented for the first time
and effectively told. The scenes are laid
in a Bavarian village, and the heroine
is a %coquettish young woman, who has
many s%uitors. but who does not know
her own mind. one of the suitors Is, OF
course, a villain; the other-equally, OF
coursenris a hero of the most approved
type. The heroine, who is the adopted
daughter Of the Burgomaster, discovers
that her real father is an old fellow whC
works at odd Jobs in the village. Thi:
not i%ntefere- with the plays denouement
which l. a happy marriage and genera
bliss. The acting was very good, indsed
The company at the Irving Place -heatr,
is a spleniidly disciplined organization.
Pincro's COMEDY "Tho Am,zons'
now at the Lyceum Theatre. is tn,
theme Of much discussion in the out-of
{Swn dramatic columns; Blu poo,
for Georgia ,Cayvan and her brown vel
vet knickerbockers. 1t would be crue
to even him that the great success o
such trivial circumstance as a LEADING
lady wearing male attire.
Miss Olga Brandon, the lady will
the midnight eyes. who returned t
one Of Loic Fuller's unfortunate relebri
ties, has survived that dreadful fiasc
at the Garden, Theatre. She is in Lon
aSn l fEale a Mlre is Of playing fSd ETeo ,he part rI1,,, o
in the revival Of THE World"7 at tn
Princess Theatre.
The American Academy of the Ora
) matte Arts gave n very interesting en-
last night. Scenes from The Con
: ~trast," the first American play, and poI
; tions OF PERKS "Eurydice,' were pre-
) sented by these young'pupils. who Ger
tatnly know no fear A new play b
: Frank G. Drake, called "Roseberr
! Shrub Sec" was capitally acted. TIL
rehearsals Of this little piece had bee,
directed by Miss May Robson. who hold
I that character work can be taught. Mis-
y Ina Hammer. as an old man, cid re
markah,y well, and Emily |. Wakemar
Nora Mack, and William Gage Bennett
must alsl be n-nErntulatnl