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.

"All 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 Hammerstein, facetiously. at Kos
ter a. Balls yesterday afternoon. There
was a private performance before sew
eral prominent physicians and members
of the press, given by jacques maud,
described as a man with two brains.
Mr.. Hammerstein's Righteousness at first
seemed to be merely the airy persinage
for which he Is Justly renowned. but be-
fore maud had finished his words
seemed Zone too h%ilariously ~jocular. The
prodigy" proved to be a prodigy, in
deed. He Is u wonder. His lightning
calculations simply astoundcd those
present, who tried their hardest at first
to ascribe them to trickery. Inaudi's
manager asked the audience to name any
three figures, which he proceeded to
chalk on n blackboard until there was a
line of twenty-four figures. Beneath
this twenty-four more audience-giyen
maud, who had his back turned to them.
Then, without the least hesitation, he
subtracted one line from the other men
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 manipulation had
worked them out himself maud had
them all done. and the answers 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
1naudi promptly replied Friday" ."Oh,
no." said the gentleman, Il was born
on Sunday ma yno,,t Il u beg you Eour pardon" in,
were born on Friday" But surely l
ought to know" protested the gen
tleman. maud. however. wouldn't give
iieye that he was himself mistaken. DR..
Spitzka a a long conversation with
maud, but no trlckery was discovered.
Whether this performance will interest
course. to be seen.
George Richards and Eugene Garfield,
the two comedians now with Hoyt's skit,
"A Temperance Town" are going to star
a tisle S SThs Circus in Is P eiSSw bearing. t lsn't eda d
farce-comedy-oh! dear, no-nothing 30
common as that-but a comedy-drama, IL
you please. The author is Fred ]. Bea-
man. esq, and don't, for goodness sake,
forget the esq.
Mrs. James Brown Potter and the
beautiful Kyrle Bellew open their next
2, and from that point they will prob
ably work their way East. Their ambi-
ton is still ~undaunted, and although
Mrs. Potter seems to be doing very little
Just now towards elevating the stage,
she Is undoubtedly making a living by
1t. That is something, nowadays.
The Della Fox Opera Company is the
title Of the organization that is now
Fox. at its head. This little lady has
at last arrived at the much desired
stellar goal. She will see her name in
BIZ, letters all over the land, and she
ever. she wants 1t, and she will be able
TO boss It over every Tom, Dick and
Harry in the company, and-well, nine
privileges.
At the Irving Place Theatre last night
Der Observation-Disclosures yon Ammer-
this season. The story is a simple mar
rative of peasant love, but 1t is neatly
and effectively told. The scenes are laid
n a Bayariaa village and the heroine
many %suitors, but who does not know
her own mind. One of the suitors is, of
course, a villain; the o~ther-equally, of
type, The heroine, who Is the adopted
daughter OF the B~urgomaster, discovers
that her real father is an old fellow who
is, of course, very terrible. but It does
not intefere, with the plays denouement,
which l. a happy marriage and general
bliss. The acting, was very good, Indeed.
is a splendidly disciplined organization.
Pinero's comedy 1.-THE Amazons,'
now at the ,Lyceum Theatre, is the
theme of much discussion in the out-of-
town dramatic columns. But poor
Pinero isn't in 1t at all. He Is neglected
vet knickerbockers. 1t would be cruel
to even hint that the great success OF
the play IN New York Is due to any
such trivial circumstance as a leading
lady wearing male attire.
Miss Olga Brandon, the LADY with
the midnight eyes" who returned tc
this, her native heath. last Summer as
one Of Loie Fuller's unfortunate celebri.
ties, has survived that dreadful fiascc
don again and is playing the part OF
In the revival of THE World" at the
Princess Theatre.
The American Academy OF the Ora,
matte Arts gave 9 very interesting en-,
last night. Scenes from @The CON
%trast," the first American play. and por.
lions of Perl's "Eurydice," were pre-.
tainly know no fear < new play b,
Frank c, Drake. called "RoseberrS
shrub Sec" was cap!tally acted. I'll,
rehearsais OF this little piece had beer
directed by Miss May Robson, who hold,
Ina Hammer. as an old man. did re
~markably well, and Emily /, Wakeman