San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-06
STAGE TwITTERs.

"Ine sporting duchess is pay
ing to $4,000 a week.
A spiritualistic seance is an up
to date novelty in "a Social High
wayman."
"Mistress Betty" Clyde Fitch's
new play written for Nine. Mod
jeska, will be staged on October a
Stuart Robson is to revive Dion
Boucicault's forbidden Fruit"
In it he made his first notable sue
cess as star.
"The Bathing Girl" the comic
opera which ran one performance
in New York recently, is now re-
ferred to as "the Sins OF a Night"
Clyde Fitch, author of "Beau
Brummel," "His Grace de Gram
mont" "Mistress Betty" etc., is ex-
pected back in New York from
London, October 10.
Peter Lang, formerly with the
Bostonians, has just Joined the
Francis Wilson opera company to
play the part of Pedro Gomez, one
of the brigands.
Tim Murphy's portrayal Of Nav
erick Bender, the cattle king con-
gresham, is generally considered a
fairly accurate representation OF
Roger @. Mills, of Texas.
Thomas Keene, the tragedian,
is an inveterate collector of stage
curios. His latest find In an out the
of way shop is a daguerreotype Of
Edwin Forrest, taken fifty-two
years ago.
Henry Irving and Hermann the
Great met in Canada last week and
as a consequence negotiations are
under way by which the conjurer
will appear at Irving's Lyceum
theatre, in London, in June.
The Fred G. Whitney Opera COM
pany has reached its two hundred
and fiitieth performance of "Rob
Roy" in New York. On Septem Der
30 it began its tour Of the prin-
cipal cities.
Mrs. Mansfield (Beatrice Cam
eron), since the serious illness OF
MIR. Mansfield has assumed the
burden of directing rehearsals,
selecting costumes and scenery,
etc.; and hasj been at the thea
ire seventeen hours out of every
twenty-four.
"For the Crown" the play by
Francois Coppee, which Edward
Vroom is to produce in this country
this season, was awarded the prize
OF ST, 900 by the French Academy
for the best play produced at either
OF the two leading Partisan thea.
tres between January, 1894, and
April, 1895.
Fanny Davenport Is an enthusi-
astic yachtswoman. She owns half
a dozen boats of assorted sizes, and
this is the way the celebrated i'm
personator Of Sardou's heroines
dresses at sea Blue short skirt and
knickerbockers, a blue short jacket
and a straw poke bonnet, with
bright red ribbons.
Frances Borgia Jolliffe, who has
been leader in the San Francisco
400" has arrived in New York,
and it is rumored, that she will
make her first appearance on the
stage in support OF well known
star. This will prove as great a
surprise to society as did Mrs.
James Brown Potter's debut.
Last weeks New York attrac-
tions: A Social Highwsyman,
The Widow Jones; Rob Roy, The
Capitol, That Imprudent Young
Couple, A Gilded Fool, Fleur de
Lis, Merry World, Sowing the
Wind, The Chieftain, The Great
Diamond Robbery, The Prisoner Of
Zenda, The Queens Necklace, The
Princess Bonnie, and Sporting
Duchess.
Manager Marcus r. Mayer says
that Florence st. John, a very
pretty English light opera singer,
will come to America this season
in an imported burlesque. 1t was
Miss st. John who, seven years
ago, when she was here in "Faust
up to Date" said that the United
States were not good enough for
her. What will she say when she
steps of the gang-plank in New
York in a few weeks?
E. M. Holland, who is starring
with his brother Joseph, under
Richard Mansfield's management,
became the proud father Of a girl
on September 20. The next day,
Saturday, at the matinee at the
Garrick, in New York, where he is
playing, the orchestra struck up
"Hush a By, Baby" upon the ac-
tors first entrance. His bushes,
according to an eye witness,
showed through his grease paint.
William A. Brady will conduct
his big theatrical interests from
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