The herald., 1895-10-11
Notes From Theatrical Tidings

Thomas Keene, the tragedian, Is an in
veterate collector of stage curios. His
! latest find in an out of the way shop is a
daguerreotype of Edwin Forrest, taken
hfty-two years ago.
When it was decided that Beerbohm
Tree would not return to this country
until next season, the time held for him
in the principal cities was politely turn
ed over by Henry Il. Abbey to Clarence
Fleming for John Hare, and Hare may
consequently be said to appear in Tree
stead.
The Fred G. Whitney Opera company
has reached ITS two hundred and fiftieth
performance of De koven and smith
most successful opera, Rob Roy, nc the
Herald Square theater, New YORK. On
September 3Oth it began its tour OF the
principal cities.
Not few attractions have come into
New York on rubbers or snowshoes, but
it has remained for young Walker White
side, who opens at the Herald Square
theater ON September 30th, to roll through
the town i'll pneumatic tire.
Harriet Vernon, the statuesque Eng
ish concert hall singer, who has been in
America and who is under engagement to
return here the latter part of the season,
writes that she is so i'll that her physi-
clan despairs of her life, and she has
had to cancel her forthcoming engage
ments in tho English provinces.
The engagement of Thomas Q Sea-
brooke in A World OF Trouble at the Park
theater, Boston. originally arranged for
two weeks, has been extended another
week. This fact is in itself significant
evidence that Mr.. Seabrooke has made
d wiss move in abandoning comic opera
and turning to legitimate comedy.
Frances Borgia Jolliffe, who has been a
leader in the San Francisco Four Hun
bred. has arrived in New York, and it IS
rumored that shs will make her first ap-
pearance 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.
E. NJ. Holland, who is starring with
his brother Joseph, under Richard Mans
fields management. became the proud
father of girl on Septen Der Goth. The
next day. Saturday, at the matinee in
the Garrick, in New York, where he is
playing, the orchestra struck up Hush
BY, Baby, upon the a2tor's first entrance.
His bushes. according to an eye witness,
showed through ais grease paint.
In A Wartime Wedding. which the
Bostonians are to produce this season,
the title of which. by the way, is to be
changed, there is strong dramatic role
for the contralto. 1t will be sung by
Jessie Bartlett Davis, whose name does
not figure among the proprietors OF the
Bostonians. but who is, nevertheless,
about the strongest feature of the COM
pany.
The Rev. Mr.. De Kay has been dis
charged by his congregation in Cincin-
natl. 1t was discovered by several of the
leading members of his flock that he
smokes cigarettes. wears white duck
trousers, rides a horse and is the friend
of the ushand of an actress. 1t is not
impossible that if the Rev. Mr.. De Kay
had been guilty of only one of these, to
put 1T gently, gross indiscretions, he
would still be at work on salary. but all
four-that is really too much We suggest
that the Rev. Mr.. De Kay give up at least
white duck trousers.
~ place all my dependence" says Stu
art Robson, ION my new play, Govern
ment Acceptance. by Daniel S. Hart. I
said to myself l believe it to be what
the public wants, and l will not secure
other plays to keep it on the shelf" 1t
seems | was right. 1t is equal to the
best play In which I have hitherto been
seen, and in the character of the hero
the electrical inventor ut work on the
model Of a warshIp-I feel that l have
never been better cast"