The herald., 1895-05-05


was encountered. but there was great
deal more business encountered that was
good. sMme. Tavary will sail in week
or two for Europe. where she will spend
the summer, but Mr.. Pratt will remain
in New York arranging for the next tour
| of his company, which will begin on
September 18th at Colonel Sims new
MOntauk theater in Brooklyn. 1t is
worth noting in this Connection that Nine.
Tavary has proven herself quite unique
among grand opera singers because OF
the fact that during this long season; /;
| which has taken her all over the Unite
States. she has not missed a single per-
| formance for which she was billed.
John Hare, the noted actor-manager of
the Garrick theater, London, who is to
star in America next season under Clar-
ence f. Fleming's management, has the
distinction of being the only actor that
has appeared three times before English
royalty. The first time was on January
8, 1891. when he acted in Pair of
Spectaces at the Sandringham as the
guest of the Prince of Wales. On March
18th of the same year Mr.. Hare appeared
at Windsor castle by command OF the
queen. and his last appearance .'by COM
mand' was in October, 1894. at Balmoral.
He is great favorlte of Victoria.
Captain Paul. the romantic melodrama
by Edward f. Rose and Alfred NJ. de
Lisser. was produced for the first time in
New York on Monday. April 22d at the
Fourteenth street theater with Robert
Hilliard in the title role. The New York
Herald calls it a patriotic and popular
success and the World says that the new
melodrama is a beautifully mounted and
we'll acted. The ship scene in which
there is naval encounter and in which
the rigging is full of sailors, supposedly
dead. hanging head down. comes very
near being one of the most effective scenic
effects ever seen.
Janet Achurch. the handsome Engli sh
actress whom Richard Mansfield has inn
ported to be leading woman of his stock
company at the Garrick theater. New
York. is deascribed as possessing fine gol
den hair. frank blue eyes and strong yet
womanly face. She lhas played for a
year or more in Australia and has had
her own theater in London during the
season. According to her present con-
tract with Mansfield she can refuse. with
out giving her reasons, anv part offered
to her if she does not like it. So far she
does not bestir himself and discover a
stage character that will make "a hit
with his new leading woman. America
will not have an opportunity, this season
at least, of seeing this player with Brit
ish reputation.
1T is unique fact that in the cities in
which Fanny Davenport mas so far ap-
play on the Monday night of the opening
week OF her respective engagements for
the reason that 1t has been found to be
impossible to transfer the immense
amount of scenery necessary to the pro-
duction of Sardou's Gismonda from the
stage where she had closed her last en-
gagement to the theater which she was
about to appear. In Boston, Baltimore
and Washington, Miss Davenport has had
to disappoint large audiences owing to
this condition of things. Under ordln-
ary circum stances the money refunded at
the box office to a dismissed audience
would be made up later in the week by
proportioned increase of business. But
in the case of Miss Davenport the house
has been sold out at every performance
and hundreds have frequently been turne ed
away. There is no doubt. by the wav,
tnat this has been very good thing for
the attractions thai have played stimuli
taneously in cities with Miss Davenport.
for it must be that in many cases they
have received very considerable portion
of the overflow from the Davenport audi
ences.
1t is the wise manager that is his own
actor. This has been demonstrated twice
during the last season. When Edward
+. Rose opened the Castle Square thea ter
in Boston with the production of the
melodrama Captain Paul, with star
cast. L. ]. Henley informed him one
evening about ten minutes before the
time for Mr.. Henley's entrance upon the
stage that unless certain demands Of the
actor were acceded to the actor would in
stantly throw down his part. "All right. >
said Mr.. Rose. throw it down, but
kindly let me have the use of your dress
ing room, Ted. - Mr.. Rose then. with the
assistance of few whispered cues from
the side scenes and paper of pins. acted
the role of the flashing Paul Jones
hyn r,nt niy~ nd Nv 1a,
went to New York without having closed
the theater. Last week William A.
Brady. another actor manager, found
himself with Trilby company Oh his
hands and the palyer who was to appear
as Svengali suddenly i'll so that he could
alton, Mr.. Brady threw wierd tone into
his voice. fixed CLASSY stare on his
eye, glued plenty of whiskers on his face
and proceeded to body forth Svengali to
the entire satisfaction of the audience.
An amusing incident that came very
near being catastrophe took place at
Henry E. Abbott's theater in New York
one night last week during Mr.. and Mrs.
Kendal's farewell engagement there last
week. The play was Impulse, and the
strong climax at the end of the third act,
which takes place at the Continental
hotel in Paris. was reached. 1t is at that
point in the play that the villain is at
two characters, together with the hero
ines husband and Mrs. Beresford. played
by Mrs. Kendall, have the stage to them
selves. The curtain is supposed to 90
down upon Marion Lea, as the wife. sob
bing as though her heart would break.
There was a new drop curtain at Abbey's
theater that night. however, and it stuck
three times and seemed TO resist every
effort of the stage hands to propel it in a
downward direction. Meanwhile Miss
Lea was SO shaken with grief that she was
rapidly verging toward real hysteria. 1t
was the GOODNESS and precision of Mrs.
Kendal that saved the scene from absolute
ruin. She bowed the villain out OF the
house, smiled pleasantly upon Mr.. Ken
dal-the suspicious husband-and was
gently leading the grief-stricken wife
away. presumably into her boudoir, when
the curtain finally rolled to the stage.
Nevertheless. the drop was pressed into
service during the rest of the evening.
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