San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-29
STAGE TWITTER.

have gone to their lawyers for
separation papers.
Cissy Fitzgerald introduced two
new dances in 1.-THE Founding" at
the Gsrrick theatre, in New York,
on December rs.
"The Lady Slavey" is in rehear-
sal at the New York Casino.
f. Il. Rice will shortly introduce
a skit on "The Heart Of Maryland"
in r.. A. Barnet's Excelsior, Jr.,"
which has settled down Tor a run
at the Olympia theatre, New York.
Wizards are making a success
in the extreme east and the eX-
IRENE west-Frank Daniels as
"Wizard OF the Nile" at the Ca.
sine, in New York, and Alexander
Hermann is presenting his ILL
usions in California.
In consequences OF Olga Neither
sole's great success in "Camilleo
she has postponed her production
OF "Romeo and Juliet" at the En-
pire theatre in New York. On Mon
day, December %, she appeared in
Carmen"
Katherine Grey will retire short
ly from the cast of "The Great Dia-
mond Robbery" The reason is
that she disiikes road travelling.
Fay Templeton's royalties on the
sale of her song, IL Want Yer, Ma
Honey" have already exceeded, it
is said, those received by the
authors OF ga Bicycle Built for
Two" and "Sliding Down My Gel
lar Door"
Mrs. John A. Logan gave a re-
ception the other day to Jessie
Bartlett Davis, the Bostonians'
trump card. In introducing Mrs
Davis Mrs. Logan said: "This is
the little girl who used to sing in
the choir OF my Chicago church in
little calico frock, because she
had no other, and she is just as
sweet now as she was then"
There is excellent authority to
the effect that Virginia Harmed
said last week that 1t Is absolutely
settled that she and E. II. Sothern
are to be married.
Yvette Guilbert triumphed at
Hammerstein's Olympia Music
hall, New York, on December Is
She is worth the $4 900 weekly she
receives. So many concert hall
singers sing stupid songs with an
attempt to be brazen that it is a
joy to find one singing songs actu-
ally wicked as though they are
Sunday.school glees.
"The Night Clerk" has made one
of the biggest financial successes OF
the season in New York, and the
original time of four weeks at the
bBijou has been extended to eight
weeks. An entire new act has been
added, and the cake walk by Peter
Daley and Jennie Yeamans is the
talk Of the town.
1t has been finally settled that
Julius Steger. at present with ellis
Excellency," but who was to be
transferred to the cast of Gan
Artists Model" next week, will
accompany ellis Excellency" COM
pany on its tour Of the principal
cities.
Helena Modjeska, who is max.
ing her farewell tour of American
cities, says the greatest trouble OF
the American stage today lies in
the commercial spirit governing it..
1t Is this spirit that sends out two,
four OF six companies to present
the same piece all over the coun-
try as soon as it has made hit in
some big city. The actors in the
extra companies are simply copies
of the actors thatSoriginated the
roles, and the result is that there
is painful lack of originality
Helen Bertram, the soprano of
the Bostonians, announces that
hereafter she will be known pro-
fessionally as Helen Bertram Hen
ley, her married name.
There Is one beautiful thing
about Fanny Davenport, she is the
kindest aud most considerable of
actresses to the stage folk; she is
willing to spend her money for
them, ank she is willing to help
them. The people in her company
who wish to succeed are encouraged
and assisted by her, and she has
never been envIous of another ac-
tress, or acted meanly to one. She
does her work and does it we'll,
loves and is royal to her own peo-
pie, and des res to be happy.
"Teddy" PEPPER, Max Bleimann's
representative at the Herald Square
theatre, New York, asserts that the
report that Mrs. Leslie Carter does
not swing from the bell in the sem
sational scene of "The Heart of
Maryland" but that an acrobat
from Kieth's vaudeville theatre ar
rives just in time to be substitute
for that perilous performance, is
utterly without foundation.