San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-29
Che Daily Light,
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER %, 1895
ADJUSTMENTS.
Katie Putnam Last Night-Fitzsim-
mons Tonight-Gossip.

Lime Kiln" at the opera house, and
the play and players scored a CON-
Portable success. The play con-
tains great deal of good material
and carries with it moral lesson
that fits closely the requirements
of the present time, both in its ex-
pose OF the direful effects of the
prevailing opium habit and the
utter Inconsistency and inability
of providing chsperone for an
independents, honest AmericSn
girl. The chaperone, Miss Watson,
gave very careful delineation OF
the part, while Leonard Mitchell,
in his thankless part of Bud
Markley, was particularly fine in
makeup, and in his lines, with
little more study of delivery, may
be able to soon catch on with the
audience.
STAGE TwITTER.
Fanny Davenport's season opens
late, as usual, and it will close
early.
Alberta Gallatin is Thomas
Keene's new leading woman. She
used to play leads with Mans
field.
Mollie Sherwood, who has been
in retirement for season, returns
to the stage in "The Gay Paris
ians."
Max F. Imhsen has left the
staff of the New York Herald to
goin advance of Thomas Q. Sea
brooke. +
OF course Henry Irving will not
use "Sir" in this country. In
point OF fact, there is no Sir Henry
Irving. He was kntghted Sir
Henry Broadrib, as that is his
real name.
"The Gay Psfisians," a farce
from the French, had its first
Americ@n production at Hoyt's
Theatre, New York, on Monday,
September %.
4 James O'Neil has been playing
Virginius with walking stick.
A critic attacked this innovation,
and then found out it was in con-
sequence of recent injury to the
stars knee pan.
Mr.. Richard Mansfield's serious
illness is costing him at the rate
OF about $1,000 a week. He was
booked up solid on guarantee, all
of which had to be cancelled.
From the looks of things he will
not be able to return to the stage
until the week of November 25.
- III. Candy, Francis Wilson's
manager, is authority for the
statement thai within the seven
years Mr.. Wi lon has been a CON-
&c opera star has spent $4,000
on productionI In spite of this
he owns severa (houses at New Ro.
chelle and is ca |dited with bank
account.
A cablegrs to the New York
World FROM London, England,
says that rGmor has been current
in theatricals circles for sometime
that Augustin DAILY was in danger
of losing his London theatre. His
past season in London was exceed.
ingly disastrous from a financial
point OF view.
Last weeks New York attrac-
tions: E. M. and Joseph Holland ;
Roy Roy; The Capitol; The Gay
Parisians; Fleur de Lis; Merry
World; Trilby; John Drew; The
Chieftain; The Great Diamond
Robbery; The Prisoner Of Zenda ;
The Queens Necklace; The Prin-
cess Bonnie; Sporting Duchess.
Charles E. l.. Wingate, writer
with facile pen and a fund OF
information, formerly dramatic
editor and now managing editor
OF the Boston Journal, is the auth.
or of forthcoming book, entitled
"Shakspeare's Heroines on the
Stage" It is chiefly anecdotal,
and casts new lights on ushman,
Couldock, Modjeska, Mrs. Bowers,
Ellen Terry and other distinguish
ed actors.
1t is impossible to announce
just when Neil Burgess will open
his season at the Star Theatre,
New York. The actors have been
letter perfect at the rehearsals, and
the scenery in position for the past
three months. In the last act Mr.
Burgess introduces chariot race
in which he uses eight horses. 1t
has been impossible for him to
secure eight equine actors Of suf.
ficient intelligence to remem Der
their business over night. Acct
dent after accident has occurred
and he has had no less than forty
horses on the treadmill, but so far
he has not been able to pick out
eight competent horses.
Julian Magnus, who recently re.
turned from Europe, says :-"There
never was a time when the out.