San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-20
STAGE TwITTER.

Erma Melville has signed with
Prices Popular People, to play
leads.
A. Y. Pearson's Pacific Stock
Company lately disbanded at
Madison, Wis.
Little Lottie Muslin has Joined
Tilden's Troupers to do her spec
ialty and play parts.
Daisie Markoe closed her gu.
II. c." Co. Sept. %, and is in Clom-
bus, o., organizing a company for
the winter season.
Olga Nethersole will open her
American season, under the
management of Charles and
Daniel Frohman, Oct. 81, in
Albany, NY.
George 1. Tyson, who controlled
the theatre ticket agency of most
OF the leading hotels in NY. city,
died Oct. z, at his country resid-
ence in Riverside, CT.
Baby Blossom is playing in
Western N. Y. Her voice is much
improved, and her three new songs
are always sure to meet with the
appreciation of her audiences.
Ella Wainwright has not retir-
ed from the profession, as has been
stated, but has signed with the
Mexican Troubadours, and will
hereafter be known as Dolores.
The committee having charge of
the presentation of a loving cup to
Joseph Jefferson, during bis en-
gagement in New York, has decid-
ed to make the presentation Nov.S
The Diamond Dramatic Co. clos
ed at Red King, Ind, with salaries
in arrears. Blanche Fox aud Geo.
II. Bell joined the Royce & Evans
Theatre Co. st Madison, Wis, Oct.7.
The costumes and baggage OF
Leavitt's "Spider and Fly" Com
pany were attached Oct. z. at
Knoxville, Tenn, by number of
the women performers, for back
pay.
Augustin Dsly's application for
a permanent injunction to restrain
Lillian Walrath from producing
Sudermann's play, "Honor," was
denied in the Supreme Court of
n. Y. on Oct. z.
Mazda Craigen is to be starred
under the management of the III.
s. Taylor Theatrical Exchange.
Her repertory will include ga Duel
of Hearts," "rhe Creole" and
Camille" and her tour will, begin
early in November.
George Reno, actor, left New
York three weeks ago for the pur-
pose of joining the Cuban insur-
gents. A telegram from Cuba,
dated Oct. 5, announces that Mr..
Reno had been arrested at Neu-
vitas by the Spanish authorities.
Phil Hunt resigned from w. A.
Brady's sold Glory" Co. Sept. &c,
and entered upon his duties as
manager of Lois Robie's Big Ex-
travaganza Co., better known as
the Washburn Sisters Last Sensa-
ton, producing the two act opera
tic extravaganza, Fortuna" or
the Princess Tough.
The members of the Boston
Vaudeville Stars visited Mabel
Rivers, formerly a male impersona-
tor, and now an inmate Of the
ms tne asylum in Austin, Tex, ON
Sept. %. The visitors were in
formed by the physicians that if
Miss Rivers does not recover in
one year her, case will be hopeless.
Mrs. Rachel Cantor, the oldest
living actress in America, and whs
celebrated her eighty-fifth birth
day on Sept. 10, is one Of those at
present receiving the benefits of
the late Edwin Forrest at the
Home in Holmesburg, Pa. She
is now, and has been for several
weeks, visiting her friends in New
York, and is with her old friends,
Col. Il. Allston Brown and wife.
NEW PLAYS.
"The Witch" will be presented
at the Schiller Theatre in Chicago,
Nov. Is, for the first time.
Creston Clarke will present "The
Raven" for the first time on any
stage, at Albaugh's Lyceum
Theatre, Baltimore, Nd, Oct. 8.
"The Sidewalks of New York"
melodrama, by Scott Marble,
was acted for the first time on
any stage Oct. z, at Keith's Opera
House, Providence, r. l.
"Zwei Wappen" was presented
by the Pabst Stock Company, of
Milwaukee, Wis.,, for the first
time in America, at McVicker's
Theatre, Chicago, Ill, Oct. 6.
"Nancy Lee," three act nauti-
cal opera, by Fred Miller, was
given for the first time on any
stage by the Digby Bell Opera Co.,
at Harria' Academy Raltimnra