San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-20

| manager or a London Theatre VIII
| prevent her coming to America next
season.
Bronislaw Huberman, the boy vio-
lin virtuoso, has appeared successful
ly at Carnegie hall, N. Y, to large au-
| diences.
pietro Mascagni, master Of the Ro-
slime Conservatory, Pesaro, Italy, will
not visit America this season as he
intended.
Henry Miller is being deluged with
offers since the news of his retirement
from Palmer's stock company has be-
come known.
The death of May Prindle's mother
and the illness of her manager, caused
the disarmament of her company at
Lansford, Pa.
Mrs. Francis Hodgson- Burnett will
play A Lady of Quality, in America
soon. Eleanor Calhoun is cast for
the leading role.
The Robinson Dramatic company,
playing the New England circuit, have
At the Worlds Mercy and Swallowed
to their repertoire.
Chas. Yale's Twelve Temptations
company finds its Christmas dates
open, owing to a misunderstanding
They are in Philadelphia.
Fanny Davenport played at the
American, John Drew at the Empire,
and Richard Mansfield at the Garden
theatres in New York last week.
Rose Coghlan is anxious to appear
in New York in the dramatization of
Carmen" which she played with
some success in San Francisco.
Bertha Boardman Elton, the female
cornet soloist, played recently in Can
ton, Ohio, for President-elect McKin-
ley, who highly complimented her.
The clery, wherever The Sign of the
Cross has been presented, invariably
attend the performance and say it is
one of the best sermons ever preach
ed
Thos. w. Keene says it costs from
$500 to 81 ZOO more week to carry
complete Shakespearean repertory
company than the average theatrical
organization.
Eugenia Blair, Mrs. Robt. Down
ing), will commence a starring tour
soon as Lady Isabel and Madame
Vine in East Lynne. Edwin Terry is
in the Company.
Daniel Frohman has commissioned
Lewis e. Shipman and Glen Macdon-
ough to make a play for L. III. Soth-
ern out of incidents in Thackeray's
"Henry Esmond."
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unqualified success of The Right to
Happiness, Marguerite Merington's
free adoption of Olga Wohlbruck's
Das Recht Auf Glueck.
At a performance of Brother for
Brother in ca '>agO Emma Curran's
dress caught fiji - the fire scene and
she was very severay burned before
assistance could reach her..
Walter Allen, the Washington COM
edian who plays King Ptolenny in the
Wizard of the Nile, has been offered
the star part in The Isle of Cham
payne, which goes to London.
R. A. Barnet read his new burlesque
"Simple Simon" to the Boston Cadets
last week, and it was pronounced to
be one of his happiest efforts. 1t will
be produced some time in February.
Daniel A. Kelly has changed mana
gers, A. ID. Cameron succeeding Frank
G. Thayer. Kelly is collaborating
with Chas. Fleming on a new play en-
titled "a Yellow Kid in McFadden's
Row of Flats"
Sadie Macdonald, who died in Aus
tralia from injuries received in doing
a somersault in The Milk White Flag
| australian company, was formerly
with HELEN & Harris Later On COM
pany, which visited San Antonio.
One of the most pleasing portions of
Hermann the Greats entertainment
consists of one hundred feats of hand
| magic, by which the wizard has
achieved his great reputation. He
| stands alone in this, and it is doubt
full if any other magician can initiate
| these tricks.
Heinrich Meyn, the baritone, created
sensation at the Orpheus club, in
| Cincinnati, where he sang last week.
| The critics compared him most favor
ably with Plunkett Green, praising
| the quality of his voice and slyte, as
well as his marvellous effectiveness in
interpreting ballads.
J. +. Dodson will play Cardinal
Richelieu in the forthcoming produc-
| ton of 'Under the Red Robe" at the
Empire Theatre. Mr.. Dodson is sure
to give us a startling likeness of His
| Red Eminence, for he is going to cory
the well known picture of Richelieu
that now hangs in the Louvre.
Fanny Davenport is none too happy
at the idea of putting on modern dress
| again, as she must in Fedora" this
season. "It is nine years since wore
modern gowns on the stage, and it
is not easy for an actress used to the
uncorseted freedom of antique dress
to act once more in stays and gloves"
says she.
Among the lading New York attrac-
tons for the past week were 1.-TWO
Little Migrants" Jack and the Beau
stalk" ''The Cotton King" "The
| Cherry Pickers,'' "a Milk White