The herald., 1896-01-26

The bills at the various New York
theaters during the past week were: Gar
rick, Mrs. Ponderbury's Past; Casino, The
Wizard of the Nile; Olympia. Barnet's
Excelsior, Jr.: Standard, Strange Adven-
lures of Miss Brown; Empire, Michael and
Lights; Herald Square, Heart of Mary land !;
Garden, Chimmie Fadden; Hoyt's, A
Black Sheep; Fifth Avenue, Governor of
Kentucky; PaImer's, John Drew; Abbey's,
Bernhard; Lyceum, The Benefit of the
Doubt; Daly's, The Two Escutcheons; !;
Star, Neil Burgess; Broadway, An Artists
Model; Academy, Sporting Duchess.
Modjeska is reported very ill at a Gin
cinnati hotel, and may perhaps never again
appear in public.
Frank Daniels is to sing and act the
Wizard of the Nile at Vienna during the
coming summer, but whether or not the
acting is to be done in Englisg the chron-
icler failed to state.
John Drew staged a new play at Palm
ers theatre last Monday night. 1t is the
Squire of Danes, by r. G. Carton, author
of Liberty Hall, and is an adaptation from
the French play of Alexandra Dumas, en-
titled The FrieEd of Women.
Corinne would have made the hit of her
life with her Spanish dances during the
fiesta.
There are no more managers in the the
atrical business. Nowadays we have only
directors. 1t is Modjeska, direction of
Frank l.. Perley; John Hare. direction OF
Clarence Fleming; James O'Neill, direction
of William +. Connor; Stuart Robson, di-
rection of William Hayden. 1t is only the
man with diamond globe in his shirt
front and a howitzer sized cigar between
his fingers that manages"
In Mrs. Ponderbury's Past, which he has
| just produced, Stuart Robson has play
which will without doubt remain in his
H. IDD<
as did the celebrated The Henrietta. All
! New York is laughing at Mr.. Robson's g
counterfeit sleep-walking scene, which
| he performs in order to. kill the sus.
| picIOns OF his wife, who has discovered
him surrounded by compromising crcum-
I stances.
Here is the latest legend regarding an
| old time mystery: ut is not generally
| known how Jessie Bartlett Davis came to
! join the Bostonans. Some years ago,
when Mr.. Barnabee was in the west. he
happened to visit Miss Davis father. Jes-
sic happened to be singing when Mr. Bar
nabee arrived, and the artist, much struck,
Immediately exclaimed to himself: There
is our leading lady!' week later she was
engaged
A New York theatrical clipping bureau
sends out this gem: "Fay Templeton has
a valet to take care of the masculine raj
ment she wears in Excelsior, Jr. Richard
dresses he wears in 1892" Rats!
February l 0 is the date set for the first
production of The Adventures of Jack and
the Beanstalk, burlesque by Barnet, the
man who wrote 1492, Prince Pro Tenn and
Excelsior, Jr. The fremont theater, Bos.
ton, is the place.
Richard Mansfield published statement
in the New York Herald in which he gave
tabulated figures of the enormous receipts
he has played to in various cities. He for
got to add, however, his profits on his
tours. During the last five years Mr.. Mans
fields net profit has not fallen below $685.
600 on any one season.
David Henderson's Ali Baba company
closed it's season in September. Sinbad,
which was booked solid until after the holi-
days on guarantees, draws its last breath
on Saturday, January Is.
The Bostonians will begin their annual
New York engagement February 10 at the
Broadway theater.
VIENNA Music HALL-The Vienna con-
tinues to maintain its reputation as the
most popular place of its kind on the Pa
cific coast. There is q continual change IF
program, so that visitors always find some-
thing new to interest them. In addition to
the present attractions, consisting of sew
eral talented specialists, and the celebrated
Vienna orchestra, two ladies of exceptional
ability have been engaged for the new
ladies' orchestra, under the dictatorship of
Mr., Isidor Fenster.