San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-12
STAGE TWITTER,

Richard Mansfield's book, "One
Evening"" has reached sale of
5000 copies.
Richard Mansfield will present
"The Red Robe" in New Orleans |
next Tuesday.
ashore Acres" was presented at
the Fifth Avenue theatre the past
week in New York.
Fay Templeton will appear in
tights in the Rococco scene, third
act of Excelsior Jr."
Julia Arthur will be managed
by her brother, on her starring
tour, season after next.
"Mrs. Ponderbuyr's past" was
produced for it's first night in
New York on Monday last.
Jim Murphy is said to be COM
ing up as the succession to Scanlon
as natural Irish singing come
dian.
"Michael and His Lost Angel"
was presented in New York for the
first time Monday last at the EN-
pire theatre.
Maxine Elliott has declined
Wilson Barrett's offer to place
her as leading lady at the Lyric
theatre, London.
The talent OF the Lady Slavery"
company will embrace a round
dozen of the cutest little darkey
babies obtainable.
The Olga Nethersale kiss in
"Carmen" is said to be away be-
yond the famous Abbott kiss in
intensity and fervor.
Ex-Manager Il. w. Mullsly, of
the Grand Opera house, is in the
Chicago, but it is said he may soon
return to San Antonio.
Modjeska has included AS
"You Like It,n and "Twelfth
Night" in her repertory. Joseph
Haworth is now her leading man.
Rubinstein breads sea sickness
so much that he has refused
princely offers to came again to
America on a tour OF the big
towns.
Jim U'Neill has a collection OF
canes presented him during his 20
years career; among them are
several Mexican canes secured
while in this CITY,
Marys Hampton's favorite
jewel is the supposed unlucky
opal, and for a Christmas present
she received set ring, opal centre
and diamond circle from her
friends.
Odette Tyler will begin her
starring tour on Easter Monday,
in her old home in Savannah, Ga.
in "The Councillors Wife" She
expects an ovation from her old
friends.
Marie wainwright was enthusi-
astically received in San Francisco
last Monday, on the beginning OF
her engagement there. She has
not been to the Pacific coast in
four years.
Fannie Davenport, although
using a child in her production OF
"Gismonda," declaims against
children on the stage, on account
of the ballet and other outward
associations. Consistency is not
one of Fannie's jewels.
Harry Woodruff, the blonde and
engaging young actor whose en-
gagement to Anna Gould, daughter
of the late Jay Gould, was broken
off three years ago, and who then
went to Harvard University, is
now a sophomore and will con-
sequently remain there two years
more. 1t was generally under
stood at the time Woodruff went
to college that he was doing so in
order that he might fit himself for
commercial life and for the
pleasure of marrying Miss Gould.
Since then, as is we'll remembered,
Miss Gould married the Marquis
de Castellane, and now Mr.. Wood
run says W 1htdbAlCdA
'When / leave Harvard l shall go
back to the stage. Were / to go
into business L would receive as a
clerk probably about ten dollars
a week, and as an actor L can earn
a great many times that amount
per week." Mr.. Woodruff's last
engagement was as juvenile man
in "Charley's Aunt" under
Charles Grohman's management.
In ga Light from st. Agnes"
Minnie Madden Fiske's role is
that Of a girl apparently lost to
every gentle and admirable
womanly impulse. The scene is
laid in a Louisiana parish. The
principal figures are this girl, a
brutal fellow with whom she has
cast her life, and priest who re-
presents all that is spiritual in
priesthood. The good angel OF
the parish is dead, and her body