San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-11-01

system, will be dedicated ON Novem
Der 4, by Minnie Madden Fisk.
During a performance of Faust
by Lewis Morrison at Hartford
White Whittlestone, the leading mar
slipped and broke his leg.
Modjeska, like Eleanor Duse, was
born in a covered wagon, which is
generally used as travelling home for
the itinerant shOwmen of foreign
countries.
Sir Henry Irving will pay another
professional visit to the United States
next winter His chief attractions
will be. "Cymbelline, Richard ILL.,"
! and Mime. SanS-Gene."
"Maman Gateau." produced recent
ly in Paris. achieved a popular success.
! The fact that the story glOrifies the
| character of n mother is said to eX-
plain its strong influence on Parisians.
MasSenet's "CendrillOn" is to be Civ
en- at the Opera Comique. Paris, at an
| early date. Close on 100 musical YER
sions have been made of this fairy
tale.
In place of the late Nine. Klafsky
Mr. DamrOsch has engaged for his
German opera season Frau MOhOT-
RavenStein. formerly Of Mannheim,
who is said to be commended
by Weingartner as the best Brunnhil-
de for which he ever conducted.
Minnie Conway Tearle, who died at
October 16. was the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Frederick b. Conway. once
among the celebrities of the Ameri-
can stage. Mrs. Tearle's first hus-
band was Levy, the famous cornet
player. from whom she was divorced.
Among the novelties of the coming
season will he the appearance at the
American theatre, New York. Nov. 9,
of August Van Biene in the Brooklyn
Melody. Mr.. Biene is a musician as
we'll as an actor and his performance
upon the cello is said to be one of the
great attractions of the play.
John Hare has been acting EccleS
in the cast of Birmingham and Man
chester" The critics praise his imperOs-
nation. which is on original lines, very
highly. He does not represent the
broad. low comedy drunkard of Geo.
Honey. but battered wreck trying to
conceal an infirmity of which he is
ashamed.
London is in danger of losing her
Saturday afternoon concerts at Crys-
tai Palace. which after forty years of
eXiStance. have received such scant
support of late that the directors are
threatening to discontinue them. Cy-
cling and other outdoor sports are said
to have an unfavOra BILE effect on their
patronage.
Edwin Stevens will succeed to some
of the more important Shakespearan
roles of the late James Lewis. He
will play DOgberry in the DAILY reviv-
al of Much Ado About Nothing" and
possibly Falstaff. in Henry ""
The veteran German actor. Friedrich
Haas, who retired from the stage more
than 20 years ago, is about to publish
his "MemOiren." He was born in 1S-
&c. In 1869 and 1928 he made
tours in the United States.
The action of the little NapoleOnic
play which George Bernard Shaw has
disposed of to Sir Henry Irving opens
in an inn at FavazzonO, before
the battle of Lodi, and the principal
personages are Napoleon Bonaparte
and a strange lady, between whom
there is a duel of wits, having for its
object the possession of certain dis
patch containing a compromising let
ter.
Sarah Bernhardt has put the finish
ing touches to an historical drama, of
her own manufacture, which will be
named "Catharina. the Great" She
will impersonate the title part at
Brussels and later on in America, but
will not be able to perform it in Paris
for she is forbidden by the statutes of
the French Society of Dramatic Au-
thors to act in a play in which she is
the author Partisan papers didicule
her attempt at playwriting and nick
name the play can Article for Export
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A correspondent who witnessed the
recent performances at Baireuth
writes: "The effects of light in the
most exquisitely delicate graduatiOns
are managed at Baireuth as they are
managed on no other stage in the
world. 1t is not alone that we ad-
mire them from the peep-shOw point
of view, but that they subtly, and in
fashion not easily to be explained in
words, collaborate with the music in
expressing the characters and the sit
| uatiOns.