The herald., 1896-03-01
Tim Murphy and H.yt's A Texas Steer


are headipg this way.
La Loie Fuller re-a apesred at New York
last Monday al Roster Bials.
Macbeth will be revived bv Thomas
Keene next season, as we'll as King Lear.
Sarah Bernhardt discourses on the "Art
Of Making Up'' in this months Cosmopoli-
| tan.
When New York Sleeps, is the peculiar
| title of a new play that will be produced
| next season.
The manager of the royal opera at Madrid
| has gone into bankruptcy, owing W 'ue
| war In Cuba.
Ducan B. Harrison, Pauline HALLS hus'
band, is the new manager OF Hoyts A
Midnight Bell
William A. Brady has purchased a new
| comedy from Alice E. Ives, which he has
nemed All For Girl.
| The New York Sun says The Lady Sla'
| vey is the greatest success since Erminle.
'.lf you see 1t in the sun it's so."
Joseph Grismer and Phoebe Davis will
make a tour of the Pacific coast next sea-
son with a number of new plays
Augustin Daly's company will be sure to
create q vast amount of dramatic interest
| during his coming engagement here.
Lillian Russell ia to have another man.
| ager next season, Marcus r. Mayer The
new hus 'and is yet to be announced.
| Nat Goodwin has new play by Made
line Lucette, which presents him as him.
self and he expects to make hit with it.
| On he oath OF February the Bostonians
| celebrated the 2,000th night of Robin
Hood at the Broadway theater, New York.
De Wolf Hopper and his company have
commenced rehearsing Sousas new opera.
Ell Captain, to be produced at Boston on
April IL.
There is only one Hermann, but the
colorado couuterfeits such as Herman.
Hermann, Harman, etc., ETC.. are innu-
merable.
Frank Daniels is doing great business
with "The Wizard of the Nile." The re-
ceipts for one week in Brooklyn were
s9,671.4O.
Dick Golden and Harry Dixie met in Chi
cago during the latter's engagement there.
and once more the fore apd hind legs OF
Evangeline's heifer shook feet.
In the new play being written by James
W. Harkins, Jr., entitled Cuba, the burn
ing of sugar plantation by the insurgents
is said to be one of the big effects.
James j. Corbett is considering offers
from Australia and Paris. Owing to his
success in his new play. A Naval Cadet, he
hesitates over leaving America again.
Neither Fannie Davenport nor Melbourne
Macdonald were injured in the railway ac-
cident in Alabama on the 10th uit, but the
actress nerves received a severe shock
There will be nearly fifty speaking
characters in the dramatization OF A
Daughter of the Tenements. Every type
in New York city is represented in the
cast,
It is now an open secret that Messrs.
Abbey and Grau, intend, in another year.
to start lyric company to be known as
the Abbey and Grau opera comique COM
pany.
Fay Templeton is the author of new
song she has introduced in Excelsior, Jr.
catchy, it is said, as her Want Yer, Ma
Honey.
Edward W. Townsend, author of Chin
mie Fadden, has returned from California
and is at Bay Side, L. l., assisting Clay
Greene in dramatizing A Daughter OF the
Tenements.
Arrangements have been concluded fol-.
publication, in March, of The Persona
"reminiscences of Mile. Emma Calve, be
ing an accurate and detailed biography o f
the great singers career from her child
hood.
Chauncey Olcott will appear just after
Lent in an up.to-date version of Fred Mars.
denis old play, The Irish Minstrel, in which
poor Scanlon used to star. The piece in its
1sM Gisrs. su'se Will Do 'A''so in' N'nS''s' 0'
| G. e. L. Wingate's ohosaspeare's Hero
| ines on the Stage has been received with
such marked favor that his publishers have
given him an order for q companion VOL
ume to be entitled Shakespeare's Heroes
on the Stage.
Willie Collier, the comedian or rice's
Little Christopher company, is the hrst 10
rae the RoentQen cathode rays on tne
stage. In his Imitation Of Hermann ne
brings in photograph camera ana "Iakes
q semblance of the character OF the ney III
skeleton form.
Mime. Materna, the Wagnerian singer
with Herr Undricek. the renowned Aus
trian vocalist, and Isidore Luchstone,.
talented English pianist, are booked for
three concerts at the San francisco Auoi-
torium under the MANAGEMENT OF Fried
lander, Gottlob & Co. They will also come
to Los Angeles.
Frank L. Perley, Modjeska's MANAGER
says that up to the time she recently De-
came i'll her books showed net profit on
the sixteen weeks of her tour of 1000,
and that this promised to be the most III
crative season she has had since 1883.
Modjeska hopes to be at her CailfoTnla
ranch about the middle of this month.
Lovers of fun will next week have an op'
portunity of laugh at the amusing TOOL
ing of the eccentric comedian, Ezra Ken.
dali, who will appear in A Pair OF Kids al
the Los Angeles theater on Friday and
Saturday next. Mr.. Kendall and his
company guarantee $50 laughs IN lou
minutes, which is pretty good average
even for farce.
Jessie B ,rtlett Davis invited friend te
see Robin Hood. After the performances
Miss Davis asked her how she liked it
"Well," was the reply, II enjoyed 1t im'
mensely, but confess was surprised thai
a company like the Bostonians should ON
such an important episode in the plot.
refer TO the place where Robin Hood shoots
the apple off the boys head. Ion hat
neither the boy nor the apple. Why
this?" Miss Davis didn't Tell.
Lady May Yohe Hope has not cared t.
. consider any offers to come to Amerlci
, this season. She did not think at all ia
, vorably of the idea of coming over here t.
appear in The Lady Slavey, as she did no
like herself in the part. although 1t otter
capital opportunities for performer wit
requisites Miss Yohe does no. possess
Furthermore, English managers Will no
think for moment of releasing Mis-
J Yohe from her contract with them mi
, season She fully intends, however, t
\ come to America and tits extremely hke'
,ha, size Will return here next season. In
Lady Slavey. which is the first 0per III
comedy imported from London, is provln
a great success al the Casino. under Georg
Lelierar's management In the meantln
May Yohe helps to support her bankruI
young lord, who is the brother OF the duk
: of Newcastle, and ran through two or thre
!. million doll ars in an Incredibly short spas
( of time