San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-03-22
STAGE GOSSIP,

"Zero" is the name OF 3 new
spectacular productinn.
Rose Coghlan will star again, in
play written by her brother
Charles.
Maxine Elliott presented Rosen-
fields new comedy "The House of
Cards." in Baltimore recently.
George Baker has met with such
success OF late as marksman that
he now talks Of shooting Niagara
falls"
When Della Fox appears in Gin
cinnati it will be for the last time
under the management OF Nat
Roth.
George Crichton Min, the TRACE
dian, has returned from his tour
around the world and is in New
York.
The new aerial dance called 1.-THE
Crescent" which the beautiful
Deyo introduces in Excelsior, Jr."
has made a sensation because OF
its novelty.
Louis Nethersole, brother OF
Olga Nethersole, has sailed for
England TO secure a theatre IN
London in which his sister may
appear this summer.
Funny JEFF D'Angelis is to star
next season under Nat Roth's
management and in a piece called
1.-THE Caliph." 1t is by Harry B.
Smith, and the music by Eng
laender.
w. NJ. Gray, who was business
manager of Modjeska until that
stars illness compelled her to can
eel her season, has signed with
Robert Hilliard in a similar
capacity.
Musical authorities are pro.
phesying another Swedish night.
ingale in Nine, Anna Boreson
Lonnborg, who made her New
York debut at Union Square Thea
ter, January 6.
There is to be a new theater in
Washington next season, to be
called the Columbia. 1t will be
erected on the site cow occupied
by Mozart Hall, which structure
is to be pulled down at once.
Wigs are going out of fashion.
Peroxide and washing soda are
driving them from the market.
1t is the boast OF Canary and Led
erer that in "The Lady Slavey"
not one woman in the company
wears a wig.
Arthur Hornblow will produce
three new one-act plays at the
Broadway Theatre, New York, In
a few weeks. One of them is en-
titled "Mary Magdalen." Kath-
crime Grey will play the title
role.
Frank l.. Perley has just re-
ceived the libretto of Miloecker's
new comic opera, "The Trial Kiss"
which has achieved a great sue
cess abroad. If the book is as
good as the music the work will
be produced by the Bostonians.
The splendid new theater in
course OF construction in Milwau-
kee, Wis, is to cost half a million
dollars, and will be the largest
and handsomest playhouse in the
west. 1t will have a seating
Of 5000, but 5000 can be
accommodated at a pinch. 1t will
be owned and managed by 0. f.
Miller, and will be known as the
Uhlein Theater.
When Richard Mansfield was
studying the part OF Baron Chevri-
al, ga Parisian's Romance" who
dies suddenly from heart failure,
he visited a well known physician
to give him points as to the
symptoms Of dissolution of that
particular disease. He also went
through a number of hospitals
where patients were being treated
for heart failure and even watched
some of them die.
"In rehearsing the various
masculine roles I have had to play
in light opera" says Jessie Bart
lett Davis, Gin order that | may
be as graphic as possible, | have
studied mems ways and have dis
covered that one OF their greatest
peculisrites is to make love. or
course women make love, too, but
not so indiscriminstely. Some day
1 may be cast for Don Juan, and ]
think l will make a hit in the
is so manlyp
Among the many inmates of
the almshouse on Blsckwell's
n. Y, is one whose fame
as a ballad singer on the minstrel
stage is still remembered by those
who in bygone days have been