San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-13
STAGE NOTES.

Alexander Rule has quit the Oliver
Byron company.
David Henderson and frankie Ray
mond were married in Chicago Nov.
81.
Harry Hynes has again taken the
role of Job, in the Rajah.
JIM. Ward is now the business man.
ager of A Florida Enchantment.
Samuel Tabachnikoff and Morris ST.
mon and Manager Epstein were ar
rested in New York week before last
for giving a Sunday performance.
Queenie May Miss Arthur Leiblee)
is the mother of a fine boy, who al
ready has begun to sing baritone.
The engagement of Gerald Du Maui
rier, son of the late novelist, and Mar
guerite Sylvia, is announced. Both
are members of II. Beerbohm Trees
company.
Maxine Elliott has been granted a
divorce from her husband, Geo. A.
McDermOtt.
The Gwenglanell syndicate of New
York, has been Incorporated for mu
steal and dramatic entertainments.
Auguste Vollmer, Helene Gadsky,
Heinrih Hobbing, Fritz Ernst, Rich
ard Fried, Fraulein Eibenschutz, and
Frau ohor-Ravenstein, of the Dam
rosch opera forces, arrived from Eu-
rope last week.
Margaret Mather has secured John
G. Nagle as her manager.
While wheeling in San Francisco
recently, Joseph Cawthorne sustained
a fall in which he dislocated his right
shoulder. Mr.. Cawthorne has not,
however, missed performance In
Hendrick Hudson, Jr., appearing with
his arm in a sling.
1t is said that the Actors associa-
ton Of America is to make a test case
in behalf of a member who, as alleg-
ed, was discharged by Richard Mans
field without cause.
Richard II. Brown, the comedian, OF
The Devils Auction, and Amelia Bra
toletti, the premiere dansseuse of that
attraction, were married last week in
Calvary church, Memphis, Tenn, by
the Rev. Dr. Davenport.
Walter Stetson and Ida Dupree, of
the Hayseed Sport company, were
married recently in Washington, ID.
G..
Walter Craven, through his counsel,
Milliken and Gasken, has commenced
an action in the Supreme court
against Bloomingdale Brothers for
$4,000 damages for false imprison-
ment.
Michael Gum, for many years man.
g h. DAryo1 nnhlin Trn-
land, will retire from active manage
ment at the end of the year and will
remove with his family to BRUSSELS,
where he wishes to educate his six
children. Mr.. Gum married Bessie
Sudlow, New York.
Kate Michelena has resigned from
Laura Biggar and Bert Haverly's
company in A trip to Chinatown, and
has been engaged by DIR. Purdy for
Fanny Rice's company. She will sing
the prima donna part in the Freuch
Ball, and also appear in the new OPP
era.
Charles Gregorowitsch, a Russian
violinist, made his American debut
last Tuesday evening at concert Civ
en- by the American Symphony Or
c0eSITd III ohN
a most favorable impression. The
Russian proved himself an artist OF
unusual ability, master Of the violin
and Of harmony.
Manager Max Bleiman, Of The
Heart of Maryland went on Nov. y
to Hoboken to welcome his mother,
Mrs. John Kafka, who was to arrive
| from Europe on the steamship, Nor
MAMMA. He was met with the sad
news that Mrs. Kafka had died on
| shipboard the day before.
In an address delivered at the Uni
tartan Theological Seminary of Mead
vile, Pa, Otis Skinner declared thai
the clerical friends of the drama
sometimes do as much wrong as the
stages enemies in insisting that the
| stage should be an educator and g
sermOnizer Mr.. Skinner stated that
the first object of the drama is to a
muse, elevate,sand inspire through ar
tistic means: to take the playgoer in
to an ideal land that need not be in
structive of moral. He does not be
lieve that the drama should be inn
moral, but that the playhouse would
be a failure as an institution should
it be another form Of the school house
or the pulpit.
Richard Mansfield's new play, Seas
tie Sombras," is a success.
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