The San Francisco call., 1897-04-25
Dramatic BreVities.
felix Morris is 10 go into vaudeville.

Felix Morris is 10 go into vaudeville.
The Lyceum Theater Company has started
on it's tour West.
Grace Henderson will be in May Twins
company next season.
Pete Daley is going to do a nice little
turn in the variety houses.
James J. Corbett was assisting Thomas E.
Shea last week in Philadelphia.
Three companies are 10 present the comedy
success my Friend From India" next season.
Nat c. Goodwin may open his coming en-
gagement at the Baldwin with David Gar
rick
Theodore Roberts, well known here, has
made a great success in "The Heart of Mary
land"
Sousa is now conducting q tour on his own
accord. having quarreled with the estate of
David Blakeley.
Minnie Maddern Fiske has been booked to
open the next regular season OF the Great
Northern Theater in Chicago.
Maurice Barrymore has signed to travel over
the Hopkins circuit in the West after he fin
iShes his engagement with B. F. Keith.
Primrose and West have secured Raymond
Moore, the famous ballsd-writer and singer
for the all-star company for next season.
Announcement has just been made of the
marriage of Sophie Traubman, the well-k nown
prima donna. She was married last February.
The Tivolfs grand-opera season will open
early in July. The works will include full
series OF Wagner and a revival of many old fa-
vorites.
Wilson Barrett says another company will
go to New York in the fall to present the "Sign
OF the Cross as well as the Daughters OF
Babylon"
Franz Ebert, the clever little leading come
dian of the Liliputians, is said to have been
offered large inducements 10 star in new
burlesque.
The DAILY Company during its stay abroad
will travel after its London season, visiting
Liverpool, Manchester Newcastle, Glasgow
and Edinburgh.
Augustus Pitou has SOLD his interest in
Madame Sans Gene'' to Katheryn Kidder, who
VIII manage the play next season. She has
not decided who will play the leading part.
'fMiss Frisco" the Tivolrs first annual re-
view. will bring toge ther the past and present
in musical way. The principal roles will be
wel-known characters OF yesterday and to-
day.
Those of the Empire Theater Com pany who
intended to go abroad In May have been noti-
fed to cancel their steamship bookings. as
"Under the Red Robe" VIII continue longer
than was expected.
series of revivals OF French operas comiques
will be given shortly at the Tivoli-
"Giroie- -Girofa," "La Perichole," ..La Belle
Helene" and La File de Nine. Angot'' will
be carefully presented.
Mss Jeannie Winston and W. T. Carleton.
who have been absent for some time from the
comic-opera stage. are to head the Carlet ton
Opera Company, which will begin its tour next
Monday at ST. John, NIB.
Charles Klein has contracted with De Wolf
Hopper and John Philip Sousa to furnish the
book for new opera for Mr.. Hopper. The
hero viii, 1t is said, be a sort of IN odern Gag
liostro and the title will probably be, "The
Chariatan."
Kate Claxton is being pursued by the vaude.
Williams. She has withs,ood the alluremeuts
held out, but is weakening. Perhaps even be-
fore this appears she may have signed a con-
tract. If sne does succum b, she will at any
rate have made gallant fight against the love
of lucre.
When Mary Hampton takes Viola Aliens
part in t'Under the Red Robe on the road IL
| she only gives as good an imitation of Miss
Allen as she did in Sowing the Wind" she
will be all right. Miss Ham pton has evidently
! made study of Miss Aliens methods, and ii
she has a chance to watch her in this char
| acter the people out of town will see the part
| played as Miss Allen plaY ed it here.
Henry Arthur Jones refused to appear at the
Criterion Theater, London, during the first
presentation of his play 1.-The Physician" so
Charles Wyndham had to make a speech for
him. Mr. Jones was somewhere not far from
the strand nursing old grudge. He would
not allow himself TO be Kissed from the pit 8
he was when "Michael Lost His Angel .sThe
Physician"h has made frst-class impression AZ
the Criterion.
The attempt to provide three stars in one
comic opera with parts suitable to their abil.
ity and their standing has succeeded far be-
yond expectations. Lillian Russell never
looked better. Della Fox was never more chic
while De Angels was as humorous as he could
possibly be- Surely the Wedding Day" mas
beenla wedding day for more than one inter.
ested i'll the Casino. Ths book written bv
Stanislaus Stange is not as good as is "Brian
Boru," still 1t is full OF witticisms and has a
fairly good plot.
A new steering device for ships controls
the rudder by pneumatic pressure, the air
being forced into cylinder on either side
of the rudder post by means of the steer.
ing wh0el in the nj -houae