San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-03
The : SUNDAY : LIGHT.
SUNDAY. JANUARY 8, 1857.
STAGE NOTES

$3.50 S'h ANTONIO, the SO-Dy IulS
season.
ira l. La Motto, who is the manager
LOT Mr.. Clay Clements, is also mana
ger Tor the Schiller theatre. Chicago.
Hdwin Milton Royle, author of the
successful comedy drama, Friends"
y IN New York arranging for an early
production there of his new play,
capt lmpudence," romance of the
Mexican war. 1t is his intention to
give the play an elaborate production
and one of the leading New York
theatres is being negotiated for, where
s"Capt Impudence' will be put ON for
an extended run.
Beerbohm Tree has included Trilby
IN his repertoire. His role is Svengai.
Richard Mansfield presented a new
play, Castle Sombras' in New York,
last week.
Louise Beaudet has made her de-
but in vaudeville in New York.
Walter Damrosch will contest the
election of Alexander Bremen, as
president of the New York Musical
Mutual Protective Union. He was a
candidate but his name was purpose
ly left off the ballot sheet.
The French opera company engage
ment in New Orleans has proven a
success.
Mrs. Fanny Reddey, one of the &C.
I tresses of the early part of the pres
ent century, died Dec. 6, in Derby,
Conn, aged 100 years. She was Tom
!, Thumbs nurse in his infancy.
The Metropolitan opera company
idisbanded in Toronto, Canada.
Two Little Migrants is having as
successful a run in New York as it
had in Boston.
Mason Mitchell has become manager
for the Thos. Q. Seabrooke company.
Ada Rehan is in New York. Her
Lady Teazle in ''The School for Scan
dali is warmly praised.
Florence Bindley is now in Canada
in vaudeville.
w. II. Carleton has been resting a
few weeks at the hot springs of Vir-
ginia
ELSIE from Chelsea" is the title of
a new song by Arthur Dacre, author
of ''Daisy Bell
Kittie Bingham has Joined the Con-
: roy and Fox company.
Teddy Hale, the Irish 6-day bicy-
clist. who won the big time race in
Madison Square garden, New York,
has gone on the exhibition stage.
Mrs. John X. Bloodgood, daughter
in-law of the late John Bloodgood, a
prominent New York broker will
make her professional debut in New
York at the Lyceum theatre this sea-
son.
Sarony, the renowned theatrical
- -<l.x 4, -,
spme weeks ago, had fine collection
OF photos and oil paintings which
were sold axgood figures recently.
BARLEY yhmpbell's White Slave
company isl on the southern circuit
), ana ana playediNew Orleans New Year
Stuart Robson and Mrs. Janauschek
present Mrs. Ponderbury's PAST in
the Crescent City tonight.
Pauline Graves, a well known song
stress, has gone into vaudeville.
Manager VIM. A. Brady, in New
York City, put Roaring Dick & Co."
with Maurice Barrymore leading, on
the stage with one hundred and fifty
people in the company.
Vernona Jarbeau will star next sea-
son in operate burlesque, Carmen"
etc.
Laura Burt, the Madge in 'Old Ken
fucky," will star next season in "The
Lily of LandOff'' by II. Gratatn Don
nelly.
/ Rose Eytinge is now catching and
coaching actors and actresses, in New
srk City.
n 1.-THE late Alexander Hermann. it is
!. said, died intestate and his life in
surance, reported as exceeding $780,
600, is not over $4,000 and all en-
numbered. His widow, nee Adelaide
Sersey, the accomplished ballet dane
err and his nephew, Leon Hermann,
will try to straighten out his affairs
and the latter will finish his tour. He
made money easily, often clearing
from $4,000 to 100000 a season, but
spent it lavishly in charities, specula-
tion, yachting. horses and in good liv-
ting. The mayor of New York per-
af0rmed his wedding ceremony in 1875.
k--.Xear later he became a naturaliZed
American citizen. Dom Pedro, en-
peror of Brazil presented him with n
gold medal. He spoke French. Span
4 ish, German. Russian, Italian, POrtu-
guese and English with equal fiuency.
Mrs Hermann ascribes his sudden
death to excessive cigarette smoking.
Paul Gabault's adoption of the
Plutus Aristophones is in rehearsal
A in Paris.
1t is a London rumor that III. Beer
bohm Tree will present to LondOners
his American failure, 'The Seats of
the Mighty"
| can't help wishing that some good
playwright would take the theme OF
the Cuban war for drama. l do not
mean anything like the plays onered
us on this subject, but stirring story
IN Of life and love in a beautiful south
ern island with its smoking canefelds
=. sending their banners of mourning
against the stars. There is the most
magnificent kind of dramatic mater
a TIE. and if the machete charge
for ser be put upon the stage II
Ind wWake an American audience