The herald., 1897-02-14

head of John the Baptist. Where did
| Adelaide get her knowledge of the Scrip
| lures? From her man.
| Mrs John T. Raymond widow of the
| great comedian, has announced her in
| tention to go upon the vaudeville stage.
Julia Marlowe Taber has announced
| that she will be known hereafter to the
stage as Julia Marlowe. That is the
| way the critics like to speak of her.
Fanny Davenport is no mimic. She
declares that she cannot initiate even
| a gesture" Fanny's affectations in
| crease as the years do grow.
! A Canadian poet has dedicated an ode
| to Jessie Bartlett Davis. In it he dwells
| especially on the singers ankles, which
/ he declares to be the shaplest in the
world.
Frederick Paulding has been asked by
| Mr. and Mrs. VIM McClosky, the por-
! trait painters, to sit fora painting of him
| self as Romeo for exhibition at the next
| Paris salon.
! Eleanora Duse is under agreement
| with Whitney & Moore for an American
| tour next season, when she Will prob
| ably appear as Juliet. Whether she in
| tends to learn English in the interval
| is not stated.
Otis Skinner has an article in the
| February number of The Ishmaelite con-
j
| vogue of which, he believes, is evidence
of healthful turn in the minds Of
J theater-goers.
'srhe Dramatic Mirror can be heartily
congratulated on the good fight it wagel
! and won against the play pirates" That
is the sentiment of the press and of all
| VINO object to being robbed OF the fruit
| of their brain work.
Arrangements have been completed
for an English tour of Neil Burgess in
The Country Fair Mr.. Burgess will
sail soon for the other side, where he
will open on Easter Monday The need
for an arbitration treaty is now made
manifest.
Nine. Janauschel1 has closed her spe
cial engagement with Stuart Robson in
Indianapolis and returned to New York
Yesterday Her contract with Mr.. Rob-
son had four weeks more to run, but as
Mrs. Ponderbury's Past was not sue
cessful, an arrangement was made with
| Nine JanauSchek by which she ter
minated her engagement
Shakespeare in the light of students
analytic vision and through the glasses
of a business man-the last lectures in
the course for the benefit of the Mercan-
tile library-were given last Thursday in
San Francisco at Golden Gate hall by
Professor Charles Mills Gayley of the
state university and Thomas Magee
| 1
plauded.
Daniel Frohman is much pleased by
the results of the curtain-raisers used
at the Lyceum this season. They accom-
; | modate late theater-gOers and afford
, opportunities for young playwrights to
try their fortune. Every performance Of
, a leading attraction should be preceded
, | by a curtain-raiSer. The abolishment
of long waits between acts would give
ample time for such an addition to the
! bill.
: The tour q dargaret Mather in Gym
beline began IN the 8th inst. at the
Broadstreet( heater, Philadelphia. "A
; week later M Mather will be seen in
| Washington, nd then in Pittsburg.
: 1t is rumored that Henry 3. Sire of
the Bijou theater has decided to erect a
I theater on the northwest corner Of
Broadway and Forty-first street, New
| York Mr.. Sire owns the land, and, il
! is reported, has been contemplating
| | building a theater upon it for some
| time. The theatrical business must be
. prospering in the Empire City.
Charles Kent, who has been playing
Svengali on the road with Brady's Trii.
by company, has been selected to create
r the leading part in the new Wheeler
Alfriend play, New York. His charac-
|. ter is that of a United States secret ser
; | vice detective Kent will be remembere;
l tion of The Henrietta at the Union.
l square, and he also played Svengali fol
, awhile in Trilby with the original COM
{ pany at the Garden theater. He is also
, remembered in Los Angeles as one OF
( the cleverest actors that has ever
frightened the local stage.
One of the souvenirs Of his recent trip
to India is a cane with curiously carved
handle, which Magician Bancroft car
: ries in his strolls. The head is loose Ia
the touch, but cannot be pulled off
Nevertheless, it is so fashioned that a
knife blade can be passed between the
head and the stick, and yet the cane re-
mains intact. The secret of it's manu-
facture is said to be known only to one
Hindoo family, and consists of an in
genious system of catches arranged in
the handle. Even with the cane held
upside down, the knife blade can be
passed from side to side, back and forth
seemingly meeting with no obstacle yet
, the head will not fall off.