San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-24


One morning she wished to display
how rapidly she was learning the
language, and insisted upon ordering
her own breakfast. Desiring pOaChed
eggs on toast, she instructed the wait
or thus:
You bring me re egg-nO not re
egg-Ze toast, yes " toast, with re
egg up stairs 1t is needless to add
that her companions were amused and
laughed heartily, and ever since Miss
Bartho does not enter the dining room
without her chaperOn.
Leon Hermann, successor to the late
Prof. Hermann, looks much like his
uncle. except he is not so tall.
In Simple Simon soon to be pro-
duced in Boston, r. A. Barnett uses
both the stereopticon and vitascope.
Charles A. BigelOw, the funny come
dian of The Girls from Paris" has
theory that burlesque requires the
most legitimate training on the part of
its opponents. THE very best bur
lesquers, says Mr.. Bigelow, have been
legitimate actors and actresses-as for
example, Richard Mansfield They
shade, and can make the arnsitions
from the sublime to the ridiculous
sharply accented and telling. 1t is a
tradition well authenticated that one
of the most delightful bits of whimsi-
cal fooling the stage has ever known
was given by Joseph Jefferson in the
old time burlesque of 'Mazeppa.' There
are grotesques who could not play the
most trivial part and who rely for eff
feet wholly upon comical personality.
They make their successes, but the ac-
tor with legitimate training is, after
all, the one to be desired"
TT is an established fact in theatre
calls" declares Fanny Davenport,
''that no drama can win success until
the ladies give it their approval. A
inlay that pleases only men folk would
better never be written so far as man
agerial prosperity and authors royal
ties are concerned. By a curious coin
cidence, those generally opposing ele-
ments-the church and the stage-are
supported mostly by women"
Jessie Bartlett Davis received a most
peculiar Christmas present from H. c.
Barnabee. 1t is a dinner service made
in Limoges, and the designs of the dish
es are as unique as the talents of the
handsome contralto. The hadle at the
top of a soup tureen is a group of three
ducklings with bills pointed to a COM
mon centre, while a fourth reaches up
<ais bill from the base. A vegetable
dish, is surmounted by a COCK in the
act of growing; another supported by
two peacocks with dragging tails Then
there are snails, dragons and half-im-
possible creatures of various shapes
and degrees of henious ugliness. Miss
Davis adds that it is quite evident that
MIR. Barnabee has horror of the COM
monplace. always preferring to it the
groteseque.
Jennie Yeamans denies that she is
married.
Joseph Callahan and Beatrice In
gram have married.
Harry e. Allen has secured divorce
from his wife. nee Salome Fitting.
Gertrude Claire is seriously i'll in
New York City.
Alfriend and Wheeler are writing a
new play to be produced in February.
Arthur Bourchier and company have
cancelled their dates and will return
to England on account of the poor
health of Mrs. Boucher.
Alice Trudelle, who made hit as
the Tired Girl in the Cotton Spinner
is dangerously i'll at her mothers home
in Chicago.
Mrs. Frank Bush, wife of the come
dian. is dangerously ill in consequence
of a stroke of paralysis. Mr.. Busf
was telegraphed for, and is now at hi
wife's bedside.
Joseph Wheelock has Joined the SUI
company
Joseph Haworth has Joined Nodes
ixa's company in Frisco.
Nelson wheatcroft has recovered
from injuries received in a stage com
bat in Heartsease.
There never was an actress VIII
could command her lachrymal glands
as Adelaide Nelson could. Severa
Of her leading men found out her pc
culiar faculty to their cost One OF
sFo-,, rr-aS Henry Miller who is shortly