The San Francisco call., 1897-04-11
Manager Green baum that their efforts
have been appreciated.
Dramatic Brevities.


Dramatic Brevities.
Harry Mann will manage the Knickerbocker
Theater next season.
Ethel Barrymore will go abroad with the
"Secret Service" company.
Sandow has made hit in London at the
Pavilion as the human dumbbell.
A report comes from abroad that Mrs. Henry
E. Abbey is about to be married again.
Otis Skinner is regular con ntributor to the
columns OF some ofthe leading monthlies.
Albert Chevaier has made his appearance in
London in comic opera called Land of Nod"
Joseph Haworth has joined Margaret
season
Tom Taylors comedy, "The Overland
Route" will shortly be produced at the AIca-
gar Theater.
Crane will continue TO keep Martha Nor
tons comedy. "a Fool for Fortune" as his
sole production.
Primrose & West have opened negotiations
with James J. Corbett that may add him to
their organization.
Louis James will be one of the stars to retire
at the end OF this season. Business has been
very bad with him.
Walter Damrosch probably will be offered
place in the faculty of Yale College as head OF
the department of music.
Nine. Brazz., an American contralto now
for the Metropolitan Opera Company for next
season.
Ivan Caryl has written the music for Mime.
Sans Gene" which will be produced as an
opera by George Edwardes in London this
autumn.
The Fruit and Flower Mission is to be ten
dered a benefit at the Baldwin Theater on
Wednesday afternoon. Otis Skinner and COM
pany will play.
Julia Marlowe will have a company of her
own next season and is in search OF leading
man. Robert Taber will also appear as a star
and is IN search OF a leading lady.
The Odd Fellows will take a benefit at the
Alcazar Theater next Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings for the purpose OF in
creasing the relief fund of the order.
An actor named William Boucher was re-
ported from Louisville last week 10 be begging
his way eastward. The company of which he
was member stranded in Colorado.
1t is expected that Nat C. Goodwin, upon his
return to the Baldwin Theater, will produce
new comedy by Madeline Lucette Ryley,
which he has Ead In preparation for some
time past.
Emma Nevada, the American prima donna,
is i'll al her Partisan residence suffering from
fever. Nine. Nevada was compelled to
linquish her engagement at Madrid and TO
return TO Paris.
Gerhardt Hauptmanns drama, "The sunken
Bel" which has caused enthusiasm in Berlin,
has apparently been failure in Paris. There
is too uch mystery and obseurity in he play
TO please the Parisians.
When Daniel Frohman's Lyceum Theater
Company starts on its Western tour, the new
play, "The Mysterious Mr.. Bugle," will be
produced at the home theater. Tue Lyceum
Company is due here in June.
1.-THE Heart OF Maryland" will begin a re-
turn engagement in New York shortly. 1t
will be produced at the Academy of Music.
Tne next regular season of this success viii
begin on August 16 at the Baldwin Theater in
this City.
Theatrical London is in a state of ex-
pectancy over the rumor that several actors
will be knighted at the Queens Jubilee in
June. The names men toned are Charles
Wyndham, Beerbohm Tree, George Alexan-
der. J. L. 1oole and Clement Scott, the critic.
The rumor has arisen from the tact that the
Duke of File recently entertained these gen.
| temen and Henry Irving at dinner to meet
the Prince OF Wales.
Application for dates at several leading
theaters have been made for the KeIcey-Shan-
non Company, which is the com bination of
Herbert kelcey AMI Efie Shannon as stars
The claim is made that the joint stars will
have a new play by Madeline Lucette Ryley, as
well as new one by an English author. Miss
Shannon viii contIne for :he season with W.
H. Crane, while Mr.. Kelcey will remain with
| the Heart of Maryland"
At the Standard Theater on Monday evening
| a benefit performance for the unemployed
fund will be given under the management of
Minna Ferry, Eta Butler, Julia Steveler,
Messrs. William NJ. Ogilvie Charles W. Will
son. Reginald Travers, Bert Morrison and
Louis Butler will present the three one-act
plays, "a Fair Encounter" The Violin Maker
| of Cremona" and "Of the Stage"
Duse reaped a golden harvestin in Russia 1t
| is said that there were never less than 5000
rubles in the theater at night. In Berlin
! also there were at least 4S00 marks in the
house at every represen tation. She was a
| querey," and also in "Msgda." Sudermann
| is enthusiastic In his praise OF her. "Iou are
| the authoress Of the play" he kept repeating
| to her after he saw her in his drama.
| One would think that an actress would be
| the last one to offend in the question of big
| hats in the theater, and yet lately at olympia
| two mem bers of the Della Fox Company, which
mas 1uSt clOSeu lLs sedSOUt ulHHeu IneIl-
selves by wearing two most outlandish hats.
They d dn't remove them, and when The
| comedian sang verse about big hats, and
| looked at them in very knowing way, they
| were most uncomfortable The two un fortuna ate
| men who sat back OF them waved their pro-
grammes and almost shouted with delight.
| The veteran actor John Jack has been giving
| the Mirror some of his experiences. This is
| one them:
| My mind goes back to the nrst America
| nta ton of "Camille" by Jean Margaret
| Davenport. In the ballroom scene at the left
| center of the stage, opposite second entrance,
| game of cards. Opposite, at the right, was a
sofa In order to add to these splendid prepa-
| rations Tor q gala night there was a second
| table adorned by elaborate candelabra in each
arm OF which was a candle ready for ignition:
| While the scene progressed a servant entered
| with tray OF supposed ices, really cotton
| stuffed into glasses. BE carried in one hand the
ices and in the other lighted taper. On this
| occasion the servant had INDUCED in a little
| banquet wherein foaming glasses of beer had
constituted the principal part of the feast. 1t
was his duty to place the tray on the table
| and, with taper, illume the candles, in doing
| which, In his unsteadiness, he set fire to the
| cotton, presenting 10 the audience an extraor-
| dinary illusion of flaming ices, and retired,
| unconscious of the confiagration and the merri-
| riment in the house, which seriously intertered
| with the performance. Camille and Arma nd,
| with their backs to the burning sensation,
were ignorant of the cause OF the hilarious dis
| iurbance. Manager John Gilbert, wayla yin g
| the servant wi thout, directed him to return
| and extinguish the flames, and the menial,
| reappearing upon the scene, carefully blew
| out the candles and fed, leaving the ices IN q
| merry blaze. The curtain was lowered, but
| throughout the rest of the evening the audi
| ence could do nothing but laugh.
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