The San Francisco call., 1897-09-19

MISS virginia Cranna Will give q QrdmdtlC
entertainment at Native Sons Hall next We'd
nesday evening.
Frank Rushworth, young tenor from Chi
cRgo, whom Mr. Hammerstein claims to have
discovered" has been engaged for the LA
Poupee" east
A NJ Palmer, with whoop and yell, has
emerged from Cimmerian Chicago TO inform
us all that he has signed a contract TO man.
age Richard Mansfield.
That is all right, but who will manage
Palmer?
The managers of Miss Isabelle Evesson, who
stars jointly with Estele Clayton this season,
are sending forth notices that Isabelle owns a
valuable diamond, formerly the property OF
Prince George OF Prussia This IS, of course, q
preliminary to the said jewel being stolen.
Francis Coppee, one of frances most sue
cessful dr. matists, is a very sick man. To
read the articles that he has written since his
illness is sad task. He apologies in every
line tor fear that his pen has lost some of its
charm, and he tells you OF his bandages and
the sckening smell OF the drugs that pervade
his chambe
Henry Wolfsohn announces some excellent
musical attractions for San Francisco this
winter. The first will be the celebrated vocal
lists, Mr.. and Mrs. George Henschel, who are
expected here toward the end of October. In
addition TO being singer, George Henschel
has cut quite swath in London as a con-
ductor and composer.
Another society woman is booked for the
stage. She is Miss Martha Leonard. the
daughter of Colonel Robert Leonard of Bed
ford, n. y, who returned from Europe re-
Gently. Miss Leonard, who is well known in
New York society, was about to make her
debut as an actress two years ago, but the
objections OF her family prevented it.
1t looks very m uch in Paris as though there
would be big boom in historical plays his
season The popular theaters going in
entirely for them. and the elder Dumas
LA Jeunesse de Louis XIV" is to be
revived d t big house. This was the play
over which Dumas won his celebrated bet of
guaranteeing to write five-act drama on any
given subject in three deys.
Sarcey, the French writer, has decided to
combine dramatic criticism with ostrich
farming. He declares that to any one who
has once eaten an ostrich omelette life be-
comes empty dream If you have not got
them always handy, and he is convinced that
the bird Will increase and multiply and lay
eggs by the dozen in France. Sarcey hes de
cided TO experiment in rearing ostriches at
Nanterre-where The rosieres come from.
Sarah Bernhard has changed her plans, and
the Renaissance will open with Decourcelle's
adaptation OF Secret Service" instead of
with NJ. Porto Riches lie Passe,' and after
this comes Hamlet" For the time being
Sarah is down at the Fort des Poulains-the
weird old castle that she has rendered habita-
BILE on the most surf-t eaten point of La Belle
isle Marmeil. She is credited with studying
Hamlet at midnight, in the dreary ruins of
the fort, only portion of which has ever
been reclaimed by her from the decay and
ruin of centuries.
Hall Caine, in certain quarters. is getting
himself disiiked, and on the part of those
whose backs are up it is urged that in his
latest produ The Christian''-novel and
piay-he has forgotten that, where Christian
virtues are concerned, "the greatest of these
is charity. and that he has altogether ig-
uored that part OF "the Christian" duiy
which in dealings with our neigh bors orders
the avoidance OF evi,-speaking and SANDER
ing. His account of 'Glory's" goings-on
while engaged ss nurse, with a return TO
hospitai o'clock in the morning is re-
garded cruel libel upon body OF young
ladies who claim 10 he not only hard-working
but honorable. ridiculous and absurd are
the terms employed when Hall Gaines de-
scription of nurses and students is talked
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