The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-11
Pheasants Shot by is Royal
'Ighness Have a Su-
perlor Flavior.
RoSsBERRY's DERBY SORROWS
Where Victory Meant Defeat :
Oscar WiIde.s Effrontery-
The Theatre Trust.
ROssBERRY's DERBY SORROWS

OAtA--~
mas. The shops are crowded, but many
of the newspapers are protesting against
the expensiveness of the presents which
the smart set considers necessary. For
the first time, on the other hand, British
manufacturers are able to compete with
Germany in cheap toys, especially tin
soldiers, at which there is much exulta-
ton. The principal novelties in all the
stores are motor cars, driven by hot air,
and American Indian wigwams, big
enough to contain children in correct In
dian costumes.
The inseparabe preliminary of the Eng
lsh Christmas, the Fat Stock Show at
Islington has produced the average exhi-
bition, with an unusual result. The
Queen who sent nine exhibits; the Prince
of Wales, who sent ten; the Duke of York,
who had six exhibits, and Prince Chris
tian, who had two entries, only ecured
four prizes between them, of which one
first prize was obtained by the Duke of
York for red cattle.
The newspapers animadvert strongly
upon the senseless idea of a show for pro-
ducing useless animals, SO far as meat
producing qualities are concerned; but,
they say, SO long as the Royalties lead the
will become President in 1883, the centen
ary year.
Christmas parties are projected on an
Blenheim, where numbers of variety per-
formers have been engaged. Old fash
ioned Christmas sports will be indulged
in The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire
the Duke and Duchess of Portland and
Baron and Baroness Rothschild will all
give big balls.
snobbery of the Duke of Newcastle in
sending hundreds of pheasants to the
markets labeled "Shot by His Royal High
ness, the Prince of Wales.''
The big schooner yacht, designed by
George L. Watson, which is building at
Henderson's. yards, and which was sup
Mr.. Charles. L. orr-Ewing, Member of
Parliament for Ayr Burghs, who has trav-
eled extensively in the East and who
takes great interest in yachting Captain
Carter, the former Master Of The Prince
of Wales cutter Britannia, is the pros
peetive skipper Of the new schooner.
pears among the Christmas books and is.
much criticised by the artists and news
papers. The"Daily News" says
:, His people. on Bond street are simply
They are never here except as American
tourists. His Hyde Park Corner is
crowded with these American invaders,
while The First Night is simply a prac-
tical joke of the same description. His
Drawing Room is a conceivable present
alton of the White House. 1t is certainly
ITO IullCUOn OF BucklQSnan1 RaIdCe.t'
Horatio Bottomley, the financier and
promoter, who was the head of the de-
funct Hansard Union, and who has since
made fortune, was the purchaser of
most of NJ Lebaudy'S horses, just sold at
Newmarket, including Count Schomberg-
He also bought one or two American
horses, and announces that he will race
merely for amusement.
Lord Rosebery, at the dinner of the Gin
Crack Club, at York, on Tuesday, advised
all those who are contemplating racing to
refrain from so doing, as it is exceedingly
expensive and too eng-rossing for anyone
having anything else to do. He added
The rewards, compared with the dis
appointments, are one per cent. For q
quarter of a century l struggled to win
sometimes third, often last, and finally
won. ought to have been the happiest
of men. But what was the result?
held high office and was attacked with
the greatest violence for owning race
hdASes at all. then made discovery,
whlsh came to me too late, that although
without guilt of offense I might have
came matter of torture to many con-
sciences if I won the Derby. My troubles
did not end there. At the general cleo
ton my party was assailed, not because
we were too sporting, but because we
were not sporting enough. | was, how
ever, of the opinion that for the trials
Of the turf, compensation came In expe-
riences and life friendships formed on
the turf, which are invaluable to any
man who wishes to get on in life, and 1
believe that the sport in England was
never better or purer.'
There is a controversy over the queS-
ton of Oscar Wilde's temperance as a
dramatist. A prominent manager is pre-
pairing to produce his latest play under a
thinly yelled pseudonyn. Thereupon the
"St James Gazette" says
1.-THE manager has failed to grasp the
fact that this dramatist's career at
respectable London playhouSes must be
considered closed.''
Paris, however, does not share this an
tipathy A theatre of that city announces
that play, written in French, by Oscar
Wilde, will be produced shortly.
In an interview published by the 'Gil
Bias" Oscar Wilde declares the British
will forgive anything in the case of one
who amuses them.
The persistency with which the dra-
matte ventures fioated in England are be-
ing sought for the American stage and
the care with which American managers
which this field demonstrates, it Is claim
ed, that the world is a very small one
theatrically, and that there is no lack of
market for promising plays despite the
plants of disappointed Would-be dramat-
lists.
Decidedly the most interesting spec
tacle which the English dramatic field
affords this season is the fierce rivalry
waged by the representatives of Amer
lean managers to procure the successful
English plays for home consumption.
Every London and provincial dramatist
or manager who floats a play having the
signs Of popularity finds himself in the
position of an auctioneer receiving the
bids of transatlantic competitors
The two most enterprislng bidders In the
field are Mr. Lestocq the English repre-
sentative of Charles Frohman, and A. L.
Sutherland, who is something of free
lance
Mr.. Sutherland is a young American who
has the management of the Garrclx
Theatre for George Edwardes,. whose first
lieutenant he is, and, incidentally, ne
dabbles in other thea trical ventures on his
own responsibility.
Mr.. Lestocq is an Englishman who has
graduated from the stage to the mana
gerial ranks and is said by Mr.. F'rohman
to be the only Englishman who can move
as rapidly as an American in the negotia-
tion of business deals.
Mr.. Lestocq and Mr.. Sutherland en-
gagged in an amusing race to Birmingham
last week to attend the first production of
a new Irish melodrama, "Soggarth
Aroonn (ssDarling Priest"D, with a view
of securing it for America should it prove
suitable. The author of the piece. John
Coleman plays the leading part, and the
plot hangs upon murder, which is
known to the priest through the confess
suspected 1t is said to be reminiscent
Of Boucicault in it's atmosphere, and will
l1nouestionably kindle the enthusiasm of
Irishmen, wherefore it should appeal to
the large section of American citizenship
of Irish descent. Whether it will be
taken to the United tSates this season is
a question.
Mr. Sutherland says that he has Sc
cured an option on 1t and may negotiate
with prominent American manager.
Another American agent In London is
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