The record-union., 1899-05-28

favorite in Milwaukee, where she is
playing with the stock company at the
Academy of Music. Miss Blanc made
her first appearance in THE Butter
flies" and received excellent press no.
tees.
Seattle showed it's appreciation of the
Bostonians by patronizing them to the
extent of $6,500 during their engage
ment of four nights and matinee.
Manager ]. P. Howe of the Seattle The
ater dealt very squarely with the public,
displaying a clean box-sheet when the
sale opened.
Nat Goodwin has won the upper
courts decision for a new trial in the
matter of Maxwell, the Chicago news
paper mans suit against him for SlO,-
coo. The Judge decided that the accu-
sation of the piracy of Ambition"
against Henry Guy Carlton will not
stand.
San francisco Music and Drama:
Maude Adams in 1.-The Little Minister
is nothing less than mint for Charles
Frohman. What do you think of near
ly $1,000 receipts for one performance
in Trenton, New Jersey?
Paris has a museum of objects relat-
ing to the ballet. 1t includes every
thing from old ballet skirts to jewelry
worn by famous dancers There are
also casts of the feet of these terpslcho-
reans, among them being one of Nine.
Vestris' feet 1t was made for Lord
Fife at a cost of $1,000 and sold after
his death for less than 81.
A piece by Gayer Mackay, called 1.-The
Kings Outeast," and founded, rather
remotely, on Dickens "Great Expecta-
tions," was tried in a London subur-
ban theater recently with moderate
success.
Sarah Bernhardt will begin her next
London engagement at the Adelphi
Theater on the Sth of June. The chief
novelty which she will offer is her YER
sion of Hamlet" in which she, of
course, plays the melancholy Prince.
On other nights she will be seen in
"Frou Frou," La Tosca,' "Adrienne
Lecouvreur, and La Dame aux Ca
melias"
There has been a recent discussion
in Paris in relation to a drama entitled
La Belle Madame Hesselin,'' by M.
Edouard Caller. In reply to a charge
of improbability brought against him.
the author Indignantly retorted that he
had placed upon the stage, without al
tering the slightest detail, ''un moroccan
de realite, une tranehe de vie," and
that the critics who had fallen foul of
him IN this respect were consequently
altogether in the wrong. Whereupon
the critics fell upon him again in a
body, and it is hoped that he has been
converted from the error Of his views.
The Change Alley of Louis n. Par
ker and Murray Carson has met with
a rather chilling reception at the hands
of the London critics, but Mr.. Carson is
highly commended for his own personal
performance of the old sailor.
Charles Wyn0ham has written TO the
London newspapers to say that he has
not yet decided whether he will lease
the Criterion Theater when he takes
possession of his new house, or retain
control of it himself
The somewhat astonishing statement
is made in a London newspaper that
not one of the theaters in the metro
politan district possesses a fire alarm
box, and it adds that, as a general rule,
the managerial staff of a theater is
totally ignorant where such an instru-
ment could be found in case of sud
den emergency.
Forbes Robertson is expected to pro-
duce George Bernard Shaw's Caesar
| and Cleopatra" during the forthcoming
provincial tour in England.
Martin Harvey who is enjoying great
prosperity at the London Prince of
Wales Theater with The Only Way
is trying to arrange fer a series of
matinees of "Pelleas and Melisande," 3"
/ with Forbes Robertson and Mrs. Pat
rick Campbell in the chief characters.
In the late Alice Atherton's young
| days when she was a blooming bur-
lesquer on the stage and fancy free,
young man in Boston fell desperately
in love with her and nearly drove her
| to distraction by his persistent atten-
/ ton Finally, after she thought she
had gotten rid of him, he proposed to
her by telegraph, and this was her an
swer by telegraph: mol Collect"
NO man is a hero to his valet" re-
| marked a gentleman recently, in the
! presence of Miss Odette Tyler. "And
! / suppose she answered, thought
/ fully. that by the same rule one
might say that no woman is a heroine
+ in the presence of her maid. Mine re-
/ Gently told me that she didn't see how
/ people could help coming to see me act
when they found out what beautiful
| gowns I had"
Wilson Barrett is about the wealth
lest of the English actors, or if not
that, he is on the high road to thai
position. He has been doing an enor-
nous business in the provinces, and
his royalties from THE Signs of the
Cross have alone amounted to a very
large sum of money, and show no sign
of falling off.
New Orleans is likely to enjoy a legal
battle over "A Lady of Quality" Both
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