The record-union., 1899-10-22

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pearean revival ever witnessed in
Pittsburg, where the season opened
about five weeks ago.
Miss Edith Hall, who was for a
long time the popular soubrette at the
Tivoli, San Francisco, is playing a
prominent role and doing a catching
speciality with Thall & Kennedy's "Yon
Yonson'' Company, which comes to
California at an early date.
Tommaso Salvina sends word to a
friend in New York that he expects his
son, Tommaso Salvini, Jr,, to visit this
country in a short time for tour in
Shakespearean plays. The young actor
has made a deep impression in Flor
ence.
Joseph Jefferson is to plant an En-
gitsh elm in Tower Grove Park, ST.
Louis, near the Shakespeare statue,
where Adelaide Nelson Olga Neither
sole, Booth and Barrett have in many
years past planted trees from Shakes
peare's birthplace
Jacob Lift will send "In Old Ken
tucky' to the Pacific Coast this COM
ing season. This popular melodrama
opened in seventh season early in Sep
tember, and has proved ito be one of
the most successful pieces of theatrical
property of the decade.
The famous French tragedienne,
Countess Elsa de Tourney, who will
appear in the United States the coming
season in elaborate scenic productions
of Mary Stuart Romeo and Juliet"
and Macbeth is making a short visit
in Chicago previous to starting for New
York, where her company opened it's
season September 9Th.
Olga Nethersole has received the
complete manuscript of Daudet's Sap
pho," which has been dramatized for
her by Clyde Fitch. Miss Nethersole,
according to advices, is delighted with
the play, and has recovered sufficiently
from the recent operations she under
went to enter into the business con-
nected with her forthcoming season in
America.
Viola Allen has secured a new play,
to be written by Marion Crawford, and
to be ready by the fall of 1900 Miss
Allen has been abroad since June, and
has taken the opportunity of negotiat-
ing with Mr.. Crawford, who is at Sor-
rento, Italy. Mr.. Tyler. the acting
manager for the Liebler Company, says
the play may be called in I'm Old Ma
drid,'' and the time of the plot will be
in 1850.
NJ. Jean Richepin has written play
for Mrs. Leslie Carter. So David Be
lasco cables to his American repre-
sentative It will be produced a long
time hence. inasmuch as Mrs. Carter is
booked in ''Zaza" all next season, and
is due to use this play in London next
April, so it may be another year or
two before the French play can have
a chance for production.
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''Nilde'' is the name of a new three
act opera that recently met with sue
cess in Italy. A Princess bethrothed to
a Knight loves a page, and on the
night before the wedding the two
lovers meet. A jester who desires TO
revenge himself on the page leads the
bridegroom to their place of meeting
with his armed retainers and the two
lovers are murdered.
The roof garden at the New York
Theater, fitted up for a winter circus,
will be one of the attractions of the
big metropolis this season.
George Osborne is playing the In
dian, a unique comedy character in "A
Stranger in a Strange Land" and his
acting is highly praised by the East
ern critics
Herbert Carr, last seen in California
with Nance O'Neil, has joined Jacob
Lifts forces He scored a triumph
last week in Minneapolis as the Gov
ernor in Edwin Ardens "Zorah.'
William Brewer and Venie Castro.
who are with "A Bachelors Honey
moon," were married in Texas three
weeks ago.
why Smith Left Home which
made a distinct hit when presented
here last season, will be presented in
California this season.
La Seye, direct from the Folies Ber-
CERES in Paris, has fine sensational
speciality, which is one of the big
features of by the Sad Sea Waves"