The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-19

between home and business. If menl-
bership dues call for a little self-sacrri-
f1ce, be assured it pays you neverthe-
less. Let the club drop out of exist
cnce, ane you will realize what the COM
niunity and you as an individual have
lost.
Another old English actor, who bore
an excellent reputation in his day, has
Just died. He was George Melville,
whose fame. although he played much
in London, was associated with the
famous company which made Bath and
Bristol theatrical centers thirty or forty
years ago. Many well known players
got much of their early training in this
organization. Among them may be
mentioned the Terry sisters, Arthur
Stirling (who died a few days ago.,
George Rignold, Lady Bancroft, Miss
Henrietta Hodson now Mrs. Labou-
chere), Mrs. Kendall, the late John
Rouse, Arthur Wood, Emily Thorne,
Fanny and Carlotta Addison, Jane ana
Susan Rignold, the Robertsons, The
Wiltons, Juliet Desborough. Charles
Coghlan and Louisa Thorne. Mrs. Ken
dal was only years of age when she
appeared as Eva in Uncle Toms CAB
| in" at Bristol in 1855.
For years the dramatic critics have
larnented the non-appearance OF an
/ ideal Juliet. They have said that the
adipose, middle-aged lady who gener-
ally plays the part of the greatest love
drama ever written is not the fair
young child of innocence that Shakes
peare drew. A new Juliet, however, has
| come out of the West, and veteran
New York manager is to introduce her
| to her first public.
| Miss Maude Fealy, charming little
girl, not yet 16 years old, has for the
past three years been the favOrite of
| the theater-goers of Denver, because
of excellent representations of the ILL
fated Juliet, the statuesque Galatea
and similar roles seldom intrusted TO
others than women of experience"
which, in stage parlance, means, years.
| She is the daughter of Margaret
Fealy, herself an actress, now retired
Mrs. Fealy conducts dramatic school
| in Denver. At the exhibitions of her
class of work her little daughter
| far outshone that of other students Of
the drama, SO much SO that, when she
was thirteen, such men as Thomas
Keene Lewis Morrison and others who
had seen her work offered her an i'm
mediate engagement.
Mrs. Fealy, however, said that Maudt
should not make her professional ap
pearance until she was sixteen. She
| will arrive at that age Of wisdom next
March, and at the beginning Of the fol-
lowing season will make her New York
| appearance at Days, Augustin DAILY
| having just signed with her mother a
contract to engage the young actress
for period of five years.
She is an ideal Juliet, and she gives
reading of the lines that is little short
of marvellous, even when her age is
taken out of consideration. In spite of
her great success as a semi-amateur
she is most modest little creature.
Anna Held, while in Newark, N j.,
with The. French Maid" took a no.
ton to go to New York for an hours
shopping, but insisted upon her private
car. When her manager protested
against this extravaganza she art
lessly replied that the railway trans
ferred the car free-all she had to do
was to buy twenty-five round-tIip tick
cts for the privilege of riding in it.
| James O'Neil will appear in the
spring at the Broadway Theater as
| D'Artagnan in Sydney Grundy's YER
| sion Of THE Three Musketeers.' now
| being played by H. Beerbohm Tree at
Her Majesty's Theater, London.
Maurice Barrymore may be one OF
our next seasons stars. Mr.. Barry
more is to produce in London a play
founded upon Netherlands history dur
ing the time of Alva. 1t is to be called
The Double Cipher"
! Bronson Howard and Brander Mat
thews have combined to write play
for Comedian Crane. 1t will be called
early life in New York when the Dutch
Governor, Stuyvesant, laid the founda-
tons of modern American society.
|
| The question is often asked. Who
wrote Kerry Gow?' Joseph Murphy
answers it himself with the statement
that he sketched out the plot of the
piece himself, Fred Marsden attending
to the literary feature.
| Giacinta Pezzana one of the greatest
of Italian actresses, may visit America
She is versatile woman, appearing to
equal advantage as Mother Raquin
in "Therese Raquin," ''Medea," or
| Hamlet
The theater is in need of a D'Israeli
to write of its curiosities The bank
ruptcy proceedings of Thomas @. Sea-
brooke whose liabilities are S39,OI5.
his assets a scarfpin, would certainly
be recorded in it.
| Mrs Marie Walsh, novelist and
dramatist, has recovered from a severe
| illness and is again at work. Her
latest work is dramatization Of j. G..
Snaith's novel, Mistress Dorothy Mar
vim"
| Francisque Sarcey, while lecturing
recently in the theater at Monte Carlo,
narrowly escaped serious injury by a
falling curtain.
| Maude Adams played to $4,000 on
/ her six weeks engagement at the
Broad Street Theater, Philadelphia.
! The James Warde- Kidder company
promise a revival of 'Metamora" tor
next season. 1t ought to be a good