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Show DRAMATIC DOTS. Mrs. Kate Claxton will star in "Called Back" as "Pauline." The New Orleans Picayune asserts: "The husband of an actress thinks he earns his living if he carries the sachel containing tights,powder,wig and jewelry from the stage door of the theatre to the hotel, right in face, of the fact that there are always half a dozen dudes standing about ready to do it for nothing, and treat besides, provided the husband will only go and get drunk in another part of the town." Messrs. Robson & Crane's beautiful spectacular production of "The Comedy of Errors" at the Star Theatre,New York, has made such a hit that the professionals of the city have begged for a matinee in order to witness it. The company open in it at the Grand opera house, Chicago, next week. A special train of two sleeping sleep-ing and three baggage cars transports the company costumes, properties and scenery. ; 'A- correspondent -of ' the -New York World reports Patti as saying lately in a private letter: "I don't think there is money enough in America to tempt; me across the Atlantic again, and the work is too hard in America, and the road a hard one to travel." Yet after all said about retiring she is coming to America again this season. Her fat receipts here are too much for the avaricious little singer to resist. '. She sails" on the "Aurania" this month and will probably be under Mapleson's management. .He will also have Mile Houck, Mme Scalchi Rovelli and Del Puenti. ' The Western penitentiary of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania has the biggest orchestra in the world, and is said to Jbe the only institution institu-tion of the kind that allows convicts to cultivate music. Every evening - at 6 o'clock, after all the inmates have been-locked been-locked in their cells, a signal is given and the tooting begins. There are all sorts of instruments and players of all degrees of proficiency. No two of the players can see each other. Sometimes 300 . performers perfor-mers will seem to be playing as many different tunes at once, and again, by common consent, a smaller number of good players will be allowed to execute some piece without interruption from the rest. The opening of the concert is said to resemble the howling of a whole man-agerie man-agerie in a storm, yet the convicts look forward to it with eager anticipation all day long. Mme. Bernhardt has written an interesting inter-esting letter in defense of the sincerity of actors and actressss, seeking to prove that many of them really enter into the spirit of their parts. She declares that Croizette, after the famous poisoning scene in "Le Sphinx," used to remain for some minutes pale and with chattering chatter-ing teeth ; that Beaulevet always wept real tears when performing King Lear, and that Mounet-Sully had veritable hallucination's hal-lucination's when acting the madness of Orestes. Sarah herself seems to outdo all these celebrated examples. She says : "I have never played Phedre without fainting or spitting blood, and after the fourth tableau of "Theodora,'' in which I kill Marcellus, I am in . such a nervous state that I return to my dressing room sobbing. If I do not weep I have a hysterical hys-terical fit, which is much more disagreeable disagree-able to those around me, and more dangerous dan-gerous for the vases and other things near at hand. Of Myrtle Loring and sister, those little women who were here with the Grace Hawthorne company, the St. Louis Republican Re-publican prints as follows : "Last week there arrived from Salt Lake City, Utah, two little St. Louis girls who are destined to make a bright mark in the theatrical world,if permitted to continue the careers they have so actively begun. The children chil-dren are Myrtle Loring, aged 8 years and her sister, aged 6 years. Early in the season their mother, after much persuasion, persua-sion, consented to their engagement with the Grace Hawthorne company, and the little ones have traveled extensively since then. In the meantime, however, their absence caused a deal of lonesomeness at home and the mother learning that the management was not satisfactory, telegraphed tele-graphed to Miss Hawthorne to send the children back to St. Louis. Back they came, traveling the entire distance alone and without accident. Little Miss Myrtle is a grave, dignified child and it is interesting to observed the parental care she exercises over her baby sister. |