Show i DUMATT13MT1 LYKEO Jacques Kjuger 9 S f cond fie it ing Rink 9f f > PORTEOUS AND HER ROMANCE t t r I It t t if rUIcr oSmeS this Week Martha orteous ami Her MoneyRag BabyGeneral t The fact that Nat Goodwin owned an interest in the43katin2 Rink cojppauy has given rip to some misapprehension i and it h ben generally circulated that it was Goodwin himself who was i < w naJt us thiS week This is a mistake The comedian atthe head of the cOmpany cOm-pany is Jacques Kruger almost as well knoW 1 and liked here as Goodwin himself I him-self however from the recollection of I his inimitable sketch ot the photographer photog-rapher in Edouens Dreams the attraction attrac-tion which has been longer remembered I than any of tibe light musical burlesques which have ever visited us Krugers part in the Skating Rink is that of a tramp who becomes enamored of a 1 farmers daughter and who when the farmer scorns his suit hires the old mans barn and opens in it a skating rink by means of which he sails on to fortune Two of the acts occur on the interior of the rink and in addition to the regular company t which includes some professional skaters several local amateurs on wheels will be induced togo I to-go on in the carnival scene We look to see Kruger receive a warm welcome 1I 1 I The leading ladyin the Skating Rink Company is Miss Murtha Porteous who originally appeared here if we mistake not in a concert with Amy Sherwin and who since that time has been steadily mounting upward on the professional ladder Miss Porteous name has been extensively handled of I late by the eastern newspapers in connection con-nection with a vast inherilance said to have descended upon her It was in I response to some inquiries made by a HERALD reporter ef Mr Reid the advance ad-vance agent that that gentleman disclosed dis-closed the following letter from Mr Arthur stage manager for the company com-pany and by the way the author of its a Cold Day When Yfe Get Left and part adapter of the Bunch of Keys The publication of the letter will no doubt get Mr Arthur into some particularly par-ticularly hot water with the lady as soon as they reach Salt Lake but that is no concern of ours Mr Reil says be can stand itt as he is always a week in advance ofand generally half a thousand miles away from Mr Arthur and the company f t PHOBIA Ills October 1885 L Red Exq Agent of the Jacques Km ger Uomedg Company Friend Reid There is an old proverb which teaches us to ignore those infinitesimal infin-itesimal differences in nature which makes the meat of one man another mans poison This is exquisitely ap propos to the case of Miss Porteous the fractious member of our company whose head is somewhat swelled by reason of her recent good fortune my misfortune 1 I am having any amount trouble With her on account of her recent accession ac-cession to wealth At the time you left Peoria as you know she promised to proceed with the company but has I again refused and I fear will not appear in Burlington This iSt as you know my true reason for wanting to cancel Burlington Of course Miss P is a very attractive artist and will be a great loss to the company I thought that her stated reason for wishing to break her engagement was subterfuge funtii she showed me the translation irom French papers the following fol-lowing of which is a correct copy and it she persists in disappointing our Burlington Bur-lington audience I wish the public to j understand that it is no fault of mine I It seems that about a month ago an j advertisement appeared in the New I York Herald which I saw myself It read as follows II Miss Murtha Por teous is earnestly requested to send her address to M Le Paige soliciteur 13 Boulevard Des Italieus Paris immediately imme-diately At the time the La Paige advertisement advertise-ment fppeared in New York we were playing our engagement in Buffalo a tihe was totally unconscious of the fact that she was being sought after by the foreign attorney and in blissful ignorance ig-norance of the fact some pragmatical Son of a guntt had forwarded to her a ojfy of the New York Herald which I banded her myself little dreaming of 1 its contents The newspapers got hold 1 of it immediately In the meanime I Gus Heckler who is ever on the alert j theatrical news of a sensational nature na-ture cabled Morney their Paris correspondent corres-pondent to interview Le Paige and inform in-form him that he Morney was in po session of Miss Porteous address and j would exchange it for any revelation I concerning her Le Paige eager to get the address related substantially to the I all attentive Mofner the following remarkable re-markable story At the commencement of the Franco I Prussian war there lived in the peaceful j I I province of Metz an octogenarian by the I I name of Prosper De Porteous His record re-cord as chronicled in the books of the department of war show him to have been at the age of twentyfive a colonel in Napoleons army whose regiment j j was the last to retreat before Wellington at Waterloo he escaped with a broken arm and a sabre cut across the loins from I t Which he never fullv recovered Col DePort De-Port ous was the grandson of General and Marquis De Porteousand the issue J of which marriage was Annette Charlotte J Char-lotte De Porteous who turns out to be I I the mother of Murtha Porleous who at the lime of the German armvs iuvesti a tureof thetrongholdat Metz described by French papers as a little golden haired sweet tempered gul of 8t whose young life it did not seem a war could so soon blight But a day came when the holy calm of peace was broken War followed and Bismarcks army slew the lather and grandsire The widowed DnchesSj bereft of lands and titles fled the country t and with other exile found her way to England with her lutle girl and subsequently to Mauch j Chunk Pa where for years mother and child have awaited times low decree de-cree of justice that should reMorp to them their rights to vast lauds and I titles They have not waited in vain i hrough Le Paige they are informed Unit upon nwipt of their signatures to JI J certain documents he is empowered to hold at their pleasure a conveyance of lands valued at 1500000 francs and rjstore4o them their lost titles I > t fl Bourse this has swelled Porteous t lieafl ana she wants to gpbackfo New Yoik itnmcdiatelv This I have cons con-s nt to t in case t can fill her place 9 ow you have the secret of my delav in naving you advertise Burlingtcm If an v Changef takes place 1 w ilLradvise j you by telegraph1 < II I Very truly yours jp mAll JOSEPH AirmiBE I i All differences Mr Reid saY = i were finally patched up and Miss Port ous does not leave for Europe until the Spring Vf i > > > A RAG BABY Frank Daniels Fanny I Eige and the other more or less clever members of this clever company received re-ceived strong compliment last night whsh on their reappearance at the Theatre they were greeted by as large an audience as that which was present at ne performance of the piece Ther was more life mor comicality and more fun than ever and the introduction intro-duction of some new music added materially to the entertainment Daniels is a host of merriment in himself him-self his Old Sport will long live as one of the lunmest and most original delineations which hai ever Crossed our boards Fanny Rice is a pretty a sprightly and a clever little woman who is immensely pleasing and the song and dance act Clairette played by a new lady as well as the gyrations of the burglar were loudly applauded and laughed over The company leaye this morning for the east r Notes f MJLBIE WAIXWKIGHT plays Reading lady to her nusband Louis James JOHN Howsox plays KoKo for seven weeks at the mew Hollis Street Theatre I Boston W 0 CBOSBIE is making his mark asa as-a very funny Snaggs in the Bunch of Keys Mirror JUDIC FOLLOWS Carleton at the Baldwin Bald-win she plays entirely in her own language lan-guage French I XBUGER PLATS Dreams in San Francisco Fran-cisco and may possibly stop here with it on his return THREE OF a Kind did not suit the taste of San Franciscans They were waiting for Tom Dick and Harrv at last r accounts THE MACBETH revival by the McKee Rankin company at the California theatre ran two weeks and was a tremendous tre-mendous success H KATE CASTLETOX with her Crazy Patch still continues to do good business busi-ness in the west Last Monday she opened Chicago SARAn AITHEV Hill Sharon Ii backed out at the last moment and the money paid for seats to her performance of Portia now being refunded I CABLEX0N PLAYEB the Mikado in San Francisco all last week to heavy business busi-ness Drew t who was here in the early days of Alice Oates plays KoKo MARY ANDERSONS houses are poor this week Mr Abby says he cannot clear himself unless the present high prices are charged Surely t it wouldtbe better to play to full houses at the I regular scale than to nightly scan a beggarly array of empty seats Mirror THE SAN FHANCISCO Chronicle says Sul livans orchestration and Gilberts stage business in the Mikado are such new novel and important features that anyone any-one who has heard the opera without them can not be said to know more than half its beauties Carleton is accompanied ac-companied by one of Gilberts stage managers who drilled the company S in San Francisco U EMMA NEVADA of whom our correspondent corres-pondent Musicus speaks so glowingly in yesterdays HEBALD tried to < secure the Tabernacle for a concert butfailed She then telegraphed the Theatre to hold December 7th and 8th for her The management answered that Carleton Carle-ton was booked for those dates and what she has since decided ondoing is as yet unknown THE FRESH venom which the Tribune poured forth on the last performance of the Mikado is easily explained The Tribune was given no advertisement of performance it contained no notice I ofit on the day it came off and the sheet writhed in agony to see how little effect its ignoring process had on the house It found fault with Spencer where it before gushed over him because be-cause it imagine he was responsible for the ad omission and it charged that the size of the house was due to papering paper-ing whereas the management assure us there were no more complimentary I tickets issued than on former occasions J I |