Show = S DRAMATIC AND LYRIC I 1What > Will be the Booth syid 1 Barrett Bill I THE GIRL AFRAID OF HER GUN Stephens Bnll aid Concert The Ivy Leaf The New fllllltary Baud Miscellaneous r F Booth and Barrett filled in last week in the city of the fading boom Los Angeles tomorrow night they open in San Francisco as Brutus and Cas ins in Julius Caesar The prices in Ls Angeles ranged from 4 downward boxes 25 which may bo accepted as a fairly good intimation of what the charges will be here There will b3 a good deal of canvassing canvass-ing hoping and speculating regarding the plays to be done in the limited engagement en-gagement herothree weeks from next Friday and Saturday evenings Undoubtedly Un-doubtedly we will all agree that Julius Ctcsar should be the first choice Booths Brutus and Barretts Gassius are both too equally famous to leave any room for debate on that point With ths secoudichoice comes the rub The first impulse would be to say Hamlet recalling that it I is unquestionably the foremost of all Booths creations There we recollect that in that piece llarrett is given no adequate opportunity and sve reluctantly re-luctantly Eearch for something in which both may be seFn at thcjir best There is Othello Ilchelieu Itichard The Fools Revenge Leer anti bhy lock which shall it beTa be-Ta HEKALD columns will po open in thu meantime to those dejiring to express a preference There will be no harm in ascertaining the public choice in the mater before the agejc of the tragedians arrives to S Anything that relats to the lamented la-mented Raymond will be read just now with a good deal of interest iUn nie Conway wife of Osmond Tearlo relates re-lates the following amusing experience which marked the nrst pightof Ray monds Sellers On the first production of the Gilded Age in Washington in 1875 Fords Theatre was crowded by all the great people of the city The fame 01 the piece had preceded it and as I was then in my first season in the nosition of real leading lady of Mr John T Fords stock company I was naturally very much excited over my debut in the leading role of the rluy before so crit who familiar ical an audience Those are miliar with the play will remember that Laura Hawkins shoots and kills her beraye at the end of the fourth act after a very strong scene I had never handled a pistol and was in mortal mor-tal terror during the entire scene for fear it might possibly go off in my pocket where 1 carried it but all went well until the faral moment when I WrtS to say Do you know what it means to tririe with woman like me It means death Bang should go the pistol iso i-so I pulled and puled nervously tit it while JMr John Raymond from the wing all anxiety naturally for the welfare wel-fare of his play called Pull harder harder I cmldnt make it go and thp target for my wrath getting tired of I standing I presume watching my futile efforts calmly walked off the stage leaving me tugging at the wicked pisto Not knowing what I had better do I followed my prtnera lead Down j came the curtain amid the shouts of Y r laughter from the audience 11 ached f to my dressing room and burst into tears followed by Mr Raymond who showed me that the pistol was all right but I had been too nervous tacock it Mr Raymond insisted upon trying the acene again telling me u was perfectly per-fectly absurd to go on with tlie fifth act a trial for murderwhen the audience audi-ence had seen my wouldbe victim walk away uninjured At first I refused but at last was talked into doing as requested re-quested ad so saved Mr Ifaymonds play from utter dersion caused by mown m-own stupidity We recommenced the scene from where poor Laura Hawkins is pleading with her lover jThe audience audi-ence laughed but I went oldly on When it came time for a fresli attempt at murder I was greeted with shout from the gallery Give it to him this time It Hit him on the bead Make sure nnd stab him with a hairpin etc Imagine my discomfiture when the critical moment came ugain It means death aloud voice called out Stand still and let the poor girl hit you Maddened as I was by those repeated assurances of interest in the scene I thought that accidental death from the careless handling of firearms would be a happy release from my sufferings I seized the pistol I pulhd the trigger not forgetting this time to cock the cause of my misery first I shot him he fell the audience gavo me three rousing cheers and atiner I really believe the merrimfpt caused that night helped the success of the week For months after I was known in Washington by the sobriquet The Girl Afraid of Her Pistol J The eyent of the coming weak will beth be-th cpngert flRcl fcall at the Theatre by Stephensclass of iCO sing6rs Wednesday Wednes-day evening The ball will be entirely select no invitations having ben issued the Committee of One Hundred having hav-ing disposed of all the tickets in advance ad-vance The concert however may be listened to from the galleries by the general public It will consist entirely of sell ctions from Trovatore and Traviata and the programme will be as follows PAnT FIRST It frovatorc 1Anvtt thorOsChorus and Orchestra v 2 Aria Fierce flames are roaripg 1 Miss aessie Dean I a The moon trod on her lonely path I 3 l b The love my heart ocrflowing t Mrs Agnes Thomas 4 Nuns chorus Ladies of Class 5Rect and aria All now is silent and Tempest of the heartMr t v > Mr Moroni Thomas 6 Solo and duett Back to our mountains Mr Alfred Nielsen and Miss Bessie Dean 7Prison scene a Beet and aria Love fly on rosy pinions Mrs Nellie Pugsley b Miserere c Solo Ah send > hy n ° ms Aurora Miss Bessie Dean o d Ensemble EnsembleMr Robt Irvin Jr and Chorus PART SECOND La Traviata Introduction and drinking song j Mr Rofot Irvin Jr Miss Lees and Chorus 2Duett Ah day forever remembered Mrs Nellie Pupslcy and Mr Robt Easton 3See the morning sun is gleaming Choius 4Aria and duett a Fair as a roseMr Heber C God ard 6 Sty to thy daughter dear MS Nellie Pugsley Introduciion aud Gipsy rhnrus M A BflcleyMissBcsiieDcau and Chorus Mntadores chorus Choruis 7Finale a Cmneoutnud hear MrRobt Eistou b Shame on this cruelty Chorus cVis shame to manhood and < l Sid heart have courage Mrs Nellie Pugsley Violetti Miss Bessie Dean Flora Mr Kobt Eastou Alfred Hr Heber Goddard iiermimt Mr A Bcezley Marquis frith lull chorus and oruhistru 4r T Another event will bo the appearance of the Ivy Leaf Company at the Theatre Friday and Saturday ovenings The agent made the startling announcement announce-ment in the HERALD office yesterday that they carried a live eagle which carries off a child in plain view of the andisica For tho rest the drama is of the Scanlin sinning Irish stvlc with plenty of shamrock mavournoens rattling escapes and British bullets interspersed in-terspersed < 4 TUB sculptor J S Hartley showed yesterday at his studio where it will remain on exhibition to invited guests today the lifesize marble bust he recently re-cently ompleted of Miss Ada R han of Mr Dalys company in the part of Katherino in The Taming of the Shrew The admirable work which is remarkable remark-able as a likeness and for its liieIiKe qualities in expression aud pose is to be placed in the froyer of the playhouse play-house With it is shown a bronze replica re-plica intended 10 be carried for display when the company is on a tour Miss Rehan is shown as in the fourth act of the comedy Her head in characteristic char-acteristic action is slightly raised and turned a little to the right Topping the luxuriant curls is the picturesque pictur-esque little round cap with its tassel and the short cape forms a fine background back-ground for the lower part of the head and the shoulders The face is beautifully modelled the mouth as well as the eyes being verv happily rendered and the whole treatment treat-ment is most artistically effective though a little more character in the handling of some of the inner portions of the costume would not have been aunss New York Hcrnld OTIS THOMAS NAST was lecturing in San Francisco last week TIIE 700th nivht of Eriminie occurred at the Casino New York last Wednesday Wednes-day night NATURAL GAS played here some time ago has just oeeu done in the east and seems to have achieved a howling success suc-cess cessTIIE fIll Conned companys new opera The ViceAdmiral has beef running during the past week in San Francisco It is to be done hero shortly JAMES OWEN OGO NoR a crank actor with a considerable following is shortly to apoectr as Shylock in New York rendering the pare with a Germau accent ac-cent centA A YOUNG whistler who appeared in a Tenth Ward concert Friday night is aid to have thrown tho Hole in the Ground whistler way back into the shade I DION BorciCALLTs new play Cushla trachreehas failed to enthuse the BOJ tonians It was adopted from Guy Mnnnering with the scene transferred to Ireland rIlE projected trip of the Home Dramatic people to Provo with their Ojnfusion has probably fallen through A disagreement as to terms was the cause of the hitch OCR old friend Ned Royle has re received a good offer from Louis James and will probably leave the Booth Barrett Company next season to mount round higner in his profession RUMOR has it that Mr Hofmann father of the little prorlicy Josef has accepted ac-cepted an offer of 50000 front a syndicate syndi-cate of New Yorkers to complete the boys musical education Meanwhile Josef has refused to lay any irore golden eggs for Manager Abbey and Mr Abbey in return promises to bring suitTHE THE great ational Opera Company finally collapsed in Washington last week Mr Locke after fighting through innumerable financial disasters disas-ters gave up at last called the company com-pany together and announced that the endhad come He claims to have sunk in the enterprise 100ooOof some ones elses money Arsoros of insolvencv it was erroneously errone-ously cabled to New York that J H Mapieson had been adjudicated a bankrupt bank-rupt He has only been petitioned against and is hoping to pull through The dresses scenery appointments and library of music in parts and scores belonging to him were yesterday advertised ad-vertised to be soon sold at auction London Letter NEW YORKS new theatre the Broadway Broad-way one cf the owners of which is T H French of French d Sons dramatic publishers opened last evening even-ing Fanny Davenport in La Tosca was the attraction AH the Its were sold by auction last Monday iQ being paid for a box by Weber tL piano man and Bientano the speculator buying 5UO ordinary seats at 5 each TIlE complimentary concert tendered the numbers of the Alta Club by Kents Military Band last night was a great artistic success Visions of Beautiful Women was given instead of Strauss 1001 nights and with this exception the programme as published in yesterdays yester-days HERALD was rendered in a manner man-ner that licit < J the warmest praise I from the audience MaT LAKQTRY declares that she will not be seen as wicked Lena in As a LookingGlasa because she is not in sympathy with tne part The Lilys sympathy has nothing to do with it She has been making money with the play but Charles Coghlan who becomes be-comes her leading man as soon as Barrymors has gone declines to play the part of Jack Fortinbras The opinion is that Lena Despaid suits Mrs Langtry exactly Stage Netiii A COUNT of the votes sent by tho dfH nialic and musical edH9t3 of the country coun-try lor a temporary Chairman to call a convention oC ttiS proposed Dramatic Editors Association at the New York Biiott Opera House In July next for 1hQ V aek shows the following result William Winter of New York 12 I A O Wheeler Nyqi Crinkle of Mew York 10 ElwynA Barron of Chicago 7 C A Byrne of New York u GeorgeP Goodale of Detroit 5 Harrison Gray Fiske of New York 6 E H Butler of Buffalo 5 Robert J Donnolly Betsy B > of New York > 5 Mrs Mary Autin of SanFiabciECO 4 Joseph iowan Jr of New york 2 Total II 6i |