Show Notes Jane Is doing a good business on the road Wilkinsons Widows was a great success in San Francisco Mr Cranes new play For Money Is not a howling success Jim Hardie and Sara von Leer are still meet ing with success in England Alabama has been taken off at Palmers and Jim the Penman replaces It The theatre has a novelty for next Saturday afternocn and evening Uncle Toms Cabin Marie Cahill tho high kicker in La Cirale burst a blood yes el in her thich the other night in going through her act Wilson Barrett is to be managed next year by John Ropers husband it Minnie Palmer We thought Wilson Knew better Herbert Kelcey and Georgia Cayvan will do some pretty stol it In Cat ching a Fairy in the Broadway Tuesday next for the actors fund benelit xVeto 1oiK Adreitwr The Cab net Minister tho play now on at Dalys without Ada Rehan is a frost The report re-port that Kenan will join Drew in his starring venture would seem to be moonshine And now comes enterprising Moroni with the announcement that her new opera house is ready for traelin shows The house has ten sets Of scenery painted in Chicago Monson Morley are the proprietors George S Knight died Thursday afternoon at the residence of his mother Mrs Rebecca SI an in Philadelphia from paresis with which he was first attacked four years apo in Cal forma and wnich incapacited him irom acting ever since Willard naralyzed San Francisco by refusing to play Judah on a Sunday night Aside from any temples he might possffs he is said tohao remarked that playing u clerpyman so conscientious as Judah Llewellyn on a Sabbath evening would be somewhat incongruous Prof Krou es Jlazourka Caprice dedicated to his pupil Jo McIntyre has been printed in San Francisco and is a popular selection It is not generally known by the way that Prof Kroube wrote the music of the waltz song When Far Away rendered by Ida Mulle in Sin bad Franz Vetta the basso formerly with the Juch company who it will be remembered was talien very ill In Philadelphia is convalescing at his home in Washington He is under the care of his wife who is professionally known as Lizzie MacNichol the contiaho Music and Drama Mme Patti may be said to bs literally kept in cotton for fear of influenza And with all tae precautions she asserts the Italian opera singers prerogative and disappoints her audience audi-ence on the first night You never can tall at 8 oclock whether she will give you the Travt ata or a doctors certlncate for she keeps both handy Xyn Crinkle 1 It is now stated that young J K Emmett who is starring in Fritz the role made famous by his father played the part on many occas ions throughout the country during h s fathers lifetime when the elder Emmett was unable to appear through yielding to his fondness for dnnk and without the knowledge of iho audience audi-ence He has had rather an uphill llgtit since ho started out for himself but is now well on the way to success Muxlc and Drama A proposition has been made through Henry Mapleson that Augustus Harris and old Colonel I Mapleson should bring the entire paraphernalia and cotr pany of Covent Garden London to this country next season to supercede the present AbbeyGrau organization It may eaJely be said that if such a company as the present one cannot succeed here in grand opera of the Italian style nothing else will though10 be sure Mapleson Sand S-and Harris want a guarantee from the stock holders of the Metropoll an for at least their expenses a guarantee which of course the stockholders will not give They know what they get when Abbey runs things tut Maplesou is i n uncertain quantity and Harris is not known hero at all even though he has been xniphted by the Queen of Great Britain and the Empress of IndiaJournal |