Show AMUSEMENT WOULD Theatrical Notes from All Points of the Compass Interestine Personal Melange Gleaned from the Newspapers of the Leading Lead-ing Cities Ship Ahoy has stranded In New Or loans DIxeys now play has sixty chorus girls and thirty dancers Emma Wards Little Jupiter > is Sam Jacks next attraction Tno Paultons are at worn upon a new pay for Abbott Teal Marie Jansen and George = Wilson of tho Boston museum are to star together Clyde Fitchs now ploy for Marie Wale wright is caJled The Social Swim Aagustine Ualy proposes to revive The Hunchback with Miss Ada Rehan as Julia Adtle Palma now plays too role of Niobe Farquhar in Sol Smith Russells Peaceful Valley The Washington papers are enthusiastic over Bronscn Howards new play Aristocracy Aris-tocracy The English Rose will open its season in Boston Harry Meredith will play Harry OMally John D Gilbert has joined George W Munroe as leading comeaian in Aunt Brutes Baby Captain Herne U S A JJ closed suddenly J sud-denly m Philadelphia Too much scenery and too little play Tho Russell Opera company will produce The Mountebanks in Kev York Dec 26 at the Garden theatre Glendalough James A Homes new IrIsh play managed by W H Powers is pronounced a success by Baltimore critics Tfcfi ciest Ihrincr American actresses are Clara Fisher Maeder born 1S11 and Mrs John Drew who is seven years younger Will A McConnell the funny man of Chicago has written a comedy for Robert Downing called Richard the Lion Hfarteu JJ Mmo Christine Nilsson has given 5000 toward the founding of a hospital m France especially intended for the cure of diseases of ce throat Pcguiet Peter Jackson has taken to the sta re appearing In a variety programme Last week he packed tho Front Street the bier Philadelphia Mme Modjeska in her beautiful production produc-tion cf Henry VIII which delighted New York will be seen as the Chicago opera house in December Charlotte Walker a New York girl has made a successful debut at Covcnt Garden as Arline in Tuu Bohemian GirL She is a dramatic soprano of great ability Rosita Worrell sister of Mrs George Knight has been engaged to play Sadie Sedans role in Nora Machree which will resume Its tour early in December Daniel Frohman bus scoured a new play f rcii Victoria Sardou entitled Americans Abroad which will shortly be produced at the Lyceum theatre for the first time on any stage A latter from David Henderson says Ail Babas receipts for tho week at Kansas City will reach 11000 A return engagement has been arranged at St Louis on the way back from Frisco There are nearly 1000 unemployed actors and actresses in Now York waiting for something to turn up Its a riproaring snap for managers remarks a letter writer who s ant a cheap company Louise Eissing who last spring foitok Sinbad and gave up the stage yior good to become Mrs Cyril Scott has changed her mind and has returned to the ranks of the American Extravaganza company The name of the new play Mrs BlaIne will present is Deception It is an adaptation of a work by Dumas Her engagement en-gagement at the Filth Avenue theatre New Yorkin January is to be of months duration Lillian Russell was the daughter of a printer Her real name was Leonard When the fair Lillian became enamored of tha stage her fiance to satisfy her craving crav-ing secured her a chorus position in one of Rices companies Stuart Robson Is an earnest unbeliever In Christianity and instead of having his baby boy christened by a clergyman he bad him sprinkled by Colonel Ingersoll who recited a quotation from Voltaire as part of the ceremony Sarah Bernhardt is writing a play This Is her first attempt at writing for the stage but she has already published two books the Voyage dunne Chaise and the noted Marle Pigeounier a reply to Marie Columbiers attack upon her in the vulgar Sarah Barnum Sol Smith Russells new play is called An American It deals with the life of Abraham Lincoln as a rail splitter county surveyor legislator his advent in the United States Senate and as president k The homely bide of the martyr president will be made most prominent In tho third act of The Fencing Master Mas-ter Marie Tempest wears a girdle of diamond dia-mond ornaments the most conspicuous of which is a diamond sword containing seventytwo stones This was a recent present to her in commemoration of her success and skill in using foils Henry E Dixeys new piece Adonis IL which is being written by the actor and John G Wilson is nearly ready for production It will probably get its first presentation in Chicago The work will contain a number of mechanical devices and aims to burlesque popular tastes and events Lotta has no expectation of returning to the stage Her illness disables her completely com-pletely This little actress has been a public pub-lic merrymaker more than thirty years and her professional impishness has been associated with a personal character above reproach Lotta has been religious charitable chari-table and circumspect Lysander Thompson the veteran actor who bad bean confined in tho insane pavilion pa-vilion of the Bellevue hospital New York some weeks ago died in that Institution on Nov 13 He was fifty years old and leaves a widow and three children He played many prominent parts in plays produced pro-duced by A M Palmer M B Curtis is so confident of acquittal of the charge of murder for which be is now under indictment in San Francisco awaiting a second trial that he has commissioned com-missioned Edward Marble of Baltimore to ai rewrite the manuscript of Saml of Posen which he intends to revive if he Is allowed to return to the stage In May next Sol Smith Russell begins a twentyseven weeks engagement Jn Chicago Chi-cago during which he will produce a new ply by A R Haven entitled HAn American Ameri-can The new play deals with the life of Abraham Lincoln as a railsplitter county surveyor legislator his advent In the United States Senate and as president The homely side of tha martyr president will bo made most prominent On being asked by an interviewer whether she preferred a London or a provincIal audience Mrs Langtry wisely replied That is a subject my friend upon which I must keep silent Servants should never say what they think of their masters and every actor or actress on the stage is the servant of the public The boy in the gallery who pays his sixpence has a right to express his approval or dig approval of my efforts to please him N8arly all the noted actors and actresses of the day began at the lowest round of the ladder For instance Sol Smith Russell made his first effort in a small place of amusement inSt Louis at an extremely modest salary of 4 per week Clara Morris Mor-ris in Cleveland in a vaudeville show JoE Emmet once played a snare drum before 0 museum at 50 cents per night and Mc Cullough Barrett Forrest Keane Vat lack Chanfrau and Joo Murphy all were once nupos Annie Pixley in her girlhood days cave concerts in California Cora Tanner was a ballet girl Helen Barry led a march of Amazons in pink tights Rosa Coghlan was In L dia Thompsons crowd of blonde burlesquere Pauline Hall once drove a circus chariot Lillian Russell won her I first honors at Tony Pastors The veteran vet-eran Mrs Gilbert in her prime was a ballet dancer so was Agnes Booth thirty fiveVears ago Mrs McKee RankIn was a dencer Philadelphia concert hall while in her teens Patti Rosa Mattie Vickers n a a and Jonnie Yeamans form a trio of variety theatre graduates Francis Wilson was once a aongaaddsnce man Lotta in her music hall days sang danced and picked a banjo Nat Goodwin came from the variety vari-ety theatres so did Danman Thompson Neill Burgess Gus Williams Dan Sully Edward Harrington Jeff de Angclis Richard Rich-ard Golden Frank Daniels ana half a hundred hun-dred others Speaker Crisp is the only member of his family who did not devoje himself to the I stage His father was an actor his brother Harry Crisp a wcllkno vn leading lead-ing man and his sister Jessie Crisp one J ot the most popular of southern stars Crisp pore tried to make an actor of the J present speaker When he failed he said to a friend That boy Charley is thatonly I child Ive got who will never amount to anything He cant act wall enough to get I a job as a sceneshifter Gllmoies famous band has been disbanded dis-banded At Cincinnati the box receipts I were attached because the management failed to give the advertised matinee But it was not tbis that disorganized the band I Ever since Reeves took the baton there has been trouble There was not u man in tho organization who did not know the band repetotro better thau Reeves They had I all played to the magic wand of the late GQmore and as no two men were ever known to boat time in exactly the same way they were a trifle unfamiliar with Reeves leadership What wonder then I that there should be an occasional jangling discord Instead of marking Reeves time some played as if Gilmore were still there and the result was far from pleasiug I to the audience Conservative musicians in this city who Were at the Musical Exchange yesterday Jay that there is an explanation of all such discordant incidents and the reason for this one was the individual opposition to Reeves by men who purposely disregarded the leaders tempo II just to make things uncomfortable for him The German element ele-ment however in letters to their friends j in this city are unanimous m their opinion of Reeves He is an American musician I and upen this iLey base their assertion I that he cannot beat time so that Germans I can comprehend him and far this reason they did not know what they were at half of the time Those who know Reeves say this Is all bosh and that he can boat time In as many different ways as there are nationalities represented in the organization They also urge that musicians of the standing of those who make these claims can play under any leader even if he beat time with ac oar or a baseball bate There are all sorts of rumors afloat concerning con-cerning the reason for the dissolution and musical circles are all excised over it The library of this organization is worth over I 60000 and there are several bands and orchestras which have already made offers I for it |