Show I Ha jrc Gossip i The new burlesque Little Christopher Columbus Is scoring a grand success in New York aqd has entered upon its second sec-ond month at the Garden theatre Marie Jansen and her company have I made a fair poplar success in iliss Dynamite I Dy-namite It goes more briskly since the i first nightlIail and Express I DeWoolf Hopper and Dr Syntax celebrated cele-brated their seventyfifth performance at I the Broadway theatre New York last I Wednesday evening with the presentation of handsome souvenirs I J H Haverly of minstrel fame is negotiating I 1 ne-gotiating for a lease of the Alcazar I theatre San Francisco for a season of minstrelsy there with his Mastodons I Robert Downing is l still on the doaat iJg vg ff lnG i j I and is giving Califsrnians his I full rener tolr Last Tuesday he opened at the California Cal-ifornia theatre San Francisco in Richard The Lion Hearted I The most favorable reports continue to come in from the southwest where Thomas I Keene is totrinp on his way to the coast I Large houses and great enthusiasm greet I the popular tragedian I Rose Coghlan has accepted a HPW PTTIO tional play called Nemesis which maybe i may-be teen first not the Star theatre December I 3rd It is by a well known author uhose I name Is not announced Mail and Express I Ex-press I Mr Charles Frohman has sent one of his trusty lieutenants to London to familiarize himself with the new play The Fatal Card which is having a grand success at the Adelplii theatre The play will be presented for the first time i in America some time during the holidays All the dramatic papers are booming their Christmas editions and their efforts this year will probably exceed anvthlng of the past Of course each one claims his I paper will outrival all the others but it I is pate to say they will all be very fine in the way of handsome illustrations and newsy professional articles MIss Fannie Rice has shelved Miss Innocence In-nocence Abroad and will shortly produce I pro-duce hpr new plnv which she calls Thrp I Pair of Shoes It must b ° extremely discouraging dis-couraging for one to entertain such brlyftt hopes for the future of a new production and then have it meet with rich a flat failure as that experienced by Miss Innocence In-nocence Abroad Smith and DeKoven have found a worthy successor for Robin Hood in their latest effort Rob Rov which has met with phenomenal success at the Herald l Fquarp theatre Now York The scenes of course are laid in Scotland which admits of the most picturesque costumes and scenic effects Little Joust Cordon who has been with the Boston inns for so tinny seasons past is singing the leading female role Mr Lincoln Carter announces n novelty I for the corning season which will be called The Tenderfoot The play will I be carefully mounted and will be a addition I addi-tion to Mr Carters otlir successes The I Fast Mail and The Tornado I The scaffolding is all down in i thp audii torium of the new Grand and the place looks very much like a pretty llhc theatre The seats may arrive any time find Anderson in I pushing the scenery and I he is I n rustler when he wants to beVj I The wiring for lights in completed antf popular price theatre patrons are anuci patinc lots of fun when the doors are thrown open on the first performance The New York World is exercised I ovn e rii l gNI i I tlhja the fact of so many criminals i pugilists and society outlaws adopting the stare I rd a nrofesslon with their dtsremitable notoriety as a recommendation for success I na savs lim Root an honest railroad onpinesr who in the line of duty ran his I train through the roaring hell of a I Michigan foieyt fire his bien induced to leave the footboard and nightly does = mock l Ileaye I i heroics in a Bowerv theatre in a silly piny I I calt < = tl The Ride for Life Thu has a I j Rood engineer be n spoiled to make i a bad actor |