Show Notes Daly company is playing in Boston Lillian Russell is storming San Francisco Across the Potomac is in New York this week Fanny Davenport will play only twenty weeks this season Fred Solomon has written a burlesque on RobIn Hood While in ban Francisco Kitty Blanchard so cured a divorce from her husband McKee Rankin Ran-kin IdaFay Fay Templeton is in Paris and says she intends tends to stay there No dissatisfaction here hammer Bronson Howard finishingAristocracy in the AdirondacK mountains Ho will return to this city accompanied by the manuscript of tho play on Oct llIiror Ottis Skinner who is making I pedestrian tour of Switzerland soon sails for New York to join Mme Moojetltas company in which he is t be featured the coming season The five hundredth performance of Sinhad in New York was celebrated by sovuenlrs consisting con-sisting ot photos of Louise Montague attached to a bunch of grapesthe pictures not the glrl William Broderick Emma Abbotts favorite basso who bus been especially engaged to play tbe title role in The Fencing Master Is enthusiastic en-thusiastic over the music which he says is charming Mr William GUI hag completed a new comedy for Miss Annie Pixley and called it Miss Blythe of Duluth Jt will be brought out next month in BostonThe Jnoidental music is being arranged b Mr Jesse Williams Miss Pixies bas shelved Pollv Middlefa the oner etta she presented at the Fourteenth Street theatre lust season n Miss Fmla lon recently of the Bostonians has been engaged for the queen in the revival of lolanthe wliich Mr Dixey will produce at Palmers theatre next week Mr Dixey will of course be ibeLord chancellor Miss ianyder will be the Phyllis Miss Wallace the lolantne and Mr Walter 13ro vno the oerephoa Wan is getting ready to celebrate his 450th appearance and the lifUeth performance of the present run at the Broadway tueatre on the 3d of next month henuppropriate souvenirs will be distributed Thei National Insurance association asso-ciation which is to meet tms month cf New York will occupy 4DJ seats at Wang SeptA 2J Sept-A few nights since Joseph Jeffersons niece Miss Hester Wentworth of Chicago assisted the veteran actor to entertain a number of friends tit his cottage in Buzzards Bay Mass at vhictuexPresident Cleveland was an honored hon-ored guest 11 JeHorson said to have danced like school bo and showed of the Iee a boy none seventy sev-enty odd winters that have passed over the veterans Jiead Lotta will begin her season in Toronto Oct 3 in a new musical comedy called Clytie in the course of hichshe appears as a German peasant girl I school girl and a French ballet dancer The company will Include J J aacKott Chares Cowles Will Mandervllle T A Hall Hudson Listen Maud Hosford Sarah McVicUer and Dickie Martinez Lottas season will last I forty weeks and the company will visit all important cities from New York to San Francisco Louis James and Frederick Warde made their initial appcanuco as joint staraiat the National theatre last Monday night in Julius CiESar Mr James played Brutus and Mr Warde Marc Anthony Their work was very acceptable to a good sized audience which manifested its ap irovcl by demanding frequent curtain calls and insisting on a speech from both Tbe company com-pany is rather weak but considering the per ormanee to be the first this season tho shortcomings short-comings wore comparatively few Many lives wuie saved by a ruse at fiche Italy on the night of Aug 17 The theatre in that city was found to bo on lire during a performance per-formance attended by a large audience The stage manager returned to the stage after an examination of the tire that convinced him it was serious and asked a prominent actor who was just going on to simulate sudden illness as soon as he came into tho view of the audience The actor did so The audience rope in sympathy sym-pathy and excitement and the stage manager rushing forward hurriedly said that the performance per-formance would have to close for the night The curtain was rung down the doors were promptly opened and the l2uO persons hastened out Just as tho last of the audience were leaving the flames bursuthrough the stage and they saw the real cause of their dismissal The Mirror theatre was destroyed but not a life was lost |