Show Stage Whispers I Shall We Forgive Her was roasted roast-ed by the San Francisco press Joseph Holland a very popular actor in this city appears here March 11 In The Mysterious Mr Bugle Julia Marlowe made her first appearance appear-ance as a star ten years ago in Ingo mar She may appear in London this summer Harry Corson Clarke has gone on a tour of the Pacific coast His opening nights In Frisco were crowded but he felt very sensibly the opposition of the Bostonians later The public subscription In London to a fund for a lifeboat shelter as a memorial mem-orial of the late William Terriss now amounts to more than 5000 and several sev-eral sources are yet to be heard from Hal Russell sends word from Chicago that New York successes dont go there A Royal Box which was one of the hits of the season in New York is rather coldly received in the windy city Jim Hardie is evidently prospering in England The Mirror says that the firm of Hardie Von Leer Gordyn have added the Shakespeare theatre Liverpool Liver-pool England to their many other interests In-terests New York Press Henry Millers New York season has opened most auspiciously auspic-iously at the Garden theatre where G Stuart Ogilvies comedy The Master has scored a success The Master is a well constructed pure and Interesting play and the financial success achieved by it is most gratifying Verdi has been chosen honorary president pres-ident of the competition of Italian bands which will be held during July at the national exposition at Turin That sounds like rather trying work for an old gentleman but he will have the assistance of Leoncavallo Bolto Mas I cagnl Puccini Massenet SaintSaens Sonsogno RIcordi and others when it comes to deciding which is the best Italy will send 100 bands to the competition com-petition and of these 24 will be military in character The following paragraph from the San Francisco Call was written the day before Jessie Bartlett Davis fell ill It will depend solely upon that good nature na-ture of Jessie Bartlett Davis whether her understudy Miss Jennie Hawley has a chance at the calcium and the glory during this engagement It is of no use for Miss Hawley to build hopes on the decline of the Davis health Jessie Jes-sie Bartlett is Indestructibly well Lincoln J Carters latest sensation Under the Dome comes to the Grand week after next Francis Wilson the well known comic opera comedian has followed the lead of Joseph Jefferson and written a book which he calls The Recollections of a I Players and which has as yet reached 1 only that popular gentlemans personal friends as the edition is limited to 125 copies Jn it Mr Wilson has told the story of his love for and connection 1 with the stage from the time when as an urchin he gathered together scraps of iron and rags to sell to the ragman to get the money for a gallery admission I admis-sion when Lucille Western played The J French Spy in his native city Philadelphia Phila-delphia to the production of his latest 1 opera Wilson used to be a partner of James Mackin doing blackface songs ki 4a and dances interspersed with acrobatic feats Mirror William J Scanlan died at Bloomingdale asylum on Saturday < morning Feb 19 He had been confined f con-fined there for some years with paresis j Mr Scanlan was born of Irish parents j at Springfield Mass on Feb 14 1855 tAt t-At 13 years of age he was known allover all-over New England as the boy temperance J temper-ance singer and traveled with temperance 1 temper-ance lecturers for seven years Afterward After-ward he went on the variety stage with William Cronin and subsequent starred with Minnie Palmer in musical comedy for two years For awhile he starred in Bartley Campbells Friend and Foe In 1881 he began starring under the r management of Augustus Pitou in The i Irish Minstrels ShanenaLawn > lao lrneen and other Irish plays It was at that period that he sang his famous fa-mous song PeekaBoo Among his other popular songs were YMy Nellies Blue Eyes Whats in a Kiss and Plain Molly 0 He broke down about six years ago when he was taken to Bloomingdale A fun account of Mr Scanlans career was published last year in the Mirror 1 |