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Show DRAMATIC ITEMS. Jesse Shepherd, the musical phenomenon, phe-nomenon, recently here, is getting some tall pufls from tho Fr'isco press. A New York correspondent writes: If our theatres furnish any indication of what our coming business season jwill bo, then is tho outlook moat melancholy. A notable death has just taken I place, that of Mrs. Alexander Drake, many years ngo ft remarkable tr.igic (actress, and grandmother of the Chapman sisters. Yankee Adams, known through the eastern states twenty and thirty years ago, and has been ten years on this coast and Australia, ia in Win-nomucca, Win-nomucca, Nevada. John T. Raymond is doing will, all things considered, as "Col. Sellern"at the Union Square theatre, New York. Ho is obliged to pay Mark Twain the enormous sum ol 50 per cent, of all ho earns. At the California theatre, Djmin-iek Djmin-iek Murray, appear, nightly in The ry; at Maguirj's. Hermann, the ma gician holds forth; the Fabbri opera troupe is at Piatt's ball. Mish Sarah Jewett, of tlio Fifth avenue the itre chose the stago for her profession while her father was a government bank noto engraver at Washiueton, went to New York and managed to obtain a subordinate's engagement, and by dint of talent and good looks worked her way into a leading position. This is about five years ago, and though she has received no great praise irom the press, is gradually working herself up to fame and fortune. On Friday, as Herman the magician ma-gician was performing in Maguire's new theatre, as ho was returning the handkerchief to tlio lender, in the handkerchief trick, he caused it to disappear, and made the pocketfj ol au individual in me audience return the identical missing article. Thft so incensed tho latter that he struck Hermann with a cane, who ordered him immediately to leave the house, and tben followed him to the street, taking his cane away, Hermann using it freely over its owner's bead and shoulders. |