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Show DKAMAT1C items. Miss Kate Browning is living in retirement this winter. Mr. McVicker has lost money on Mrs. Cushmau's engagement. The Emperor Alexander hns given Patti a set of furs worth 110,000. Bartley Campbell has left Chicago with his family, never to return. There have been few seasons in the theatrical world so disastrous as the present, few companies being able to keep their heads above water at all. Mrs. Oates' opera troupe fills Maguire's new San Francisco theatre' every night, their extensive list of novelties enabling them to keep the public constantly on the gut vive. Miss Rose Eytingc, leading lady at the Union Square Theatre, Jiew York, receives $27o a week for her services, and dresses all found the largest salary sal-ary given lo any stock actress in New York. The New Y'ork Kation while giving Raymond the credit of creating by his talent the charaater of Colonel Sellers, says that "were it not that a clever actor has succeeded in creating a part in it, we should be almost mchned to say The Gilded Aye was the worst attempt vet. in nut Amprirum life on the stage." Miss Genevieve Ward, now said to be acting heavy parts iu Eogland with success, is the maiden name of the New York girl who some twenty years ago married a Russian nobleman, who ' threw her oft' very shortly, declaring the marriage illegal, as it was not celebrated according to the rites of his the Greek church. The Grand Opera House in New Y'ork will be opened on Easter Monday Mon-day with a graud spectacular drama. The writer of the piece and nominal lessee is a womansaid to be from the Pacific Coast, name not yet given. Her backer is reported to be a senator sena-tor from Nevada, quite a wealthy man, not so rich as Jones, but a much richer man than he will be in all probability after he has "put up" for running the Grand Opera House for a few months. |