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BJB lent oompnoy Mill iMbelle Coe, Be BJB "Nlotr," It ruott ulmrmliiK u piar- BJB anc on the tttize, anil her acting Is BJB alwayi correct. Her beautiful features BJB and llguto mile her ajuiteit to Hie BJB olaulo role thu playt. Mr. JMciouauJ BJB Mr. UootearuReuuIno conjedlnur, and BJB theeeprlnclpalcharacterioreably up BJB Jutted by the whole cast. Ample BJB applause rewardoJ the player! Inut JB BJB The play will be repeated tonlKht. BJB 1IIE TIICAIFlt NKXT WKKIC. BJB The appearauioof Clara Morrle nt BJB the Theater" will, aa usual, bo toolet) BJB Veut. Kow ttOKu favorltee nru held In BJB tb high Vstecin and regard which are BJB accorded L'lara Motrin. Hhu preicuU BJBJ on Monday "Odette," and uu Tucxday BJB ber own adaptation from the Uenuan, BJB "Claire." JB l-Arri H03A BJB cornea to thu Theater with two per- BJH formaucea, matliue uud oeulng, on BJB Saturday. November ID. BJB On the Intereitlug lulject, how Home BJB faruoua octors caino to no on the atagv, BJB the New Vork JUcotdcr haaau article. BJBJ extracts of which aru glvtn below. BJBJ HUMC MAYU'H 81UIIV. B It wai at tho old Callfornlal heater In BJBJ San Francisco more thau thirty years BJBJ ago. Junlui Uiutui Uootb, Jr.,' the BJBj brother of Kdnln, waa then leading BJBJ man, or stock itar, at thu California, BJB' and I waa the youthful aupir who had BJBJ trot yet risen to the dlgully of shaking BJBJ parts. One day "Itlcbard 111" was BJBJ announced for proJuctlou.uud, glorious BBm ' l moment, I found that I had Loen ca't for the) ait of Truatel, and therealter waa tu be heard In the inlruto world wheielu I had lierotolore beeu but a allcntecctator and looker-on. I bad no wardrobe, lut waa aupplled with a gorgeous outfit by the atagu manager. T his outllt consisted of silk trunks nnd or hi elastics and a velvet tunic. It was gleu to ine thoaUeruoou before the play, and when I came to dress In tho evening I found that aomo euvlous fellow super had spirited uway ono of the trunks, I was lu despair when I made tho dlirnvory, but tha other supers urged luo to driM nnd go on without the miming trunk. They assured ine that tho audlonce would not notice Its alienee, adding, that even If they did It did not matter, as history ahowid that bare legs were iiulte the fashlou In Itlchard'a day,and tu In the end I yielded to thulr advice, and prepared tu make my entrance with ono kg bare and the other neatly encased In silk. Tressel, you know, Is the messenger who brings to Itlcbard the tidings of tho defeat of his army at Tuwksbury, and hU entrance usual, ly create n stnsstlon. I did to on this occasion. The audience, when they taw how I was dntstd, howled, and the Itlcbard, Mr. lloolh, curted me under his breath, and or-derid or-derid inn to leave thu ttage. How. ever, I wul tliuro tu deliver n menage, and much to the audience's amuse, merit, refused to go uutll I had per-lor per-lor mul my errand. When tho curtain loll llootn huutid inu up, rated mo toundly for iu ttupldliy, uud ordered my lnstuut dismissal from the com piny. I felt that my forluiuaucre broken beyond ru'Mr, lut my ills-ihargutruved ills-ihargutruved a blrsslng In dlsgulne. Dear old lien llsker, whu was then stage manager of thu California, gave ii eu letter tu the manager of a theater In Hacrumento, ami I eecurtd an eu gagemeut there In a lew pinnthB I wis playing leading buslmsr, aud I ImYobcuuai It eir since. edwin nuurii, lMwIn ltooth's llrst nppearauco on any stage waa also made lu the tart of Trettol. ltwusat thu Uoslun Museum, uiiHeptember 111, IStl), and the tragedians trage-dians sister, Mrs. Asln llooth Clarke, has somewhere related the olrium. siancea uuder which It occurred. KJwIi. lloolh was then acting as com psulou aud Urepstr lo his father, and a half hour hi fn e tin play was to btglu wasstandlu' la t'lu wings cf Iho stage, where Jaub 1'homau, the proniter, was arranging some details ol the play, Thomun was also call lor Tressel, and auuoed at tbu double task Imposed upou him, turned to lUwIu, and urged lilui to take his plans on tbu stage. Tho lad (he waa then but 10) finally consented, con-sented, and, dressing for tho part, sought his father's dressing room, where he fouud the elder lloolh dressed for the part of Itlcbard, and ualllpg the summons of tha call-bay. The father surveyed the son critically for a moment, aud then asked abruptly: "Who was Tressell" "A metMinger from tho field of Tewlisbury," "What waahls mission?" To bear the newt of the Uofeat of tho king's parly." "How did he make tho journey?' "On horseback." "Where nru your spurs?" (llanclug down the son uollcej their abienre, and eald he had not thought of litem, "Here, take mine." IMwIii undid his filhet'a spurs and lied them on his own boots. When his work on tho stage waa ended he again sought his father's dressing room, amlfsundhlrn silling winning-ly winning-ly In deep thought, as before. "Have you clono well?" was the questlun that greeted him as he entered. "I think to," was the reply. "Then, glvo me my spurs," and Tressel replaced the spurs on Qlou cesler's feet. It .was thus that the rrcatest liayerof his lime made his (list bow to the public, of which In ten short years he was to become the idol. JOUKi'Il JllH.llSOM. Joseph Jeflersou Is now 03, but his actUettago carter covers A period of sixty years. No oilier Ainerltnu actor still on the stsge, not evcu the venerable vener-able C W. Uouidotk, can boast ot a record like this. When he was n child of 3 j ears old bo was tho child of Cora in "l'Uirro" at the Washington Theater, and at the tame playhouse he had previously given In'antlla Imitations Imita-tions of l'letcher, thoHtstueMan. His llrst sneaking part came to him also at tho Washington Thiater, when he hnd reached the mature ago of 4. "Ihls occasion, I suppose," raid Mr. Jeflcr ton not long ugo, "may Justly be termed my debut proper." Ills parents were living In Washington then, and unoilny '1'. D. Itlce, or Jim Crow, ns ho wss bettor known, burst Uiou the town. Itlce was thu cleverest man who ever put on burnt vork, and tho fantnstlo llguro he rut had a great in-lluenco in-lluenco upou me. I danced Jim Crow from the garret to tlio cellar. Thu eumedlan saw my Imitation of hlm,and In. Med that I tnould aipiur for his benefit; so on tho occasion I wss duly blacked upund dressed aa a complete mlnlaturo likeness uf the original. He put me la ubag, which almost smolh ered me, and curried mo upon the stage on Ills shoulder, No word of this preceedlng had been mentioned lu the bills, and the audience were as much lu the durk as I was, After dancing and tlnglrig thu first slanu ho began the second, the following being the two Hues which Introduced me: U ladlts sr.O ttnlttmea, I'J bars Jou Is Tk.l 1'ie (Ol a little darky litre Ititt pimps Jim Crowi and, turning the bag upside down, he emptied meout head Drat before the ej es of the astonished uudlenov. Tho picture must have beeu a curious one. Ulco was very tall, I was four years old. and a We stood there, ctreised exactly alike, Ihuaudleuce roared with laughter, lllce aud I now tang alternate alter-nate stauircs, and Ibu rxcltement Increased. In-creased. Hhowers of pennies, sixpences six-pences and shillings, and een larger cuius weie tossed from the pit and thrown from tha galleries upon tho stage. At the fait uf the curtail! $i was picked up and given Into my delighted hands. , HKSltv mvi.lll. Henry Irving had tu undergo along and strenuous apprenticeship before ho gained recognition as Iho leading Ungllsh actor uf his lime. His parents, Cornish people, ot excellent repute, IntendeJ him for a mercantile career, and when he left school, a place was found for him tn a Ioudon counting room, but he haj already become imbued im-bued with a love for the stage, and all his spare hours were spent In tho study of theatrical literature, while all his scanty savings wero expended on Irs-sons Irs-sons lu elocution, which were given him by an actor at the Saddler's Wells theater. In this way ho formed the acquaintance of Hauiuel l'hels, then the maoagcr of the Baddler'a Wills, ami was by that sterling actor ottered it small engagement. Ulhors would hnve e agelly accepted so Inviting an oiler, but)oung Irving, be-llovlug that he could ullurd to wall, uud that thu provinces WBre, alter all, thu best placu for a beginner, very sensibly declined it. In this way It came about that his llii-t airtaratice on any stage was lu theDubeof Orleans In "Itlchllcu" at (Sutherland lu tho north of England Eng-land lu September 18o0, Itlsrecordul that this maiden ctlort was well received, re-ceived, and Ills c'oior work in other roles led to his engagement lu the following fol-lowing year at thu Theater Iloyal lu IMlnburgb,! where lie prolllecl by at-soclatlou at-soclatlou with such arcomi llshed players play-ers as Charlotte CuBhmsii, Helen Kauclt, Charles James Mathent, llenjamln Wcbs'er aud I'rederlck Ilobsou. Jlut flfteeu years of labor uud study, marked by ono metropolitan failure, had pasted, and he hal enacted en-acted more than .100 roles, before, 111 November, 1871, ho startled tho Loudon Lou-don theatrlcai world by his powerful and thrilling potsouatlou of Mathlas tu Iho "Veils.'' MAlir ANlirilSON, whose beauty uud genius now seem laiinianently lost to thu stage, had Won making preparations for u brilliant bril-liant dramatic career for years lieforu her llrst entrauce on thu boards. When she left school at the early age of 13, she became an ardout studout of Hbakcepearo, who opened to her n world full of fascination and charm and also begon the careful cultivation of her voice, lieforu she had passed her fourteenth birthday she mado her llrst visit to the theater, where thu taw LMwlu llootti In "Itlcbard III," aud her destiny was seal ed. Charlotte Cushmau whoa tho vlelted that grett actress, gau her cordial cor-dial encouragement, and, after a brief (orlod of Instruction tinder the late George VaudenboU", sho decided lo enter upon a professional career. Mary Andersou's llrst appearancu on any stage waa at Macauley's Theater, Louisville, un Nov, 117, IbTS. Bhu was then tometlilng over Id, and the char sctcr In which she was teen for thu first tlrco waa Juliet, theplay.blll reading read-ing "by a Louisville joung lady." Careful critics, who witnessed this Initial performance, declared that n really great actres had appeared, and eveuts speedily continued their Judgment. CI.AllA JIOIIK1S. Theroarefew play.goers of twenty odd years ago, who do not remember that (September ulght lu 1870, when Clsra Morris, until then almost unknown, un-known, took tho Now Vork publlo by storm. Previous to that time thu had been n valued leading lady In Cleveland, Cleve-land, Louisville aud other western cities, and had played all'torta of roles, from pert soubrettes lo tragejy queens, but her career may bo Justly said lo date from the ulght of which I speak. Augustln Daly, acting upon tlio suggestion of James Lewis, hsd brought her from Cincinnati to play eubordliiato roles In his Klflh averiuo company. Wllkle Collins' "Man and Wile" was about to bo produced, and at the last moment thu role of Anne Bylveslru was declined de-clined by Agnes Kthel, whu wss then Mr. Dily'e leading lady. In Hie natural course of events the rnlo would then have fallen to lone lturke, but that lady, without consulting her manager, had of a sudden decided to marry and have the stage, and so, as n last resort, thu part, not Without terlous managerial mlsglvlugt, wot assigned tu thu raw and unknown recruit from the West. Miss Murrls had llttlutlme for study or preparation, but she saw that the opiortuntty old lifetime had suddenly been presented to her, anj shu rote equal to Ibe occasion. On Iho opening night she proved u revelation, andwllhlua mouth she hail btcdinu the most popular and most eaucrly-sought-after leading lady lu New York. Two years later sho was starring uud drawing crowded audiences wherever she appeared. BCANLA.N'a SUCCK3S011. Owing to the Illness of W. J. Bosnian', Bosn-ian', which subsequently developed In to paresis, the Irish comedy "Mavour-ueeu" "Mavour-ueeu" had lo be withdrawn nt the height of Ita auccest Hut Augustus l'jtou will tend It out again. The tuur commenced In Vouliers on Not. it), aud the role created by Bosnian was filled by Mr. Cbauniey Olcott. It will te Mr, Oloott's first appearanco In au Irish part. Ho la n ualllu ot llutfalu, In which city liu was born about thirty years ogo. 1 le has a handsome hand-some tacu and funu, and for n loug lime figured In mlustrsl companies. liu has sung In, couilo opera with Lillian Itilisell, aud was n member of thu MoCaull and Dull organization!. In London he appeared with ills-llogulihed ills-llogulihed success hi "Miss Decline," known hero as "MIbs Ilelyolt." Hlnoe singing for "Mavoiirucen" Mr. Olcott received several oilers for London engagements. en-gagements. These olfars ho declined. In addition to Mr. ticanlan's songs, Mr. Olcott will sing "Hhu and I 'lo. gettior," by ICellle, and "Now, Do You Bee?" an original composition of his own. FAMOUS FOII 1 KAUTV. There has been In New Vork several sever-al weeks uu Lngtlsb octrees who is famous all over John Hull's Island, aud far out ou the continent as well, for her beauty, MIbs Dorothy Denu otmu over on thu ricrvla Just at the wane of the cholera scare, and beotuso the boat carrleJ ouly caldu passengers Miss Dene was not cast upon a desert Island, as weru sumo other travelers from liu rope. Mils Dane's debut was made as l'utlllne In the dramatization of "Called Hack," lu lbtjt,at the Adelphl Theater, Loudon, Hhe appeared with Ueiievleve Ward In "rorget-Me-Not," and lu I''. It. llensju's production ot "A Mldmmmcr Night's Dream." Bhu brut ilsycd In nearly ueiy Blithe-spearlan Blithe-spearlan play that has recently beeu put upon Ihustagu. Thu elder Balvlnl raid of ber Juliet that "It had seldom been equalled; never surpassed." Miss Dene comes of a theatrical family. fam-ily. Jlesldes Miss Hetty, who is with her here, there ore two younger tlaterr, Kathleen and Leuu, now acting In Loudon, and lMllli. who until recently acted, but it now tlio wlfu of an Ung-Hull Ung-Hull artist and has retired from the stage. The live titters are all biautlful, aud a painting of them In a group will lo among the urt contributions of Kug-land Kug-land to the World's Fair. A MUV M'AIl IHIAMA. There lias been producld In the 1-ast a nuw war play called "U. B. Urant." It Is tald lo be historical, tentntlonal, emotional, humorous and picturesque. Its cast Includes historical characters In (Irani, Bbcridan, Lt aud Btouewall Jsckton, arid the Incidents take In the battlo of the Wilderness, thu death of Jackson and the surrender ol Lee. A lovu story ruLs through thu piece, and there are both Federal and Coufoderatu heroes. AS TO BTAOi: MAIiniAClia. An exchange Is responsible for the statement that In Wisconsin a msr rlsge ceremony performed lu a play Is Just as binding as If It wero performed by a minister In a church. If a man and woman iccknowledgu themtclvea lobe man nnd wife telore competent witnesses, that settlea It according to law, and thoreforu If two players, during dur-ing a performance, refor tu each other as hustand uud wlfu they nru legsily married. CIIITICIBMOF CAVALLFIIIA HtjSTKMNA. Horuisn recent criticism of Mas-csgnl, Mas-csgnl, written by tha Italian critic, Colauttl: "A chemist woullsay that the musin of 'Cavallcrla llusticana' was a precipitate of franueu;' a water seller would say It was a squeezed lemon. It la a novelty, perhaps, llko all adaptations, but it is u second. hand novelty of good, but n neutral kind. Matcugnl, liowever,hos merits; ho has quick ercuptlont, and lias followed uaturo rather than tradition. Ho lias made a now coat out of un old dreBB nnd out of muny roads has chobon tho thorUstuntl safest. Tfie IdLaa of tlio young victor are not new; they are old acquaintances, which ouu hears again with pleisuru. l'letro Mascogul la rather a oollrctor than an electric. He takes whut stills him and utusltat his leisure; that It all. Without scbolaitloprejuillcaor national pride, ho walks Indlllerenlly over tho body of lllzet, Meyerbeer, or Verdl,Uounod, l'onchlelll, Bchumaun or Masuonoi,tho latter by prejudice." IllflO AT Till'. WOHMl'S l-Allt. Theru will bo plenty of miscellaneous miscellane-ous mutto at thu World's Kulr besides that olllclilly provided by Theodoro ThomiiB. Dr. Zligfold will open, at reasonable rales uf admission, Iho Tro-cadero, Tro-cadero, or International Temple of Music, "for Ihopurposu of giving popular popu-lar concerts of u high grade," The spacious armory of thu First Illinois regiment baa been secured. It la on Michigan avenue, Beats buijl) peraons, aud will lu duly arranged, furnished and decorated for tlio purpose. Orchestral Orches-tral competitions by native writers will recelvu special attention. If written specially for these Trocadcro concerts nnd If the composer will furnish las score and orchestral parts freoofei-pousv. freoofei-pousv. Manuscripts must be sent la betoro April next. The budding composer com-poser will thus have un opportunity of Hearing his work produced "by the Huns Vou Ilulow Orchestra, uuder the dlricllou of tin- great couductor, Frill Hcheel, of Hamburg, Dermany," These quoted words nro from a letter written by Dr. Zlegfeld. Why Frill Hcheel'a musicians should bo called "a Von lluluw t)rchestra",la not very clear lo the uninitiated, .rwrf, Mutto and Drama, 11FCL1NK 1MK INVITATION. The great musicians, Ilrahma and Joachim, have both declined the Invitation Invi-tation of thu World's Columbian l'ipo-elllon l'ipo-elllon to visit Chicago next year. They both give as thu chief reason lliclr Inutility In-utility to undertake suoh a fatiguing and exliaustlug Journey. MUi:U.I.ANF.A. The Queen has commanjed the Carl Kosa company to perform Donizetti's "Daughter of tho lleglmeut" at Hal. moral castle. This should put to nil Instantly and forever the basu rutnori that Victoria Wetlln was a Wagnerlte. Among whosu curs cau endure "L Fllle uu lleglmeut" in this year of grace 1832 Is not likely tube violently smlticn with Iholatter-day music drama of the Wagnerian type. l:. H.Wlllaid will begin Ida New Vork engagi ment nt thu Hlar Theater, No-vciniieril. No-vciniieril. Mr. Wlllard Is ttlll under Mr. I'alme-r's management. Die opening open-ing play will lu "ThoMIdalcmmi." l'uderowtkl will positively make hit lint publlo appcurauco this seasou at Ban Franclscu December H. Under the heading "Uno Scandal" Cburles Laurent tells a strange story In the our. Actress Jeaune May, who Is thu wife of an actor, haa n daughter II! years uld who Is being educated at the Lycee leucine. After tho holidays Mme. May took tho child back to school and was about to fill up tee usual form and sign It. Tho llltto girl said: "Mamma, uro you going to sign your uom de theatre?" "Certainly," answered tho mother. "Don't do that, mamma, for just I e-foruthu e-foruthu holidays tho principal of lbs ochool Rtkod mo If my parents wero allots. When I told tier you were Ihey forbado ins telling this to tlis oilier girls, and Ihrcntenod to punish mo, and, perhaps, expel me if they found out you wero an actress." A comical stage efltode, glvlug an unintentional turn to herstago lover's lilies, nnd which brought down the liouir, was minted by Miss Crolgeu In the play, "A Bcrop of I'oper," tho cornea tipping guyly on, In riding habit, to meet her lover for a morning canter, Hhu struck her tou ngalmto lurhlug duorslll and fell, facu downward, down-ward, lull length on the ttarje. A litter rnti thruugh the audience, ivhloh was soon suppressed by tho radlnut dexterity dexteri-ty with which sho righted herself. Her lovor hnetonod to assist her, and, as a coincidence, his first speech was: Ah, Mlsa Marie, I ore you are Ui already." The Audience simply Bhrleked with laughter. Mauagcr Hnulz's "Friends" company com-pany will play tn Cleveland for Thanksgiving week n Intended, de-solto de-solto the fact that lira destroyed the Manager Theater In that city. Tho L)ceum Theater was at once secured for thu attraction, let a heavy cxpenso, Mr. Hautideslrlngtokeep faith wltb his fellow citizens. |
