Show J AMUSEMENT WORLD 1 4 A Weekly Summary oT Footlight i Sparks and Sportlng Eclioes of General Interest Something About Roland ReedClara Morris In Miss Multon Last Night Clara Wisdoms Growing Popularity I Actors and Actresses Sporting Sport-ing Notes for the Boys MISS MULTON In the selection of Miss Multon for her favorite piece Clara Morris exhibits a taste which must always be corroborated corrobor-ated by her audience With none of the terrors of LArticle 47 and with even more strength and smoothness the play given last evening leaves no room for criticism or complaint on the part of either the audience or the players Before Be-fore the large audience of last evening Miss Morris appeared to much greater advantage than on the previous evening and the honors she had won before did much to keep the hearts of those present warm toward the artist In Miss Mul ton the star has an opportunity to exhibit ex-hibit her powers in handling the more quiet emotions and her success in this was quite as great a surprise to the audience audi-ence as was her exhibition of the terrible in theother periopnance Mr Miller had a better opportunity as DeLatour than he had in the other role and his handsome figure graceful bearing bear-ing and fine articulation were shown off to better advantage than ever He is a good actor and as leading man he shares many oi the honors with the star herself The other parts were well filled making up a performaece entirely entertaining enter-taining and delightful Miss Morris appears this afternoon for the last time and this evening her company com-pany presents Engaged Clara Morris with a fine strong company com-pany to a light house in LArticle 47 somewhat improved in Miss Multon yet if Langtry Fortescue Patti etc came here standing room would be at a premium But Clara is one of our American Amer-ican girls and the others English you know Yet Miss Morris can feel flattered in knowing that her audiences were our best society people the cremelacreme of the Saints and Sinners in Zion Roland Reed with a fine dramatic company played to poor business on the 21st 22d and 23d Trash like Uncle Toms Cabin can draw 1600 in two performances and a matinee but an artist like Reed hardly makes expenses He is a graduate clothe Stuart Robson school and in his i youth played minor parts at the Arch Street Theatre Philadelphia Phila-delphia at the same time Robson was the comedian at the said place Roland Reed says there are three in a womans life As a baby she is lugged as a miss she is hugged and as a married woman she is humbugged Lewis Morrison the popular actor well known in this city was converted into an Elk last Sunday at San Francisco Cal Sir Arthur Sullivan works from noon to daylight the next morning when composing compos-ing comic operas Abbey is certainly the present prince of American managers With Patti and Bernhardt in three months he is ahead 200000 and before their engagements close he will have realized close on to 300000 A King of Sp iancying that ho had a taste for music liked to take part in Baccherinis quartets but he never could succeed in keeping time One day when he was three or four bars behindhand behind-hand the other performers took fright at the confusion occasioned by the royal bow and were about to wait for him Fiddle away cried the enthusiastic monarch I shall very soon get up to youClara Wisdom who will soon be herewith here-with the Carlton Opera Company will make a very narrow escapeif escape she doesfrom becoming a great actress if she keeps on improving as she has in the past three years In private life she is a young lady of unusual beauty and refinement Her Madam de Maintenon in Nanon showed her magnificent stature and commanding presence Not many women would so cheerfully sacrifice sacri-fice such beauty and dignity as she does in Katisha and the Princess in Er minie for the sake of art A good story is told of the 3yearold daughter of Henry E Abbey the daring theatrical manager While in England Mr Abbey rented a noblemans estate and one day his Lordship came to dine with them The little girl heard him constantly con-stantly called my Lord by the servants ser-vants and she listened wonderingly to a form of address she had never heard except ex-cept in connection with her prayers After the nobleman had kissed her she ran to her father exclaiming Oh papa God kissed me I The actors in Miss Fortencues company com-pany are telling a rather amusing story I about the ladys sister who is traveling with the organization When they were playing recently in Buffalothe younger Miss Fortesque came on Wednesday morning to see the manager and expressed ex-pressed a desire to run down that afternoon after-noon with her mother and visit Niagara Falls The manager was was afraid some unforseen delay might occurr to prevent the ladys return in time for the evenings performance and he said It would be quite useless for you to go today to-day The falls are not visible on Wednesdays Wed-nesdays Indeed 1 And why not They always turn the water off on Wednesdays How extraordinary responded Miss Fortescue and went away quite satisfied with the explanation The crusade against high hats in theatres in Washington D C received an impetus during the recent Bernhardt engagement in that city Twothirds of the fashionable women in the boxes and j I orchestra appeared bareheaded during the last of the engagement at the National Na-tional Theatre It is possible that tha freak of two convivial youths in forcibly removing some of the high hat obstructions obstruc-tions to their view of the stage in a cheap theatre at the Capital had its influence in inducing the fashionables to uncover These larky youths fished for the objectionable ob-jectionable head gear with fish poles They entered the theatre with jointed rods and had lifted four of the towering I obstructions before they were taken in I I hand and ejected from the theatre Our ladies in this city never wear high hats I Sporting Notes The international champion challenge cup Richard K Fox is having manufactured manu-factured to represent the singlescull championship of America will be the most valuable aquatic trophy ever offered for competition It will be made of solid goldand silver and will cost 1000 The following are the oarsmen that will row for international singlescull champion challenge trophy Edward Hanlan John Teemer Jake Gaudaur George H Hosmer Albert H Hamm P ill Conley Wallace Ross George Munford of New Orleans and George H Lee Duncan C Ross has issued a challenge I iTrfT to wrestle any man in Americabest three in five falls catchascatchcan side hold and collarandelbow for 1000 a side Our Agramonte can get away with him at any thing The stable of Porter Ashe will probably remain in California this season His horses are now in training for the early meeting at San Francisco Of the whole lot Ed Corrigan is the only one mentioned men-tioned as liable to be sent East Here is a chance for our Driving Park Association Associa-tion for the June meeting |