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FERREZ, Treas. 1104 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. The price of yearly subscription to THE THEATRE is four dollars in advance. The editor solicits contributions from the readers of THE THEATRE, and suggests that old play-bills, and scraps relating to the stage, notes, news and items appertaining to the different arts, would be acceptable. It is the desire of the editor to establish a widely-circulated magazine, and to further that end every good idea will be acted upon so far as possible. Care is always taken not to needlessly destroy valuable manuscript. All articles appearing in THE THEATRE are written especially for it unless credited otherwise. IN ENTRE NOUS. WHOLE NO. 91. He has dis a most melodramatic fashion. It will thus be observed that Kyrle Bellew comes by his name, his hair, and his talent very honorably indeed. * ** THROUGH the same medium that informs me of Mr. Bellew's career I am digressively told this story: The late Emperor of Austria, when Listz had played before him, went up to pay him a compliment. He said: "I have heard Heitz and Thalberg, and Chopin, but," he added gravely, "I have never seen any one perspire like you!" ** ** MISS FLETCHER, the author of “ Kismet" and other clever novels, has been abroad with her mother for nearly fifteen years. N this number of THE THEATRE is printed a cartoon showing how like a father a son can be. It was published in a popular English periodical, Once a Week. about sixteen years ago. It is an excellent likeness of the father of Kyrle Bellew, John Chippendale Montequieu Bellew, the only son of Captain Robert Higgin, of Lancaster, England. He was born in 1820. His Eugene Benson, painter and art critic, is her mother was a member of the family of Lord Bellew in Ireland, the name afterward assumed by him. He graduated with honor at Oxford, became a prominent speaker in the debating society, and in 1848 was ordained a curate. In 1851 he went to the East Indies as a chaplain, and returning to England in 1855 undertook a temporary engagement at St. Phillips Church in London, where he obtained much celebrity for his oratory. He also wrote at that time several books and novels. He was considered as an elocutionist without a rival in either humorous or pathetic pieces. Of him was written by the editor of Once a Week: "It may be questioned if any single reader has ever succeeded in gathering together such large and appreciative audiences, and his popularity appears to increase daily. Doubtless he owes no inconsiderable portion of his success to his hair, which he wears in * * * step-father, and the family are now living in Rome. Eugene L. Didier writes as follows about her "She is tall and handsome, about twenty-eight years old, with large dark eyes that grow brilliant as she grows animated in conversation. She converses with great fluency, but in a rich musical voice that would lend a charm to the most commonplace conversation. But Miss Fletcher's conversation is far from commonplace; it is full of interest, for she has travelled, read, thought, and mingled in the most brilliant European society. The first result of her Oriental experience was “Kismet," the Nile novel, which, you will recall, attracted immediate attention by its fresh and interesting scenes, its charming narrative, and its graceful and picturesque style. It was the most successful novel of the year. But Miss Fletcher did not, like too many young authors, rush again into print imme diately. She waited two years before publishing her next novel, “ Mirage," the scenes of which were also laid in the East, but it did not have so great a success as "Kismet." In "The Head of Medusa," the scene was shifted from the mysterious Orient to the fair land of Italy, Then followed “Vestiglia” and “Andromeda," the scenes of both being also laid in Italy. Miss Fletcher told me that she preferred The Head of Medusa" to any of her other books, but in this opinion the public do not agree, for "Kismet" is still the most popular of her novels." Miss Fletcher is not a professional author. Literature is only the ornament of her life, the occupation of her leisure hours, the useful and profitable employment of time snatched from the frivolities of Roman society. I understand Miss Fletcher was once engaged to be married to the Earl of Lovelace, a grandson of Lord Byron, but the engagement was broken. ** JAMES PARTON is living in the town of Newburyport, Mass., where he receives THE THEATRE regularly. A writer in the Boston Post tells the story how Mr. Parton, who was born in England sixty-six years ago, came to be the popular biographer of many eminent Americans: One day, while he was employed on the New York Home Journal, he dined at a restaurant with Mason Brothers, publishers, and the talk turned upon books. Parton happened to say, “What an interesting story could be made out of the life of Horace Greeley if a person could only get at the facts!" One of the publishers said, "Why don't you do it?" The young man replied that it would require an expensive journey and a year of labor, and that he could not afford it. A few days later the firm agreed to advance the money requisite, and the book was thus assured. Parton went from house to house in New Hampshire and Vermont, making inquiries. Thirty thousand copies of the work were sold, which yielded the author two thousand dollars above the cost of production. "Upon that most insufficient capital," the author said, "I had the temerity to set up in business as a book-maker." * ** MR. PARTON always interests himself in the success of the young-particularly the industrious-and has contributed a great deal to papers and magazines that could not afford to pay, just to help them along. He is a very generous-hearted, sympathetic man. He once wrote to me: There are good things to be had in old magazines Almost every new book contains an extractable passage. Old General George P. Morris used to say: "Many men can make a good paper, but few can sell one." ** I UNDERSTAND that Mr. A. M. Palmer has made a contract with the great Italian tragedian for a series of performances in this country, beginning next October, to last for twenty weeks, and two plays: Othello," and The Gladiator," only will be given. It is further stated that young Salvini of the Madison Square Company will support his father. Now I respectfully suggest to Mr. Palmer that he will make a great mistake to allow young Salvini to do anything of the sort; his chances are too good at present in the English language, and as a naturalized American to have him turn into an Italian thunderer and unfashion his adopted speech the enunciation of which he will lose to an extent that will take him some time to regain. A CURIOUS story reached me from Boston, which I do not think has ever been in print. It is said that when Clara Louise Kellogg was a travelling prima donna, she was so excessively fond of salt mackerel and so alarmed lest it would not be properly soaked before broiling, that directly she entered a city the first purchase would be a batch of the fish, which she would put to soak in her bath-tub! It was on one of the occasions of a visit to Boston that a guest, who succeeded her in the same rooms at the hotel, made complaint to the landlord about the tub, which had not been cleaned of the fish-scales. |