by H. B. Farnie, with music by Planquette, composer of "Les Cloches de Corneville." It had this cast: Agnes Huntington is an American girl and had travelled through this country with the "Boston Ideals." After this she went to England. This was her first appearance in New York. Mrs. Leslie Carter made her first appearance on any stage at this theatre Nov. 10, in "The Ugly Duckling," suggested by Hans Christian Andersen's fable. The play was thus cast: Douglas Oakley Count Malatesta. Arthur Dacre | Randolph Viscount Huntingtower, Ian Robertson Kate Graydon Prof. Graydon Ernest Ganby Jack Farragut Chevalier Raff R. F. Cotton Mrs. Ganby Arthur Dacre made his American reappearance after a long absence. Mrs. Carter closed her engagement Nov. 22, and the theatre was closed the evenings of Nov. 24, 25 for dress rehearsals of "Pippins," which was produced Nov. 26, and had this cast: Atalanta, Amelia Summerville; Nyce, Connie Delmore; Daphne, Marie Carlyle; Chloe, Marian Abbot; Mississarus, Estelle Mortimer; King Schoenus, Alexander Clark; Narcissus, Ada Dare; Hyacinthus, Helene Beatrice; Tharso, E. Snitz Edwards; Cupid, Fannie Ward; Hippomenes, Katherine B. Howe; Paidagogus, Louis de Lange. In consequence of an accident Aug. 26, Amelia Summerville did not appear, and her part was read by Ada Dare, who afterwards continued in it. The Actors' Fund took a benefit afternoon Dec. 4, and the programme was: "An Unwarrantable Intrusion," by Madison Merton, with this cast: The Intruder, E. H. Sothern; Nathaniel Snoozle, Rowland Buckstone. Bessie Bonehill was heard in character songs, after which C. Hadden Chambers' "The Open Gate," with this cast: Mr. Kendal delivered a recitation; then came Charles Mathews' play, "Gatherwool," with this cast: Fanny Davenport appeared in the fourth act of Sardou's "Fedora": Fedora. Fanny Davenport | Basile Mr. Stephany Blanche Moulton Loris Ipanoff Melbourne Macdowell Mr. Flynn Then came Otero the Spanish dancer, after which J. E. Dodson recited, "How Bill Adams Won the Battle of Waterloo." The programme concluded with scenes from "Pippins." In consequence of the very bad business done by "Pippins," the management closed the house the week Dec. 8. "Claudius Nero " was announced for three weeks, commencing Dec. 15, but was not acted, as the managers of the opera company were in arrears for salaries, and the singers had disbanded. The theatre was reopened Dec. 22, with James C. Duff's opera company in "The Pirates of Penzance," which was repeated Dec. 23, 24; and Christmas night, Dec. 25, "Patience" was sung. J. C. Stille made his New York début on this occasion. "Iolanthe" was sung week of Dec. 29, and the Duff company closed Jan. 3, 1891. Lawrence Barrett commenced Jan. 5 in "Ganelon," by Wm. Young, for the first time in this city. The "Much Ado About Nothing" was given matinée Jan. 10. The first of a series of Sunday night lectures for the benefit of the New York Press club's building fund was delivered Jan. 11 by Chauncey M. Depew. Mr. Barrett appeared as Romeo at the matinée Jan. 17, to the Juliet of Minna Gale. It was Mr. Barrett's first performance of the part in this city for several seasons. Miss Gale, on this occasion, played Juliet for the first time in this city. The theatrical club known as the Five A's took a benefit Sunday evening, Jan. 18. "Francesca da Rimini," by Geo. H. Boker, was presented the week of Jan. 19, with Lawrence Barrett as Lanciotto. "Guido Ferranti" was first produced Jan. 26. It was by Oscar Wilde, and was originally called "The Duchess of Padua." The cast was: Guido Ferranti Lawrence Barrett | Third Soldier Captain of the Guard Count Moranzone A. Bruning Taddeo Bardi F. Vroom First Soldier . J. A. Lane Gregory R. Duvall Hugo On Sunday evening, Feb. 8, the third lecture in the series for the benefit of the Press club's building fund was delivered by Prof. George Cromwell. On Feb. 16, 17, 18, matinée Feb. 21, Mr. Barrett was seen in "Yorick's Love" and "David Garrick; " Feb. 19, 20, 21, "Yorick's Love" and "The King's Pleasure; ""Harebell, the Man O' Airlie," Feb. 25, for the first time in this city in five years. The fourth Sunday night lecture in the series for the benefit of the Press club was delivered Feb. 22 by Edgar ("Bill") Nye; Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett appeared March 2, 3, 4 as Shylock and Bassanio in "The Merchant of Venice," with Minna Gale as Portia. "Julius Cæsar" was produced March 5, 6, with Booth as Brutus, and Barrett as Cassius; matinée March 7," The Merchant of Venice;" evening March 7, Barrett in "Francesca da Rimini." An association of actors and literary gentlemen called the Lambs' club gave a public entertainment afternoon March 3, to raise funds to erect a new club house. Sunday evening, March 8, Amos J. Cummings lectured. Edwin Booth appeared March 9 in "The Merchant of Venice," Mr. Booth as Shylock, Mr. Barrett as Bassanio, and Minna Gale as Portia; March 10, 11, and matinée March 14, "Hamlet," with Booth as the Prince, Barrett as the Ghost, and Minna Gale as Ophelia. "Othello" March 12, Booth as Iago, and Barrett as Othello; March 13, Booth as Othello, and Barrett as Iago; evening March 14, "Romeo and Juliet," Mr. Barrett as Romeo. "Richelieu" was played March 16, 17, 18, Booth as the Cardinal, Barrett as De Mauprat. On Wednesday evening, March 18, Barrett was ill and could not finish the part of De Mauprat. Lawrence Hanley played it during the last act. Mr. Barrett died Friday evening, March 20. The theatre was closed evenings March 21, 23, and was reopened Tuesday, March 24, with "Hamlet." Wilfred Clarke, Mr. Booth's nephew, who was cast for the First Gravedigger, was unable to act, and Ben. G. Rogers played the part, in addition to that of Polonius. March 23, 24, 25, and matinée March 28, "The Merchant of Venice" was acted; March 26, 27, " Julius Cæsar" was played, and March 28, "Francesca da Rimini." The last appearance on the New York stage of Edwin Booth took place March 28, 1891, as Hamlet. He acted in Brooklyn the following week, at the Academy of Music there, and his last appearance on any stage was made on Saturday afternoon, April 4, 1891, as Hamlet. He died in New York at his apartments in the Players' Club, Grammercy Park, June 7, 1893. His fatal illness began April 19. The funeral took place at the Church of the Transfiguration ("Little Church Around the Corner ") Friday morning, June 9. The undertaker was Thomas P. Browne, of St. Agnes Chapel. After the services the body was taken to Boston and laid in Mount Auburn cemetery, beside his first wife, on that same day. Edwin Thomas - Booth was born in Harford county near Baltimore, Md., Nov. 13, 1833. He was named after two of his father's friends, — Edwin Forrest and Thomas Flynn. His first appearance on the professional stage was made Sept. 10, 1849, as Tressel in "Richard III.," at the Boston Museum, Boston, Mass., to his father's Richard. He had acted in Baltimore in 1846 for six dollars a week, but it was not a regular theatre. After this he travelled as his father's dresser. He appeared on the New York stage Sept. 27, 1850, at the Old National Theatre in Chatham Street, as Wilfred, to his father's Sir Edward Mortimer in "The Iron Chest." He acted Richard III. for the first time at this theatre, his father being "too ill" to appear. He went to California in 1852 and then made a tour of Australia and the Sandwich Islands, one of his most popular parts being Dandy Cox in a negro farce. He was married to Mary Devlin in New York July 7, 1860, who then retired from the stage. She died in Dorchester, Mass., Feb. 21, 1863. Edwina, their daughter, was born at London, England. Edwin Booth first played in London Sept. 30, 1861, as Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice," at the Haymarket Theatre, after which he appeared as Sir Giles Overreach in "A New Way to Pay Old Debts," and Richelieu. He reappeared in America Sept. 29, 1862, in this city, at the Winter Garden Theatre. The one hundredth consecutive performance of his "Hamlet" took place at this house Nov. 21, 1864. On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth, and Edwin Booth retired from the stage for a period. His last appearance in Washington, D. C., was made March 12, 1864, as Pescara in "The Apostate," at the National Theatre. He played the hero in "Don Cæsar de Bazan on the same night. The three Booths - Junius Brutus, Edwin, and John Wilkesappeared at the Winter Garden Theatre Nov. 25, 1864, in "Julius Cæsar." Edwin Booth reappeared on the stage Jan. 3, 1866, at the Winter Garden Theatre in this city, as Hamlet. On Dec. 29, 1866, he acted Iago to the Othello of Bogumil Dawison, the German tragedian. On June 7, 1869, he was married to Mary F. McVicker. A son was born to him July 3, 1870, but died in a few hours. He retired from the management of Booth's theatre in 1873. An attempt was made to assassinate him April 23, 1879, while acting at McVicker's Theatre, Chicago, by a demented creature called Mark Gray. He appeared as Hamlet at the Princess Theatre, London, Nov. 6, 1880. On Jan. 17, 1881, he was seen as Othello, and Feb. 14, as King Lear. He afterwards acted Othello, to Henry Irving's Iago, at the Lyceum Theatre, London, and subsequently alternated the parts of Othello and Iago with Mr. Irving. He reappeared in America Oct. 3 at Booth's Theatre. His wife, Mary McVicker, died Nov. 13, 1881. He reappeared in London June 26, 1882, at the Adelphi Theatre; he afterwards made a tour of the provinces, and acted in Berlin and other German cities. In Berlin he played "King Lear," and was called before the curtain eighteen times in one night. He returned to America in 1885, and on May 7 of that year at the Academy of Music, New York, he acted Macbeth, with Mme. Ristori as Lady Macbeth. On April 26, 28, 30, and May 1, 1886, he played at the Academy of Music, New York, with Tomasso Salvini, in "Hamlet" and "Othello." The Booth-Barrett combination was formed Sept. 12, 1887. Edwin Booth founded the Players' Club on Dec. 31, 1888. Madame Modjeska joined the Booth-Barrett combination in Sept., 1889. He had a stroke of paralysis April 3, 1890. Edwin Booth possessed some extraordinary natural advantages as an actor. In the first place he had a noble and fascinating presence, with a form eloquent with manly grace and beauty; his eye was large and lustrous; his forehead high and noble; his mouth and nose of the purest Grecian type. All his delineations of character on the stage were eminently intellectual. Every motion of his body, and every glance of his eye, seemed permeated by the subtle influence of his mind. He neither mouthed nor ranted, and was always guiltless of tearing passion to tatters. His acting was characterized by naturalness, together with rare simplicity. Nature could scarcely have contrived a man meeting more fully the physical attributes of the difficult part of Hamlet. His impersonation of this character was gemmed with radiant beauties. His Richelieu was a most carefully considered and elaborately wrought piece of work; and to my mind nothing so brilliant, and at the same time so consistent, as his Iago has been seen on our stage. Mr. Booth would have been a great melodramatic actor, as he liked "The Fool's Revenge" better than any of his repertory. In his early days he was too fond of the cup, but in the latter days liquor was distasteful to him, and he took to lager beer, until within one year of his death, when he gave that up and drank ginger ale. The value of Edwin Booth's personal estate at his death was $605,000. Lawrence Patrick Barrett died in this city March 20, 1891, of heart failure, superinduced by pneumonia. Mr. Barrett was born at Paterson, N. J., April 14, 1838. When about twelve years of age he was "call boy" at the Metropolitan Theatre, Detroit, Mich., with a salary of $2.50 a week. His first appearance on the stage was in 1853, as Murad in "The French Spy," in Detroit. The following year he was in the stock company of the Grand Opera House, Pittsburgh, Pa., where he remained for two years. He made his Metropolitan début at the old Chambers Street theatre, in support of Mrs. Dennis McMahon, a Buffalo amateur actress, as Sir Thomas Clifford in the "Hunchback," Jan. 19, 1857. During this engagement, which continued for four weeks, he played Fazio, the Stranger, Armand in "Camille," Ingomar, and Claude Melnotte in "The Lady |