Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1891 — FOOTLIGHT FLASHES. [ARTICLE]

FOOTLIGHT FLASHES.

The net earnings of the Kendals in America last season were about 1150,000. P. T. Barnum’s estate is announced to amount $4,279,532, $2,993,933 of which is in real estate. Francis Wilson has ordered a new comic opera from Richard Stahl, composer of “The Sea King.” Statistics show that 578 musicians, 271 artists and 169 actors came from foreign lands to America in 1890. Controversies over Beethoven’s ancestry have been set at rest by the discovery of a family history covering 250 years. “Ivanhoe” was the first grand opera that ever ran 100 nights in London; but it is a question if “Ivanhoe” was a financial success. . - • The leading actor of the Comedie Francaise, M. Mounet Sully, has announced that he will make an American tour in 1892-93. Tscharkowsky, the Russian composer, will bring a full Russian choir to America next season. A similar enterprise pace tailed in London. W. S. Gilbert, the famous writWgja cofnic opera librettos, was once a very good' lawyer. He was recently made a justice of the peace at Middlesex. ' Nat Goodwin has paid Augustus Thomas and Sidney Rosenfeld 85,000 in advance for a comedy they are writing for him, and will give them a large royalty besides. 'Emma V. Sheridan, late leading woman at the Boston Museum, will be succeeded in that position by Marie Burress, an actress chiefly known through her work with Frank Mayo. . , Two hundred and twenty-five thousand lire (more than $45,000) has been paid in royalties to Pietro Mascagni, composer of “Cavolierra Rusticana,” for its perform ance in Italy alone. The “clipping bureaus” get many queer orders, but few queerer than the one sent recently to the New York agency by Edward Remenyi, the violinist, who wanted all the obituaries of himself which were published when he was reported drowned on his way from India to South Africa. Remenyi wants to know all about the accident and what people sq&of him.