Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-05-09
GREEN ROOM GOSSIP.

Things Pleasant and Unpleasant that
Sometimes Befall Play Actors-Itenis of
Interest {" Play Goers.
M"djrSka iS going To Los Angeles, Cal,
| tO rest.
/olo'S successful season of forty weeks
finishes at Troy on Saturday. May ~.
Marie Prescott played Opheia with the
Shakespeare club of New Orleans on
April 26.
Daniel f.. Bandmanm on April IS enjoyed
a symposium in Atlanta, Ga. rendered by
leading citizens.
W. !. Florence regards Salvin as the
equal of Forrest and considers Edwin
Booth a good second.
Oracle Emmett the Soubrrtte now with
Baker and Farron. has signed to go with
the latter next season.
Margaret Mather, who has had gratify-
iuGly successful season on the road. will
close in Albany May Is.
over 800 people have been invited to the
banquet to be- rendered II. +. DiNy at Del
moniro'> next Tuesday evening.
Gus Fruhmam says he expects to make
lots Of money ont of Benjamin Magainly
and May Blossom this coming season.
John T. Sullivan. leading man with Min
nj" Madderu'~ c"lnpLny has signed Ia play
with Edwin Booth, company next season.
''Frd"ra" will be taken on short tour
commencing May 10. Adele Belgrade will
essay the ttular role, supported by T. i.
Mantrll.
Mary Anderson Will play but little next
season. deyutIng the bulk of ii To rest New
ertheleSs She will not slight London profes-
>iOmally.
Belva Lockwood has delivered 3G7 lect-
ure>. all at night. since March IA. 1883, and
Is still making the nocturnal stand here,
there and elsewhere.
Its a Cold Day When We Get Left is
being thawed out for another Venture on
the road. 1t was frozen solid some time
ago on the Pacific Coast.
George 4. Baker is 10 start for Europe
on May Ia drum up novelties in order Ia
enhance the attract!yene>> of that hUary
caStanea, The Black Crook"
The Siddons dramatic company will give
an entertainment al the Grand opera house
Dayton. on Saturday, May Is, for the bell
rtlt of the locked out Knights of Labor at
Springfield.
Mary Anderson is said to be- negotiating
i'4 'ii' pun lit1N' VI Il Ntbth ldltll lltdl
North Platte, Neh, doubtless with the view
of trying To raise a creditable stock com
pany for her support.
Nine. Btnhardt looks upon Ellen Terry
rs a wonderfully fine actress and on Mary
Anderson rs a wonderfully beautiful one
bat lacking in those talents which her Eng
liSh Cumrade possesses.
Alfred Thompson has been engaged by
. ~.
costumes and sceIsery for The Merry
Wives of Windsor 1t will have its first
production most likely in Boston
Evans and lIoey will play the "Parlor
Match next season. and then bring out
new tarCical comedy. entitled "A Reign
of Terror" Ii iS written by II. Grattam
D"nnelly, Philadelphia Journalist.
Cyril scott, who has had marked success
in In Spite OF Au'with Minnie Madderl.
has been offered leading role in Nancy
and Company by Arthur Reham. The lat
ter is anxious TO have him. and the offer
will very probably De accepted.
Carrie Swain closed her regular season in
'Jack-in-the-bON" last Saturday. Miss
Swain vii play a tour weeks engagement
at the Bush street theateT. San Francisco. |
in July. Her next starring tour begins at
the Boston Park theatre on August 80.
The Merry Wives of Windsor and two |
other ShakeNpearean plays are to have
spectacular revival in this city next season. |
A well known artist will be engaged all the |
on the scenery. and an equally |
well known artist will design the costumes. /
An ingenious notion has been put in |
practice i'll the new circus in Paris. The |
Johnson sisters perform aquatic featS in a
bath lit by electricity from below.
he theatre otherwise being entirely dark
.ned. The effect Is Wierd and startling in
he extreme.
J. T. Farron, heretofore for many years
If Baker and Farrom, will 20 it alone from
his time forth and is now booking for
SSH in A Soap Bubble" He will be
under the general management of Marsh
Iiedom. and will have Thomas K. Perry as
business manager.
Henry +. Abbey returned to New York
III Thursday from his Mary Anderson tour
He has made considerable money, perhaps
seventy Thousand dollars. and will manage
Sarah Bernhardt next season. He is at
present undecided whether he will 90 To
Europe or South America.
During the last l:i5 years 632 theaters
nave been destroyed by trr. and the NUM-
,er of people burned To death in these fires
: 6,5I3, or an an cvrrage of IS a year or
heSe 5:2 theaterS IA have been burned
Turing the last five years, a fact which
howS that such casualties are rapidly i'll
rraSng.
Montgomery PhiSter. of the Cincinnati
commercial Gazette. has had a fight with I
Baker. of Baker " Farron. over the merits
i The Soap Bubble which Mr. PhiStsr :