Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-29
GOSSIP OF THE STAGE.

OAA1eslc O1il w III w WILL ACAt up,
pear in Philadelphia.
Lolita and her mother are spending the
summer at the Isle of Shoals.
Richard Carroll has signed with the cara
bian Nights" for next season.
Peruglni has gone to Italy. he will re-
turn to this country III October.
". II. Gillette will open his season at the
Madison Square Theatre, August IL.
Louis James and Marie Wainwright win
open their season at ST. Paul, August p.
Minnie Maddern will open her season at
Holyoke, Mass, August %, in ''Jemima."
Emma J. Heckle leaves the city on visit
of several weeks duration in Cincinnati.
Frank Lander and Hiss Violet Black have
been engaged for the Rose Coghlan Com
pany.
Charles L. Andrews "Michael Strogoff''
opens its season at Daabury, Conn, on Au-
gust e.
Joseph Brooks has engaged Adele Bel
garde as leading lady of Frederick War6e's
company.
Henry Irving writes to friend here that
they are anxious to keep John Drew over in
England.
Colonel Nee aull announces that 'Lorainen
VIII 4olioN TrlUCc tuctuuooIcu al W d.
lacks Theater.
Toma and Lilly Adams, the little daugh-
tiers Of George II. Adams, will 90 with
Charles I. Ellis the coming season.
Samuel French & Sens hold the Ameri-
can rights of a new comedy drama in four
acts, by Arthur Law, to be produced within
a few weeks at Manchester, Eng, with
London to follow. The play is entitled
Modern Marriage" and is for lady star.
Kellar, the magician will open his season
earlier than he anticipated, making his first
appearance at Heuck's Opera House, Gin
cinnati, August 5.
Charles Frohman telegraphs that the
Lyceum Company opened at the New Bald
win Theater, San Francisco, on Monday
night, in THE Wife" to a 800 house.
Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett be-
gan their second tour IL the West about the
middle Of September The supporting COM
pany will be about the same as last season
W. c. Dillon, formerly treasurer Of tho
Columbia Theater, Chicago, is engaged by
E. r. Gardiner for the season of 1883 as
the treasurer of the Arabian Nights Com
pany. The season begins September 3 at
st. Louis.
Henry E. Hoyt is painting panorama OF
fairy voyage to Athens for the production
of " A Midsummer Nights Dream" at Nc
Vicker's Theater, Chicago. The panorama
is over three hundred feet in length
Denman Thompson's receipts at the Blad-
win, San Francisco, for the fOSr weeks
recently ended were $4,000, exclusive OF
Sunday nights This is IS, 900 moro than his
recent four weeks engagement IN Boston.
Courticc Pounds will not be seen in Amer
lea this season. He has been engaged by
D'Oyly Carte for the tenor part in the new
Gilbert and Sullivan opera, in the produc-
ton at Savoy Theater, London, next fall
Nine. Cottrelly has arranged with Nine.
Ottile Genee to star for fourteen Sunday
nights at the BALDWIN Theater, San Fran
cisco, in German comedy, supported by .
irst-class company, beginning on October a.
Frank E. Aiken, who has signed with Ed
ward Harrigan for leading business at the
Park Theater, has gone to Cape May, where
he viii spend the remainder Of the summer
before rehearsalS of "Waddy Googan are
called.
Patti Rosa will begin a fail tour in En-
gland September, under the management OF
Calder and Kelly. She has already been
booked in Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow,
Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen and other
cities.
May Waldron has signed contract with
William Henderson, manager OF the Acad-
envy OF Music, Jersey City, and Fred Hines,
to star during the season of 1889 in Ettie
Henderson's plays of g Claire and the Forge
master" and almost Life.'
A tank play discoverer claims that
piece was produced in London in 1901 one
OF whose principal features was a lake Of
real water, on which boats were sailing,
and from which a rescue was made. A
pack of hounds was another feature intro
duCed.
All the principal opera managers Of Ger
many have formed q union to protect them
selves against artists who break their COD
tracts. Any artist who breaks contract
with any member of tho union will not be
allowed to sing in any house controlled by
the organization. Under this rule Germany
loses the services of Lilh Lehman. who, al
though she paid heavy fine for breaking
her contrac, with the Royal Opera House
in Berlin, finds every door closed to her.
Several of the smaller fry whom Mr.. STAN
ton brought over are in the same boat.