Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-08

pass all the ministerial measures.
l see no sign Of serious opposition any
where to the conversion scheme, local gov
ernment bill or the budget There are
grumblers, but they are not numerous |
enough to make them formidable TO the gov
ernment. Great praise is claimed for |
Goschen for converting the consol holders,
but they had no choice, they |
must take the terms offered them
for no other sources of investment are open
TO them. Pressure has been brought to bear
from the government press, the bankers and
all quarters, and the consol holder is forced
to mis- knees, and that is called financial
genius. 1t all counts to give credit to the
ministry. Tiitchie's bill is equally likely to
be accepted, with some notifications in the
clauses relating to the sale of Intoxicating
liquors. The republicans will carry
most of their points. So far
as appearances indicate session of
rapid work with an early adjournment is
promised. In fact, even now we begin to
talk of getting away in July. Whispers of
Scotland actually begin to be heard in the
lobbies 1t seems to me very much like
dreamland, but it will pass for reality if no
great change happens between now and
whitsuntide.
London's week kas been filled with inter-
esting dramatic gossip, which Irving's ar
rival this morning has rounded off. met
him breakfasting at the Garrick club, look
ing blizzardless and eating hot rice cakes,
American fashion, surrounded by members
He seemed of dubious mind, at once sorry
and glad to return to his accustomed haunts
He resumes Mefisto within the fortnight.
Wilson Barrett daily visits the site of his
intended new theater at Oxford street. that
is not far from his old theater. This new one
will be larger than the former house, which
really is death trap should it's aged timbers
shver or burn next week He plays contin-
uously Claude Melnotte, which he lately
revived for the matinees. 1t has proved
great card. At mid-April he will produce
Caine's new play, "The Deemster," Bar
rett's royalties are large. During week
thirty-four different companies were in the
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appearing in plays of which he is part
author.
George Gddons has made great hit and
surprised his closest friends in commedi-
alta adapted from the French called, 'Fen-
| nel," wherein he arouses tears as a hunch-
| back from those who formerly laughed at his
| admirable farce.
A young actress named Margaret Ayr
| town has suddenly become famous by her
| unanimously approved travestie in Bur
nand's new piece, in which she is without
apparent conscience In appearance, action
and mannerism. She is the very double of
| Mrs. Bernard Beers, who next Autumn pro-
| fessionally visits New York.
The week has witnessed the return of Vio-
| let Cameron from Lane, courts and magis
trates, to the avenue theater stage of comic
opera, but with Indifferent success. Her
husband haunts the pit with loving glances
toward the footlights, but with looks of
hatred at the watchful policemen in the
| lobby.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall, still intending to
risk an American tour, are rehearsing Low
| ellis play, '"rhe Wife's Secret" which used
to delight New York grandfathers at old
| Wallacks, when Charles Kcan and Ellen
| Tree were the loads of the club
The Times dramatic critic, who is not a
John Oxenford, launches a play next Tues
day called dorothy Gray" The other Lon
don critics are already buying gold pens with
which to Ego for him."
This afternoon Genevieve Ward, with Irv-
ing in a box watching his tenant closed her
brief but successful season at the Lyceum,
by producing play of a complicated plot and
| strong situations, called "Loadstone." She
was a woman Of mysterious wedlocls, mother
of doubtful heir, victim of mesmerc vii
lain, and who finally became mad woman,
yet achieved a sensible climax by shooting
the villain, whose pockets yielded up papers
that at last set all things even and
made two lovers supremely happy. After
which she did, like Irving expires in "Eu-
gene Aram," all over the stage, from wing
to wing. Pruned of redundant dialogue, the
play, when she brings it to New York, is
likely to become popular and sensational.
Although evidently of French origin, the
adaptation bristles with points quite original
in these days of dramatic dilations and play
wrights mosaics.
Il Miss Helen Barry is soon to bring to New
York her new play, with the rather Hiber-
nan title, Held Asunder," which was sue
cessfully tried at her farewell Easter matt
nee. Her finished methods, stately pres
ence, tasteful and superb millinery and grasp
of situations, seem to have won the critics
as they appeared to satisfy fashionable au
| dience
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