The evening world., 1888-01-19
TALKS WITH THEATRICAL FOLK.

mRen,Ofok. r-"The most briliau. novel ever
Henrietta /" is ThacKersy's VANITY Fair"
The Erentno SUMS statement that N. A. Kennedy,
Marguerite in the burlesduo OF Faust" Is pure
invention. MIR. Kennedy 10 at present under en-
p ssssmf In tho to ee ss 7 * an'g n f PoS Si,l c ls,e : h q. ,s 3
Union Square Theatre.
The Metropolitan 0~pera-House was crowded
again yesterday a,tsrnoo no, when little Josef Hot :
theme to elaborate upon, and the hoy aslonished
the audience by bursting into yankee Doodle"
Mendelssohn's "Rond Capriccioso y was as ex-
qn,slte a. ever. Miss Nettie .arpenter, Nine.
assisted.
The en,erprIsing manager with whom Miss Cogh-
Ian has made an engagement for I'VE years Is
Augustus ritou, who also manages Robert i. Man
tell ana Seaman. Mr.. Ptiou, by dint OF his clever
work, has pushed both his stars to a front place in
their different lines Mr.. Pitou some years ago
Grand olpera-House, and afterwards the Fifth
Avenue Theatre for MIR. Stetson. Miss Coghian
will appear in her brothers. play"
IL In the third musical matinSe, given at the Madi-
Mrs. Anna Buckley Hills, Mr.. Wilbur Gum,
Mr., Francis Walker aud NINE. Teresa Carreho
took part. Nine. Valda was in excellent voice and
Gang "saper vorreste ana the 4" Estudianuna +"
duet with Mrs. buckley Hills. Nine. Csrreno was
polonaise in A, NAT. The rafting Of the numerous
beads on her dress did not make a desirable &C
Compartment. inc concert was a thoroughly en-
joyable one, far moro 80 than It's predecessors.
Charles A. Stevenson, otherwise known as Mr..
Kate Claxton, was in earnest conference with
Manager j. Charles Davis at the People's Theatre
yesterday, In relation to his wifes new play,
1.-The World Against Her," which will DO pre-
scented there for the nrst time on Monday. ',tf 1t
Ia half the success l believe 1t will be, -" said MIR.
Stevenson, GWEN shelve the 1.-TWO Orphans.
How glad we should be to do sol We've been ham,
mering at them for the past twelve years When
we were In Hamilton, Ont, q critic wrote that he
was disgusted with the monotonous brutality OF the
Kicking and cunning In the piece. Couldn't ! de-
wise some other means OF torture l wrote him
That l had been Dredging In my thinking tank for
an Idea, but without any success. Business has
been very bad indeed In the East / expect
q great deal from the World Against Her. 1t Ia
the story of woman who has been wrongfully
divorced by circumstantial evidence. She is capa-
BILE OF clearing herself, but declines 10 do 80 be-
cause In this manner she would break an oath made
to another. The child Is awarded to the husband,
nut she takes night to London with 1t. Then there
Is poverty, misery, &c. The villain still pursues
her Finding that he cannot induce her either to
marry him, or become his mistress, he takes her
child and puts 1t In charge OF q coiner and his wife.
who live under q cellar. She discovers II. She
appears. There is q smuggling match, q door II
chopped down, and the curtain falls on the happl.
ness Of the divorced ones oh, it's q great play,
told about calls before the curtain. I've been or
the stage sixteen years, and never had o call before
the other night, In this play,