The evening world., 1889-09-18

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management Of Frank Bowers. Miss Hattie
Harvey, an ambitious young woman who has
appeared as Puck in "A Midsummer Nights
Dream, :" is TO be starred in "A Little Tramp"
She will be supported by j.. De Lyons, of
Deacon Brodie" recollections, and will
open her season Oct. I in Milwaukee.
= 'sAunt" Louisa Eldridgs is getting along
very nicely with the subscriptions for a
monument to the memory of Mrs. Mary ii.
Fiske. Abbey has given $50. A. NJ. Palmer,
$50, and Frank ". Sanger, $50, while other
donations hhye been promised. Aunt Ed
ridge SAYS that she has ''lots of twenty
flyer" offered, but she wants TO get all the
tifties on paper first. Only Il short time ago
Mrs. Eiske was herself receiving contribu-
tons for the silver Tea service which was,
through her instrumentality, presented to
Mr.. Ben Baker, of the Actors Fund.
The Booknaker,"J J. W. Piqotts play.
will be produced IN this country for the frst
time tonight by Nat Goodwin in Grand
Rap DIS, Mich; Mr., Goodwin's leading lady
viii be Miss Isabelle C,e. who will be y cas-
antly remembered az the schoo'mnrm N
a Midnight Bel" and who in private life
is Mrs. Frank Mckee.
Jack the Ripper, " produced in Paris as
Jack ,lEventreur," is really seriously
criticised in the Echo de PARIS. The play il
Chateau d'Fau. A Partisan critic says that
Jack recalls MandrIn, Cartouche. Jack
Sheppard and all the celebrated hrigands.
The dralnatizntion was made ty Xavier
Bertrand and Louis Clairian, and is in five
acts aud seven tableaux. Jack is represented
as numbering every woman of whose char
acter he is suspicious. He has II sweetheart
who is passionGtefy in love with hlm and
.,l.~ ~ t-,.DA nG . .E Ia. l,"1- 1-la I--1-
lEventreur" appears to have been well
received.
Miss Minnie Palmer. of whom it was cabled
that she would appear in n London pnnto-
mime. has s,guoL IL contract TO play in
"Cinderclla" n, Her Majesty's Theatre,
Miss Violet Cameron will also lie in the COM
pany.
Miss Maggie Mitchell has arrived in this
country, thanks 10 the good steamship rms.
She was accompanied by her son Harry and
by her daughter Fanchon. Miss Mitchell
opens her season Oct. 3. i'll Providence.
Thomas Whifen is also back from Europe.
Mr.. Whifen has plenty so say about the
lbsen plays, OF which the Londoners are at
present raving, with their usual determ ma
ton to make n craze upon the least proyoca-
ton. MIR. Whiilen says that lb,en is now
what Oscar Wilde was once, with the diGIcr-
ence that the beautiful Oscar was always on
hand. while the talented Ibsen keeps OF the
scenes. Mr.. Whiren does not believe that
the Ibsen plays would meet with success in
this country.
Albert Bruening has joined Lawrence Bar
retts company, and will appear with the
tragediau in - Ganclon" in Chicago. Oct. 7.
Mr.. ~BrncnlnG's WIFE is PLAYING with Miss
Minnie Madderm in " FeathGrOrnin.'
Prof. Herrmann's Tran satanic Vaudeville
Company lnve evidently caught Onnm
Cinclnntti. George ". I.ederer, his manager.
telegraphs THE EvENING WoRLD that tho
organization has duplicated its New York
success.
Major Charles Rice was in the city Mon
day, jubilant ut the reception given TO his
farce-comudy. "McCarthv's Mlshnps,' IN
Cincinnati. Major Rice has lcn TO Join this
company. The play is very roaring.
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