The evening world., 1889-11-28
GOSSIP OF THE GREENROOM.
INTERESTING CHAT ABOUT FAvORITEs OF
THE FOOTLIGHTS.

Theatrical Managers Expect Great Re-
turns To-Day-Helen Rand Has Re-
tired from The Stage-Marcus Mayer
Back from Chicago-McKee Rankin
Going to londonderry Smith at
Work on a New Opera.
Thanksgiving to the theatrical manager 10 the
most profitable holiday in the year. The two
performances generally net a neat little sum.
and attractions usually consider themselves in
luck II they can occupy u good theatre during
the week containing Thanksgiving. Though
tile actors ana actresses are 40 busy Oh this day,
they observe 1t, IVA n general rule, as atten-
lively az their non-theatr.cal brethi en-. from
its turkey side at any rate. Travelling
companies also expect much from Thanksgiv-
ing. The. season " Oh the road . has been ex-
ticmely di' "a rous 80 far, and this holiday will
he welc. med by many u iruo k.truvelling man
GEer, IN the CITY today the drama sales ut
nearly all the theatres nnint ~ large nu licences.
A play will lave to be very bad ind oil that does
not capture snine of New Iork's dollars to-day.
Miss Helen Rand, last seaSon with Eobson and
Crane, has retired fIont tue .tagc. T4is in it,
sell isn't cxtraordl AIRY. but \ iss land has not
only Withdrawn from the theatre, but has gone
to sch29l to stndyIand to a boarding scIoo..
too. The young lady is twenty-onr or twenty
two years old. ne iea.op Of this remarkable
RED, and to a rich Rev" York;. SO'"N ""
Marcus Mayer IL back in the city from Chicago,
vi ere, according TO what he says. lRtti will be
accorded u reception at the Chicago Auditorium
Il at will SIM ~ aAtonish even That matter-of-
tact lady herr eff.
Mckee Rankin IL laid to he going to London
III April TO appear in that city uudor he manage
ment of William W. Calder. Miss Patti R0sa's
pilot. MIR. Rankin IL not II stranger to the Eng
Ban BInit mttroP Hhi win MmtfG he ir];Ssated The
duce 1.-The Runaway Wife, a play that by no
means astomisi ell New York when it was pre-
selted at NiDlo's.
Manager L lwRrds, of the Gaiety Theatre,
London. has stated 10 an interviewer that he
made 60, 600 by the Ga;ety comuany's seas OH
Amer ca. He accounts Tor this loss by the inct
that his company played in n com a~ratively
small theatre aud was III able to recover the I'M
mense expenses attendant upon the production.
= Wilson Barrett will be succeeded NJ the Fifth
Avenue Theatre by Miss MarIe Wainwright in
III weifth NlEEtt" Dec. ~, and on Jan. u,
alti tEo fl h%n S%I'a R RlSEio ~, t Titi BEGIN her srSsOm
are at present shining upon the road"
Harry b. Smith, the ruthor of The Begun. 4"
and Don Gu. xote, -" says that the latter o. era
u to be done at the Prime OF Naless Theatre,
London, by, tie company formerly MANAGED by
the late I arl Rosa. MIR. SmitL, j. Mt present at
work upon the libretto OF. Captain Fraca. sa. +"
a. opera to be presented BY the McCaull Opera
Company.
1t is said that Lester Wal,ack, inst before his
death, was studyllg the part of the Old Earl of
Dorrlscourt i'll Little Lord Fauntleroy."
.Messrs. Abbey & Grau announce a concert Of
chamber music at the Broadway Theatre to-
Nine. Bertha Marx, the French pianist. will
make her first appearance in the United States.