Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-17
ENGLISH STAGE GOSSIP.
A Number of Americans Who Are Making
Money in London.
rBY CABLE TO THE DIsPATCH.I


LONDON, November l6-[Copyright.l There
is Thomas Nelson Page boom in London.
Whether IL was brought about by interest in
the personality of Page, who spent summer
in England, does not appear, but the boom
exists. The last Spectator contains euo-
CYSTIC notice of him in "Old Virginia" An
essay on Pages writings will appear in an early
number of the NeaO ReUfeD. l am informed
at Brentano's that the supply of Pages books in
London has been unequal to the demand. This
week the young Virginian made many friends
in England.
Grace Hawthorne, the American actress,
who has a suit pending for $4,000 damages
against A. M. Palmer for breach of contract in
the matter of non-production of Theodore I"
opens her season in this play at the Brighton.
Monday. Miss Hawthorne has just returned
from Paris. where she has been studying the
role under the personal direction of Sardou the
author. The English adaptation is by Robert
Buchanan. Miss Hawthorne has obtained the
costumes, armOr and jewels manufactured for
Palmer before the negotiations between them
were broken of; they are by Duquesal, of
Paris and are said to be the most magnificent
ever worn in q stage production. Miss Aaw-
thorne's theater, the Princess, opens in week
or two with new play by Brandon Thomas,
'The Gold Craze"
Agnes Huntington, another American who
has made "Paul Jones" the enormous success
it has been, has the honor of having three dis
C1ngulSheQ men engaged In constructing new
operetta for her sole use Bison is writing the
hbretto and Planquette the music, and Bur-
nand. editor of Punch, is putting Bisson's
French into English. Planquette came to Lon
don this week to let Miss Huntington
hear his music, but refused to allow
anyone else to hear it. The opera has
not yet been named, but Burnand
says the hbrettO is clever enough to be staged
without music. Miss Huntington has Just
signed a new contract with the Prince of
Wales theateT. at salary said to be the high
est ever paid in the annals of comic opera in
London. She IS one of the greatest successes
of the English stage, and daily score of mash
letters, which her mother opens, reveals con-
dition of the heart in the bosom of the youth
ful Briton that is pitiable.
LOie Fuller. who has been playing "Caprice"
at the Globe Fheater, is seriously ill. AS
result, the theater has been closed though
as she is able to stand the physical strain.
Since her advent here she has worked very
hard, being her own manager. She is making
an effort to obtain new play, as ''Caprice',
has been failure, though Fuller herself has
been highly praised by the London critics
Mrs. Joseph Lewis, formerly Marie Halton,
of the Casino, is at the Hotel Metropole, while
her husband is living at his brothers. house.
The reason for this IS that Joseph has not in
formed his brother of his matrimonial alliance,
and is awaiting an opportunity to break it to
him gently. Mrs. Lewis is very indignant at
the stories that have appeared in the New
York papers since her departure and talks of
instituting libel suits all around. The story
that she is 8S years old, which she does not
look, and that her alleged l8year-old brother is
her son, she denounces as hideous falsehoods
and she declares she never knew Cunningham,
with whom she is said to have once eloped to
Europe.