Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-30
Current Gossip About Promi-
nent Players and Pro-
fessioanls.
WITH A LITTLE HUMOR ADDED.
Furious Fancies of the F.otlight Realm
Movements of Noted Stars on
Both Sides OF the Ocean.

LLOYD for next season.
MARGARET MATHER is to appear in
California during July and August.
MANsFIELD's production of Richard
I'LL" cost $50, 900. the armor alone being
accountable for $4,000.
MoMus-I play the fool in "King
Lear" tonight. Comus- Can't you get
rid of your identity even on the stage.
On, terrible theater bore,
And one who will never grow wise,
Is the woman who always applauds
When she ought to be wiping her eyes.
MDLLE. RHEA is reported to be de-
lighted with her role in "The Case vi
dal," the new society play she is to pro-
duce
SARA BERNHARDT is reported to have
said recently that she would not attempt
to learn English for fear of spelling her
French.
KATE PUTNAM, the soubrette, goes to
Australia. where she will tour with
George G. Boniface, the younger, as
her chief comedian.
HENRY IRVING has purchased dra-
ma!ic poem in one act called the Jester
King" by Fl. johnson. The piece is
written in blank verse.
A DRAMATIzATIoN of Mark Twain's
prince and Pauper" is to be Elsie Les
lies next play, and she will try and
manage dual role in it.
A YOUNG prima donna named Fer
nandez, and said to be an American,
made creditable debut at the Dial
Verne, Milan, short time since.
The withdraw of Booth and Barrett
from the support of the movement to
exclude foreign actors from the United
States has virtually ended the agitation.
MARY ANDERSON has a hobby for be.
ing photographed and acknowledges
that she likes to see pictures of herself
in as many attitudes and dresses as pos
sible.
FANNY DAVENPORT, who was robbed
by hotel clerk in Memphis of dia.
monds valued at $25, 200, appealed for a
pardon for the thief and secured his re-
lease.
AFTER her season in Chicago this
spring Lolita will not be seen on the
stage for two years, and it is even init
mated that her retirement will be per-
manent
THE combined ages of the ballet
girls in Gilmore's Twelve Tempta-
tions" make up the year 1889. 1t is not
stated positively how many girls are in
the ballet.
ANNIE PIxLEY is said to have lost
$25, 900 by the late failure of her own
and her husbands oldest friend, George
Bullock, the Philadelphia supposed
millionaire.
Mrs. LANGTRY says she hasn't had a
sound nights sleep in eight years, and
it isn't owing to cats, either. She sticks
her head under the pillow and thinks,
thinks, thinks.
EDWIN BOOTH, who was recently
stricken with paralysis at Rochester,
New York, presented the Players Club,
of New York, with marble busts OF
Lawrence Barrett and himself.
ST. PETERSBURG is to have new
theater, which is to be erected on the
Mars Ficldlby permission of the Minister
of the imperial house, and which will
cost the round sum of 7 200, 000roubles.
HENRY NEVILLE, the well-known En-
glish actor, has helped Mrs. Henry
Wyld to make play out of her novel
Several Ties," and the piece has had
one performance for copyright pur-
poses.
PRoF. HERMANN has associated him.
self with George w. Lederer for the
purpose of placing on the road for the
coming season new entertainment to
be styled Hermann's Transatlantic Re
fined Vaudevilles.
The eldest daughter of Bjornstjerne
Bjornson. Miss Bergliot, has made her
debut as an opera singer at Paris. Her
voice and dramatic talent are highly
praised, and she is called very beautiful.
She is 10 years old.
The Prince of Wales comfort is well
looked after by the London theatrical
managers. At the Court Theater he
has Persian pavilion to smoke in, at
the Garrick q Chinese pagoda, and at
the Lyric an apartment not whit less
luxurious.
AT recent dramatic performance in
Macclesfeld, England, an actress sat
knitting at the wings waiting for her
enc. Some one in passing hurriedly
pushed against her and forced one of
the needles into her body nearly to the
heart. She finished her part that night
and died.
ZELIE DE LUssAN is not married.
However, when discussing that moment
GUS subject she naively admitted that
she was willing to be. @Of conrse,
she added, Il receive many offers, but
am lying low for the gallant prince to
come. / want handsome fellow who
knows how to pose elegantly and who is
TOO strong to work
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