The evening world., 1890-07-18
AMONG THE PLAYER FOLK.
1t May Cost the Templetcn $4,000
to Play in Hendrix Hudson"
Schemes of the Theatrical World
That Are Interesting.

It was announced yesterday that f. E.
ttice had done that very morning what he
has been threatening TO do for some time
brought suit against NJ IS Fay Temple
ton-the returned and temporarily non
elusive Fay. Miss Templeton, it will be
remembered. was under contract TO Mr..
Rice when she WIS last III this country.
She was playing III Chicago, when one
fine dry she skipped quietly of with
Howell Osborne. and Rice was Let In.
menting (though he didn't cry Come
back come back !" like the lachrymose
Lord Ullinl.
She had n long contract with him, and
her departure left him in that peculiar
chaos known as the lurch. So Rice de
ciares that he will not allow her to- play
for Mr.. Lvkens unless she chooses TO
supply n So. OoO balm 10 his still bleeding
wounds. There are people who say That
Rice would accept "a, e0a. 90, but those
who make such statements don't know
the manager. In the mean time, Miss
Templeton IL quietly rehcarsing"Hendrik
Hudson and her manager, Mr.. Lykens,
goes about sedate MS ever. and looking as
unrufled and orderly as though he had
just stepped out Of n bandbox.
Little Miss Minnie Duprec comes to
town next week to begin rehearsipg with
Miss Cora Tanner in T.. T.. Kidder's play,
=" One Error" Miss Dupree, 1t is said,
has q tailor-lnade part, guaranteed to tit
her.
Thomas w. Keene is to play for two
week IL California next senson and is
Eastern friends will have TO try and do
without him, rs his plans are not to play
i'll any town east Of Cincinnati. d..
DE Wolf Hopper and some of the men,
beers of the Castles in the Air" Com.
pauy are going to spend W weeks at
Little Silver, when their season comes to
Mnnoln. Thomas q. Seabrooke. Miss
Crnix. Miss Della Fox and Miss Rose
] leighton ARE among those gong to do the
truly rural. The company has n "lny
off Of two weeks before 1t w~restles with
that gorgeous uncertainty known rs the
road"
There is 80 little doing in the theatrical
world at the present time that schemes
become positively interesting. The latest
to aStonish Broadway was that Me,srs.
Locke aud Davis were to manage nl OF
Prof. Herrmann's attractions hext season
the Professor himself. the Transatlnn-
tiques. Williams and Kelly and the new
theatre. No sooner had the gossips
worked themselves into such a state OF
excitement because this was so than they
were called upon to work themselves into
another state OF excitement because this
wasn't 80. 1t isn't SO.
Miss Margaret Mather's /" Joan of Arc
COMPANY is now entirely filled. and the
arrival of the star herself next week il
awaited. Rehearsals are to begin Aug. /.
Those engaged ARE Otis Skinner, JEANNE
Winston, Laurence Hanley, Maida
Craigen, fl. E. Walton. Edison Dixon
Esther Lyon: Harold Hartzell. Gilmore
Scott, Harold Courtney and Harry
Eytinge.
My Best Friend" is the name of
new play Just produced by the energetic
Miss Nellie McHenry. She herself ap
pears as Elvn. "a spirit Of fun, froIic ant
music" 1t sounds awfully original.
"Prete Moi tn Femme" the play that il
being adapted by Di"n Boncicnult fol
Roland Reed. was adapted for the London
stage by Justin Mccarthy, and entitled
- Your Wife" The play Is a alas Roya.
farce, from the pen of Maurice DeSyal
there's. and was first produced i'll Septem
er. 1888. Ii was not n brilliant success
In Paris, running only four weeks and
being declnred by the critics draggy ant
old fashioned. A version of the play
called Borrowed" was don't at the
Royalty Theatre, London, five years ago.
The idea of the piece is that of a man pre-
tending to be married to the wife of hi
friend in order to deceive somebody else
MIR. Mccarthy introduced into his version
q returned African explorer. in recog
milton of the Stanley craze, doubtless.
Miss Pauline Hall ia going to be very
astonishing in the wedding scene IN
"Amorita. Her dress will be sumptuous,
and it will be supplemented by her col,
lection of diamonds, which is very large.
Miss May Brooklyn in a yachting suit,
embroidered with an anchor and coat. of.
arms. in recognition of the Royal Yacht
Squadron. looked very PLEASING on
Broadway. She has just returned from
Scotland.