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

II was announced yesterday that f. f..
kico had done that very morning what he
has been threatening 10 do for some time
brought suit against Miss 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 in this country.
She WINS playing in Chicago, when one
fine day she skipped quietly of with
Howell Osborne, and Rice was LEFT Ia.
menting Though he didn't cry Come
buck come back !" like the lachrymose
Lord Ullin).
She had long contract with him, and
her departure left him in that peculiar
chaos known as tho lurch. 80 Rice de-
ciares that he will not allow her TO play
for Mr.. Lykens unless she chooses TO
supply a SIS. 900 balm TO his still bleeding
wounds. There are people who say that
Rice would accept s4,S99.o9, but those
who make such statements don't know
the manager. In the mean time, Miss
Templeton is quietly rehearsing Hendrix
Hudson" and her manager, Mr.. Lykens,
goes about sedate rs ever, and looking ms
unruffled and orderly rs though he had
just stepped out of bnndbox.
Little Miss Minnie Dupree comes to
town noxt week to begin rehearsing with
Miss Cora Tanner in L. l.. Kidder's pla y,
4" One Error" Miss Dupree, Il is said
has a tailor-made part, guaranteed to fii
her.
Thomas w. Keeno is to plny for two
weeks Ill California noxt senson and is
also going to the West Indies His
without him, as his plans are not to play
in any town east Of Cincinnati.
De Wolf Hopper md some Of tho mem.
bers of the Castles in the Air" Com.
pnuy aro going to spend two weeks q,
Little Silver, when their season comes tc
an end next month. De Wolf, Miat
Manolu. Thomas Q. senhrooke, Mis-:
Croix, Miss Della Fox and Miss Rose
truly rural. The company has n "lay
off " of two weeks before it wrestles with
that gorgeous uncertainty known rs 1.-THE
road"
There il 30 little dong in the theatrica
world at the present time that "schcmes' y
become positively interesting. The --latest
to astonish Broadway was that Messrs.
Locke and Davis were to manage all o
Prof. Herrmann's attractions next season
the Professor himself, the Transatlan
tiques, Williams and Kelly and the new
theatre. No sooner had the gossip'
worked themselves into such state oi
excitement because this Was so than theJ
were called upon to work themselves into
another state of excitement because this
wasn't so. 1t isn't 80.
Miss Margaret Mather's Joan of Arc =
company is now entirely filled, and the
arrival of the stnr herself next week i,
awaited. Rehearsals are to begin Aug. l.
Those engaged are Otis skinner, Jeanni,
Winston, Laurence ITanley, Maidl
Esther Lyon. Harold Hnrtzell. Gilmor,
Scott, Harold Courtney and Harr,
Eytinge.
My Best Friend" is tho name of I
new play Just produced by the energetic
Miss Nellie McHenry.. She herself ap
pears as Elva. spirit of fun. frolic an(
music" 1t sounds awfully original.
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"Preie Moi ia Femme" the play that il
being adapted by Dion Boucicault fol-
Roland Reed. waS adapted for the Iondor
stage by Justin Mccarthy, and entitled
" Your Wife" The play is n pnlnis Roya
farce, from the pen Of Maurice Desval
there's. and was first produced in Septem
er. 1888. 1t was not brilliant success
in Paris. running only four weeks nnd
being declared by the critics dragGy ant
old-fashicned. A version of ths Play
called borrowed" was done at tht
Royalty Theatre, London. i've years ago.
The idea of tho piece is that of amsn pre-
tending 10 be msrried TO the wife of bii
friend in order to deceive somebody else
Mr.. Mccarthy introduced into his version
n returned African explorer. in recoR
milton of the Stanley craze, doubtless.
Miss Pauline Hall ia going TO he very
astonishing in the wedding scene IN
Amoriia." Her dress will be sumptuous
aud 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 t-of.
arms, in recognition of the Royal Yachi
Squadron. looked very pleasing on
Broadway. She has just returned from
Scotland.