Telegram-herald., 1890-07-12

Theater on November 10 in new So
eiety drama. and that this paper Is said
20 be- owned by several wealthy gentle
men, conspicuous among whom IS Mr..
Pierre Lo-illar1
A reason Is thus plain why Mrs. Car
ter. with loads Of money. should adopt
the stage. Being tabooed by society. IL
was tho natural alternative. But her
Instructors and others who have per-
sonal knowledge say that there is
much better reason than this IL Is
claimed. In short, that she has ability
far above that OF any society actress
that has yet appeared, and IL is p-ophe-
sled that she viii take the public by
storm
Nine. Berlan-Gibbs is OF quite another
type. She is beautiful young woman,
we'll born. OF exquisite refinement and
culture, the channels OF whose mind
run sufficiently deep 70 make her feel
the pleasures OF society unsatisfying and
tho need OF work as a motive for living.
She has been playing the leading part
in The Vito" for two years under Mr..
Fronam's management and this year
will star with her own company.
She has been taken wonderfully into
favor with the managers, and Mr.. Palm
or some time ago offered her place
in the Madisca Square Company, which
she declined because she thought she
could not fll 10 satisfactorily, to that
gentleman's astouishment who init
mated that declina.ion on that ground
was unprecedented.
AS to the play-writers they are all In
genufecaon about her, and the lady in
her search for play with which to open
her season will not lack for numbers to
choose from One condition she pos
itively exacts; there must be in her
plays no unwholesome moral nor faunt-
ing Of evil, and they are likely to deal
with the development of character
rather than the unraveling of plots IL
remains 20 be seen how far the Howells
and James ideal can be made popular
on the stage.
Clyde Fitch. the author OF Beau
Brummell," which Richard Mansfield is
now playing, is engaged to write Mrs.
Berlan-Gibbs a play, and George Par
sons Lathrop is also to write her one,
probably on the subject of caste In
America She has already accepted
Mr.. Lathrop's Hero and Leander," and
Will produce 1t next season. This clas-
sical play is in verse. and is said TO DO
beautiful and dramatic. l hear that it
will bring Mr.. LsthrOp to the front as o
playwright
1t may be interesting to learn who
the young woman Is whom all this fuss
/ is being made about Her father was
Seward Coe, OF Puritan descent cousin
of William II. Stewards. and her mother
wss the daughter of an Austrian Baron
Her homo vas in Ohio. She was mar
ricd at fourteen, which means, OF course,
q runaway match. Her husband is now
dead, and she is living at present with
| Mrs. Thomas w. Phelps. OF Phelps,
Dodge & Co, who is an old farpil J
friend.
The director OF the school Of acting
says that the best tstuf for making actors
comes at present from society sources,
and looking over the list OF young girls
from conspicuous families who have
passed or arc passing through the
school en- route, through subordinate
positions, TO tho top OF fame's ladder,
there would seem to DO no dearth Of dc
sirable material Among tho cleveresi
in tho list is Maud Banks, who has
written a play and will be further heard
OF "a a literateur.
Ethel Clara Spra-ue is now acting