The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-02-15
THEPLAYS AND PLAYERS.
MiNY NOTES GITHERED FROn THE
ATRfCdL CIRCLES.
Attractions that are Deiighting New York
Audiences-Personai Mention About the
People Who Tread the Boards-Many Sue
cesses and Many Failures.

success in Chicago. She opened at the Co
lumbia theatre there on Monday night TO
II $50 one Of the biggest openings Of the
season.
Sadie Martinot has had disagreement with
+. Henry French, and severed her connection
with DIR. Bill"
Bronson Howard will return to America
about MAY LIST. and proposes writing his plays
in the midst Of his American friends.
There are now three big "All the Comforts
of Home companies in successful running
organization under Charles fIohman's dlrec-
tiOn-One in London. another in San Fran
cisco. and the third due at Hernann's, New
York. February DIST.
Gillettes forthcoming new comedy. Mr.
| WilkinsOn's Widows" which follows Men
and Women" al Frohman's is said TO be a sort
of twin-fcmale Private Secretary"
Augustin Daly's next production is 10 be a
French pantomime. in which not a word is
spoken throughout the whole action.
The souvenir craze is destined to attain the
utter-uttcrly in the ivory autographs fans
contemplated for the approaching 10th per-
fonnance of Men and Women" az Frohman's
| Twenty-third-street Theatre.
Robert Downing and his successful play,
The Saracen.' is playing through the South
ern States to splendid business.
lydia Thompson in The Dazzlcr" has one
road this season.
Three new theatres are 70 be completed in
New York bv next n-Ilammersteins
new theatre on FOrtv-secOnd street. Richard
Mansfed's on Fiity-ninth street, and Hoyt ~
Thomas's on Forty-hrst street Work has also
begun on Mr.. Miners new flith Avenue me
atIe and T. Henry French Is talking about
buildng a house OF his own.
Never Happened" is the title Of a new mu,-
steal comedy which will be sent on the road
next season by George Washington Lederer.
Max Freeman has just finished a dramatiza-
ton of Thou Shalt Not TO be done IN April
| by W. A. Brady.
Lew Rosens farce comedy. "The Hustler"
! is booked az Boston for week OF March 2d,
after which it goes 10 Philadelphia, and then
| New Workers viii have a chance to see The
! Autocrat of Farce-C Comedy"
There is one word of the English language
! that Nine. Bernhardt has not yet mastered.
/ II is the SYNONYM tor Rodents Whenever
/ Madame has a bilious attack and vents her
spite on poor Maurice Grau he gazc- at her
| with child-likc simplicity, closes ms eyes ana
murmuls: Rats" II acts as "a safety VaNe
! for his injured feeling. and It Is the only re-
| dress Maurice has. Madame says the word is
not i'm her dictionary and Grau refuses 10 ex-
| plain.
There was dazzling scene in the third act
| Of "A Nile Minute" reproduction OF the
! Argyle rooms in London. II afforded Minnie
! Palmer the opportunity 20 give male mper-
sonatiOn with song and dance ana she Ger
| tainlv made very cute little dude. The
/ pretty haimaids were also well liked by the
! audience. In fact the entire entertainment
/ provided in this scene was Iapturously APP
! plauded
Nat Goodwin in "The Nominee" is doing
/ the biggest business ever done at the Blou
/ Theatre.
George II. Jessop the playwright, has fallen
| heir TO all Irish fortune.
Fanny Davenport will be seen in Cleopatra
at the Broadway next month.
Mrs. Leslie Carter has made tremendous
| hit IN Chicago.
". j. Seaman opens his next season early
| i'm September az the Street Thea
! ire alDearing in an elaborate and costly pro-
| auction of .Icssop and Townsends new ro-
mantle Irish drama called ''AlayOurneen,"
which is to be put on for an extended run.
Jennie Williams is going to bring her Eng
| lish lord in this country and support MN 10y
starring IN new piece.
Elsie Leslie is having new play written for
! her II appears that the child-drama is not
dead yet.
Wilson Barrett has some more money 10
! lose and is coming to America next season.
! His last experience here has not cured HIM
! yet.
Charles Frohman has signed contract for
| next season with Miss Elsie Anderson de
/ Wolfe. "a well-known amateur actress Miss de
/ Wolfe is twcnty-fOur years old, and good
| looking brunette. She Is at present studying
III Paris.
Iouis James ceases his struggles as a star ut
| the end Of his present tour. he Is 20 appear
| I'm THE Soudann next season. The mantle
| of John Mccullough is evidently too heavy
for Mr.. james.
Maud Banks is in Washington. temporarily
| assisting her father in some special Congress
! ional work that he is putting through. Miss
| Banks is 10 return TO the stage next season
under the most important auspices she has
yet enjoyed
Manager Augustus Pitou is making extern
sive preparations for the production Of his
new local melodrama, " The Power OF the
! Press. in New York at the Star Theatre on
| March 10th One of the most important scenes
will show a ship-yard with vessel on the
stocks and the ship-builders at work. IL is
being painted by John II. Young from photo
| graphs taken by him. Other scenes Will be a
| corridor and handsome suite OF apartments
| in "A fashionable Broadway hotel wilton
Iackaye is 10 play the part Of - flannel shirt
| hero -" and Minnie Seligman the wife of
| young ship cnrpenier Inc chief comedy
parts will be taken by Madeleine Lueette and
| Charles Dickson.
| The following nv diiiA'Niit W A'i
next week in New York: Lawrence Barrett
| in 'Yorick's Love- at the Broadway Theatre.
Poor Jonathan" at the Casino; n. c. Good
win i'm The Nominee" at the BijOu; +. $.
| Willard in John Needham's Double at
Palmcr's: Blue Jeans" at the Fourteenth
| Street: "Mr. Potter of Texas at the Star,
Sunlight and shadows at the Madison
| Square: Sin and its Shadow" az the Windsor;
Vaudeville at Tony PASTORS. Neil Burgess
in The County FAIR at the Union
| Square Theatre Bernhard at the Garden
! Theatre Denman Thompson III The Old
| Homestead" M the Academy; Nerves" at the
| Tvceum Theatre: James 4. Powers IN A
| Straight Tipr at the Park: Men and Women"
| AT directors Twenty-thirdS Street; LydiaIhOmp-
Som in The Dazzler" at the Standard; German
! nlavs and opera at Amberg's; The School for
| Soandaln at DAYS. "Noah's Ark at Niblos.
| Mel can Prescott combination AT Jacobs
| Third Avenue Theatre Lyceum Theatre Com
panv in Charity Ball" at the Grand Opera
| House.
The prevailing theory at present concerning
! The nopulsr taste in theatrical entertainment
| i that peoplc want 10 laugh. IL Is a pretty
/ theory. in support of which many facts may
/ Le brouoht forward, but here comes Clara
/ Morris and knocks il TO flinders by proving
that people want to cry. Clara Morris acts as
n sori Of flood-gate for the tears Of a commu-
nity. especially the women part. She
appeals more 90 women than men,
! because women are more emotional and
/ more sensitive than men. They dwell