The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-11-08

Fleming To @ reporter Lolita SAID she
wanted u new play herself, but was not
wastiug her time in booking for QUE IF
enc doesn't ON along" sne said, "and L
don't % back to the stage. l shall take up
bainiin9, for which / have a great gift
and 4 great liking, especially for %prolrait.
IRE. Lolita Intends TO build II little thea
ire adj1ininE lief home OIL Lax Hopat-
cong. She will ave school exhibitions.
and to such children as seem 10 have u
gift for expression she will offer a place
In her school of acting. where the child
will be given a part 10 learn, aud will be
encouraged 10 do it in its own way
On Monday last Augustus Thomas
"Alabama''. began q run at Palmers
Theatre. aud demonstra ted its right to
occupy a place in the front rank of ma
tive plays. It is a capital play in every
respect. As a study of life in a great
Southern State, 1t is faithful, amusing
and picturesque. The quaint characters
are genuine types, and are free from that
grote> queness which often spoils tue eu-
deayorS or n writer to depict a certain
class of people. In his character drawing
Mr.: Thomas has been particularly happy,
and from Colonel Preston, the old aristo-
cratic planter, down to the ~antiquated
colored servant, the characters are firmly
but most delicately sketched- The plot,
too, is interesting and sustained, and the
construction is according to the most ac-
cepted methods of stage writing. Ala
bama'' is a purely native work, and shows
what a wide and entertaining field is
open TO the writer OF plays dealing with
American subjects. No praise Whatever
is due A. NJ. Palmer for bringing it out,
for although he now makes great pre-
tence about fostering the American
drama, he WAS only induced to put the
play on as a stop gap aftor several of his
imported plays had dismally failed.
Julia Arthur's engagement by A. M.
Palmer for his stock company was one of
the pleasant developments of the past
week. Miss Arthur Is a gifted young
woman, Of proved talents, Her career
has been brief. Dut that is an advantage.
for she will be all the more plant TO the
good discipline and training of Mr.. Pal
mer's fiue organization,
e. III. Sothern aud Virginia Harmed are
dividing the laurels in 'The Dancing
Girl" at the Lyceum. Shortly Mr..
Sothern will go on a tour and give the
critics of other cities an opportunity to
disagree as to the ethical points of the
drama.
A lev play by Jerome K. Jerome
called The Councillors Wife," has been
accepted by Charles Frohmau, VINO will
produce it before the end of the season.
Madame Bernhardt is at the Hoffman
House, and is telling newspaper reporters
that she is glad to be in New York again.
Her son Maurice and his wife are with
her.
Observation-Disclosures closed her tour last
week. 1t was q financial failure from the
first.
Nine. Judic starts in a few days for m
| extended foreign tour, belgium, Holland,
Italy, Austria, Roumania, Turkey, Tunis
and Algeria being In the itinerary. Her
| repertory includes besides the pieces she
| created AT the Paris Varieties, "Divor-
cons, Ma Cousine,n etc.
Theatre will be inaugurated with ga
Trip to Chinatown" and the regular
winter season begins. The Trip" will,
beyond all doubt, have a long run. Mr..
Hoyt's Madison square Theatre will i'll
future be devoted only to the plays of
clever dramatIst Charles II. Hoyt.
Genial George Barrett has skipped
back to England. His tour was a dismal
iasco, aud he will be remembered sew
| eral thousand dollars worth by people
who trusted him. and who never thon ght
he would run away under an assumed
natne
THE Cadi'' at the Union Square Thea
tire has made a iona tide Tit, the receipts
for the last week running up $1,000 more
than the week previous.
When the kendals flush their present
American season, it is said they will again
enter into management, and a theatre in
Snuff ssburys avenue, London, is men
toned as their future dramatic home.
Richard Golden has retired to Dwight,
| H., for treatment by DR.. Kelley. "Old
Jed" will PROBABLY also be laid up for re.
Dalrs.