The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-12
Notes of the Stage.

Willie Edouin is negotiating for the rights
to present "Mr. wilkinson's Widows, in Lon
don.
Bernhardt thinks that Julia Marlowe will be
one of the great dramatic artists FIVE years
hence.
The names of Barrymore, Stoddart, Holland,
Bell, Robinson, Miss Ada Dyas, Miss Maud
Harrison, Miss Mamie Craddock, and Mrs.
Phillips give assurance of the perfect perform
ances to be rendered by Mr.. A. NJ Palmer's
stock company from the Madison Square
Theatre, New York, which will appear at the
National next week, this being their first en-
gagement in Washington.
Among the scenes shown in ~. s. Mai,'
are a country printing shop, post office, and
rural EDITORS sanctum.
Joseph Arthur is writing another play. 1t is
not known whether the central idea is sewing
machine horse-car,
The dress Georgia Parker wears during her
Spanish dance in ~. s. Mail" is said to have
enriched noted modiste to the extent of $3.50.
The new theatre of Harris, Britton and Dean,
In Louisville, KY, was auspiciously opened
Monday evening with Bobby Gaylor in "An
Irish Arab.''
Sibyl Sanderson has brought an action
against London paper for having had the
temerity to couple her name with the late
Prince Baudouin.
rs One of the musical hits in ~. s. Mall, is a
topical song entitled "I'm Not Baby Mckee,
1t is rendered inoffensive by it's being sung by
five-year-old precocitY.
The music OF ''The Oracle" the operetta
which will follow Poor Jonathan at the
New York Casino, is by Helmsberger, who
composed the Dresden China ballet.
Lady Tom "is the latest play name, and
it reminds us of Aunt Jack" When will some
ambitious playwright give us an Uncle Jane"
or Lord Maria?"-Dramntic Mirror.
sapient New York writer has discovered
that notable thing about Fanny Davenport's
CLEOPATRA" is that it does not depend for it's
success altogether in the stage settings.
New York Legislature making it unlawful to
expose for advertising purposes nude or partly
nude representations of the female figure
King Kaliko is the name of the new op-
eretta which will be produced early in May
at New York theatre under the manage
ment of w. s. Moore. The music is by Fred
Solomon.
A newspaper says that all Mrs. Carter needs
UQ.
play. and little more experience. The Buffalo
Courier adds, That's all any of us need to do
well on the stage.
Goats, Go-a-Hedder, Gobbler, and Other
Dreams. by Henry Gibson" is a volume of
harmless satire on the old Norwegian gentle
man. just published.
clever topical song, appropriately named
"Ain't Our Eagle Got Noble Screech," and
which is the work of Ed s. Conner, bright
washington correspondent, will be sung in III.
s. Mail'' at Albaugh's this week.
Texarkanas, for whose equal Manager John
III. Smith, of the Henry Burlesque Company
oilers one thousand dollars, is said to be the
most remarkable dancer OF the age. She was
recently presented with a magnificent gold
medal.
Lawrence Barrett, at the time of his death, was
making plans for great sixteen weeks dram
attic festival in New York next season. The
leading players upon both sides of the water
were to figure in it and Shakespearean dramas
were to be revived on a scale of unusual mag
nificence. Henry Irving and Ellen Terry were
asked to take part in the festival, but their
previous engagements precluded the possbil-
ity of doing so.
The Howard Auditorium, Manager James l..
hefndnb new bhlCimOre JneaCre, was opened
last Monday and was crowded with we'll known
Baltimoreans, including the mayor. All pro-
nounced it one of the most attractive places of
amusement they ever visited. Among the fea-
lures are superb waX-works, cosmoramic
views, and ornithological exhibits which Mana
ger Herman will introduce in the New Lyceum
Theatre, in this city, next season.
Stuart Ro bson told a Western journal that in
his opinion Lawrence Barrett was great actor.
II will undertake to prove that he was a great
actor according to definition by Edwin For
rest that great actor is one who can enact
as many as three great roles better than any
other actor. All agree that Mr.. Barrett was
Incompatible as Cdssius. 1 think there has
never been an actor who could equal him in
Hdrebeu and Yortck. His LanctOtto and his
RtcheIteu were truly great"
Clinton Stuart, Ramsay Morris, Henry @.
De Mile, Bronson Howard. William Gillette
and David Belasco are writing plays for
Charles Frohman. An inducement offered to
these playwrights is the fact that their PLAYS
may be acted by two stock companies at the
same time-one in New York at Proctor's, the
other in Boston at the new Columbus Theatre
Consequently there will be double ROYALTIES.
Arrangements are also under way to secure
twenty weeks each season at the Columbus
Theatre, Chicago, for special production of
these and other plays. In this case the authors
willreceive triple royalties.
A London exchange thus comments on the