The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-11-22
Notes of the Stage.

Oio tneatrlcai managers say that the present
is the worst season known since the great
panic of '73 During the last three weeks
seventy-three companies, many of them good
ones. too, have come In. This does not take
into account the "Fly-by-nights," which
would probably greatly swell the number
They attribute the trouble TO the demoralixed
condition of theatrlcals, brought about by the
iarce-comedy craze, now very nearly dead,
by which an impecunious manager is enabled
to take a company out on nothing, and 'trust
10 luck" to meet expenses. Naturally the
pubic Is afraid to patronize any but the best
known attractions, and the consequence Is
that many really good shows have been forced
to the wall. There is great deal OF suffer
ing on the part of actors, with no immediate
prospect Of relief.
Peggy Pride. the daughter Of the famous
Jenny Hill, is one of the cards Of REILLY and
Woods big show this season, and has made a
great hit in her character song, "'rhe London
Newsboy." Mr.. Reilly has been congratuls
ted on the superiority Of his company. He
appears as Nephisto Mick, in q spectacular
burlesque, entitled "Hades, and the 4OO."
1t has been long time since any play pro-
duced In New York has received such warm
and general critical approval as Henry G. De
Miles 'The Lost Paradise" which Manager
Frohman's Twenty-third Street Theatre Stock
Company presented on Monday night last The
new play is founded on the German of Lud-
Wig Fulda, BUTT has been thoroughly adapted.
The characters are said to be all essential to
the development Of the plot; they are we'll
drawn and human the dialogue is crisp and
clever, and the comedy is genuine. The play
deals with the relations Of capital and labor,
but this element is subordinated in interest to
the love story. Sidney Armstrong and Odette
Tyler made notable successes in leading roles
In ''The Lost Paradise"
Another Pinero play, 'Lady Bountiful,n
had a successful first production at the New
York Lyceum on Monday night 1t was
"Lady Bountiful" with plot not very strong
but with some we'll. drawn characters. Hubert
Keicey; W. j. LIE Moyne, Georgia Cayvan,
Ehie Shannon, and Bessie Tyree, who is a
washington lady, had parts in ''Lady Bounti-
ful'' which they enacted so well as to win
warm praise from the New York critics.
Those enterprlsing managers, Abbey,
Schoeffel, and Grau, are having great success
with their ventures this season. Bernhsrdt ia
doing well in New York and the grand opera
season In Chicago has turned out magnif-
Gently.
Lydia Thompson has been struck rather late
In life with an ambition to play line of parts
similar to those In which Rosina Vokes has
made such fame and fortune. Lydia will 90
on the road shortly In a repertoire which will
include "a Clerical Error,' 'tWrtten in
Sand,n "Bed Of Roses" and "Hamlet Up to
Date" Lydia is still frisky old girl and
may make success of her new venture.
Frederick Conger, who played the boy
Latirop Pagein Alabama" to the delight of
Washingtonians during the past week, is a
young man with very promising future. 1t
Is only his second season on the stage. Last
year he was q member of Mr.. Daniel Froh-
mans stock company.
Mr.. E. s. Willard's Chicago engagement
has been great success The total receipts
at his performances week before last were
$10,500.
Agnes Huntington's many friends and ad-
mirers here will regret to learn that she is not
doing well with her new opera, "Captaln
Therese," though they will not be greatly sur
prised. "Captain Theresen is a weak and un-
interesting opera, and Miss Huntington's
managers showed poor rjudgment In putting 1t
on.
Wilson Barrett recently essayed the part of
othelIo in Liverpool and the critics gave him
generous praise. II Barrett really does
Othetto effectively, he must have developed
qualities he showed nothing of on his Ameri-
can tours.
Stuart Robson admits he is IS years old and
his new wife, May Waldron that was, says
she is 27.