The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-01

was taking nourishment regularly and had not
fallen a victim to nervous prostration through
worry about Days threatened vengeance.
A company in Texas is playing Hamlet
with an introduced tank scene in which Ophclid
browns herself.
Tho extraordinary claim is made for a play
now on the road, called Meek and Neckn that
it is dramatic drama.
The Kendals are repeating their New York
success in Boston. Their engagement there will
close at the end of this week.
"The Wolves of New York" is the title of
Leonard Growers new play. 1t will be produced
in Newark Easter week. 1t is a comedy.drama.
Charles Bassett, the tenor, long with the Ameri-
can Opera Company, has joined the Duff Com
pany, and will now have his first experiences in
comic opera.
Tom Keene is again i'll with nervous prostra-
ton. He was stricken at Vicksburg on Satur-
day and will have to cancel ten weeks of South
ern engagements.
Mazda Crageu and Robert Hilliard will be in
the cast of the dramatzation of Albert Ross's
rtsqu6 novel; Thou Shalt Not" to be produced
in New York March so.
1bsen's "Pillars of Society,"" in which it is
easier to discern what the writer is driving at
York at matinee shortly.
1t is again announced that Campanini has re-
covered his voice. Campanin ought to fix day.
once month or once q week, on which to give
regular exhibitions of this voice-recoverng act
James Owen O'Conor, the farce-tragedian, re-
lieves the country's anxiety by taking public
pledge not to so on the stage again. He has
been successful failure as lawyer, clergyman
and actor, and is now studying medicine.
The new Fifth-avenue Theatre, New York,
will be opened on September with Augustus
P1tou's Stock Company in new play. Nelson
Wheatcroft, Joseph Shannon, w. H. Thompson,
Minnie Sehgman, Ida Vernon, Adelaide STAN
hone, and Julia Stuart have already been en-
gagged for the Pitou Company.
Manager Rapley has already filled most of the
time for next season at Lincoln Hall, or, as it
will be known hereafter, the Academy of Music
The line of attractions is about the same as that
usually seen at the National Theatre 1t will be
Mr.. Rapley's aim to keep the standard of per-
formaces at his two houses equally high.
The Ibsen war continues to rage in London,
though here it seems to be dormant. An odd
and very notable feature in the matter is that
the Ibsen admirers in London are actors.
William Archer, the well-known critic, is one of
his most ardent supporters and Sims, the author
OF many melodramas, is as strongly opposed to
him. Ibsen is a long while getting a fair stage
trial here, but it will come.
The Lambs Club, of New York largely COM
posed of actors. will give its first public gambol
on Tuesday afternoon. Col. Ingersol will make
the Introductory address; the screen scene from
School for Scandal" will be done with Neil
Burgess as Lady Tedzle; Marshall P. Wilder will
appear as Gen. Sheridan in Shenandoah, Jr.,''a a
condensation of Bronson Howard's play, and
Nat Goodwin, Bob Hilliard, Burr Mcintosh, and
Wilton Lackaye will appear IN unique presen-
tatlon of Richard ILL.,
There does not appear to be much in the re-
port that the New York theatrical managers
had formed combination to fight the news
papers and the actors. Manager Daniel Froh-
man says the organization for the purpose
of more effective joint action in dealing with
railroads, copyright cases, play-pirates, and
ticket speculators. Mr.. Frohman continued:
This report that we intended to do battle with
the press is as ridiculous as is the other state
ment that we were going to combine against
the actors. Our association will exist for a
specific and legitimate purpose-one that affects
us all as managers only. Far from being hostile
to actors, the combination we contemplate
should prove of benefit to them"
Madame Bernhardt and Miss Davenport are
advertising each other famously by their public
self-laudation and counter-charges of gross
ignorance in interpreting Sardou's character of
Cleopatra. Fannie says that Sardou meant
Cleopatra to be an amazon-not voluptuary.
Sarah says that Sardou meant her to be an
amorous woman-not a strapping virago. Fanny
says that she plays the piece it was written by
Sardou. Sarah says that she plays it as it was
afterward revised and improved by the author.
Thus the case rests, while an impartial public
looks passivcly on and does not attempt to con-
ceal the yawn caused by all this pother about an
utterly vapid and uninteresting spectacular
piece, which Will be forgotten year hence.-N.
Y. Mirror.