Omaha daily bee., 1891-10-18

dramas, will be first made known tomorrow
night at the Walnut Street theater, phila
delphia. The piece is owned by jerome
Eddy, editor of Eddy's Squib, Marc Klsw
G.. b. Jefferson, A. L. Erlauger.
Duulop's Stage News, an invaluable Jour
nal to the manager and dramatic editor, has
entered upon a now volume and seemingly
new lease OF life. Dunlop mas been wonder
fully successful with his petite journal oil
dramatic doings, and what is still more &c
the point, deserves it.
John +. Hurley, general agent for Rich &
and Harris, who control the tours of James
T.. Powers in "a Straight TIP" "Huxedo,p
and George Thatcher's minstrels and Boys
and Girls" was in the city Thursday to
make the Pacific coast railroad arrangements
for MIR. Powers and "a Straight Tip COM
pany. They go west via the Union Pacific,
returning to Omaha in ID ecember to fill an
engagement.
The theater used to be the resort of think
ing people when there we're no newspapers,
no magazines and few books. Then 1t was
an intellectual center. Poets produced
their poetry; philosophers made plays the
medium for their noblest thoughts. But,
now That thinking people have a hundred
other intellectual resorts, the theater has
become mainly a place of amusement, and, If
the public is not amused by a play, they will
not go to see IL.
The new theater in Pittshurg has a lobby
tiled with onyx and a gallery containing 600
pictures. The newell posts at the stairways
are surmounted with bouquets OF electric
flowers. A reception parlor is completely
covered with decorations, furnished with
satin, plush, gold and beycled plate, tiled
with onyx and hung with remarque etchings.
There are / ,226 electric lights on the stage,
and seats for $500 people in front of it,
Every scat is two feet wide, and the rows
are a yard apart. The ushers are ten boys in
pages costume.
An evert occurred at Portland theater,
says the Press, Saturday night that was not
down on the bills. The un fortunate victim,
innocent OF the crime, Is wrestling with his
emotions prior to the horrible end he ex-
poets. The prison doors are thrown open
of a sudden ana the officers appear to lead
him to the guillotine. In the agony of his
approaching fate the prisoner cries out,
you shall not lead me to my DEATH > or
words to that effect. The audience on this
occasion was spollbound, but as the actor
shrielted out these words II spectator in the
gallery, wrought up to the highest tension,
sang out in tones that echoed through the
theater: mo-! I'll be id if they shall!'
The following American dramatic authors
were invited by Sydney Resented to attend
Roland Reeds performance Of MIR. Rosen-
fields comedy, THE Club Friend" al the
Star theater, New York, the other night:
Bronson Howard, Augustus Thomas. David
Belasco. Henry c. DeMille, William Gillette,
Clay Greene, Bill Nye, Edward +. Kidder,
A. &. Gunter, Charles Barnard, Henry Guy
Carleton, Brander Matthews, Cheever
Goodwin, Charles Hoyt, Charles Gavlor,
Edgar Fawcet, Clinton Stuart, Paul Potter,
Grattan Donnelly, Charles A. Byrne, Martha
Morton, Clyde Fitcn, William Gill. Horace
Townsend, Archibald Gordon, Leandcr
Richardson, Harry B. Smith, Joseph Arthor,
Ben Woolff, James Roche, Frederick Maeder,
Howard u. Taylor, Chandos Fulton, a.. G..
Wheeler, Scott Martin, Charles \. Vincent,
Steel Mackaye, Mrs. Burnett. Stephen
Fiske, Franklin E,yles and George Jessop.
We have a few playwrights. haven't we!
Augustin DAILY is paying pretty dearly for
MS Partisan success The cat is out of the
bag in earnest this time, and the more ven
tilation the facts receive the more disastrous
the DAILY season is proved to be at the French
capital. Dramatic experts are scoring the
caole correspondence very severely for the
news which was telegraphed over here con-
corning the DAILY season in Paris. The
French papers. the CORRESPONDENTS of En-
gllsh papers and private letters prove beyond
question that Mr.. Days season IN Paris is a
complete and dire failure. artlstically and
financially. There is not a CLEAN of light
anywhere. American residents are perhaps
excusable for their desire to give Mr.. DAILY a
helping hand, but it is rather questionable
whether any substantial good is gained by
claiming a success which is so easily dis
proved. The most amiable Partisan critics
said that Mr.. Daily could serve tho cause of
art more effectually by staying away from
France than by going there,