The evening world., 1891-08-21
.AUTUMN's DRAMATIC PLUMs.
Prospects for "The Dancing Girl ="
at The LyCeum Theatre.
"a White Lie" Being Rewritten
for Presentation by the Kendals.

Manager Daniel Frohman is watching the
rehearsals of "The Dancing Girl at the Ly.
ceum Theatre with all the vigilance Of vigil
liant nature. He never misses one, and the
piece has been subjected to his closest consid-
Grafton. Mr.. Frohman Is too keen a student
to say that this peculiar play, about which
London has been talking so long, will be a
success The usual theatrical man, In q burst
OF galvanic enthusiasm, would exclaim "My
boy, It's great, great-positively-I assure
you, and I've booked nothing for the rest OF
the season." Not so the sedate Frohman.
There are eighteen speaking parts In the
cast OF 1.-THE Dancing Girl" besides a
number OF "supes." The Lyceum is a very
small house, and 1t Will be difficult TO
accommodate so many. The private of1ices
| and business quarters or the theatre will all
be used as dressing-rooms. Mr. Frohman has
received an interesting letter from Henry
Arthur Jones, the author OF "The Dancing
Girl" Mr.. Jones says that his heroine is
simply q healthy animal. She is not i'm
moral" he writes, " merely nop-moraL" The
postponement OF the opening from next Mon
day until Aug. 81 will give the play more re-
hearsals and move the production nearer to
that cool weather which makes theatre-going
Ineligible.
Mrs Kendall is to bring another daughter
with her to America this time. The latest on
the subject OF these highly interesting folks is
that Sidney Grundy is rewriting for them "a
White Lie" The play was presented here and
was we'll received, but the verdict was dis
| agreement as to the artistic value OF the de-
nouement. SO Mrs. Kendall, who hates
doubts, has asked the author TO rewrite his
play. The other features OF the Kendals' re-
pertoire will all be new to this country.
Laugh not, neither make merry in any way,
at the souvenir craze, for It is indeed serious.
1t is one OF the manias against which logic is
powerless. At Palmers Theatre Tuesday
night, when Manager Askin distributed silver
spoons to the feminine portion OF "The Tar
and the Tartar" audience, eighty-seven
women filed one by one through the gate be-
fore q solitary man was reached. There is
money in the distribution OF souvenirs. We
can call It silly; we can call 1t undignlned;
we can make many very reasonably scathing
remarks; but the fact remains that women
want souvenirs, and will struggle into thea
lIe III any Illue W SeJ lncHl.
MarieWainwright looked very pretty yester-
day as she stood upon the stage OF Palmer's
Theatre rehearsing "Amy Robsart" She
wore simple "cotton gown" OF blue and
white, but there are cotton gowns and cotton
gowns, and Miss Wainwright's was particu-
larly chic. She rehearsed her part as thor
oughly as though there had been an audience
watching her.
Charles wyndham's agent, Mr.. Moore, has
just been observed in New York. He has left
for the English actors ranch In Colorado.
Georgia Cayvan, Herbert Kelcey and other
good people OF the Lyceum stock companies
have been suffering rather severely from the
heat in Southern California. Many OF them
remained, in languid discomfort, in the cars
provided for them by the management In
stead OF confding themselves to the discom-
forts OF the hotels. The company will not
open In New York until November. No me-
tropolis for them until that date. Poor
Georgia. Hopeless, exiled KelceyI
"Through by Daylight" is the somewhat
peculiar title OF picturesque comedy
drama" TO be presented at the Peoples Thea
ire in this city Aug. 81. According to man
agerlal announcements-bahl who cares
about managerial announcements any way2
They are all alike.
Young salvinis ambition seems TO be as
loud as his voice. 1t is now settled that he is
to make tour Of the world, faVortng London
as the first place. From London he is going
TO Paris, thence through France, across the
PyTenees to Madrid. After this he is due at
Naples, Florence, Rome, Milan and Genoa
Salvini will then start for South America, ap-
pearing in Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo
Vera cruz, the City OF Mexico and New
orleans are the resting places to follow. All
this sounds very nice, but why this sudden
yearning on the part OF the world for young
Salvini? He has proved himself to be fairly
good actor, but
"Work and Wages" the melodrama dealing
with the ever-recurring question, will begin
its season, appropriately, on Labor Day, at
the Windsor Theatre. RehearsLls began at
the Grand Opera-House last Monday. The
scenery and mechanical effects used in the
original production by Mr.. French will be car
ried on the road by this company.
A. p. Dunlop claims to have applied for the
following patents: An apparatus for drown
ing the ill-bred chatter at performances; a
new anmsthetic for asphyxiating authors OF
iine-art tragedies, one-act plays without words
and boied-down versions OF old dramas,
called sketches; an automatic machine for
the making OF New York successes, and an
automatic chronologogram. The last-named
article is the size OF pocket rule, and en-