The record-union., 1891-06-06
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edges that one of the situations in his
play is from a foreign source. but every
bit of dialogue and the plot are abso-
lutely original. Miss Coghlan considers
the play one of the best she has yet read,
and for the next three years Will play
nothing else but "Dorothy's Dilemma"
which she has secured for America,
England and Australia. Work has alrea iy
been started on the scenery, and the
printing, which will be most strikingly
effective, will soon be out of the printers 5
hands.
''AIR. BARNES OF NEW YORK;
Archibald Clavering Gunter's charm
ing play, ''Mr. Barnes of New York, !"
will be produced at the Metropolitan
Theater on Friday and Saturday even
ings next. The charming play has once
been produced in this city and greatly
pleased all who saw it. The duel scene
on the beach at Ajaccio, the trip to Nice,
showing the stations Of Paris, Tormere,
Dion and Lyons, the most novel, inge-
niouS and effective railroad realism ever
Monte Carlo, viii all be remembered
with pleasure.
STAGE NOTES,
Joie Sutherland has been divorced from
VIII II. Mayo.
Frohman tor next season.
Gustave Amberg is seriously Ill at the
Belvidere Hotel in New York.
"O'Dowd's Neighbors" has closed it's
season. 1t has been wonderfully sue
cessful.
Modjeslla will next season be seen in a
German historical play called the "Magic
Mask"
The Patrol" is said to have made a
failure at Chicago in spite of an excellent
company.
Lillian Russell will most probably sing
in LA Cigale" when she goes abroad
this summer.
"Niobe'' is to have its first production
IN New 1ork at the Bijou Theater on the
3lst of August.
And now it is said that James O'Nein
has bought Archie Gordon's us Mar
riage a Failure?''
Albert Roland Haven, the author of
the Yelled Picture" is writing play
for Sol Smith Russell.
1t has now been definitely arranged
that Mrs. w. j. Florence will return to
America and the stage in 1892.
Marie Jansen will summer on the Con-
tinent, accompanied by her cousin. She
leaves for Paris on the 9th of June.
1t is said that Lotta will appear in Cali
fornia and Mexico during tho summer,
and then make tour of the world.
Edward A. McArdle has gone to Cen
tral America to see if the proper kind OF
attraction could be made to pay there.
Louis Harrison has been engaged by
Manager David Henderson for the pro-
duction Of 'Sinbad'; at the Chicago Opera
House.
Leonora Bradley is seriously i'll at her
residence in New York, and the summer
tour she contemplated has been aban-
doned.
The Thalia Theater in the Bowery,
New York, formerly the old Bowery. is
to be torn down and new house erected
on the site.
1t is very probable that "Her Atone
ment," one of the most successful of
American plays, will soon be produced
in London.
Thomas F. Shea, for many years adj
vance for Robson and Crane, will be
business manager for Wilson Barrett
next season.
Marcus A. Meyer, the biggest fraud
connected with the theatrical profession,
has gone to England. We know of no
one who will mourn if he stays there.
Wilson Barretts brother will star next
season in a piece called Another Mans
Shoes" There are rumors that Wilson
will come later on with the "Other Eel
lows Sock.'
"a Desperate Man." a new play by
Anson Pond, author of Her Atone
ter, London, May 18th, for copyright
purposes. The play met with great sue
cess.
From the annual report of the Metro
politan Opera House Company it app
pears that the last season of German op-
era in New York cost the stockholders
SS4, 600. 1t comes high, but they must
have it.
Ely" a very clever Irish drama,
written by the late Frederick Marsden,
has been sold by Mrs. Marsden to GEORGE
w. Wilton, who will star Sadie Scanlan
in it next season. 1t is one of Mr.. Mars
den's best plays.
"a jolly Surprise" in which Fanny
Rice will star next season, is the work of
Arthur Wallack, son of Lester Wallack.
1t is clean, well-written comedy, in
which Miss Rice may do well, if she is
strong enough to carry play herself.
Dunlop's Stage NeaUS is the best friend
of the dramatic editor. Its news and
notes of the profession are always the
latest and brightest, as well as the most
reliable. Through it every newspaper in
the country gets the services of a vast
army of correspondents without cost.
One of the great metropolitan spring
successes is the witch" in which Miss
Marie Hubert Frohman has with one
jump bounced in the very midst OF
American stars. Mrs. Frohman is the
wife of Gustave F'rohman, one of the
brothers of the well-known Frohman
family, and himself a manager of great
ability.
Harry Miner is certainly fortunate
man. In q conversation recently he ac-
knowledged that ne was worth more than
S2,G00,000 clear, and that his yearly net
profits amounted to nearly quarter of a
million, Besides this, Mr.. Miner en-
joys the very best of health, and is about
as happy as mortal can be. Every penny
he has he has earned himself.
r. E. Graham, who will next year star
in play of his own, called Larry the
Lord" was made the father of bounc-
ing boy lately, when the "Sea king''