The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-01
Gossip.

Isabella Coe is to have Carrie Turner's
part in "Niobe."
Ellen Terry's daughter has taken the
stage name of Hallett
AMY Lee will try to be star again.
She has "A nonsense play called Euchred."
The new opera "Dinah," by Missa, an
nounced for present production IN Paris,
is Shakespeare's "Cymbeline.
Kate Reignolds Mrs. Winslow) has
been reading I'm Boston for the benefit OF
the Womeu's Suffrage Association.
Charles Hanford, who has revived "Ju-
Illus Caesar, i" and who is a strong and gift
ed actor, is Californian, 32 years old.
Jerome X. Jerome the eX-actor and
present dramatist, is TO run paper called
the Idler. Mark Twain Is writing for II.
Pauline Batcheller, whose real name is
Quirk, and Robert August, of variety
show, were married on the stage IN
Worcester.
There are three permanent circuses in
Paris. and no further talk about the one
that somebody proposed TO set up III New
York.
Louis and Henry Schmidt, Victor Her
bert and Carl Hauser of the Seldl Orches-
ira, have formed string quartet to play
chamber music.
Louis James Is said TO have made hit
in Florence's old part of "l4ucius OIrlg-
ger with Joseph Jefferson, though he has
not much brogue.
The new play, "For Money" written by
Clay Green and Augustus Thomas for
William III. Crane, will be produced IN
Cleveland this week.
Ada Fells, chorus girl in "Ship Ahoy,"
has fallen heir TO 100000. Yet she ran
away from home to go on the stage.
Where is the moral
A new play, founded On David Garrick's
adventures, is TO be given in Spokane. 1t
is by Charles Stewart, United States sig
nal officer in that city.
The French company in London is Civ
ing 1.-The Huguenots" in full, as Meyer
beer wrote it, The people who sit 1T out
probably get home about sunrise.
Mary Eastlake has come to grief again
and the members OF her company are sol
emnly counting ties TO the Atlantic sea-
board. She will go back to England now.
Pegou's French Opera Comique Com
pany is giving new, light works In Dos.
ton. New York's 400 will have some OF
the same thing, furnished only 10 SUD
scribers.
The French are beginning to appreciate
the badness of their own vocal methous
and writer in Figaro declares 1t a
shame. the way they spoil good voices at
the conservatory with the tremolo."
At the London aquarium one Of the
principal feats just now is the hypnotlZ-
ing of horse. A performer also catches
n dog that is fired out of a cannon. The
dog endures this without having his bark
peeled off.
A feet of scows, called golden Condo
las" will be owed up and down the Mis-
sissippi and its tributaries this winter.
The scows contain panorama, museum
and theater. No rent TO pay and three
cooks on board
One often hears of customer refusing
TO accept his photograph because they are
not pretty enough, but here is Comedian
Eugene Garfield who demanded another
sitting because his were not as ugly as ma
ture made him.
Hans Richter is not to leave Vienna for
I.ondon--at least, not for some years-be-
cause If he did he would forfeit the pen
sion that will otherwise be due to him as
director of the Imperial opera house when
he ends his term of service there.
Paderewski's piano practice at the
Windsor hotel, New York, says the BROOK
Inn Edqle, extends over eight hours day,
and the other boarders are growing res
tive. A New York paper advocates an
iron clad hotel for the sole use of pianists.
The National conservatory prizes, to be
competed for by Americans nnder 80 years
of age, are rs follows;
Ior the best grand or comic opera, words
For the hest ibrctto flr a grand comic opera 500
For the best - mphouy SVo