The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-07-16
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THE THEATRICAL WORLD.

The THEAT RiCAL WOhlO.
Annie Pixley will not appear in Polly
Middles next season. She'wlll depend
upon her old repertoire.
Andy Marie, the clown, has been re-
engaged for NJ. B. Leavitt's"Spider and
Fly" company next season.
Miss Sedohr Rhodes will succeed Ger
nldine Ulmer at the Lyric theater, Lon
don. Miss Rhodes is an American
"Saucy Kitty Give" is the title of a
play, by Fitzgerald Molloy, that Au-
gustin DAILY has accepted for Ada Rehan.
A daughter of Col John A. McCaul
has decided go on the stage, and Will
make her debut next season
An eastern publishing firm is reported
to have offered Mrs. John Drew $40, 900
if she viii write her autobiography.
Wilson Barrett will make a tour of
this country next season. November Z
is the date fixed for his opening engage
iment.
Minnie Landes, the prima donna Of
Seabrooke's Isle of Champagne, F" bears
striking resemblance to Patti
Levy, the cornetist, and his military
band, will accompany Nine. Sisseretta
Jones, ''the Black Patti" on her next
seasons tour.
Mrs. John Drew has gone to Staten
Island, to make her permanent home
at the residence of her daughter, George
Drew Barrymore.
Sidney lR. Ellis has engaged Marcus
Moriarty for the leading character role
in Mora Machree," Sadie Scanlan's
new Irish play, the coming season.
Lawrence Marston has written for
Lillian Lewis a play entitled, Lady
ILL., The third act takes place in a cir
Gus, and the title role, though an emo
.tional one, calls for tights and fluffy
equestrian skirts.
Minnie Maddern-Fiske has completed
a new one-act comedy for the Rosina
Vokes company. 1t is entitled Grand
papa" The scene is laid in a French
village at the beginning of this century.
The play will be produced early next
season.
Mrs. Jennie Kimball, of the Corinne
company, will revive Arcadia" next sea-
son. Mr.. Gill is rewriting the libretto,
and Richard Stahl has engaged to sup
ply entirely new music. New scenery
andcostumes will be provided, and the
production will be given only in first
class theaters
PATHS latest idea is to leave the
istage-of course, after a season of fare
well' tours-and settle on her estate in
Wales, where she will give free instruc-
ition in singing to many of the peasant
girls who, she has discovered, have
voices which would win for them Euro
,pean reputation
II is now announced that Edwin
Booth will probably play eight or ten
weeks next season. Several of Mr..
Booths friends, Joseph jefferson in
particular, have been urging the TRACE
dian to reconsider his determination to
retire from active professional life, and
have prevailed upon him to appear in
New York, Boston and Philadelphia
next year.
A movement has been started in Phil
adelphia to arrange for testimonial
performance III hoAOr Vi Mile Jdudu-
schek, who is soon to retire from the
stage full of honors, but, unfortunately,
with no large fortune. Janauschex is
sixty-three years old, and has been
playing forty-two years, the last twen-
ty-five of which have been devoted al
most exclusively to the American stage.
Mime. Emma Nevada, the singer, has
recently been making tour of Spain,
and received great ovations in Granada
and Malaga An imposing dinner was
given in her honor at Gibraltar by the
officers of the Kings Royal rifles. Her
husband, DR.. Palmer, was the only civ
ilian who was present among the gen.
tlemen, and the lady guests of the oc-
casion were the wives of the officers.