The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-03
NEWS or THE THHAzREa

- ~ tbese two como from American pens.
while in the other an American actor 10 chiefly
concerned. AZ the Star tho engagement OF
william II. Crane continues. but 1t will gain
fresh importance tomorrow night when there
will be performed q comedy by Paul ID. Potter.
entitled Tho American Minister written to
frames order and intended to 1T that come
,,inp and his admirable company with com.
ramon play to The Senator" Judgment
vill be passed on Mr.. Potter's work-the most
ambitious one yet offered from his pen-by
brilliant audience for any test Of fresh material
~ Crane is worth encoaFngemens an ana s1uay.
s Is smSSns sns s "a ths day. with plenty OF
time ahead Of him, and with high MINIS con.
san,y his work he new IN ee
within sa s sh5ss says fasen Minister
a nSns also .To names ras James No
nast os WfR% n He Rssse Anp S. 9s' R.
Sndthe others OF Cranes competent company.
There will be now scenery oil G9 ha nnovdna
profifably for the remaining weeks OF his Star
engagement
Edwin +. Thorne's first appearance in New
YORK IN half dozen years will DO made at the
pnfk to. morrow night. He will make the &C.
cnsion interesting by producing for the first
time in America q romantic melodrama. The
e @%usH Which win help Thorne win contain
good actors. like NSstor Lennon, W. T. Mel
sn .p william Les and SO the drama can hardly
r played Tho Golden Ladder IN Australia,
travels Its acceptance abroad seems to have
been genuine: az, any rate; Thorne has not
for this country.
A newly formed firm OF collaborateurs In the
Ill, % L. In world cNnoiSfa ~ Haft}A Sforr
and H. Grattan Donnelly. Miss Starr Is prob
ably better known as actress and musician
than ns the wife OF Charles L. Harris. Palmers
admirable comedian. She and Mr.. Donnelly
are write an American opera, he contrib
In Pkiladoip on Easter Monday the Voc
doc" will DO acted for the, first time on any
vet nshqr Ss sss wrtes Of
four accepted plays. A second novelty In Phil
adaphia viii te variety farce re "A A. Tin Ma,
wortsi. VIII" wrote. " r he Ensign" and has since
has finished tl,e new play in which Annie Lewis
will star. and it will be tested in June. II it
s to tay.s Miss
sou. the Philadelphia who. has been COM
to for
in eeerss Barrett
ting around historical, personages. and by
and BY his VII be both
1aged Augustus Thomas to write an Ameri;
can play for him. may now be said to control
s viii de e'% a and ds3
nsg Gy as
TippettI which has been adapted from Bis
sG Of last yess f. be ea HSbo Pss
pany have made 1t known in Chicago. and APP
credlsed With the iu ad Ss
night the Charles Barnard rewritten play.
is hsaen hs sSo Of ts
9rganlzed tour; opening In Albany. Bronson
war drama been
ance at the METROPOLITAN opers House THIS
sty od q Ssns
was to hsve paid 5000 certainly to Al Hay:
9 ha ' SsoaaSs
III ,,s ~ career; tni: tSs
playing through an snsaeement without nf' the
focal management. paying something on ,ac:
SAID that G1 psa
bud 70 send on s.. 900 to cover the salaries Of
81 c
h. denies thet he Il IN straits for money; There
Winter sns'a the is% esr
rent writer's. of real literature concerning the
Srssioas Soots have foand sncers appreolss
ton. David Belasco and Benjamin F. Roeder
X. Sss ss A%sss hS % s
s It into Esss sSef b. de Aa IL Pa snd
The Sss !ss'fe s %fs
2 brisk farce and to have satisfied expectation.
brother chsrss S has 'D BEEN oIs %
Cheek. Book viii be acted soon: Cngh.
Freneh basis. and nobody would be susprised
il Tire Check Book Should reveal a source
other than the reputed authors own mind. Ac;
DOW VII r. appear en at aats%n
ss st the
q their 10 AA%e.ieaaaSSward
feI9"ase to sroyide as many plays Tor Freh
MAYS various uses next season. with Sardou |
Tor at least one foreign contributor The
to Ipake, the dead-and.gon managers Of the |
palpy days turn over in their graves with |
alnazomeRt.
There will be nothing new this week In the |
doings OF the stock companies. At the Ly- |
cetm. the cartoons of fashionable society en- |
bodied In Merry Gotham" still constitute a |
s'shtiy. HUMOROUS ana NATlouSiy interesting
exhibition. The leaders Of this organization |
are:by no means employed to the full extent !
OF their abilities. but, on the other hand. the |
minor members are enabled to demonstrate |
their cleyorness. and it may be said that the |
organization as q whole IL employed very d. |
yeringly, At Pa!mor's the length and slow
moss VI Colonel Carter OF Cartersville." which |
were grievous faults at first. have been
conceded BY a condensation Of the play, The
southern Colonel with his inpracticabe ideas.
Is an entertalntnH character. and so iS the /
faithful negro servant. these impersonatiops by
Holland and Harris being altogether delight
full. The Charles Frohmun company. after
9 Moot in Philadslphia. will come back SO near
BhIrooSlyn. during the week In THE Lost Para
S Sisfe. and will 60 THENCE to Boston. after
is9lmmer.. At Days THE Foresters" IL not
likely to have = successor this season.
When the fair for the Actors Fund was first
projected 1t seemed almost absurd In Presi-
dent Palmer and his com panions Of tho COM
nlttee to talk as they did OF the possibility OF
Ian tprv t.,A II. A.. \