The herald., 1893-07-23

journey through norway which will end
in the land OF this midnight sun. From
Ultima Thule he will return to Christi
ana by water, stopping at Tronhjim and
Bergen and then cross the North sea to
Hull, England, where he will take chip
for New York. He has finished new
Swedish dialect play in which Jacob Lit
will star him the season after next.
Mies Jennie Reiffarth has been en-
gagged by Manager Frank Maeder for the
Lawrence Hanley company.
One of the newnesses OF the newly
decorated New York Star theater, which
young Lawrence Hsnley will reopen on
August 14th, with Blanche Marsden's
The Player. is a Turkish cigarette and
coffee room geurgeously frescoed and up
holstered.
Mr.. Edwin W. Hoff. for the past five
years with the Bostonians, has been re-
engaged by the same management, most
agreeably to both, as leading tenor OF
this splendid organization. Every one
has remarked the great Improvement in
Mr.. Hoff's singing this season, which is
due to his indefetigable studying with
one of New York's most famous teachers.
Mr.. Hof has declined numerous offers
for the summer, as he intends to devote
his vacation to still further improving
his voice and method at the summer
residence OF his teacher.
The authorship of In Old Kentucky,
the new play to be produced in Septem-
ber, has been sscribed to different writ
ers. 1t is said to be a remarkably strong
play, presenting striking picture of
Kentucky lie daring most interesting
period OF her history. 1t ia whispered
that James Lane Allen, the brilliant
Kentucky writer, is the author, and that
he was aided and abetted by that other
distinguished Kentuckian, Henry Wat
terson. II this be true, it is barely pos
sibie that we are at last to have the great
American play.
Joseph Grismer and Phepe Davis will
have nearly all the original people in the
cast of The New South, at Hoyt's Madi-
son Square theater, August 14th next
Messrs. Scott Cooper, Charles Mackay,
Holbrook Blinn. Ben Cation and MISS
Bebe ViniDg.
1t is now reported that Sarah Bern.
hardt's jewels, valued at 10000 francs,
were stolen in Valparaiso.
Mascagni has finished his opera, Will
liam Radcliffe, and has already sent the
score to the Berlin opera house, where
the work will be brought out next sea-
eOn.
John Jennings ia etill at his farm in
the Vermont mountains, and proposes
to remain there until the last bell rings.
The new Ellis theater at Johnstown,
now building, will, when finished, be
the prettiest theater in Pennsylvania.
Clyde Fitch lie to adapt Corignan
versus Corignan, the new French play for
which Charles Frohman secured the
American rights while in Paris re-
Gently.
The costumes for the new play, A
Lady OF Venice, which is to introduce
Mics Katherine Ciemmons as a star,
under John W. Hamilton's management,
are being specially made by Hermann,
and will, when finished, be exhibited in
a prominent Broad way store. They are
to cost s11 900. A Lady OF Venice will
be seen in New York on the etege OF the
Fifth avenue theater in February.
William Winter. dramatic editor of
the New York Tribune, is resting at
Mentone, near Los Angeles.
w. NJ. Wilkinson, Alexander Salvini's
enierprising manager, is still in New
York, but may yet take trip across the
ocean before his season begins.
Fred Peel has returned to New York
after his summer wandering in the
weet and is booming Rush City, a very
pretty farce comedy written by Gus
Heege.
The acquaintance of the late Manola
Mason company are much interested in
the peculiar position OF the butchers,
bakers and candlestick makers of New
Rochelle. Happy, boyish, deep-schem-
ing John Mason must live and dine we'll,
and he enjoys the dilemma of his butch
ers and grocers as being OF great fun.
II the tradesmen do not feed the Masons
this summer they will surely lose the
bills contracted last year; if they do the
amount is only added to, and there you
are. The Jeremy Didlers of the profes-
sion are trying to get credit for crown
TO present TO Mason.
John A. Dix's famous dispatch, "If
any many man attempts to haul down
the American flag shoot him on the
epotl" ia the keynote OF William A.
Brady's lates scenic production of Old
Glory, which was written by Charles I.
Vincent, one of the leading American
playwrights. The play is in three acts,
and consists of stirring naval tebleaux,
and the story consists of incidents at
the commencement of the late war, and
ia said to be extremely interesting Mr..
Mark Thai, the well known manager,
has taken charge of this production for
Nr. Brady, and he promises one OF the
best entertainments of the coming sea-
con.
Mrs. Bancroft, the well-known actress,
was thrown from cab in London Mon
day and run over. She received injuries
that necessitated her removal to hos.
pital.
The Younger Son is the selected for
Belasco's new play.
Marie George, who has recently been
playing the role OF Brigette in The Isle
OF Champagne, WAS married in New
York, July 18th, to w. l.. Brown, non
professional.
Summer opera is being successfully
given at the Island OF Deschree-sho hos-ka,
eight miles below Detroit, with the New
York Acme Opera company. 1t is the
only summer snap in the country that
is pay ng.
The Algerian is the title of the new
comic opera by Glen MaeDonough and
Reginald DeKoven, in which j. NJ. Hill
will star Marie Tempest next seasan. 1t
will be produced in Buffalo, N. Y, in
September.
Della Fox, who will leave the Panjan.
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