The evening world., 1893-09-16
GOSSIP OF THE PLAYHOUSES.
A Story that Daily Is to Build a New
Theatre.

Theatres are springing up. as they
usually do at this time of year, like
mushrooms-sketched on paper. Play
wrights and anage nowadays say,
I'm going to have a theatre built" just
as an ordinary, everyday man would
remark. Pm going to have a suit of
clothes made The difference, however,
is that the suit of clothes is made, while
the theatre generally remains In the
minds eye. The latest is that Augustus
DAILY Is going to have Il colossal house
on Fifth avenue but as Mr.. DAILY Is not
here the report cannot be verified.
d. c. Willoughby, who is described
as a "rich real estate operator" who
went to Europe to negotiate with DAILY
about the new theatre, but who refuses
to confirm or deny the story, sounds
like our old friend, ID. G. Willoughby,
who. three seasons ago. managed Mar
garet Mather, and then, later, was bust
ness manager of the Fifth Avenue Thea
tire at the time It was ruined by fire.
MI. willoughby always had elaborate
schemes on hand one of them was n
phenomenal arrangement with Henry
Irving and the Lyceum Theatre Com
pany. and the conversion OF the Fifth
Avenue Theatre into just the sort of a
house which "Daly's Fifth Avenue
Theatre" is mapped out to be. 1t was
MT. 1lIDuSHDy WIN ENGINEERED loI MS
Mather her big and worthy production
Of Joan of Arc" He is IL clever, we'll
educated and amlable man, but he has
never yet been known as a rich real
else. Days London theatre. according
to the reports OF a score of people who
have been abroad, has been very far
from successful SO far.
Here is a jeu de mot told against
Oscar Wilde. As a rule he is made to be
the originator of all the funny sayings.
This time he met Whistler, the artist.
%"salome,,' which he wrote for Sarah
Bernhard; It's a very charming work
declared den. 9 sd,, WHISTLE Shd nst izs ID enjoyed it. Why
1t is not easy to get an American
audience to join in a song sung from
the stage, In England and in France
people TAX to that kind Of thing very
Tony PASTORS, Miss Phyllis Allen makes
the request for IN audience chorus
openly, and unless she did so she would
never get it. At Palmers Theatre the
Theresa Vaughn, with wonderful spon'
~taneity. In reality. 1t is claimed, the
spontaneous chorus Is started each even
ing by a man in the gallery, who Is
paid for hat work. His exuberance is
soon caught by the rest Of the house,
Julian Edwards is publishing a one
act comic opera entitled king kine's
Daughter" 1t is founded upon the
play of that name. Mr.. Edwards is still
working upon the comic opera for Digby
Bell, with Stanislaus STANCE as libret-
fist. Bell will do this opera II Cheever
Goodwin's effort should not be ready.
In the, mean time. the comedian con
Tar and Tartar" and Jupiter"
The open-air performances Of AS You
Like It. in Chicago may have been very
picturesque to look at. but the company
appears to have had rather a troublous
time. According to Rialto gossip, the
actors and actresses compromised viii
the manager and received a third Of the
salaries due them. Otis Skinner was In
the cast, so was Ebcn Plympton. Plymp'
ton kicked" because a young woman
named Mabel Eaton, who played Rosa
lind, was featured on the programme
Plylnpton declared that he had never
heard OF her and withdrew from the cast
In disgust.
There Is some talk Of Nat Goodwin
/, reyiving David Garrick' at the Fiftf