The evening world., 1893-12-18
STAGE News AD GOSSIP.
Roster & Balls Ney Rule Gov
erning English fingers.
Nsv Play for tho Lyrum Comedy
Compan.

The English concert.ill artists who
come to this country uter engagement
10 Messrs. Roster 4 Ella viii in future
he expected to arrive he one week be-
fore their engagement egins. This, in
fact. will be written : the contract,
Ger It is said that Hrriett Vernon's
comparative failure IN tew York was
due to the act hat sh began her en-
gageinent under vocal dhcult!es. When
she arrived mere she unt to Chicago,
and then wanted TO Wis Niagara Falls
tefore she sang at Nost- & Bial's. Her
voice had almost left he she rchearsed
rapidly and careIessly, and the result
WAC a severe stating the morning
after her flrsr appearance. Miss Vernon
gained In popularity, an before she re-
turned TO England she recovered her
voice and sang charmirly. Everybody
w'-' heard hc" sing on IL opening night
rms disappointed; those who attended
her last performances unveiled at her
failure. Miss Vernon irself was Bit
terly disappointed, md dc!ared that she
couldn't understand 1t 1t all. Miss
Bessie Bcllwood, who spears at this
house tonight, vas to ave made her
siebut last Monday. Shit was on hand
ana ready To appear II management,
She WIS hoarse from thdong sea jour
ncy, and generally, she Ws In bad form.
Miss Be!lwood was toldthat she must
nostrone nsr appearing We don't
duplicated" said the Management. And
20 MS fleetwood will nike her debut
II Is said that during se season the
u q Tn~ A-1-l -.
]. H. Gilmour and Miss Mud Harrison,
will probably be seen @, the Lyceum
Theatre with Il new. plnynnd that the
stock company. headed hMiss Cayyan
innings Mt the Harlem )pera-House.
The comedy company is ia to be an
admirable orsanisation,. smpered at
present by the IA It that II doing moth
hand plays.
And now comes the astoshing news
that John l.. Sullivan ha adopted a
hoy and Is going to .educatend care for
black who appealed to the snpath.es OF
the pugilist-actor to such aextent that
John L.. drew from the latthe history
of a rather mournful life. his pathetic
the Information comes fro n young
actress who there a the time.
John L.. is branching out. lot content
with rescuins Mrs. Drew I'd the UNI
grateful Sydney from an abarrassing
situation, he Is now takinsupon him
self the responsibilities OF aather.
What has become of C~ahencita? is
q question that is often askenowadays.
IT can easily he answered She is at
present dancing at the T'rodero, Chi
cago, and dra wing a cosy lite salary OF
$500 per week. The reason hat she Is
not heard of more .frequentlNow Is that
she insists upon this s~alarywhich few
H mansser vau ,eei lnellnsa to pr' this a We'll c,iy
offered Carnenclta an engagement the
other day at $500 per week. Sc stamped
her foot and her eyes flashed re. NO
own. n when that's gone I pa n my
Jewels rather than dance I'd any such
beggarly sum-" Only a feuyears ago
d doilar Gar q week. fr wns t Slsd frog 1sset K S,.sen
at Ntblo's.
"N!rvana. OF. the speok,. tn Sage and
the Sandwich" is he fescinaag title OF
Arthur Kendall. that is to f%Iproduced
next month by. John L. Coin at the
New York University Drantic Club.
Mr.: Golden selected the opa from a
working very hard at it. T. Il whiffen,
IT., the son of Thomas Within, Of "A
Woman of No Importance, will take
There Is q little rumor tohe effect
that, Miss Helen Bertram iay play |
Marie Tempest's part in "ThAlgerfan''
at Hammerstein's Harlem Oera-House
this week. Miss Tempest Il a little
fatlgued. yocally, n Miss Btram was
sent Tor. But the ways n ~corices and
voices of the prima donnas a, never to
pc relied upon, n perhapsIiss Ber- |
tTam's services may not be utized after
Maurice Barrymore explain his little
oeinquencies at the initial Irformance
or "A Woman of No Importace" rather
curiously. He say that tn furniture
nad oeen disarranged, and that Miss
oghla took. positions otherhan those
mat she had assumed at rehearsal,
inns would be a very plauSle excuse
for an amateur. but for the kh-salaried
3ld-timer Barrymore 1t SEES a trife
The management Of the Ntropolitan
Cpera-House make few efYor to please
their patrons. At the Satltiay NATL
nee. during the performancepf "Lohen-
srin.' a crowd Of well-dr&ed ladies
paid their little $3.50 and sod up at
me back with the men. TIL is right
enough In its way. 1t is whit thew ex-
pected to do. Yet the hous was half
empty, owing to the wet weaver. There
was a vast expanse Of unocupied red
velvet. Under the circumstances II
YOU'D nave been an act OF courtesy to
nave permitted these mua-lovers to