The evening world., 1893-12-18
STAGE NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Roster & Balls New Rule Gov
erning English Singers.
New Play for the Lyceum Comedy
Company.

TIL English concert-hall artists who
come to this country under engagement
IN Messrs. Roster & Bal Will in future
he expected to arrive here one week be-
FORE their engagement begins. This, in
fact. will be written on the contract,
for II ia said that Harriet Vernon's
comparative failure in New York was
due to the fact that she began her en-
pagement under vocal difficulties. When
she arrived mere she went to Chicago,
and then wanted to visit Niagara Falls
before she sang at Roster a. Bial's. Her
voice had almost left her; she rehearsed
RAPIDLY and carelessly, and the result
was a severe stating on the morning
after her first appearance. Miss Vernon
gained in popularity, and before she re-
turned to England she recovered her
voice and ang charmingly. Everybody
who heard her sing on the opening night
was disappointed; those who attended
her last performances marvelled at her
failure. Miss Vernon herself was bit
terly disappointed, and declared that she
couldn't understand 1t at all. Miss
Bessie Bellwood, who appears at this
debut last Monday. She was on "a
and ready to appear. The management,
however, IL cal INi 1T ~ Sdi.
She ives hoarse from the long sea jour
ney. and generally, she was in bad form.
Miss BellW WOO . Was r told I'D that . She G mGst
want the sad case of Harriet Vernon
duplicated" said the management. And
so Miss Bellwood will make her debut
tonight.
It is said that during the season the
Lyceum Comedy Company, headed by
j. H. Gilmour and Miss Maud Harrison.
will probably be seen at the Lyceum
Theatre with Il new play, and that the
and Herbert Kelley, will have another
innings at the Harlem Opera-House:
admirable organization. hampered at
present by the fact that 1t is doing moth
Ing but the stock company's second
hand plays.
And now comes the astonishing news
that John l.. Sullivan has adopted a
boy and is going to educate and care for
him; The boy, It is said was a boot,
the pugilist-actor to such an extent that
John L., drew from the lad the history
of a rather m%ournful life, This pathetic
episode took place in Minneapolis, and
the information comes from a young
actress who was there at the time.
John L. is branching out. Not content
grateful Sydney from an embarrassing
situation, he is now taking upon him
self the responsibilities of a father.
What has become of Carmencita? is
a question that is often asked nowadays.
present dancing at the Trocadero, Chi
cago, and drawing a cosy little salary Of
not heard of more frequently now is that
she insists upon. this salary, which few
managers feel inclined to pay. A we'll
known vaudeville manager of this city
fInT Y rr1 on nnyn papNnv h
other day at $500 per week. She stamped
her foot and her eyes dashed fire. No"
she said; I have q little money Of my
Jewels rather than dance for any such
beggarly sum-" Only a few years age
and Carmencita was glad to get s'teen
at Niblo's.
"Nirvana, or the spook,, the Sage and
the Sandwich" is the %fascinating title Of
Arthur Kendall, that is to be produced
next month by. John L.. Golden at the
New York University, Dramatic Club.
couple of dozen MANUSCRIPTS, and is
working very hard at 1t. T. H. Whiffen,
tr, the son of Thomas Whiffen, of "a
Woman of No Importance" will take
part in 1t.
There is a little rumor to the effect
that Miss Helen Bertram may play
at Hammerstein's Harlem operasHouse
this week. Miss Tempest is a little
fatigued, vocally, and Miss Bertram was
sent for. But the ways and caprices and
voices of the prima donnas are never to
be relied upon. and perhaps Miss Ber-
trans services may not be utilized after
Maurice Barrymore explains his little
deiinquencies at the initial performance
OF "A Woman of No Importance" rather
curiously. He says that the furniture
had been d~isarranged, and that Miss
Coghlan took positions other thar those
that she had assumed at rehearsal.
mis- would be a very plausible excuse
r9r an amateur. but for the high-salaried
old-timer Barrymore it seems a trifle
far-fetched.
The management Of the Metropolitan
Cpera-House make few efforts to please
their patrons. At the Saturday matt
nee. during the performance of "Lohen-
grin" a crowd Of well-dressed ladies'
paid their little s1.O and stood up at
the back with the men. That Is right
enough in its way. 1t Is what the eX-
pected to do. Yet the house was half
empty, owing to the wet weather. There
was a vast expanse OF unoccupied red
velvet. Under the circumstances 1t
would have been an act of courtesy to
nave permitted these mu~sic-lovers to