The evening world., 1893-10-13
TOL0 BEHIND THE SCENES.
" AS You Like 1t" with Well
Known Women in the Cas-.
Enc shannon Leaves the Lycsum
to Jon Ro,c Coghian.

That as You I.lke 1t" performance
glyrn exclusively by the members OF the
Professional women's league is going
to be more interesting than was at hrst
imagined. In fact. 1t will not be n sub
jcct for skittish comment, but Tor serious
consideration II was said yesterday that
Nine. Janauschck Will play the part of
the melancholy Jacques. Miss Mary Shaw
viii be the Orlando; Miss Mary Robson.
Touchstone: Mrs. D.. p. Bowers-in all
probability the Banished Duke: Mrs.
Minnie -Fiske Phoebe, and Miss
Lottie crabtree Audrey. The Rosalind
has not as yet been decided upon. al
though hose CoRhlan and Nine. Mod
jeska have been suggested. Two or three
performances will be given, and the Idea
liz certainly move enough to
attention. The open-air performances OF
a. You Like IT, will not be in 1t with
this feminine Interpretation OF the COM
cdy.
Miss I!fne Shannon, it is rumored, has
| cancelled her engagement with Daniel
| Frohman's company, and will appear
with Miss Rose Coghlan In Oscar Wilde's
play, "A. Woman of Importance. Her
| place in Daniel Frohman's company will
be filed by Miss Maude Harrison. who
recently appeared Mt the Lyceum In
"The Guardsman." The retirement of
Miss Effie Shannon from .he Lyceum has
not been officially announced, and the
iumor has caused considerable surprise
\. Cheever Goodwin went to Harri-
gan's the other night and could tax OF
n9'h tbe q but the RS song FL "s ssys That h L hS.
to realize hat the c.. a. r, vase good
subject for n song. And ! can't help
wondering" he said, why l have never
thought OF it myself"
music of 'i492." came over from Boston
to attend the luncheon given IN honor OF
Jakabowski, the composer OF "Erminie,..
by A: NJ. Palmer; at ne ne t Ma.d spi
was the original Lohengrin In this coun.
try. He is now at the head Of one of
the leading musical Institutes OF Boston
and sings In a fashionable church choir.
Edward NJ. A%lfriend's new play, THE
Diplomat is to be lone at the Boston
company OF that theatra. This company
e prGiSn, Includes n%,s I Ei ! H inSnK ,,
Keenan,. Kate RYAN. Mark Price, .!irllc
Stokes and a number of other good peo-
pie. Miss Henrietta Lander WIZ also
| appear in "rhe Diplomat. which Will
come to New York later.
tn" women OF tho stage will
not do for the sake of advcr.
rn"GN Miss svoI lillian hasm LTT,Tusr smit
eide. It Is said that she left a rehearsal
at a Southern town, and ,fceling very
veXcd, went to her room In the hotel:
There two pistol shots were heard. and
the beautiful actress was discovered with
a flesh wound This is the woman who
was Photographed in a coffin. This
oning, especially as the time has passed
when it 10 of the least service to ac-
~trcssas who appeal to legitimate theatre
goers.
Harry Kennedy. at Roster & Rial's. In
his ve~ntriloQuistic sketch. deity alludes
to iiammerstcin's opera, The koh-
moor though whether .horH was a
to do so m man knowcth. Harrigan
also lots on" OF his characters in The
Woollen stocking allude TO the work.
! that Ingenuity could do. Lillian Lewis
herself couldn't have done m)re.
Every actor and actress IN The Old
k,enR,ntky' fnmrs"y yr YIN ha . n" %TIeP Tr"m
tho organize ton when It opens at the
Academy Of Music. An e]ntlrrly, lev
"metropOlitan cast" will be secured. The
peopla, VIII" are thus rud"ly l+ft to inier
that they are not good enough for New
York VIII he put into 4 No company
and sent on tho road.
W, II: .Carleton, Of comic,'prrs re-.
s s3rESa 5 But ' YOU'D ID not onS ,. Ks'o"'. an. nd he 10;
declines TO take a company ~ the lCad
just yet on account Of the unsatisfactory
condition of Kings theatrlcll cut OF
town.
The Pauline Hall Opera Company $
Harriean's. in The Honeymooners,"
Miss Hall has got very. much thinner,
and looks very well. indeed. The new
opera will not be produced in Now York
until early next year.
Nobody SAYS anything about the new
Gilbert aud Sullivan's opera. Utopia
Limited" and the Impression prevails
ffSS%"' ,,, it n nas f and no ns,, Of tn these ms eale rnst
ted collaboration IL a thing of tho past,
!; Not SO very long ago managers We're lit,
orally lighting for the first production OF
The Mikado;" the law courts were set
Ting questions Of copyright. and tho ali
was fun of speculation. Now, n IL very
different. and the difference Is rather
ter,y cphemeral is the bubble known as
fame.
Miss Martha Morton. the author OF
9 She has .,Iist completed a play for Man.
= ager \. NJ. Palmer. and has one or two
others In consideration. Miss. Morton
t longs for the days when she will he able
; to write a play to suit herself. and Will
not have to iii companies and stars.