The evening world., 1893-07-19
AM0MG THE PLAYER FOLK.
Patti to Produce q New Workers.
Opera in Boston.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mckee Rankin to
ReIoin Fortunes n " Aiabama."

Although the weather is much
ridiculed topic. 1t is serious one 10
the managers OF the roof gardens. The
"sizzard," which means distress to tho
rest of mankind Is 10 them source OF
happiness and profit While sizziihg
Gothamtes have been praying FOR cool
Ing evening showers tho root garden
gentry have been praying ng-metaporically
of course-for a continuation of the heat
and humidEy, which for the hfst two
nights of the week have filled to their
limit the resorts OH the roof tops, where
parched throats are cooled and weary
brains are rested by frC:h and nonsense.
Ii is a great era for tn" music hall 'ar-
tistc," and New Workers are now less
prone to wonder at the young gentle
man in the British provinces who wrote
10 the Royal Academy Of Music, asking
If the Academy had a class for music
hall training, as he had heard that music
hall artists earned good deal OF
money. Such class could readily b.
filled now from among the unfortuna. G
Thespians who cannot get away from
Broadway. and to whom resting mas
become misery-it the rule mo trust v
was not to vigorously enforced.
Now that it has definitely been de-
cided that Hammerstcin' Manhattan
Opera-House is to be converted into "A
music hail. to be controlled by Roster
a. Bal, the demand for this class of pei b,
formers will be greater than ever, and
II would not be surprising II some one
OF the stars graduated from the Bow
cry did open college ol NaudeNlIie
art" AS the Manhattan Music Hall is
to open Aug. Is there Is not much tune
to lose. The Manhattan stage. 1t is an
nounced, is to be enlarged ana the au.
ditorium altered by the new firm OF
Koster, L al Il Co. Drinks Will he sofa,
and the chairs will have little shelves
on the backs for the glassware. Man
ager Hammcrstein. while retaining an
interest in the house will have nothins
to do with the MANAGEMENT, whicn
Roster & Bal will control. CLOSING thelr
Twenty-third street house for the pur-
pose.
There will be one less star in the firma-
ment next, season. for Hicnard nTiuem,
who has been posing as the luminary
years, has accepted an engagement
with Pauline Hails comic opera com
pany.
Charles Alfred Byrne has written an
opera which has been accepted by the
diva Adelina Patti. This is vouched for
by a gentleman In no wise nIRieisn ReInniarily .nn
briele" and was submitted to Nine
Patti-Nicolini at Craig-y-Nos on speGula'
ton, and the aforesaid disin.
that that the diva was so de.
lighted with it that she placed It In
the hands Of Sig, Pecci, who has written
the score and the adorable pdstop patn Nh M
vember. Now will the Broadway seof.
fer. who has had his fling at The
hands! The indefatigable Mr.. Byrne
will also have three other new operas
on the stage this Fall: Venus" which
+; E. Rice will give a hearing; Princess
hall performers. Henshaw, and Ter
Brock, have purchased. and The LANG
Of Gold" which, It is reported viii FOL tb.
American Theatre.
Another surprise is the announcement,
that Mr.. and Mrs. Mckee Rankin
the British rights to Alabama" which
they will take to England season after
next with an American company and
everything else patriotically American
down to the posters, bills and maybe
the paste for the paper on the wall.
After the London season It Is pro:
posed to make tour Of Australia and
India, for which they are. now being
booked. After two years. 1t is stated
they will return to America, the LAND
OF the free and cartwheel dollars. with
the old trademark, "Mr. and Mrs. Nc
Kee Rankin"
John Kernel has changed his mind
and now 1t Is authoritatively announced
to an eager public that he will again gt
out with 1.-The Hustler"
"a Trim to Mars" the new spectac
ular play with which the Liliputian,
will open Niblo's Garden at the end OF
August, is to have fourteen entirely
new sets of scenery, more than a thou
sand dazzling and brilliant costume.
ana large number of new mechanical
inventions, which will surely produce &
veritable sensation" At least that |.
what the interest EXETER OF the shrewC
Rossnfeld Brothers writes.
Manager w. H. Chisholm has engaged
for his production" OF "The Man Abou
Town" VIII Vaudeville, Tim Cronin, C
Jay Williams, Robert j. Ward, Jacl
Horton, T b. Howard, Dorothy Doffron
Dickie Martinez, Marie Louise Day Lot
tie Hyde, Lillian Armstrong, Nellie Page
Josie Dit and Fanny Engel, the las
three being the Novelty Trio"
Arthur Lloyd, with his company, viii