The evening world., 1894-08-20
MISS RUSSELL ND SOLOMON.
Marie Tempest Hints at a Possible
Reconciliation.
News and Gossip About Theatrical
Matters in General.


don" said little Marie Tempest yester
day as she sat in her rooms at the st
= James Hotel. and chatted babblingly
q She came to see me. and | was never
so surprised in my life as when | saw
y the change in her appearance. She
e looked dreadfully i'll, and could hardly
1 drag herself up the stairs. DO | think
e she will succeed In London? l wouldn't
be II bit surprised II she made big hit
There's positively not singer in Lon
= don. I'm really ashamed of the theatres
there. That's why | wanted to stay,
added Miss Tempest. with Japanese
twinkle of her eyes. The day after
Russell called ! met Perugini walking
in the. Lowther Arcade with Barton
McGuckn. so Miss Russells in Lon
don | said to the fond little husband.
marked. 4 believe she is Perugini was
cessor, Mr.. Teddy Solomon, came up
and shook hands with him, There Is
musical director of the Lillian Russell
company; lie suggested 1t to me. and
offered him. as bandly and ingenu-
ously as ! could, an introduction to
Miss Russell; he wasn't bit abashed,
prised If they forgot old scores"
Miss Tempest may possibly return. to
England Thursday by the Augusta VIC
torIa. SO she said. and julius Steger,
who sat there with his quaint little mus
tachios looped up ceilingward, confirmed
this. IL all depends on whitney. she
fulfil my part of the contract. but
poor Whitney-what has he done?
Where's his opera and his company?
me the modest little sum of 5000 for
felt"
"And II 1t hadn't been for me-" inter-
posed the glossy julius, Miss Tempest
wouldn't have come over at all. She was
crazy to stay
Quite true" asserted the ,prima
donna Mr.: steger came from Vienna , i,,,
| and begged me to return. I'm thankful
now that | took his advice. and that we
have the best OF whitney"
"Whitney's been too anxious arrang,,
| ing for Miss Tempests non-return,"
ventured the complacent tenor,
Indeed he was" assented the prima
donna and ia like to say that his
| couldn't get any answers to my cables;
| had nc idea what he was doing, and
couldn't find out. 1t was The Even
Ing World, l believe, that exclusively
| that ] was on the Augusta Victoria.
airs veil that ends we'll We are both
of us here
I'VE are cried steger. and I do
wish somebody, would tell the truth
Is not owing to Miss Tempest's inhu.
that gst I'm
next season, whether Miss Tempest
goes over or not. And Edwardes didn't
engage me on the strength of my New
| York notices. he added. with grim
smile.
Another American prima donna with
i .onq is Miss h lily f POST ny" You see
said Miss Post yesterday. I've a
sister living in London, and she was
most anxious for me to go over and APP
pear there. ] was under contract to
Whitney, but ! have found out that my
| tour would include terrible number of
one-night stands. ! can't endure one
| night stands AM. what IL more, / won't.
so 4 l can, arrange things to my salts
faction, to London go"
Diana has swollen nose, and her
winning OF caused considerable excite
ment at Roster & Bials, where she was
rehearsing for the new living pictures.
supple. obedient. There was a carpenter
hanging to the border above her head.
Something went wrong with him In his
| elevated position, and in an unlucky mo-
| ment he dropped to the stage. En- route
he grazed Diana's aquiline nose. The
| air was warm with her Indignation.
Shed have him arrested. she declared.
| He did ii on purpose. He was trying to
| iniure her. lie wanted her to look
| fright. Et patati. /Et patata. The poor
carpenter went to Hammcrstein for ad-
vice and Hammerstein professed to be
very alarmed about the situation. The
only thing you can do" he suggested,
lis to marry her" And that's the stu
alton to-day
Eleanor Calhoun is back in San Fran
cisco and the Californians are gloating
over her az the first Californian girl to go
| to France and play there in French. She
| ~ wi "A French
| cadence" about her voice, and that
charmed them. Then she appeared In
| AS You Like 1t" at Lady Archibald
Quite lot Of in london she's going
| back to Europe, and later land this is
| where all our rosy anticipations comes
| IND she will return to America and make
tour of the country
Henry Arthur Jones's play, The Bau,
6s shGn in p WhGs s oa Dr SSs %
of 'Dle Sit Cenrichter" Oscar Blumen-
thai was the adapter. There's an honor
for Henry Arthur
The prelude to the regular opening of
the dramatic season Is being played
week many playhouses will have Thrown
| off their inactivity, and we shall take
the plunge into new season. The out
look is brig cher than 1t was s,,ar fey s,
turn out to he "A success
Ibsen is writing a new play, but New
Workers need not be frightened. 1t will
not be imported. The lbsen fad-never
| IA very potent Affairs as dead as
door nail. 1t will, therefore. not be
| overwhelmingly interesting to note that
in writing his plays lbsen draws the
skeletons of his characters. then puts
on the flesh. and subsequently clothes
| It," lie never talks about his plays
while he is constructing them.
| 1t Is said that the reasons that
prompted X. l.. McI.ean's abandonment
| OF his starring tour were domestic diff
| tiCulties and the fact that managers
| wanted very powerful actress to re-
| place poor Marie Prescott. Mr. Me
| Lean thought that his own name alone
| should secure dates as good as any he
had ever had, and was very much hurt.
| Starring actors, after all, are in less
| demand than starring actresses.
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