The evening world., 1894-03-15
STAGE news AND GOSSIP.
Leonard Boyne Will Adopt This
Country as a Home.
Manager Burnham Studies the
"Rosedale Audiences.

Leonard Boyne. the English actor, now
with THE Prodigal Daughter compa-
ny, already loves dear America and the
dear Americans. and has positively made
up his mind to stay here. So the hearts
of the matinee girls may rejoice, and
they can Danish all gloomy forebodIngs.
Mr.. Boyne writes to THE Evening
World" from Baltimore, as follows
II purpose producing a play entitled
sister Mary at the American Theatre
S SnmMannS INTEREST," NJ neN.' and ut is a nppn lsy S of st mssi
with approval In New York. Its run at
the American will be limited, as ] leave
plays in contemplation which will first
see the light in America. and II they are
snccessful ! shall take them and Sister
Mary on the road, in the Fall; am
having n good time on the road. 1t is
most pleasant and interesting to me to
SEE this great Gountry; Pittsburg and
simply charmed with Washington: 1t
is simply delightful-the ,loveliest city 1
have hays eyer been in; ! b @Sa friends
well, so 1t is endeared to us ALL.
Manager Charles Burnham is making
a careful study Of the audiences who go
TO see "Rosedale" at the Star Theatre.
He sits in one of the boxes and never
Looks 81 ,bs the su dtage His gaze is riyetsd
day: AS a proof that the theatre
goers OF to-day, are interested In the
piece. will tell you that there have
usherss of the gray-headed, reminiscence-
discussing the old casts. They, have
ance. The young people want to see
'Rosedale,' and are not anxious to pay
out their money for the sake Of listen
ing to the. interminable chatter Of the
old-timers."
The great gag among newly arrived
variety people at present Is the announce
ment that they have just filled an en-
gagement at the Folies Bergere. Paris.
That mot has now come to be looked
dancer. .fourth-rate tumbler. ffth-rate
wire-walker, sixth-rate fat woman. sew
snth1rate jnggler, or eighth.rate singer
The name is used on programmed
wrongly spelled. in nineteen cases out of
twenty. IT used to be the Alhambra or
the English 'alls nave become too COM
mon.
Miss Jeffreys Lewis. OF whom we have
beard little lately. is going to star again.
She Is rehearsing a play that has not yet
been been n n, and that IL said to be.on the
tolre will include three new plays. She
will also tour California:
Pauline Hall is enjoying her visit to
New York; She can be seen daily riding
through the Park" How nice for the
Parki
The reason Of the failure OF "a woman's
Revenge, In New York is very amusingly
s sTI hns n IN One bssS of the the English nsgn,nsd papers r..
clares the writer in question; mot, 1t
appears, because the piece itself Is re-
garded as bad. but because the sight Of
the la Uvprg n r their wigs and UnurnS In
the trial scene always sends the house
into commissions: Lawyers never wear
that sort Of thing in the States, you
He! He? "A woman's Revenge" would
have failed in New York with or with
out wigs.
Miss Kate Claxton made great efforts
TO secure Nine. Janauschek for the role
of Nine. Frochard in that play entitled
'"rhe Two Orphans that she is shortly
TO introduce, to American audiences; 1t
was promptly announced that Nine;
yet supported any American star. didn't
propose beginning with Miss Claxton,
with the speesh she was to have deiiv-
cred at the Worlds Fair.
List to these words, We ladies Of the
Professional Woman's league. who par.
tlclpated in the recent LAS You Like 1t"
performance. They are words uttered
by a English critic concern
ing a similar performance in England:
IF We were engaged in a thirty years
war: " there We're no able-bodied men
much obliged to the ladies for sticking
on boards and mustaches and bald
heads, and trying to entertain us In
at present the idea is rather revolving.
1T Is an exhibition of the two-headed-
calf order. We may now look for Ham
let with a cas-. of performing dogs"
The chorus girls lot in Lillian Rus
sells company just now is not a happy
one; She has to appear in The prin.
"Girofe-Glrofa" every day. The COM
pany Is at present in Boston; Next
w wsft take Miss 8 rest sns and on nn aa nss 4 ss aaiaol
ne-Giroia'' will be sung al the Casino.
Richard Mansfield is going to England
at the close of the present season for
the psnbllc9a little needed rest. He is on
the The g So6 SG for new Plays, % VII q he
easy to At. and the playwright whom
he honors Is not exactly one to be
s Msbsle BY i his s,,; Sol IsSs,;ss himself At present e n1t
good, old repertoire:
box at the Fifth Avenue Theatre Mon
day night and interested herself in the
stage that she had so superbly adorned
very pretty perched up in the box, and
1t Is the opinion of many that II she
gave up the idea Of posing as a tragedy
queen, and devoted herself to comedy.
she might still be happy.
Robert Buchanan. the aggressive Eng
lsh playwright, who accused Paul
Potter of purloining his ideas In "Sheri-
dan; or, The Maid of Bath" and then
showed that those ideas, embodied in
don, were no good, IL now similarly ac-
cused himself by a man named Cumber-
latest work, "The Chariatan," and in 1t
recognizes, he claims, a play of his own.