The evening world., 1894-07-23
HAD TO UTILIZE THE GARDEN.
Rain Interfered with the Madison
Square Roof Concert.
Mrs. Cutting May Not Star Next
Season-Othcr Stage News.

| The Compromised, hut not absolutely
expected. raindrops Saturday night did
| not interfere very materially with the
enjoyment Of the audience which went to
the Madison Square Roof Garden, The
people were promptly invited to descend
to the ampitheatre, where they saw the
entire variety show, with Austens sceno-
graph of Chicago and the Worlds Fair
thrown in as a sort of ballast as it
were. The management did not accom-
pish this without trouble. Bessie Bone
! hill will never sing unless she has cal
cium sprayed upon her face. She needs
| 1t to emphasize the entensity Of her ex-
pressive ability. and so does Charles B.
Lawlor. He also has to be swathed in
! calcium. So the calcium machine had to
| be taken down to the amphitheatre
and deposited in the middle OF that vast
arena. 1t didn't look pretty at all. but 1t
did Its duty, The. big stage made the
performers look like midgets. Little
bonnie Thornton. who was very much
afraid of the echo, but who managed
famously, looked Ike, Liliputian, while
Lottie ellison, attired in a flaming scar
let dress looked like a tiny dab of red.
The amphitheatre idea, however, was
good one. 1t was better than turning
good money away, and 1t will be adopted
rainy.
While the ordinary everyday stage
! lady goes to the different dramatic eX-
| charges on foot-and is even thankful
Mrs. Robert /. Cutting crlves around
| in a prettJ little hanson. She was
spotted on Broadway yesterday. clad in
ing at the door of her cab, from which
she was laying down the law in fine
style. Her energy Is due to the fact that
she may not star next season, and that
| consequently she wants some work to
do
The great and only Corbett is simply
sweeping everything before him in Ire
land. He, is even, to play for the bene-
fit of a church-that of the Rev. James
Corbett. the pugilist's namesake and rel
alive. That performance will he given
| at Balliprobe, and the Rev. Corbett will
get every penny Of the proceeds. Then
Mr.. Corbett will pay in Waterford,
Limerick and Cork. 1t is said that he
feels quite at home in the land of his
| forefathers. a statement that is pathetic
| enough to produce tears.
while I'm on the other side" said a
well-known and rather pompous actor
| yesterday, at the Gilsey House, "I'd like
very much to make arrangements with
Sardou for a new play. l know he's
rather a busy man. but
| But" retorted his friend. If you
cable him that you are coming he'll meet
| the boat at Havre or Liverpool As the
| case may be. He's most ooligins lei
low, and so fond of Americans, who give
him so much work. You can tell him
what you want. and he'll send the
| scenario as soon as he's thought 1t out. =,
And the pompous actor took 1t In dead
| earnest.
Charles Frohman has not only rifed
London of everything worth having, but
he has secured a mortgage on futurity
He already owns the American rights
Of works that ,l have r n1t y1 for 6 6een
body else.
owen Westford. Miss Lillian Russell
Hbbsy hsi easn s"f Grau %
the prma donna,s London season: MISS
Russell is delighted. for, she Is very
fond of this brother-in-law, and has
tried many times to engage him for hel
company. Something, however, always
prevented this.
Fred Bryton. the star of Forgiven
and other highly interesting plays, is
a restaurant in connection with Buffalo
Biils Wild West show, at Ambrose.
Park, Brooklyn. Mr.. Bryton has no,
Catering Just to pass the Summer away
as proiitably as possible, Il is 4 pity
| that other actors cannot follow has eN-
ample at present Mr.. Waldron, the
business manager of james. a. Herne 5
Shore Acres company, Is also aus
porting himself untheatrically He Is
the purscr Of the steamer Belie horton
running from the Battery TO Soutt
| Beach.
Zola's "Therese," interpreted by Mrs
Potter and Kyrle Bellew, has not se'
| San Francisco on fire, although the Cal;
ifornians expected to be shocked and
scandalized. They thought "Therese
tame, and We're quite veNed about II
Mrs Potter's plans are not definitely
settled. She may so back to London.
Miss Agnes Herndon will not be man
aged by her little cX-hushand, Fessel
this season. While they were divorced
through the country; POW, however
that she Is anothcr's he declines Il
have anything to do with the company
which seems rather inconsistent. doesn't
it? Miss Herndon will again present
that fervid Sarah Jane drama, entitlec
La Belle Marie"
This item comes gambolling merrilS
in: "Dore Davidson and Miss Ramit
Francisco" GLOW terribly we hav,
missed you, Doreo After being detained
three weeks on account OF the railroad
strike, they were obliged to return via
British Columbia. over the Canadian
Pacific Railway, being twelve days or