The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-18
FOOTLIGHT FLASHES:


Agnes Herndon is to star.
London now has permanent German
theater.
Ellen Terry designs all the costumes
she wears on the stage.
Gettysburg" is the title of five-act
drama by Frank G. Campbell.
Sarah Bernhardt says noble dog is
much more worthy of love than man.
"The District Attorney" is a new play
by Harrison Gray Fiske and Charles
Klein.
Sardou's "a Woman's Silence" and
Americans Abroad" have not been pro-
duced in Paris.
Sardou recently devoted n nights re-
ceipts of "Gismonde" to the Pasteur in
stitute in Paris.
William Terriss has commissioned Clark
Russell the well known novelist to write
a nautical play.
Charles Frohman expects TO have 500
actors under salary next year; this season
he has more than 800.
Joseph Haworth will produce "Ham-
let" and "Rinaldo," Il new tragedy in five
acts by Ernest Lacy, Of Philadelphia.
The Rev. George Walters, of Australia,
Is writing a dramatiZed version of go
seph and His Brethren" for George
Regnold.
Fay Templeton and Vernona Jarbeau
have definitely decided to star together
next season at the head Of a big burlesque
company.
"An Unofficial Patriot" Is the title Of
To A ~ ali will ha
produced simultaneously in London and
New York.
Olga Nethersole is studying "Frou-
Frou" for an early production, and in
February will present Henry Hamilton's S
new play, Carmen"
Miss Louise Beaudet has new comic
opera tcalled THE Bathing Girl" by
Messrs. Hughes and Coverley. 1t will be
produced in Boston on Jan. Z.
Princess Paulina, the daughter of an
Amsterdam banker who is IS years old
and II inches high, and only weighs eight
pounds is coming to this country.
The Sunday Protective league, of Bos-
ton, is making an effort to stop the Sun
day night performances in theaters given
under the name of sacred concerts" or
benefits"
George Alexander has the measles, and
Leonard Boyne has been engaged to play
the part of David Remon in the London
performance of "The Masqueraders" in
his absence.
Eddy's Weekly Squib says: This is the
worst theatrical season ever known. Hun
dreds of unemployed actors and actresses
are walking Broadway, New York, look
ing for a job.
Grace Filkins, the actress with the
Titan hair and midnight orbs-by kind
consent of Olga Brandon-has been en-
gagged by James A. Herne to play the role
of the heroine in "Shore Acres"
In obedience to orders from high quar-
ters the four theaters in Paris subsidized
by the state-Opera Francaise Opera
Comique and Odeon--were closed on the
day of the Cars death.
Robert Hilliard will be the first imper-
senator of the favorite Van Bibber on
the stage when he appears in his own
dramatization of Richard Harding Davis
story, Her First Appearance" in Cleve-
| land, o.
Beerbohm Trees repertoire for his COM
ing American tour will include "a Bunch
of Violets," John a-Dreams," "The Red
Lamp" "The Ballad Monger" C"Grln-
goire'D "The Merry Wives of Windsor
and Hamlet"
Lillian Russel's next production will be
revival of la Belle Helene" which she
will play alternately with 1.-THE Grand
Duchess" on the road. Nothing new ap-
pears to be in sight, although she had
some idea of doing Doris" Alfred Col.
lier's comic opera.
Madame Rejane will sappear in this
country next February and give 100 per.
formances of Madame Sans Gene" ant
other plays in New York, Baltimore
| Washington, New Orleans, Chicago, Phil
adelphia, Boston and Montreal.
Rose Coghlan has new admlrer in the
person of a young Greek. He was put
out of the theater on Wednesday. II,
has since tried to get on the stage, tC
talk through cab window, and ha.
written letters offering marriage.