The evening world., 1894-07-30
STAGE NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Manager Brady Says the English
Provinces Get Poor Companies.
Sir augustus Harris at Work on n
New Melodrams.

THE Passing show at the Casino Sat
urday ni.ht in brand-new English
suit of clothes and perspiring brow.
lie says that his European experiences
were very pleasant, and that he intends
to repeat them next year, when corbett
viii appear for one week in each OF the
principal European capitals. II have
learned "a good deal about the show
business since I've been abroad" said
Mir. Brady. land think shall be able
to turn my knowledge to good account
Englund's a great place for theatres.
and | saw everything that was worth
sc"inE didn't enjoy my trip through
the provinces very much. In Bhmins
ham We met with weather that was
very much Ike what yuu have been hay
/ inE here. What fearful companies the
| English provinces get! They would not
be endured in London. Tn" statement
| that We lost money III London Is not
! little. In Paris where We played for
eight nights. we did splendidiy. We
didn't do 'Gentieman Jack there. Cor
! bett merely appeared at the Folies Bcr
| Erre. and back there we shall go next
| year We've had the last act of the
play entirely altered. and shall ito IL as
we did 1t in London when we appear at
/ the American Theatre. We were treat
Ell very nicely. and some of our notices
were magnificent
| Sir Augustus Harris. who sails Tor this
/ country with Augustin DAILY next Sal
urday. Is just now said to he ensag"u
! upon the construction of new melo-
! drama to contain the very biggest scene
! that has ever been seen upon the boards
( of Drury Lane rheatre-a house that
1 Il sporting drama which viii send THE
| i'rollgal Daush'er' into dreary insiS-
niticance, Sir Gus will be aided by
Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton, and
they are mapping out their play at an
English seaside town.
Anent THE Evening Worlds" para
graph on the subject of initiative play
! between THE New Boy" and The Old
Boy" was mentioned. Henry White, the
author Of the latter play. says; ~ beg to
written and named befora The New
Boy was produced in London, and be
| fore | had heard OF the existence of the
EnsiSl play; The p od Boy Was 'riS Sa
| week of Feb. 26. Whether this antedates
the production Of The New Boy can
no, say say In any event haye certainly
QUESTION. and conniicr that the insinua-
ton does me an injustice"
May Yohe is now going to sing the
|
London. and she certainly should do II
full justice. Her own matrimonial ox-
periences. comic opera lied, however,
would be quite as interesting as any
that the most fertile librettist could de-
sign.
Little Ruby, the American dancer. will
| return from England loaded with honors,
and fond dramatic ''mommers' vii trot
out their precious little imps and Invade
the offices of managers once more as
leroyism was ripe. Little Ruby has been
baptized in London, at st. Peters Great
Windmill street, with Elizabeth, Coun;
tess of Winchesea and Nottingham. and
Mrs. william Furmiloe as godmothers
The Princess of Wales gave the child a
heart with a diamond in the centre and
,bI Of t~eny want due AH1
the untiring energy of our own joyous
Ted ID Marks.
The living pictures have reached San
| Francisco, and the Californian pes
simists have found no single, cynical
word to utter This is indeed wonder
leaux, admired them AS works of art.
and absolutely Endorsed the verdict of
the piayed-out, but still popular East.
The statuesque ex- Casino favorite Isa-
| belle trquhart, who hasn't had unal-
! loyed happiness since she returned TO
this country with l.oie Fuller's ceie-
| DRAFTED celebrities mas Decn engaged 10
play the part OF the Widow In "A Trip
to Chinatown" She will certainly look
the part admirably. Her husband, Guy
| Standing, has been secured for Sowing
| the Wind" Miss trquhart is one of the
few Casino graduates not starring now.
| That Aronsonian school gave us Lillian
Russell, Pauline Hall, Marion Manoia,
Fanny Rice and others.
Miss Lottie Collins has announced for
next season. as already told, IA sketch
called THE Devil Bird" by Fred Bow
yer and j. $. Baker. She has further
more announced II as having been writ
ten expressly for her. This. II now ap-
pears, is a little bit of poetic license.
The piece Is old to the London music
halls where 1t was popularized by Miss
Mile Howes and moreover, II was an
ancient affair when Bowyer adapted II
from the French,
The play by Fred Harvey called shall
We Forgive Herr that Manager A. NJ
Palmer Is said to own for this country.
and which was also said to have been
secured by Manager Brady, was origin
ally done In this country. IL appears, un-
der the title OF THE King of Iron" Its
American possession seems to be little
confused, but the indications are that
Mr.. Palmer will do the play
Miss Rose Coghan has secured the
Oriental-eyed actress Maxine Elliot for
her company next season. Miss Elliot is
b. to play the part of Dora in DIPLOMACY