The evening world., 1894-04-05
NO REMEDY FOR "sTAGITIs."
The Peculiar Malady Which
Carries Off Drama Heroines.
Chance for Pantomime Discussion
Other Theatrical News.

Stagitis Is the name given by a very
bright humorist-not Jerome *. Jerome
10 the fearful malady from which so
many stage heroines die on the stage,
week after week. and year after year.
The popularity of it is" says this gen
tenan, hat when the heroine is
doomed to die from it, in the centre of
the stage, nobody ever thinks of sending
Tor medical assistance. Tho bystanders
appear to regard 1t as a fatality which
there Is no use resisting. And, indeed,
they are right, for when the dramatist
dooms his heroine to diC-die she must.
II may be that she has taken "A little
poison, but nobody dreams of admins
terinS an emetic. or of sending for "A
stomach pump, They all stand around
In IA r~everential or awe-struCk ATTITUDE
until IA little jerk in the system of the
inoriDund one proclnims that stagitis
mas done its full work. OF course. there
IS an excuse for the playwright. The
apie m~eG han effect" Even Joseph
arthur, William Haworth or sutton
nane would fine insnperabie difficulties
IN me way of casting a glamour of poe
try around it. Then there are no mala-
dies but heart disease and consumption
that can b" offered to a MODERN
audience. Measles or scarlet fever or
10 NioNiINNIS ullbIdllullt.
The production of Cinderella" the
London pantomime, at Abbey's Theatre,
April ~. has evoked much discussion on
thc rate OF former English pantomimes
III TINS city; An English writer declares
that the trst London pantomime ever
presented in this country was staged in
ISL In New York city. a company of
was sent over from Eng
land. among them T.. j. parSlOe, AZ
Clown. t.nN as IIn rl,ppip. I ,tIIS, l,1,,
son as C9lumhine, and Sonas. as Pan
th,3on The nnntomime was called
Mother Goose" and it was a failure.
or the ~scrap-book ficnd to step in and
contradict all this with volleys of supe-
rior Information.
A funny incident occurred at the end Of
the second act of "Girofie-Girotia" at the
Casino Monday night. The entire com
pany, including principals, chorus and
ballet. had ended their grand Terpsicho-
rean finale, and had already assumed
statuesque poses; when il was discovered
that one end of the b~ifurcated curtain
mad become c~ntangled In the wings and
refused to bulge. The seconds were pro-
iohged to over a minute, and every one
sell was convulsed with laughter. while
Digby Bell. whose back was turned to
me audience, was about to walk off the
stage, when he discovered the predlca-
ineht. Win great presence OF mind he
began to dance vigorously. and did not
stop until the c~ontumacious end Of the
curtain was d~isentangled and lowered.
The Observation-Disclosures case has al
ready reached the stage-its comic and
not Its tragic side. Hallen and Hart in
farce-comedy. THE Idea" and can The
ski simply but pleasantly. Madeline
The eminent American actress Co
Won-Go-Mohawk continues her conquest
OF England. Here she was a great favor
lte In Paterson, n. j. She has had her
paper. and has been interviewed just as
seriously as though she were Ellen Terry
or-ahem!-May Yohe. She says heaps
Of pretty things. She loves dear Eng
land and the dear English, just as the
dear, English love dear America as soon
as they reach staten Island. 1T was
f In w Hre wb,,e of m my H." said Mile; No,
down her cheeks. TO look upon this
country, with its landmarks of history.
or Wh!rh ! read 50 much in my, early
crowd of reading when she was a little,
chubby, tinted lass.
Corinne. who has now ceased to be
fourteen years of age, though she chung
most pertinaciously and continuously to
N'''' ~" Va q III JhNNllilllN, is gong
to leave burlesque and appear in the
legitimate. She is an ambitious young
woman. with plenty of money to be
spent on the qualification of her ambI-
ton, Before going into the legitimate.
she VIII play an engagement next season
at the Star Theatre. That's promotion.
Miss ,1sador Rush. Roland Reeds lead
ing lady, has a soul above advertising
cigarettes and corsets ana cosmetics and
hair dyes: She has lent her name to n
new mining company in Denver, and
permits her portrait to adorn the shares,
Ihats something Lillian Russell hasn't
done yet.
The metropolitan actors now in the
stock company at Denver seem to be hay
ing IA good time, though, when exiled from
home, Notwithstanding to Patti-daZ-
ZleS in vain. one of them writes, we
have Il ltialto here that Is hard to beat,
Actors and actresses are Kicker than
one would believe out in this city of the
plains" In the stock ompan are The
odore NJ. Brown, Mabel Amber, G. De
Bennett; James Neill and j. Herbert
Leonard.
The rowdy ball at Tammany Hall,
that ended so disastrously MOnday
night, was largely advertised by gaudy
pictures of Lillian Russell. Really, Sig.
Giovanni Perugini. this should bc your
ono Won GhnnlI gtnp fnr,ynr ri ,,l