The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-17
News OF The Green
Room and Foyer
Some of the Moro Important DOings
Of These, Our Actors.
THE LILY WILL WRITE A PLAY
Mrs. Langtry Thinks That She Can I'm.
prove Upon the Modern sScribblcrs.
There's Nothing Scotch About Rob
Roy"-The Kendalis Unveiled.

There's Nothing Scotch About Rob
Roy'-The Kendalis Unveiled.
One Of the hapDlest features OF cur
rent theatricals is the energetic manner
i'll which the American people have-to
use an expressive slang word-"tunl-
bled" to the Kendals. The slop, brag
and illimitable affectation Of these
fourth or fifth rate travelling Britons
was enough to disgust all decent audi
ences from the start. and we have never
quite forgiven the United States for
having been 50 easily taken in. For
tunately, however, the humbug will
not long continue. The following eX-
cerpt from the conservative Buffalo EX-
press is typical of the tone Of the news
papers from ocean TO ocean; and 1t
means death to the reign of insipid
Kendalism: "Madge Kendall and her
trained husband have been saying un-
kind things of America and American
newspapers in general and in particu-
lar. When this pair came to this
country they .werc in an Impoverished
NOiA'''''ii' puN NllNs ilttN SiAiN'
about half u million dollars out of this
God-forsaken land. In the circum-
stances how can they be blamed for
giving us the laugh? When In San
Francisco the other day Mrs. Kendall
told the reporters that their city was
her language was elegant-'a jay town /;
that The Second Mrs. Tanqueray' is
the greatest religious moral play of
| the age; that it will survive long after
the hills Of San Fransico have been
| leveled TO the ground i go through
| your dirty Streets she continued, mot
| looking at the spittings on the pave
nlent, but at your beautiful sky. Your
| audiences come To the theater with
never a peep at the sky, but every look
for the spit These delightful remarks
were followed by more in the same vein.
1t can easily be inferred that the Ken
dals played to bad business in San
Francisco. and. TO speak bluntly and
patrlotically, bad business Is all they
| deserve from one end Of this country to
the other
In lieu Of other diversions which cir
cumstances once generously gave To but
now deprive her of, the fair Jersey Lily
fair by courtesy at least-will seek
solace in play writing. Those who saw
her at the rockingham the other eve
ming will agree that she needs new
play; and rather than take chances on
some mere Literary cuss," Mrs. Lang
try very wisely decides that she will
write 1t herself. The Lily, by the way,
thinks there are many love-
sick SWANS in this country.
"Since 1 left America l have
been literally deluged with letters from
admirers in the far west who want to
marry me-" she recently said. "They
evidently imbibed a good deal in gossip,
wise and otherwise, that appeared in
the newspapers, and imagined that /,
like Heaven, was TO be had for the ask
ing. They sent me their photographs
on tin and on cardboard, told me of
their mental prowess, assured me that
they had incomes ranging from $40 10
$50 month, and were prepared to live
an ideal life OF love in q cabin Some
of the matrimonial offers, shorn of en-
dearlng phrases, were substantially
nothing more than crust and a
caress." Mrs. Lantry will not get to
Gotham before January. She will re-
turn to England in the summer and will
then prepare for trip around the
world.
"The House on the Marsh" company
got filled up with malaria. says the Buff
falo Express, and died a natural death.
1t is instanced by New Yorker that
in the very Scotch opera Rob Roy
there is nothing Scotch but Miss Flora
MacNichol. She Is the only performer
on the stage who has drop of Scotch
blood in her veins The Stuart is q
German and Rob Roy is Teutonic
Lochiel Is an lrishman, the Scotch
Mayor is an Irishman, Janet is an
American and the English captain Is
the daughter of an lrishman by a
German wife, In spite of these antag.
onistic nationalities, Max Freeman, who
is u German, has infused the entire
scene with the atmosphere of Scotland
| LINUS, NpiililtlllS Il NllllC, We stu
an operatta written by a Chicago man
composed by man of Dutch ancestry
and performed in the main by German
and Irish players. yet which gives {
very correct picture of the land ot
pease brose. Aiblius naebody l. tn,
story loves haggis nor kens Glenlivat
Yet the glaikit, canty lads and lassie!
| 1nxKrn ,i oh, hot 10, 4.
limbies sac monte ways that a Scots
maist will be gart tae be rantie wit.
, Where the stars were this week
t Alexander Salvini, Spokane, Wash.
2 Ada Rehan, Chicago; Denman Thomp
' son, Middletown, Conn; John Drew
t New York city; Joseph jefferson, Phila
5 delphia; Julia Marlowe, Chicago; Oti
:. Skinner, Houston, Tex; Roland Reed
: Chicago; Rhea, London, Ont; Richar,
: Golden, Rockland, Mass. Robert Man
/ tell, st. Louis; Robert Hilliard, Syria
cuse; Sol Smith Russell, Cincinnati
Thomas W. Keene, Denver; Della Fox
: Chicago; De Wolf Hopper, New York
i Dorothy Morton, Utica.
!, Showmen are bashful lot. There
$ a manager named Budd. He is jus
a now travelling through Cincinnati wit
t a brass band and some real actors
Y When he reaches a town he completed
g covers up the street names on. tn
q buildings and lamp posts with sue
: titles as 'Budd street" "Budd avenue,
"Budd place" and "Budd square.
i. When there is room he puts up anoth
er sign reading, This Way to, tn
Opera House."
FOOTLIGHT FLASHES:
Sardou is worth $50O,000.