The Washington times., 1894-07-29
GALLERY, PIT, AND GREENRoOM.

Next week will be the last OF the comedy
company at the National Theater. All amuse-
ment lovers will regret it, as the company
have, by their excellent work during the past
nine weeks. very firmly established them
selves In the good graces of the Washington
public. 1t is seldom that a manager gets to-
gether as clever an aggregation OF players as
the company that has been amusing US this
summer. The repertoire has been varied
one, and although 1t is styled comedy
company" they have been equally at home in
plays of more serious order. Every member
OF the company 10 comfortably fixed for the
fall and winter season. and as they all go with
prominent companies we will have chance
to welcome them individually at different
times during the winter season. The play Sc
lected for the closing week Is Robertson s
drama ours" The company have already
appeared to excellent advantage in plays by
this author. and as Ours is supposed to be
one Of his best efforts. the last week will
doubtless prove fitting close to most sue
| cessful season.
Manager Augustus Pltou has secured time
at the Broadway Theater. beginning January
| IA, Tor the metropolitan presentation OF Sar-
dou's "Madame Sans Gene" The contract
with T. Henry French was signed last week.
| The five weeks Mr.. Pitou has taken were
originally held for the Bostonians, but that
organization has decided to curtail its New
York engagement by that number OF weeks in
order to visit other cities.
Lawrence Hanley and wife edith Lem
merit have abandoned starring plans for next
| season. Several weeks ago Mr. Hanley or
ganized an excellent stock company to play a
summer season at Los Angeles, Cal. but WIS
| forced to suspend owing to the railroad
troubles. which paralyzed business in Califor-
N Mr. Hup ia hta
actor. his work in several plays being well re-
| membered In this city. Mrs. Hanley has also
done notable work, both as comedIenne and
in serious roles. As juliet she won the praise
of Boston critics during ner appearance at
the Globe Theater in that city. Mr. and Mrs.
Hanley will remain in California during the
| summer.
| Tho field Of stage training Is not to be
solely occupied by New York. In Chicago
Gustave Frohnan has engaged for his road
companies many young men and women
trained by local instructors. and the resulting
awakening of local pride has brought about
the organization of the Chicago School of
Acting This institution has engaged quar-
tiers in the Schiller Theater building and
those back Of the enterprise express them
selves as determined that Chicago shall not
be second in the field Of practical preparation
for the stage.
1t is said that Charles Il. Hoyt has sold to
Frank Mckee the right TO produce all the
farces formerly owned by Hoyt and Thomas
for stipulated royalties and percentage of
profits, and that Hoyt will hereafter devote
| all his time TO writing and staging his plays.
Charles Frohman saws that while in Lon
don this time he wa 8 ruck by the American
spirit that now pervades the theaters.
The managers are paying more attention
to the comfort OF their patrons, he explained.
Until recently it was impossible 20 get
glass OF ICED water in a theater. and you had
to pay sjxpence or shilling FOR pro-
gramme. This is being changed in all the
iYrst-class theaters. Iced water and pro-
grammes are furnished gratis. and there is
an evident disposition to make the public as
comfortable as it is made in New York. Since
my return there has been brought to my
notice an article published some weeks ago
in several papers in which Madeline Pollard.
the plaintiff IN the BreckinrIdge case. is re-
ported 10 have said that offered to star her
II Miss Pollard has been correctly quoted she
has told a deliberate aud uniounded false
hood, l never asked her to consider an en-
cagemeut; l never wrote to her: / never met
her, and l wouldn't star her if she wanted me
to-"
"Biff' Hall is again subject for congratu-
lation. He writes as follows concerning the
matter:
Il discovered q new soubrette of my own
last Thursday at $40 a. m. She is named for
her good mother, Adele Hall, and weighs
eight pounds"
An interesting feature OF Milton Mobiles re-
vival Of From Sire to Son" at Ni5o's will be
the introduction OF the Rocky Mountain stage
coach, in which Mr. Mobiles as boy i'll 1865,
rode into Denver with Jack Langrishe's dra-
matte company The company maze several
trips in it to Georgetown, Central City, and
Cheyenne.
When Mr.. Mobiles first produced From Sire
to Son at the Tabor. in Denver in 1887. the
property man of the theater found an old
Concord coach under a shed in the rear of a
stable and borrowed it for the play. While
looking 1t over Mr.. MOBILES discovered the fol-
lowing names and memorada. cut evidently
with r diamond ring. on the glass of one of
the windows: John Langrishe. George
Wald-on. Jim Griffiths. Jim Martin, George
Shields, Ned Shapier. E. Brown. VI. Mobiles,
Mrs. Langrishe, Belle Waldron. Tlllie Shields,
Z. Fitzwilliams. On the Divide, Fby. IL
So
Mr.. Mobiles remembered the time and cir
cumstances of the engraving during n heavy
storm while waiting for clear up. He
bought the old coach and shipped it 10 his
Long Island farm. 1t is too cumbersome Tor
road use. but where the stage facilities admit
during his Eastern engagements he uses it,
with six genuine mustangs.
George Bryton has been engaged to play
Willie Gay ill "A Trip to chinatown.
John Ince will go next season with Tim
Murphy as stage director of Lem Kettle"
Master Thomas Ince will play young Nat
Berry in ''Snore Acres No. l."
aI ErObr coil al
on the New York from Southampton on Sat-
urday.
Maude Harrison has bought from Mrs
Charles Doremus the comedy, "Four-in-
Hand"
George Thatcher will open in his new pro-
duction, about Gctham," at Plainteld, y.
j., on August s.
Beerbohm Tree will open his American tour
at Abbey's Theater on January % next.
Crook again next season more elaborately
than ever before. Lawrence Mccarthy is now
abroad in search of novelties for the produc-
ton, which will boast two premiere dancers
Miles. Tornaghi and Leohelda staccioni-
with other notable dancers, among them Sig
nor Biancifiori. Sam Collins will again be
the comedian.
In his speech before the Green Room Club
of London on the occasion of the supper to