The herald., 1894-04-29
From DunIop'. stage News.

BernhRrdt will not return to America
until the season OF 1867.
Richard Mansfield is going to England
at the close of the present season.
Mike Kelly, the baseball player, is to
star next season in baseball play en-
titled The Irish Adonis.
Mrs. James Brown Potter and Kyrle
Bellew open their next American season
in San Francisco, July I'd.
William G.. Crosbie, formerly well
known as q comedian. is reported to be
hopelessly insane in Chicago.
Eleanor Barry has left the Arch street
thpater in Philadelphia. and Carrie Rad
cliffe has replaced her as leading lady.
Sadie Mcdonald and Florrie West are
going to London to play in Corbett's
Drury Lane production of Gentleman
Jack.
The comedy-drama in which Willie
Collier is the star next season, is called
A Back Number, and was written by F..
T. Kidder.
The nsw play that SGrdou is writing
will be produced simultaneously by
Bernhardt in France and Fanny Dsven-
port in America.
Myron Csllice, who was injured in an
accident to freight train at San Anto-
nio, Tex, tine other day, ia reported TO
be getting better.
The leading parts in The Amazons
during its tour next season will be
PLAYED by Johnstone Bennett, Isabel
Irving and Elaine Ellison.
Tom Martin, George Broderick and
Msbella Baker have been engaged for
Manager Herbert Mathews summer
season of opera at Atlanta, Ga,
For an alleged discharge without
cause, Joshua NJ. Hyde, ex-msnager of
the Alvin theater in Pitts burg. has sued
Charles L. Davis for $1700 damages,
The withdrawal of Isabel Irving from
Augustin Daly's company WAS almost
simultaneous with the engagement by
that manager of her sister, .Evangeline.
While playing in PitSsburg last week
+. S. Willard cut his foot severely by
the props" of Tho Professors Love
Story.
Frank Harrington has been engaged
for the leading role in d. L. Hart's new
play, A Daughter Of Dixie, which is
shortly to be produced in Wilkes
barre, Pa.
Augustus Pitou has purchased a half
interest in the American rights to Bar
dou's Nine. Sans Gene, and will produce
it with Kathryn Kidder, who owns the
other half, in the title role.
Marie Wainwright will, next season,
revive some old English comedies, in
cluding The Jealous Wife, The Bellies
Strstegem and The Unequal Match, and
will also produce one new play.
Eunice Vance acknowledges the truth
of the report that she Ia soon to marry
the son of Toronto clergyman, and it
ia presumed that che will in conse-
quence retire from the music hall stage.
A manager having heard that Shell
don, Mo-, was a good town to play, tele-
graphed to secure the theater there and
received this reply: "Impossi ble-you
can't get it. 1t is filed with hay to the
roof"
Charles Cowles, who has made great
hit as Eben Baxter, the postmaster. in
The Baxters, has rewritten McKee,
RAnkin's comedy drama and renamed
it A Country Merchant. George s. Nc.
Fadden will continue as his manager.
The Irving gait" has been mention ed
directly and incidentally by q great
many newspaper writers, but none of
them has described it go picturesquely
as Kansas journalist, who, in criticis-
ing a performance by an actor well
known in New YORK, says: "He apes
Irving and has walk that reminds one
of a rooster stepping through hot
mush." While this same critic is will
ing to admit that Frederick Paulding is
a very good actor, in spite of this style
of peram bulation, he asserts that Mr..
Paulding's co-star, Miss Mazda Craigen,
"does not look like an actress; she looks
like woman, and acts like one." They
use sharp pens out in Atchiaen.