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

StagttiS Is the name given hV a worry
bright humorist-not jerome Is. Jerome
to the fearful inalady from which so
many stage heroines die on the stage,
week after week. n year after year.
me popularity of 1t is" says this gen
tleman. that when the heroine is
doomed To die from II, IN the centre of
the stage, nobody ever thinks of sending
Tor medical assistance. The bys.andcrs
appear to regard it as II fatality which
there is no use resisting. And, indeed,
they are right. for when the dramatist
dooms his heroine to dic-die she must.
1t may be that she has taken a little
poison, but nobody dreams of admins
terlng an emvtiC. or of sending for II
stomach pump. They all stand around
III 4. ~revcrcntial or awe-struCk attitude,
until "A little jerk in the system of the
ihurlbund one proclaims that stagitis
mas dOne its fun work. OF course there
Is an tNGus for thS playwrisht. The
able " mechanical effect" Even Joseph
Arthur, William Haworth or Sutton
nhne would u insrrcrable difficulties
IN inc way OF caStinS a glamour of poe
Try around IL. Then there are no mala-
dies but heart disease and consumption
that can be offered to a modern
audience: Measles or scarlet fever or
'li'h'A Ia Ia blSllutlly ullTulnl nc.
The production OF Cinderella" the
London pantoinimc, at Abbey's Theatre,
April ~, has evoked much discussion on
the fate of former English pantomimos
n his city, An English writer declares
that me irst London pantomime ever
presented in this country was staged in
1851 In New York city. A company of
pahtomimlsts was sent over from Eng
land, among them T.. j. Parsloe, as
[ IA N e IN ns III - -. \ .,l -
son, as ~Columbine, and Sonas, as Pan
falcon: The pantomime was called
:" Mother Goose" and 1t was a failure.
Now. here's a chance for the historian
or the scrap-book tlend to step i'm and
contradict all this with volleys of supe-
information.
A funny incident occurred at the end OF
the second act of observation-disclosures at the
Casino Monday night. The entire COM
ballet, had ended their grand Terpsicho-
rean finale, n had already assumed
statuesque poses, when II was discovered
that one end of the ~bifurcated curtain
had become entangled in the wings and
refused to bulge. The seconds were pro-
llonged to over a minute, and every one
In the company felt Uneasy. Miss Rus
sell was %Convulsed with laughter, while
Digby Bell, whose back was turned to
the audience. was about to walk off the
stage, when he discovered the prcdica-
meht, With great presence OF mind he
began to dance vigorously. and did not
stop until the co~ntumacious end of the
curtain was disentangled and lowered.
The Observation-Disclosures case has al
ready reached the stage-its comic and
not its tragic side. ,Hallen and Hart In
troduce a skit on the subject into their
farce-comedy., The Idea ana call the
skit' simply but pleasantly, Madeline
The eminent American actress Go
Of England. Here she was a great favor
lite In Paterson, N. j. She has had her
picture printed in a leading dramatic
paper, and has been interviewed just as
seriously as though she were Ellen Terry
or-ahem!-May fohe. She says heaps
OF pretty things. She loves dear Eng
land and the dear English, just as the
as they reach Staten Island. ut was
the dream OF my life" said Mile. Mo
hawk, while, the Indian tears rushed
d C0Hr her cheeks 10 look upon this
youth" Go-Won-Go must have done y
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
that era of halcyon ~juvenility, is going
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 Will play an engagement next season
at the Sta Theatre. That's promotion.
. Miss Isador Rush. Roland Reeds lead
ing lady, has a soul above ADVERTISING
cigarettes and corsets and cosmetics and
hair dyes: She has lent her name to n
new mining company in Denver, and
permits her portrait to adorn the shares.
That's something Lillian Russell hasn't
done yet.
The metropolitan actors now in the
stock company at Denver seem to be hav-
a good time, though, when eXiled from
home, Notwithstanding to Patti-daz-
zles In vain. One OF them writes, I've
have a Rialto here that is hard to beat.
Actors and actresses are thicker than
one would believe out in this city of the
plains" In the stock are The
odore NJ. Brown, Mabe Amber, C. 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 be your