The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-23
HAD TO UTILIZE THE GARDEN.
Rain Intertered with the Madison
Square Roof Concert.
Mrs. Cutting May Not star Next
season Other Stage News.

Season--Other stage News.
The long promised. but not absolutely
expected, raindrops saturday night did
rot interfere very materially with the
enjoyment OF the audience which Went to
people were promptly invited to descend
to the ampitheatre, where they saw the
entire variety show. with Austen's scenJ-
graph of Chicago and the Worlds Fair
thrown In as Il sort Of ballast, as II
were. The management did not accom-
plish this without trouble. Bessie Bone
hill VIII never sing unless she has cal
cium sprayed upon her face. She needs
1t to emphasize The entensity OF her eX-
pressive ability, and 50 does Charles H..
La~lor. He also has to be swathed in
calcium. SO the calcium machine had to
be taken down 10 the amphitheatre
and deposited in the middle OF that vast
arena. IT didn't look pretty at all but it
did its duty. The big stage made the
performers look like midgcts. Little
Bonnie Thornton, who was very much
afraid of the echo, but who managed
famously. looked like II I.ilputian. while
l.ottlc GilsOn, dlNlreu III HaHllHG scar
let dress looked like tiny dab OF red.
The, ainphltheatre idea, however, was II
good one. 1t was better than turning
good money away. and 1t Will be adopted
every time that the night Is unduly
rainy.
While the ordinary everyday stlge
lady goes to the different dramatic eA-
charges on foot-and Is even thankful
just now that she has shoes TO go In,
At,.. a. st,ts I.llI al
in pretty little hanson. She was
spotted on Broadway yesterday, clad in
calmly pink, with dramatic agents wait
Ing at the door of her cab, from when
style. Her energy Is due To- the fact that
she may not star next season. and that
consequently she wants some work tn
do.
The great and only corbett is simply
sweeping everything before him In Ire
land. He IL even to play Tor the bene-
fit of "a church-that OF the Rev. James
Corbett, the pugilists namesake and rel
alive. That performance will be sivei
at Balliprobe, and the Rev. Corbett vii
get every penny OF the proceeds. Their
MIR. Corbett will play In Waterford
Limerick and Cork. II Is said that NJ
feels quite at home In the land of hi'
forefathers, IA statement that is pathetic
enough to produce tears
"Whle I'm on the other side said i
well-known and rather ponpous actor
yesterday, at the ,iilsey House. I'D iik,
very much to make arrangements win
sardou for a new play ! kho" hes
rather a busy man, but
but" retorted his friend. II you
cable him that you are coming hell met'
the boat at Hayre or Liverpool. AS tht
case may be. He's most oblisins Eel
low, and so fond Of Americans, WHO give
him SO much work. You can tell hin
what you want, and he'll send the
scenario as soon as he's thought IT OUT.
And the pompous actor took IL IN deau
earnest.
Charles Frohmun has not only rifle,
Eondon of everything worth having, bu
he has secured II mortgag" on iuturit!
He already owns the American right'
written He has left very little for any
body else.
owen westford Miss Lillian Russell
brothcr-in-law. has been engaged 10y
Messrs. Abbey, sThoelel a nnau N T..
Russell Is delighted, for she Il very
fond OF this brother-in-laW, and hdi
tried many times to engage nm '1r hel
COMPANY. Something, however, al"iy'
Fred Bryton. the star OF Forgiven
and other highly interesting plays, u
just now prosaicaily engaged IN runnin.
giii's Wild West show, at Ambros'
Park. Brooklyn. Mr.. Bryton has no
given up. the. stage, but he does I'M,
catering just to pass the Summer ava!
that other actors cannot follow his eN
ample at present. Mr.. Waldron. TIN
business manager OF james A. ilsrn'
shore A|res" COMPANY " also a'1
The purscr II the steamer Belle Horton
running from the Battery to Souti
Beach.
Holas "Therese." interpreted by Mrs
Potter and Kyrle Bellew, has not s..
San Francisco on tire, although the Cal
ifornians expected TO be shocked an,
scandalized. They thought There's
Mrs. Potter's plans are not dehnlteE
settled. She may go back to London.
Miss Agnes Herndon will not be ma n
aged by her little eN-huSband, Fessel
thia sc ason. While they were divorce
he had no objection to plotting he
through the country now, however
that She is another's he declines Il
have anything To do with the company
which seems rather inconsistent, dotHn
IL? Miss Herndon VIII again presen
that fervid Sarah Jane drama, entitled
la Belle Marie"
This item comes gambOlling merrill!
in: 'Dore Davidson and Miss Rami
Austen have Just returned from Sal
Francisco" tHow terribly We haN
missed you. DoreD after being detaine,
three weeks ON account of IN" rdilroa,
strike. they We're Obliged to rrturn VIA
British columbia. uV"v ia" Canada
their journey :, uncNtly tnty W"rr u"
forgottcu) Their repertoire lor neN
season-you pays your ,noE"!, an,
You takes your choice includes -!
Day of Reckoning" by the only ever
teemlns sardou; ''rhe Hand OF Russia,
Or Jekyll and Mr., Hyde" by tn
World Forgotten" and The Man VII,
Vanished"