The Washington times., 1894-07-15
UNDER THE LIMELIGHT.

Gossip About Many People Who Have
Amused You and l.
Creston Clarke denies that he is going to
manage the Walnut Street tneater, Philadel-
phis, this season.
Cyril Tyler, the boy soprano, sailed for
Australia yesterday. where he is to receive
$40, 600 for series OF fifty concerts.
Charles Frohman will star Helen Kinnard
next season in skit called "a New Boy"
play.
Diamonds are certainly nice things" said
a Philadelphia actress the other day. mime
are in Chicago now and here am in the
Quaker City, and that is the way got here.
William Gillette Is writing new three-act
farce comedy for Helen Dauvray. 1t will deal
with Washington and New York society life
and will be seen in this city in September.
Elsie DeWolf and Elizabeth Marbury are
spending the Summer reasonably in London.
They are stopping with some friends and,
according to the cables, alternately dining
with Henry Irving and George Grossmith
A man in Waterbury, Conn, Is advertising
an imitation flesh material for padding pur-
poses. 1t Is respectfully referred to Henry
Faversham, Edwin Stevens, and some OF the
Living pictures" recently seen here.
Maud Hoffman has gone abroad-in the
second cabin. Joe jefferson and his family
are still running the dairy farm on the Butter
milk, near Buzzard's Bay, Mass. George
Bonifaco and his wife ''expece" to 20 to Cali
fornia soon, according to dramatic paper.
Genial ''Jim" Morrissey, the manufacturer
of the Emma Abbott kiss, is in Chicago.
Some unkind friend has started a story in
circulation that Jim is trying to ind talent
enough among the strikers to organize a
minstrel troupe. Jim Indignantly denies the
allegation.
Cecile Kissing, OF Francis Wilson'S Com
pany. is at the Delaware Water Gap. as are
also Harold and Mrs. Blake, of the same COM
pany. J. Cheever Goodwin, who wrote 1.-The
Merry Monarch" for Wilson, is fishing in
northern Wisconsin, where living is also
cheap.
All sorts Of stupid paragraphs are going tho
rounds about the new play that Sardou 10
writing for Sarah Bernhar 1t. 1t is a part
well known to persons familiar with the
famous playwrights methods, that he never
makes anything in regard to any Of his works
public until they are completed.
Four Of the Giving Pictures'' from Roster
and Balls went down to Long Branch the
other day and did some Independent posing
at the Hollywood baths in their bathing
tights. They were all pretty girls and their
tights were tights in the tue sense of the
word. They made hit.
James 7. Powers Is to star In a new farce
comedy by Louis De Lange next season. 1t
is to be hoped that it will be more successful
that the ''Globe Trotter." De Lange's last
piece. was presented for the first time ut the
Garden theater on Monday evening. where 1t
signally failed, despite an excellent cast.
The Kendalls will not allow their son, Der
ringron, TO go on the stage. The surround
ings are immoral, they say. II is no wonder
that their actors have to 90 out of their
country to earn a living. 1t is to be re-
GREETED. however, that American play
goers tolerate them.
Jessie Bartlett Davis, who is nothing If not
always swell, is listening to tho melodies of
the surf at the fashionable Bostonian Cottage
Hough's Neck, Mass.
W. H. Mcdonald, also Bostonian, is sing
ing Brown October Ale'' to the natives Of
Ohio, a place very famous for
Its manufacture of farm wagons.
There are only two Legitimate" actors at
Saratoga. One is Steve Brodie and the other
Is BILLY" Dixon. There are some envious
Thespians looking up and down the Rislto. who
are mean enough to argue that Brodie and
Dixon did not earn their Saratoga board
money in the true artistic and professional
manner that becomes great artists Of the
stage.
Dewolf Hopper and his pretty third wife,
Edna Wallace, are at Long Brannh. Hopper
s running SNOWFALL stand at the White
Fence, near Daly's club house. He wants to
hold on to it in preference to playing ''Pan-
andrum," and his friends. cruelty say they i
wish It might be so, but point out the fact
that there will be no market for snowballs in
December and January.