Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-10-15

In the play. The PIECE is awkwardly con.
structed as though if had been slammed
together inside of a month. Most Of the
characters and their acts and words arr
Illogical and absurd. Tim Murphy, with
vehicle suited to his peculiar abilities,
ought to succeed as q star. for he is une.
lualed in his particular lire, but in Lem
Kettle l really dent see how he can pos
sibly avoid failure.
hear that dainty little Marie Tempest,
the Dresden China pri1na donna, i
having a comic opera written for her, and
that at the cluse of her present contract
with George Edwafdcs CT London she will
return 10 this country as star at the head
Of her CWn company. 1t is stated on the
authority Of tie same gossip that Miss
Tempest viii play q male>part, not ap.
pcGrinG in female attire at all. She will
hare no manager, except enc employed by
herself on salary The lbretto is to be
written b. an American and the music by
we'll known Londonor, said TO be Ed
ward Solomon, Lillian Russell's second
husband. She viii only appear il New
York, Chicago, PHILADELPHIA, Baltimore,
Boston, Brooklyn, st. Louis and Cincin-
natl during the first season. The money
for the venture viii come from tho other
side of the water, ana a magnificent pro
duction is promised. This may all be
true, but it may be a Rialto vaporing. Al
any rate, the plan, if carried out, ought tc
result in financial success.
The days of New Blood" Augustus
Thomas drama of American life at Palm
r'stheater, are numbered. 1t will be with
drawn TO make way for Miss Olga Neither
sole, the latest English Bernhardt,
to come to this country. She will open
her tour in THE Transgressor, the play
which first lifted her from comparative OBJ
security on the other side of the water. 1t
was Miss Neohersole soriginal (announcedl
intention to make her initial bow TO New
Workers in Romeo and Juliet, and the
change in her plans was decidedly sensi-
bic. We have had some pretty good Ju
lets here, and the comparison which
would inevitably be drawn might have
proved awkward, unless indeed this most
recent English Bcrnhardt'' should really
turn out to be q veritable histrionic mar
vel This may be the case, but if the lead
ing newspapers Of her own country are 20
be believed, it is not. Still there is woe
full dearth of juvenile female stars in this
country, and if Miss Nethersolc is more
than good leading lady, her ability, eou-
pied with the indiscriminate booming
which she is getting Just now, ought to
make her tour a reasonably successful one.
There is to be another theatcr in this
city, and if the present intention of the
nTOsupctiVG builder shoull be carried O;lt
il will he the handsouest placo of amuse.
Iacnt in New York city. The location has
been decided upon and will be not many
hundred feet from the Broadway theatcr.
One rrnor has it that the place will be
run uDon the same lines as the Casino dur.
inc IFS halcyon DAYS. with an operatic
stock coDpanv producing original musical
works as often as they may be required.
A high Grade companv. devoid of stars,
will be cot together. and every member
will be obliged to sign long term con
tract so that the management NAV be en-
ablcd to derive some benefit from the WORK
ID will do to popularize its artists. 1t was
the absence of such contracts that "broke
M, the Aronsons and Temporarily thcir