The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-04-21
Stage Waits and strays.

Pauline Hall will not sing this summer:
She will go to Europe in couple OF
weeks.
Beginning April 80, the Fay Foster Com
pany will be seen for q week at the West
minister Theater.
Richards and Garfield begin their
starring tour in "a Circus Clown" at
Newport, X. l., August % next.
During the week beginning May z, the
remarkably successful comedy, "Charley's
Aunt" will be seen for the first time.
Manager G. Il. Lothrop and family will
sail for Liverpool on June23. During their
absence they will visit London and Paris.
Beginning Monday, April 80, "The
with III. Percy Meldon leading the stock
company.
John Webber, q favorite comedian at
Lothrops Opera House, retires from the
stock company at Pawtucket this evening.
He is to manage theatre at North Beach /,
l.. 1.
Because variety performer wore red
wig and green whiskers at benefit at the
New York Park Theater last Sunday eve-
nlng, he was arrested and held for trial
for violation OF the Sunday laws.
Martha Morton, author of "The Mer-
chant,n "Uncle john" ETC., has nearly
completed ur-act comedy for w. H..
Crane. Mr.. Crane has given hrs- carte
blanche as to the plot, characters, etc.
Beginning April 30 AL. G.. Fields fam
Gus minstrel company will be IN the Prov
idence Opera House for three evenings.
The last three evenings the Brown Uni
versity opera, "Priscilla" will be pre-
sented.
"The Inside Track" Oliver Byron's
interesting melodrama, with Fred and
Alice Warren in the leading parts, sup
ported by Il. p. Sullivan and the stock
company, will be presented in Lothrop's
Pawtucket Opera House all next week.
Mounet-Sully, the French tragedian,
now touring this country, never smiles.
He is ever melancholy. He loathes COM
edy and farce. This hatred of his is the
cause OF numerous wordy encounters be-
tween him and his wife, who adores COM
edy and revels in farce.
Owing to the marvellous success of the
Kirmess the managers Of the "Black
Crook" at the Providence Opera House,
will introduce popular Kirmess dance
vance sale OF seats is unusually large, be-
tokening full houses all the week.
The final performances of ga Parlor
Match will be given at the Harlem Opera
House, New York, next week, thus clos
ing the joint career of Evans and Hoey,
who have been together twelve years.
During this engagement Minnie French
will play her old part of Innocent Kid.
The singers of the Metropolitan Opera
House viii be sailing shortly for the other
side. Nordica is off for Bayreuth, Melba for
Paris, Calve for London, where she is to
originate the principal role in La Navar-
raise, the opera Massenet has written ex-
pressly for her.
Tragedian Keene says: 81 find that the
South, with true conservatism, stands by the
They read and understand Shakespeare there
In the North and new West there Is too much
hustle, hurry and skurry after wealth to culti-
vate general scholarship, and people go to the
theater merely TO be amused"
Wouldn't Mr.. Keene come nearer the
truth il he should say that the North and
West know too much about the Bard of
Avon's creations to accept his interpreta-
tion of Shakespeare.
In George Thatcher's musical extrava-
ganza of "Africa," which will be the at
traction at Keith's on the 30h, the COM
pany includes such sterling performers as
John A. Coleman, John G. Rice, Charles
ii. Hopper, III. w. Frillman, Il. G. Jobson,
Charles j. Stine, Miss Hilda Hollins, the
charming and beautiful prima donna;
the talented soubrette, Miss Sally Cohen;
the clever Sisters Byron, Miss Grace Ham
ilton and Miss Flo Raymond. There is
chorus OF % beautiful voices, and in all the
company numbers over forty people.