The evening world., 1894-04-12
STAGE NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Mounet-Sully in Racine's Trag.
edy, A%ndromaque,"
Lewis Morrison's "Faust, Not Liked
In Chicago.

Mounet-Sully is certainly giving his
New York audiences the advantage OF a
most extensive repertoire, acquired dur
ing years of hard work abroad. Each
play that he does is most reverently
produced. the excellent stage settings
being really remarkable when II is re-
membered that such frequent changes
OF hill take place. Last night Mounet-
Sully offered RaCine's nve-aCt tragedy
'Andromaquc" to the public. and played
the part or orestcs in II. The perform
ance was a quiet one, and II did not
arouse any enthusiasm. The play Is not
one that could lie dcmonstratiyely re-
ceived. In any case. The audience seemed
to enjoy the performance sedately. Nine.
Allne uyo appeared I'm the title role.
AndroinaChc, daughter of the King OF
inches and widow of Hector. Nine.
.Iuyon was very lachrymOse and ex-
vas the Hcrmionc. Her work Was
refined and intelligent, as 1t always is.
me LADY was the victim of kind friends,
VINO re- II their duty to praise her too
hlEhly before she arrived. She Is with
out CUB a good. actress, a most ex-
eellent leading lady, but she lacks he
qualities that make actresses great, AMI
me peculiar gifts that a successful star
Away plea san 1T Is always agree
aDle to look upon her, and to listen
90 her' put She never thrills an au-
admirable but he seemed to show that
Orestes was not one of his favorite
parts. NJ. SECOND was the Pyrrhus and
NJ Dorny' Pylades.
Lewis Morrison, who has n version of
'Faust' that he thinks not unworthy of
comparison with l%rving's arrangement,
Will hntlrnfnyth tNnt 1a,4. 81
and the dear ~Chicagoans. He has been
very cruelty treated in the metropolis
or the West. One rude youth declared
that "a more d%eplorable butchery OF a
ne Imagined Another asserted that
nobody you'd hav been surprised II
during the, performance Martha had
sung After the Ball"
They had hard work in finding two
actors to play the heavenly twins in
The Sleepwalker." Actors Just now do
not possess very extensive wardrobes,
and these dude youths have each to
wear three swell suits OF clothes-not
the sort OF rcach-me-downs that can be
bought on the Bowery.
The Gilbert and Sullivan rumpus in
London seems this time to he OF Il per-
say. has taken his new libretto to Hen
schel, determined to have nothing to do
with Sullivan. while Sir Arthur is going
to score the work of the French libret-
pals dragging itself along at the Sa-
voy, and is to be withdrawn very short
~. This shows that the collaborateurs
have at last ceased to please the Eng
was made to bolster up this last effort.
utopia" Is to be succeeded by n series
Of reyiyals, which vii! include The
and Trial by Jury"
Tim Murphy. he Of "A Texas Steer
renown, is preparing to go a-starring
next season, in a new character comedy
by the fertile Mr.. Henry Guy Carleton.
The comedy is not named as yet. MIR.
Murphy has engaged Sam Reed. of De
and Wolfe H~arrison"the Vote who
was once one of Bettina Gerard's hus-
bands. Mr.. Murphy has been four sea
sons with "A Texas Steer. and is anx-
says that l. is a most valuable piece Of
property. He will produce his new play
at the Bi'ou Theatre in September.
Sig. Nicolini and his talented wife
antly pungent way IN which an English
Journalist puts it, What's the matter
untalented husband"
Mounet-Sully is not going to Chicago.
ne VIII SO 10 bOStOn, baltimore, wash
ington, and "A few other cities. and then
end his season in Montreal. from which
town he will sail for Europe. Chicago
processes to regret Mounet.Sully's neg
might treat Mounet-Sully as 1t treated
Dusc. The Windy City's critics are
very, high and lofty. but the Windy
Clty,,s people do not respond to their
Miss Rose Coghlan is firmly impressed
with the idea that to arrive in a town
she steps from the train, she always
looks as though she a emerged from a
bandbox. Her plan Is simple. n carries
a haIds9me gown on the cars with her,
she Is never caught mapping. No dusty
travelling gowns or linen wraps for Mrs.
John r. Sullivan. Miss Coghlan evidently
believes that dress makes the woman.
The booming that the woman's League
gave to Miss Victory Bateman has made
ayers aaSi She has had half f'H a d Mlen o mtr
for next Of course 1t Is the
dear old Leagues doing. Mss Bateman
doesn't like II: though. She declines to
discuss the affair at any tine, and de-
clares that the notorlety is very dis
tasteful. If the League has helped Miss
Bateman, Mss, Bateman has recipro-
Gated. The unfortunate affair gave the
nice old ladies far more publicity than
all their cackle about the twentieth CEN
fury woman. Miss Banks was not as
useful as Miss Bateman. Little Miss
Bateman now has a comely chaperone,
with a very distinguished air, who is
know as Miss Belle keiie.
Mss Margaret Mather is married, but
not forgotten. Several of the company
that have visited Milwaukee lately have
sent her boxes for the performances, and
panied by Herr Pabst, her husband. She
SAYS no more about returning to the