The evening world., 1894-10-12
STAGE NEWS AND GOSSIP.
sardou Denounces PIaywriting
Ynrns--"Gniety Girl" TO Tour
Through the states,

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Yarns--"Gniety Girl" to Tour
Through the states.
! The stars and managers who have so
| industrioUsly and persistently tried to
/ get little cheap advertisement by an
nouncing that the eminent Sardou was
at work upon plays for them. must be
"A little more careful In future. They
! have been held up to ridicule often
enough in these columns, but apparent
ly under the impression that any men
tion at all was better than o mention,
they have kept right on, taking the
name of Sardou in vain, and-lke
Prospero's brother-making such sin
ner Of their memory as to credit their
own lie. The most recent offender was
the young SalVini, who returned noisily
from Europe with the proud announce
rncut that Sardou was going to fit him
with II play. and was even going to
collabornte with the STRIPPING kester
v no wrote "XamHr" for Salvini. The
stars manager, Wilkinson, cOrrOboratcd
the statements, and as there happened
to be three thousand miles of billowy
wet between Salvini and Sardou. the
latter couldn't deny the soft inpeaCh-
mcnt. Then Rose gushing, az
fable ROse-alsO has Sardou under con
tract-and dozen stars OF smaller
prominence have made the same state
mcnt. Henceforth-as before limited
they must be careful Miss Elizabeth
Marbury, who represents in New York
the Leading dramatist of the world, Tor
wdrded to Sardou the stories of these
misguided people. Yesterday she re-
ceivcd a letter from the famous play
right, which was, as she called 1t, "a
COrker." Sardou was very angry. lie
begged Miss Marbury to deny the asser-.
lions that had been made, He declared
that he was doing no work for America,
except for Miss Fanny Davenport and
Mr.. Frohman, and that the various re-
ports of contracts made with him were
absolutely untrue. This will put an end
to these silly Sardou fakes that have
gradually grown to be as absurd as the
loss Of diamonds, and other advertising
lodges resOrted to by desperate the
atriCal folks.
The real facts in connection with the
be organized in London for this country
are as follows: The company now at
Days Theatre will tour through the
States until March, when it will be for
ton will open in America in Philadel-
phia In April, and in May will begin an
engagement at Days Theatre and run
through the entire Summer Besides
presenting "a Gaiety Girl" the new or
ganization will also be seen in In
Town" skit that was very successful
In London last year.
-, That Twelfth Night Club matinee at
the Empire Theatre yesterday was GER
tanly one of the joiliest affairs on
record. To see all the actresses in
the lobby bouncing upon the incomers,
selling programmes and distributing
lovely little punches of ivy, was in itself
treat. They looked quite as well with
out footlghts as with them, circum-
stance that is perhaps due to the fact
that they are not yet sere and yellow.
The programme was a splendid one, and
some of the performers came from afar
to participate p 1t. This was duly
cchronicled on the programme; Miss
phia, and Messrs. Macdonald and
Cowles trotted in from Hartford. John
Drew made the opening address, and 1t
is fortunate that he doesn't often have
Dodson did THE Charge of the Light
Brigade in assorted styles; Reuben Fox,
Maude Banks and William Harcourt APP
Crane spoke; Joseph Jefferson was seen
as Mr.. Golghtly In Lend Me Five Shil-
ling" and very admirable he was; Mr..
worthy OF Grossmith, and De Wolf Hop
rer. Chauncey Olcott and Jessie Bartlett
Davis were also heard. Receipts. sl,967
4 funny little incident was noticed at
n this -. entertainments The Evening
affsir that led to the strained relations
between De Wolf Hopper and Richard
Mansfield: Just as HHoG,per came on the
day Mansfield got up and left his box,
declining to gaze upon the elongated
comedian. OF course, 1t was very sad,
but 1t didn't seem to affect Hopper much.
He was funnier than everyone of the
hts OF the afternoon.
II don't want people to think that I'm
trying 10 be funny on the subject of
death" aid Charles II. Hoyt, yester-
day, Such an Idea was, very far from
my intentions. | admit that the funeral
episode. In A Milk White Flag stands
out rather conspicuously but my lnten-
ton was 70 show up, the fraud and
hypocrisy that surround mourning cere-
monies. l don't want to be irreverent,
and hope I'm not"
BY the bye, Comstock's Minstrels have
begun rehearsals of q burlesque of "a
MIX White Flag" The parody is to be
probably be put on week from next
Monday.
Well, the first news Of London's re-
S GPSdd The ecap to soG 1o boy Wren
in vein of Enthusiastically American
humor, in which preposterous fuss and
racket, song and dance are Of more con.
hihi'Sut ~
plot" The "Trip to Chinatown" In
London refers to China BALI at
Covent Garden, which is heard Of but
not seen. The songs and dances are
praised, but the intervals between them
are said to be too long.
Lillian Russell sails for this country
a week from tomorrow, with her COM
pany, and her costumes and her scenery.
and her comic opera. c. J. Ahud will
accompany her to stage The Queen
of Brlliants" at Abbey's Theatre.
Mrs. Matilda Alice Victoria Courtenay
has settled her difficulties with Roster
n Bal who had begun "A suit agains.
her for 81, 900 for breach of contract. She
will appear at that concert hall Mon
day night. Mrs. Matilda Alice Victoria
Courtenay has a budget of bright,
breezy songs, fresh from London. Mrs.
Matilda Alice Victoria Courtenay is bet
ter known to vaudeville lovers as Marie
Lloyd.
Sudermann's "Heimath" was present
ed at the Irving Place Theatre last
night, with Fri. Freisinger as Magdu
This actress is an extremely handsome
woman, and will be an acquisition OF
| Conried's forces. At the other German
| theatre, the Germania, Adolf Philipp's