San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-22
THEATRICAL GOSSIP.

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investigation has has been drama
tiZed.
The "Maid of the MILL" come
dy drama, will be used to star Lii
ian Madison, who can sing and
play the banjo well.
"Some critics have written about
the Objectionable horse-play' in
my production Of r.. a. Barnet's
comic opera 'Tabasco,'" says
Thomas q. SeabrOoke. "To my
mind, horse play consists in sort
OF general sprawling over the
stage with a view to raise laugh
at something which could be left
out just as well, or better. Now, l
do not think that there is mnch, il
any of this in Tabasco. When 1
rush at the Pasha with the cleav-
er, for instance, it is as much to
frighten the Pasha as to raise
a laugh in the audience. l never
resort to gymnastics to point a
Jest. Ii the audience cannot be
made to see the joke without a la
bel, out it goes. / want a mental
laugh or none at ALL"
Dorothy Morton, the piquant
prima donna of the Fencing Mas
ter, seems to be turning into
pocket edition of Marie Tempest
and Adele Richie. Miss Morton
has been developing alarming
combinations of neuralgia, in
famed finger and Group, so that
she is apt to have the privilege of a
prima donna and let an under
study sing her role now and then.
This stamps Miss Morton as the
real thing.
Lillian Russell's troubles in "The
Queen of Brilliants" do not end
with the miserably heavy book
and leaden jokes of the piece. She
came back from London 20 pounds
lighter than she went over, but if
reports are true she will be worn
to skeleton by the work of dress
ing and undressing in the new
opera.
She changes her costume nine
times during the course of the per-
Torrance, and in the second act
she is kept in nervous agitation by
the call boy. In this part of the
opera the diva is in turmoil. She
is supposed to fall asleep on the
stage, and curtain emblematic of
night is slowly lowered over the
couch on which she lies. But that
II Inn " purt q in n q M ooopor roo ohoI
the level of the stage than Miss
Russell is running at full speed to
her dressing room, where the maid
instantly unbuttons her gown and
clasps on new costume over the
shapely form of the diva. A mo-
ment later Miss Russell is posing
for the first Of the series of tab
leaux. When the curtain falls on
this scene she hastens to her dress.
ing room again, christening her
dress as she runs, and in a trice
is buttoned into a second gown,
which costume, minute later, is
followed by her dazzling costume
as the Queen of Brilliants. This
and other quick changes of gowns
puts Miss Russell into unusual
eXertions, and at the end of the act
she is bathed in perspiration. The
Dam-Jakobowski operetta, what
ever its merits or dement's may be
is uneXcelled as a banting system.
Lillian Russell never had to work
so hard before, and she is losing
flesh rapidly by her exertions.
Perhaps that is the reason she likes
the opera. There is certainly no
other cause for its retention in the
repertoire of the diva of light
music.
If Mrs. Kendall comes back to
America next season it will be on
her knees in the role of a penitent.
She did not think that her remarks
about American and Americans,
recently made in San Francisco as
a relief for her feelings after fail
ures In that city and in st. Louis,
would be quoted from one end of
the land to the other. Mr.. Kendall
and all the press agents in America
would have big contract on hand
II they attempted to take back,
within year, all that Mrs. Kendall
has said.
Miss Olga Nethersole, the Eng
lish actress, has awakened wide
spread discussion over her per-
Torrance Of Camille, many critics
comparing it favorably with Nine.
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