The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-02
MISS LEWIS As CLEOPATRA.
The Actress Chats Breezily About
Her Forthcoming Production.
" Bankers Daughter" May Be Re-
vtved-Stage News and Gossip.

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liam Lewis. who is so much more anus
ing off the stage than on it. remarks
simply: II take IT for granted that by
this time everybody knows that ] am
going TO play CLEOPATRA" with ballet
and chorus, and scenery and storm, and
living pictures, and that the barge scene,
with me as Cleopatra, VIII be one of the
living pictures" Miss Lewis IS right.
The important news has probably been
flashed across the atlantic, translated
into Spanish. French German and few
other living languages. Miss Lewis, how
ever, does not promise ice-creams IN add
ton to the living pictures, and the storm.
and the ballet, and the barge presum-
ably for the reason that Pauline Han
has copyrighted the ice-crcam idea.
Breezlly, audaciously and almost Heav-
enly-Twins-ly, Miss Lewis goes on: II
would like to know why Cleopatra never
asked Antony to go through mar
riage ceremony in order to legitimi2e
her and his children. / don't think the
world ever produced Il woman so de-
PRAYED as to make her insensible to the
rights her children should have to their
fathers name, especially woman so
high in power and position as Cleopatra,
/ believe she was woman of advanced
~
bands while they lived In short, ! be-
lieve Cleopatra was good woman, "A
good wife and good mother Pathetic
Lillian!
Bronson Howard wants TO revive his
good old-timer, THE Bankers Daugh-
ter one OF his first successes, next sea-
son. shenandoah" is also to be re-
vived. Then Mr.. Howard, as already
told. will have a new comedy for Charles
Frohman. His last play. "Aristocracy,"
IL to ne shelved 1T was not success.
The out-of-town audiences Esnysd ct Its
Francisco did not approve, although IA
San Franciscan was the hero.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Lexow Committee is making i hot Tor
Inspector depicting the heroism Of
1.-THE finest" will 20 on the road, open
ing in Chicago Aug, 10. Miss Florence
Gerold, one of the lessees OF the play,
in 1.-THE Wages Of Sin, The leading
man viii be Carlton Wells, late of the
Princcss's Theatre. London. and rela-
lands Premier. Lord Rosebery, how
ever, will not appear in 1.-THE Police In
spector."
Henry Bagge. Leonard Boyne's I'M
derstudy last season in 1.-The Prodigal
Daughter" In Ill. and has been taken
to the Post Graduate Hospital. Mt Sec
ond avenue and Twentieth street. He
hopes to be well in time to play the
leading role In that steeplechase play
when II opens at the American The
atre In August.
Aunt" Louisa Eldridge and her club
| by son, Press Eldridge, are doing the
ments that are now open. Mrs. Eldridge
believes in New York as n Summer re-
sort her extreme patriotism standing in
| the way OF trip to Europe.
Pners. the great and only, whose
talents are so varied that he can make
n success OF plays differing as widely as
Sweet Lavender" The Amazons" and
''The Second Mrs. Tanqueray." may pos
sbly show us an extra degree of versa
tility by writing the book OF a comic
opera. music by Sir Arthur Sullivan.
Harrignn has made n great hit in San
Francisco, and the Calfornians have
discovered that he Is a native Cali
value in their eyes. even If 1t doesn't In
| ours.
And now II is said that the much-dis-
cussed aerial ballet, which is to take the
so very brand new after ALL 1t is de-
clared on good authority that the aerial
ballet is but an enlarged version of n
wire dance that was done by Mile. Aena
at the Drury Lane pantomime in Lon
don eight or nine years ago. A little
complicatio is added to the amicable
contest between a. NJ. Palmer and
Roster & Bial by II, J. Leslies an.
| nouncement that the ballet is an orig.
inal feature of Miss Dollar" the French
farce, OF which he has secured the
American rights, and that he will en-.
join anybody else who does 1t. Next
The aerial ballet will at any rate be
heard OF before II is seen.