The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-02
Miss LEWIS IS CLEOPATRA.
The Actress CHATS Bree1ily About
Hor Forthcoming Production.
Bankers Daughter" May BE Re-
vlved-Stage News and Gos,ip,

han Lewis, who Is SO much more anus
ing Off the stage than on It, remarks
simply: II take 1t 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, will 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 a few
other living languages. Miss Lewis, how
eVer,dces not promise ice-creams in addi-
ton TO the living pictures, and the storm,
ana the ballet. and the barge. presum-
ably fer the reason that Pauline Hall
has copyrighted the ice-cream idea.
Bree1lly. audaciously and almost Heav-
eniy-Twins-ly. Miss Lewis goes on: ~
would like to know why Cleopatra never
asked Antony to go through a mar
her and his children. don't think the
world ever produced a woman so de-
PRAYED as to make her 'nsensble to the
rights her children should have to their
high In power and position as Cleopatra.
believe she was woman Of advanced
ideas and was true to each OF her hus-
bands while they lived. In short. I be-
good wife and good mother" Pathetic
Lillian!
Bronson Howard wants to revive his
good old-timer The Bankers Daugh-
son. Shenandoah" is also to be re-
vved Then Mr.. Howard. as already
told, viii have new comedy for Charles
Frohman. His last play "Ar!stocracy."
The out-oftown audiences guyed it's
rather extravaEant ideas. Even San
Francisco did not approve, although a
San franciscan was the hero.
notwithstanding the fact that the
the New York police force. '..The. Police
the finest," will go on the road: open
ing IN Chicago Aug. 10: MISS FL, rior ,eInS
will be remembered as having starred
man will be Carlton Wells. late Of the
shem!---of, Lord Rosebery. Ems
ever. will not appear in THE Police In
spector.'
Henry Bagge, Leonard Boyne's un:
derstudy last season in THE Prodigal
Daughter" is III, and has been taken
to the Post-Graduate Hospital, at Sec
ond avenue and Twentieth street. He
leading role in that steeplechase play
when 1t opens at the American The
atre in August.
Aunt" Louisa Eldridge and her club
by son, Press Eldridge. are doing the
roof gardens and all the other entertain
ments that are now open. Mrs. Eldridge
believes in New York as a Summer re-
sort. her extreme patriotism standing in
the way OF trip to Europe.
Plnsrs; the great an. and only. whose
a success of plays differing as widely as
sweet Lavender" The Amazons" and
The Second Mrs. Tanaueray." may pos
tility by writing the book OF a comic
opera, music by Sir Arthur Sullivan.
Harrigan has made great hit In San
Francisco. and the Californians have
discovered that he is a native Cali
fornian. OF course, that enhances his
value in their eyes, even II 1t doesn't in
ours.
And now It Is said that the much dis
cussed aerial ballet, which Is to take the
place of the still living pictures. is not
clared on good authority that the aerial
ballet is but an enlarged version Of q
wire dance that was done by Mile. Aena
at the Drury Lane pantomime in Lon
don eight or nine years ago. A little
complication is added TO the amicable
contest between A. NJ. Palmer and
Roster & Bal by II. ]. Les!ie's 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 II. Next.
The aerial ballet will at any rate be
heard of before 1t Is seen.
Here's mint. A gentleman calling him.
self John f.. Irving writes as follows:
Next October | Intend starring a new
comedy written by Messrs. Lester and
Barrett. entitled "A Mock Trial In a
New England -t-House,' which will
be surprise to the public. as this will
be one Of the best of its kind ever wit
messed. showing how a Judge rules In a
country courthouse having no knowl-
edge Of law whatever. Objections on
points of law being raised. the magls-
trata being In dilemma, then sends his
clerk out to buy a law book. and the
clerk by mistake buys a dictionary. and
thus the magistrate settles all disputes
Under the laws of Webster's Dictionary"
II makes one quite long to see the play.
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