The evening world., 1894-04-12
STAGE NEWS ANO GOSSIP.
Mounet-Sully in Racine's Trug-
edy, "%Andromaque,"
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 reyerently
produced. the excellent stage settings
being really remarkable when II is re-
membered that such frequent changes
or bill take place. Last night Mounet-
Sully offered Racine's five-act tragedy
"Andromaque" to the public, and played
the part of Orestes in it. The perform
ance was n quiet one, and II did not
arouse any enthusiasm. The play Is not
one that could be demonstratively re-
ceived, in any case. The audience seemed
TO enjoy the performance sedately. Nine.
Aline Guyon appeared i'm the title role.
nnuroinache, daughter of the King of
inches II widow of Hector. Nine.
Guyon was very lachrymose and ex-
tremely miserable. Nine. SECOND Weber
was the Hermionc. Her work was
refined and intelligent, as 1t always is.
The lady was the victim of kind friends,
Mh3 fe; II their duty, to praise her too
hlghly before she arrived. She is with
our doubt q good actress, a most ex-
cellent leading lady. but she lacks the
qualities that make actresses great. and
the peculiar gifts that q successful star
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always pleasant. 1t is always agree
able to look upon her. and to listen
to her, but she never thrills an au-
dience. Mounet-Sully in one scene was
admirable, but he seemed to show tina
oresteS was not one of his ~fuvorite
parts. NJ. SECOND was the Pyrrhus and
M Dorny' Pylades,.
Lewis Morrison. who has a version of
Faust that he thinks not unworthy of
comparison with lrving's ARRANGEMENT
| VIII npnCpfprth NOT love lnar rbI,arn
and the dear C~hiCagoans. He has been
very cruelty treated in the metropolis
OF the West. one rude youth declared
that "a more deplorable butchery of a
sacred monument of art could scarcely
be imagined" Another asserted that
nobody would have been surprised If
during the performance Martha had
danced a Jig n Mephistophefes had
sung After the Ball."
They had hard work in finding two
actors TO play the Heavenly win 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 reach-me-downs that can be
bought on the Bowery.
The Gilbert and Sullivan rumpus in
London seems this time to be of a per-
manently serious nature. Gilbert, they
say, has taken his new libretto to Hem
schel. determined to have nothing to do
VI II "lllt , a l is Bpl1lR
to score the work of the French libret-
list, Valatrigue. In the mean time Ito
pia'is dragging itself along at the Sa-
iy. This shows that the collaborateurs
have at last ceased to please the Eng
lish metropolis, although every effort
was made to bolster up this last effort.
Utopia" is to be succeeded by a series
Of REVEALS; which will 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.
Murphy has engaged Sam Reed, of De
Wolf Hop,per,s company; Clara Thropp
and Wolfe Harrlsonrthe Wolfe who
sons with "A Texas Steer" and is anx-
ious to get away from it.. though he
property, He will produce his new play
at the Bi1ou Theatre in September.
Sig. Nicolini and his talented wife
have arrived in England" is the pleas
antly nge way In which IN English
Journalist puts 1t. What's the matter
with announcing Nine. Patti and her
untalented husband"
Mounet-Sully is not going to Chicago.
He will go to Boston, Baltimore, Wash
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end his season in Montreal. from which
town he will sail for Europe. Chicago
processes, to regret Mounet.Sully's neg
might treat Mounet-Suliy as it treated
Duse. The Windy City's critics are
very, high and lofty, but the Windy
City,,s people do not respond to their
sentiments.
Miss Rose Coghlan is firmly impressed
with the, idea that to arrive in a town
| I'm an lnkarnnt condition g fntn1 W..
she, steps, from the train, she always
looks as though she had emerged from a
~bandboX. Her plan is simple. She carries
a handsome gown on the cars with her,
and just before arriving. she dons it,
She Is never caught mapping. No dusty
travelling gowns or linen wraps for Mrs.
believes that dress makes the woman.
The booming that the Woman's League
gave to Miss Victory Bateman has made
that little lady very solid with man
ayers. She has had half a dozen offers
for next s~eason-and of course II Is the
doesn't like i: though, She declines to
discuss the affair at any time. and de
clares that the notoriety is very dis
tasteful, If the League has helped Miss
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 Kelle.
Miss Margaret Mather Is married, but
not forgotten; Several OF the company
thai nave visited Milwaukee lately AVE
sent her boxes for the performances, and
she has graced them. She was accom-
panied by Herr Pabst, her husband. She
says no more about returning to the
stage. from which she has been absent
at least a year and a half.