The evening world., 1894-04-14
THE LONDON STAGE.
Managerial Blues Prevalent
Portraits Of Actresses.
Cause Of the New Rupture Between
Gilbert and Sullivan.
Big Bid Reported for New Leading
Lady for Corbett.

LONDON, April H.-The theatrical sea-
Ion showed no improvement during the
past week, and, consequently, several OF
the managers are suffering from more
or less severe attacks of the blues"
Another Of the expensive productions
of the season, Mrs. Lesingham," at the
Garrick Theatre, must now be pro-
nounced n failure. for 1t can last only
few weeks at the utmost Miss Eliza
beth Robins, as the heroine, has been
unable to excite any interest In her por-
t.ayal of the character allotted to her,
and Miss Mary Moore and John Hare
have also unsympathetic parts. The
others Of the company are very bad.
The second editoin of Don Juan"
at the Gaiety Theatre was greeted with
rapturous applaus, yesterday evening.
Don Juan" has been largely rewritten,
and the burlesque of certain Music
Hall 'living pictures" one of the fea-
lures of the new Don Juan" is a
great success.
The Mystery" or oratorio OF Beth
lehem," Of Prof. Alexander Campbell
Mackenzie, Principal OF the Royal
Academy Of Music. once intended for
the Worlds Fair at Chicago, was per-
formed for the first time on Thursday
evening at Albert Hall. The soloists
were Mesdames Ella Russell and Marian
Mckenzie, and Messrs. David Bispham,
Arthur Barlow and Barton McGuckin
The scholarly work was we'll received.
George Alexander has fixed April 2S
for the production OF the new four-act
play, by Henry Arthur Jones. which is
Fr-..
at the st. Jamess Theatre.
Solomon ]. Solomon is sending to the
Academy this year portrait of Mrs
Patrick Campbell as Paula Tanqueray
The actress Is pictured sitting at an
escritoire, with despair and desperation
written on her face. She has COM
pletely realized the impossibilty of her
position, and has resolved to put an
end to her life. The CLEAN of the foot
lights fall upon her powerful, set face
thrown into strong relief by the Louis
XIV. screen behind her chair. She Is
dressed in white satin and lace, relieved
only by pale green bands across the
shoulders.
Mrs. Jopling has gone to the dramatic
and musical professions for four of her
Academy pictures. One of these is a
pastel portrait Of Miss Marion Terry,
full of the pathetic charm of the orig
inal. 1t is the portrait of the head and
bust only. Miss Terry is looking straight
at the spectator, and Is wearing q high,
brown silk dress with cream-colored
lace.
Mrs. Jopling's portrait CT Miss Gene
We've Ward is also a pastel thead and
busD, taken life-size in a costume of
Queen Eleanor in Tennyson's "Becket"
The actress is holding out a dagger to
the unfortunate Rosamund. Mrs. Jop-
ling, however, is perhaps most success
full in her portrait of Sig. fiatti, the
well-known 'cellist.
The list is completed by threc-quar-
ter length portrait of Bernard Shaw, the
famous musical critic and Socialist in
his familiar soft felt hat and loose
brown coat.
Sir Arthur Sullivan's opera "Ivanhoe'
is announced for production at the Ber-
lin Opera-House at the end of the present
month.
Bernard Shaw's new play, which is to
succeed the Inflated COMEDY Of Sighs''
23d inst, is a "skit" on things that be.
It is burlesque of romantic drama.
The scene is laid in Servia. during the
Servo-B Bulgarian war.
Miss Florence Farr Is cast for the
part of a servant named Louka, and
most of the company engaged for "A
Comedy of Sighs." including Messrs.
Bernard Gould. James WEIGH, and Yorke
Stephens. are retained. The heroine will
be played by Miss Alma Murray The
new play, for which a title has not yet
been found. is in three acts, one of the
scenes being exterior and the other two
interiors.
Whether the subtleties Of "Widowers'