The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-10

its outside. The. blind girl is again
made use of in this scene. The villain
and the hero fight over her and at a
critical period the tower turns inside
out and shows the hero and the nHqui-
tous blind girl suspended In mid-air.
This stirring, is, somewhat ineSpiicablc,
climax, sets the house wild.
The scene is laid In louisiana during
the war period. but it is not q war
play, though the aforementioned Con-
federate officer and two alleged comic
Confederate soldiers are introduced. 1t
is simply very ridiculous play with an
impossible plot. constructed apparently
for no other purpose than 10 Introduce
some novelties in stage carpentry.
FOOTLIGHT FLASHES:
London is to see John Drew.
stuart Robson will produce "Thc inter-
loper."
Blanche Walsh is playing Kate Kcnnlon
In THE Girl Left Behind Me-
Elwyn =. Barron personally conducted
Rhea's rehearsals OF when Bess Was
Queen"
All iuGdl II 1uSDdilu, N'S'aT W liur new
play. will be produced by Beerbohm Tree
in this country.
Daniel Frohman's company viii shortly
produce q new comedy drama 10y Sardou
entitled "Dorothca."
John Sleeper Clarke contomplates re-
turning to the stage for a brief season In
London.
Tom Karl denies that he is making ar
rangemsnts TO 60 out this season ut the
head OF his own opera company. under
Mr.. Dewey's manag cement.
Bernhardt Is 20 years Old. Her early
appearances were attended with little
success, but she has received over 81, l,00l,py9
for her work upon the stage.
one OF the features of Sardous new
play, la Duchesse a. Athens" Is the Kill
Ing of man by II Woman with hatchet.
Sara Bernhardt will probably appear in ii.
\ piece called Married By rroNirH met
with II very cold reception at foole's thea
ter, London, but Favorable mention Is
made Of the getting OF Miss sidney Grove,
Il daughter Of Kate Bateman, the famous
Leah.
Madame Modjeska is at her old home in
Galicia. She will appear in several Of her
favorite characters at Cracow and Lem
berg. acting In Polish. In the spring she
will pay Il visit TO Jenna, where she Will
play In the Carl theater with an English
company.
Mrs. Kendall will boycott Frisco be-
cause Mrs. Tanqueray" Was turned
down by that city'S Dlaygoers. The ac-
tress declared that the American verdict
on The Second Mrs Tanquaray" was
worthless France, Russia and Germany
had liked 1t. and that was enough.
Dorothy Morton. of the Fencing Mas
ter" company, has been heralded as the
youngest prima donna on the stage, but
this distinction belongs to Miss Louise
Moore, Of kcith's Opera company. Miss
Mortons age is given as 81. The Bijou's :
prima donna Is not yet Is years old. AMI
her repertoire embraces Il score of operas.
The as yet unnamed melodrama which
G. Il. DaZey, the author Of I'm Old Ken
tucy," has Just completed for Manager
Jacob Lift, will be produced under the
competent direction of the veteran Ben
Teal about the firSt of the year In, New
York. Mr.. Litt has given MIR. Teal carte
blanche" in the matter of east. scenery
and accessories.
Otis skinner has yielded to the Shakes
pearean temptation and will play Shylock.
In listening TO the quaint and natural
draWl OF Sol Smith Russell In The Poor
Relation and Peaceful Valley" one
could hardly ina gine him enacting the
role OF DR.. Pangloss In The Heir at
Law" Yet Mr.. Russell has done the best
and most notable work OF his life these
past few weeks In that character.
Sydney Drew has ceased trying to star
In ''The Gilded Age" Fanny Rice closes
her season tonight. but expects to start
out again month hence with Il new play.
Emmet Corrigan has laid of his AFTER
the Bali company. Dockstader's min
strels drew SO little money at the New
York Bijou last week that Manager Ros-
enouest Cancelled IN. second week Of their
engagement and closed the house.
The new play by G.. Haddon Chambers
at the London Haymarket. "John-a-
Dreams" viii tell the story Of two men In
love with the same woman. Beerbohu
Tree will act the part OF q man of dreamy
poetic temperament, gifted and honorable
but afflicted by an hereditary disposition
to drink, and Charles Cartwright will rep
resent his unsuccessful rival, q resolute
and cnterprlsing man Of the world. Two
Of the acts are supposed to take place on
board a'yacht.
| The heroine of Sardou's "Gismonda,
which was produced by Bernhardt in
Paris last week, savors very much OF the
! chief character I'M the same author
Theodore" II Is the same old story OF
q woman falling III love with her enemy
and finally marrying him. In the first
! act the 5-year-old son OF Gismonda falls
/ into a Dit. In which Is confined a tiger
/ Tbo frantic mother offers her crown Il
I the man who will save her child; AS
meric. a natural son of q Greek nobleman
she boy,