The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-25
WAYS OF THE SUMMER AGENT.
He Invents a New and Impressive
Boom for Miss Burroughs.
Sardou Writing n Play for Bern
ardt-Othcr Stage News.

Verify the Summer agent worketh
! hard for his fat little living, and cudgel-
leth his brain-cttes for literary novel
cites. Marie Burroughs is going u star.
She caught the fever from willard. with
whom she has been associated for so
| long She is very pretty woman IL
! Marie-a good actress. too. but her
| agent probably considered personal
beauty and dramatic ability too hack
neyed to appeal to the quaint public.
So he went to work and devised some
thing really ingenious. lie has pic
tured Marie sitting in the lamp-lisht
with the family bible in her lap.
He does not tell us what her age re-
corded therein may he, but he informs
us that It is her habit when about to
take any important step to open the
bible "haphazardly" and find thus in
the verses before her some inspiration.
The starring tour being, quite impor-
Nov, the Lord had said unto Abram,
get thee out thy country, and from
thy kindred and from thy fathers
hS%se and %n'p Win land MAKE shS of 1be % s shSM
! nation, and | viii bless thee, ana make
thy name great. and thou shalt h"
! blessing" Miss Burroughs felt quite
1 happy, SO did her agent Evidently
/ nothing Is sacred in the eyes of the lit
| tie Summer agent who has salary to
earn.
sardou Is writing a new play, for
Sarah hcrnhardt-he is writing it him
self He may have myrmdons to at
tend to the requirements of Patti
Mora and Mamie he We're, and Topic
PLAYS himself sarah, in fact, maiS
@m Mn His latest tSrt for her ais Is
to be entitled LA Duchcsse dAthCncs"
ami it Is to b. ready. next year, In
spite of the talk that 'lzeyl'' and Les
Hois" have caused. Sardou is as neces-
sary to Sarah as Sarah is to Sardou.
Posted upon the door of 4 dramatic
agency yesterday was the following
bright and inslnuating want" that was
Wanted S)ubrette, tall. strong look
irg, u heavy. litter, song and lance,
god actress, big arms, well-deyci 'prd.
There was a good deal OF spccula ton as
to what it meant. Was the soubrctto
required to run across the stage with
the hero in har arms? Was sh" to in
required "a, hustle trunks: There
seemed to be some idea that the las;
qualification was the on" dos rcd. Male
trunk " hustlers' are inclined to be an
NJ wing at times; charming souhrettc
who can sing and smile and do the
heavy work at the same time, would be
great acquisition. The engagement Is
still open.
somebody has ieen ,waIlins about
the deterioration of the American son
ballad" says Percy Gaunt VIII You
pardon me if state that there is a
new avenue of escape for the averag1
composer: The source of the Nile is
infintile compared with he resource
For instance. I am at work on the fol
| lowing: 'AppendiCitif,' hospital rev
erie. who viii he our Next Mayor
with four,tinted paee 70 pr. Park,
Incubator sequel to Mammals Baby
Boy and number of other ditties.
Mr.. Gaunt's energy should be inspiring
For such very, proud. majestic some.
latest play. seems to be little meian'
choly. 1t has been written Tor many
month"; Hare had it in I Englnnd; a AND
had it carefully slowed away at the l.y-
ceum Theatre for many moons. 1t is to
be done in London by Lewis Waller, of
the Haymarket Theatre. when Be"i
bohm Tree vacates that house. Dan
Fruhman will probably make some an
nounccment concerning the play when
he returns, What can be me mater
Fan" and "A Woman of No Impor-
tanCe?"
| The Rialto-ites smiled yesterday when
they heard that the paul kauvar" man
agement wanted for the role of Diane de
Lys next season lady with the reputa-
ton of a S5-a- week actress who would
be willing. in view of trouh!ous times
to accept $40 a week. Alas poor Diane
de Lys,
| There seems to have been consider.
able trouble about Nine. Sans-Gene.
1t appears that Sardou offered II to
Augustin DAILY, with a view to Ada Re
han playing the part created by Nine
Rejane. DAILY, however wouldn't have
il, because II had been previously sol
star actress Can the comparatively
unknown American star actress be the
fair, yet froliCsome. Miss Kathryn Kid
der?
Madeleine; or, The Magic Kiss" is the
name Of new comic opera by Stanislaus
Dickson, the comedian. has been en-
gagged to play one of the principal parts
AZ a sort of summer snap" While the
role ofthe heroine Will he inruste1 Il
the statuesque Miss Camille DArv!lle
Boston has the first chance at the opera
1t will probably come to New York
and succeed here-f Boston doesn't like
II. We must hope for the worst
| THere will be "A very good performance
at Planners Theatre tomorrow night
| "tenierrd' in an outburSt Of unreason
INK generosity to Gus HeChler. Among
those To appear are Louis" Beaudet. Viz
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