The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-22
news OF STACELAND.
DolnGS Of the DramatIstS, the Managers and
The TWlnkling Stars.
The KENDALS COMING AGAIN
Roland Reeds New Play, The Poli-
tician, Scores Big Success at Its
Initial Production-DelIa Fox Reads
Lecture to the Foolish Youths
Who Are Fascinated by Footlight
Glitter-Other Readable Chat and
Gossip About Stage Folk.
For The Saturday Tribune.

EU "e SutWUuV ITtOuHe'
Sprightly Della Fox gives this re-
cipe for making an actresses acquaint-
ance: II don't think that if you want
ed to meet Mrs. Van Astorbilt you
would write her q note telling her that
you have loved her for ten years, and
asking her to meet you on the corner
of Mott and Thompson streets at 4
O'Clock in the morning, and that you
had friend with you who would be
so glad if she would bring with her her
cook or maid, and that you would all
90 out and have o bite. If you have o
mutual friend, and he does introduce
you to the lady and she does accept
your invitation to sup with you after
her performance, remember she is just
leaving her work and wishes to get
away from it, therefore do not start
right in and talk shop. AS rule,
you will find that she can talk about
something else. Don't ask her if the
footlights hurt her eyes, or how she gets
the paint off her face, or if she can see
people over the footlights, or what
would she do if she forgot her part.
These questions may be new to you,
but they are not to her. If you take
her to supper, never ask her what she
will have, but order what you think
she would like, land make as little noise
about it as possible. If you want an
other bottle, get it, but don't sing out,
Waiter, another bottlep When the
check comes, if you have credit at the
place, sign it,but if you are not known
have as little counting of change as
possible. In short, treat her just as
you would any other lady, for if she is
one by birth and education she will
expect it, and if she is not, she will be
pleased to have been treated as SUCH"
The National Economist has been
investigating the theatrical business of
last season as compared with that of
the previous year, and finds that in
forty-seven representative playhouses
in the principal cities of the country,
for every $4,000 received during the
first three months of 1898, their re-
ceipts amounted to only So, 408 during
the first three months of the present
year, the loss being 27 per cent.
Decency has triumphed at last.
Breckenridge is beaten and Madeline
Pollard can't get a manager to book
her for the stage.
During his recent performance at
tIn A m nrnx Tom I[nana hnl Daaoo;n,,
to interpolate in Bulwer's play, "Riche-
lieu,n a vigorous command to the gas
mau in the wings who persisted in
turning the electric current on and
off. In the same tone of voice and
with the same impressiveness that he
had just employed in uttering the
celebrated passage about the pen being
mightier than the sword Keene turned
to the offender and said: "Do not
trifle with those lights, do you hear
me; do not trifle with those lights.n
So well was this command masked
that many thought it a part of the
regular text of the play.
THE TRIBUNE, it seems, is not alone
in its WEAKNESS of the Madgc Kendall
fad. Says the Philadelphia Inquirer,
apropos: "And so Mrs. Kendall has
come back again to her dear American
home,' wearing Stars and Stripes
pin as conspicuous ornament and
glad to get here once more. Well,
well, we feel better now. Ever since
she sailed away the last time, after
telling us that we were a horrid, hid
eous people for not liking her Second
Mrs. Tanqueray,' and that we were
wrong in saying there were no such
personages in good society when in
point of fact she met them in her own
social circles in London, we have been
haunted by the fear that maybe she
would not return to gather in our
American dollars in the dear familiar
way. But the fear is removed by
her arrival in New York and the
publication of her theatrical itinerary.
And of course everything is lovely and
she brings Mrs. Tanqueray' back be-
cause she feels convinced that we will
enjoy that kind of thing thoroughly as
soon as she can educate us up to the
Mrs. Tanqueray' point. After this
evidence of her Kindness how ashamed
her American critics will feel! When
they found fault with her play they
said that if she must come to this coun-
try for dollars she should at least come
in respectable roles, but she has for
given them all very sweetly. IN
doubtedly some of them will repeat
their criticisms after seeing her again,
but what of that? She is back again
and that is happiness enough for us
all.n
That rather questionable English
novel, ''Esther Waters,n has been
dramatized and is soon to be brought
over from London and produced on the
New York stage. The book reeks OF
slums and alleys, holding the attention
while it takes away the breath; you
live and suffer with Esther, whose sad
story is counterparted by hundreds OF
others of her class. Its $50 pages force
you to put it down while you take rest
and refreshment; but you are uneasy
till you get at it again, for all of which
George Moore, who Is a kind of q com.
posite of Dickens, Zola and Howells,
does not seem to leave any moral cling.
ing to the story of the girls troubles.
William H. Cranes company this
season comprises the following: Orrin
Johnson Boyd Putnam, Joseph Whee.
lock, jr., H. A. Weaver, Percy Brooke,
James o. Barrows, II. A. Langdon,
William Lever, George f. De We're, d.
]. Fingleton, Gus De We're, B. Riar
and II. Hall, and the Misses Pfolliott
Paget, Lizzie Hudson Collier, Annie
O'Neill, Gladys Wallis, V. Edgar and
Kate Donlin Wilson.
Here are some crisp and up-to-date
Nym Crinkleisms:
1t seems to me when / am listening
to Mr.. Morse's music that much of il
was written for that queen of instru.
ments, the accordion, and that an or.
chestra is an impertinence.
The long-continued drought has not
suffered the stage to escape. The vau.
deville crop Is parched and thin. There
is not an acre of finn anvwhere thof