The evening world., 1894-06-25
M'QU|LLAN ONCE A SUPER. "
His Wife and Daughter the Vic
Tins Of Lizzie Halliday.
Old Mrs. Drew to Withdrnw-Stage
News and Gossip.

4 distant connection with the frivolous
Rlalto has been discovered for one of
the interested parties in the Lizzie
Halliday casG. When Richard Mans
field came back from London five years
ago, and presented his great but some
what unfortunate revival of "Rchard
ILL.," he engaged stalwart band of
slx-foot aupernumeraries. To these
lofty gentlemen he gave battle single
handed in the final encounter on Bos-
worth Field. ana the scene was a par
ticularly effective one. Among the
supernumeraries was Thomas MoQuil-
Ian. a sturdy. grizzled veteran OF the
British army. 1t is for the horrible
butchery of this same McQuillan's wife
and daughter that Lizzie Halliday Is to
be put TO death. After his stage ex-
perience with Mansfield the old warrior
settled down on n little farm near Mon
ticello. Now. enfeebled and broken. he
Is to spend his remaining days with
relatives In Canada. Audiences are apt
to look upon "supers' in big produc-
tion as so many machines. OF little
more interest than mere marionettes
Put It is among the "supers" that real
thom-the majority, in fact-have held
better positions, and have been forced
to accept the somewhat begGarly wages
given them by adverse circumstances.
Although II Is considered bad form to
say nasty things about the dead. dear
old unconventional San Francisco jumps
upon the deceased New York theatrical
ing good to say about It, The successes
were those of brainless rush. the fall
ures occurred when the plays, were
the OF rooa he old says Sse
was not success in London, and 1t
would probably have met the same fate
in New York II It had not been for the
popular Georgia Cayvan in a new role
parture, and perhaps, II she is a good
boy. Mr. Frohman will put her into
malicious?
By his contract with A. NJ. Palmer
that perspiringly energetic manipulator
Rice, will confine himself next season
entirely to productions at the Garden
Theatre. There is as yet no talk OF
withdrawing '1492' from that house.
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Saturday, the most unpleasantly torrid
day of the season found those theatres
now open comfortably stocked at both
matinee and evening performances. Peo-
get good idea of the color OF the seats
from those that were vacant 1t was a
gruesome sight TO see the unfortunate
players In such a plight that their powder
faces In little tinted streams, ''Tabasco''
was not neglected. The Passing show
a and mere sems hs9 Of kaSdo q ware Visitors
plauded. At night the roof gardens were
, packed.
: A close observer declares that pc
) culiar feature in the physical construc-
: tion of the many professional contor-
tionsts is the unusual shape of the
chin. In all cases this part of the face
> to a sharp point. 1t may be seen in
: little Eva Bertold, in Sarina. Ames Won
Gofre, and a number of others. Parents
r. with chinny children need therefore have
r no worry as to their future.
r Old Mrs. Drew is to withdraw from
the company that she heads. Her place
will be filled by Mrs. Mckee Rankin
5 Sydney Rrews KS, mommer-in:law, a and n The
longer. For an old lady, Mrs; Drew is
: able to Withstand the hardships of a
!. season that has had its ups and downs
, remarkably well.
Potter, begins season next Monday
night In San Trancisc3, supported & by
should please the Californians. They
cannot, at any rate, complain that II is
milk and water.
Nell Burgess doesn't know whether he
Will go 10 Europe this season or not; he
, furthermore doesn't know whether he
will build theatre in New York this
season or not: he moreover doesn't know
whether he will go on the road this sea.
: son or not. A list of the things that
MIR. Burgess does know-even IL it be no,
very compr"hensive-would at any rate,
be interesting.
=. The trouble with Clement Scott the
eminent London critic, is that he takes
himself too seriously. He has been talk
ing a good deal since his late contre-
, temps with Buchanan. and here is his
Ia .st uttetance: 81 own that "A success
, full play Is 10 me a personal joy, and a
failure Is to me a personal curse; II ]
that every play was n masterpiece and
, every artist genius. Yet the world
wags merrly enough with Mr.. Scott as
he is 1t doesn't really matter very much
. The dazalingly handsome manager
! known as Thomas II. Davis will have a
: number of irons In the fire next season
and 1t Is TO be hoped that he won't burn
tions will he a new melodrama by VIII
. lam Haworth called "on the ,Missis'
sippi% steve Br2dle y ana MS .sensa'
titled ION the Bowery:" Rush city
k the musical farce-comedy; "McFad
/ denis Elopement," n new farcc-comeiy
!, with Joan Kernel In the cast, The
4 Hustler" in "A rewritten condition; "Thc
] Still Alarm" the everlasting and war
u ranted -wear-ror-a-century 'Stowa
way" and POSSIBLY pantomimic SPEC
: tacle called the White Rat"
a Miss Eloise Mortimer, the prima don,
4 ma of the opera company now singing
= Fra Diavoio" at ProCtor's Theatre
SAYS that as Zerlina she takes off heI
= shoes and stockings twice day II
/, the d!srobing scene, She doesn't see
3 what Proctor wants with other 'ivinr
pictures, and feels little hurt abJut
(. H. Fra Diavolo" is certainly al opera
for these odd end-of-century times.