The evening world., 1894-06-02
( LONDON STAGE,
1fy Irving Thinks Its Actors
Won't Be Driven to Pugilism.
Skong Casts for 1.-THE BlackmaiIers"
I and "a Modern Eve."
Justin Huntley Mccarthy Was the
gAdapter of "The Candidate"

W Copyrishted. 1894, by the Associated Press)
W LONDON, June 2.-Henry Irving gave
y m1fning performance of Faust" on
ylpr8day. In order to enable him to pre-
V In the evening at the annual dinner
the Royal Theatrlc Fund. There were
n no hundred and fifty notable guests at
I,318 dinner, including Sir Frederick
\. L4ighton and Baron Leopold de Roth
\ tehild. Mr.. Irving made an amusing
& lsDeech in which he ridlculed the prevail
M idea that the theatrical depression
{f~ns~ likely to drive actors to the pro-
version OF pugilism.
k<sord Darlington will present Mr.. Irving
~ the levee OF the Prince and Princess
fXfewales next Monday.
f Almost the last public appearance of
n the Duchess OF York for some time was
\ her presence at Days Theatre, on Tues
day. to witness the performance of
Eieonora Duse in la Dame aux Came
slias."
n rhe Prince of Wales and the Duke Of
( York were among those present at Covent
Il 2,rden. on Thursday evening, at the
initial performance of THE Hugenots"
Z. Madame Adini. from the French opera,
made her debut as Valentine. but she
I hardly reached the expectations Of the
audience.
q The Aquarium management has Sc
cured fer exhibition purposes the curass
thvented by Maxim. the American gun
maker which is raid to be a rival of the
, bu>rt-proof coat Invented by Herr Dove
! bun Maxim's invention Is only a sheet Of
STE which skaters the bullets fired at
Cmrles Thursby Is to give a special
m4lnee at the Prince of Wales's Theatre
next Thursday of new play by John
Gr4F and Andre RoffaIovich, two youth
fuI members Of the Oscar Wilde school,
ID the preliminary announcement the
: play. which has been given the some
Efat catchpenny title of The Black
EHa,. .Ars," is described as one "of strong
matte interes.." 1t turns on the va
N Fies of young man who biackmails
bple when he Is put under hypnotic
i(ntence. A very strong cast has been
engaged. including Mrs. Theodore
4 Wright, Miss Olga Brandon and Messrs.
w. L. Abingdon. Julian Cross (who
stage-manages the piecc), and Harry
Eversfleld.
Beerbohm Tree has struck oil with
Sydney Grundy's "A Bunch of Violets,"
lnnd "House-Full' is the order of the
night at the Haymarket.
The rehearsals for the production at a
matinee Of Malcolm Salaman's "A Mod
I ~ Eve" are rapidly approaching con-
c1jSion. The following are the dramatis
pe7sonae:
Lardley Hereford, Fred Terry; Vivien
Hfreford (his wife), Mrs. Beerbohm
T1te; Mrs Malleson cher mother). Mrs.
! Dion Bouoicault; Mrs. Mowbray Meryon.
Miss Lottie Venne; Sir Gerald Raeburn,
-Gsfil Maude; Kenyon Wargrave, Beer
bsam Tree.
ualcolm salaman is the son Of Charles
- still hale and hearty. despite his four
score and odd years.
Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man"
tss slowly but surely made its way into
popular favor, and Miss Florence Farr
hes extended her lease of the Avenue to
!, the end of July. Last Friday and Sat-
iurday money was refused in all parts OF
sthe house excepting the gallery.
IN In connection with the revival of
tsrhe Candidate at the Criterion last
Thursday, it may be recalled that when
4 the play was originally produced at Ehe
e n&me theatre in November 1884, Charles
y yfyndham announced, in reply to the
Y e6ils for the author" that the gentle
y Ian in question was in the House." 1.
K ~ House Of Commons, but otherwise
ave no clue as to his identity. ''The
Candidate'' was adapted by Justin
} Huntley Mccarthy from lie Depute
De Bombignac," by Alexander Bisson,
which had been played at the Francois
some months previously without con-
spicuous success.
The cast for the revival includes, be.
sides Wyndham himself as the volatile
syiscount Oldacre. Messrs. William
Blakeley, George Giddens. C. w. Somer-
set, Miss Fanny Coleman, Miss Pattie
Browne and Miss Mary Moore.
= Miss Loie Fuller, the serpentine