The herald., 1895-04-01
Notes From Theatrical Tidings

Prince Pro Tenn, with Fred Lennox and
Josie Saddler and company of forty-five,
will play Philadelphia in May at the
Chestnut Street theater or opera house for
a run.
Worth, the. famous Partisan designer of
gowns, who has just died, said that Cora
Urquhart Potter is the most beautiful
woman and the best model he has ever
had among his clients. This is saying a
good deal when it is remembered that the
professional beauties of the empire came
to Worth for sartatorial suggestions.
The Rob Roy Scotch plaid craze is re-
ported to have struck Boston before the
opera arrived. Shop keepers are display
ing the brilliant hued ties in their win
dows, and it is believed that the cars
which run on fremont street by the Castle
Square theater will soon go back to those
plaid painted sides which they used to
have five years ago.
is congenial, contagious, composite
concatenation OF cheer and charm. The
prima donna's anecdotes and stories
match this laugh admirably, in fact, in the
most snug and tailor-made fashion.
Robin Hood and his fellows would have
been delighted to hear the laugh and
those stories, and would have toasted the
prima donna in good old ale.
Nine. Rejane has followed up her success
as Madame Sans-Gene at Abbey's Thea
ter, New York by another success-her
performance of the role of Riquette in
Henri Meilhac's comedy, Ma Cousine.
Rejane plays the part of lively French
woman who beguiles French husband
in order that the husband may not fall
in love with an adventures, and she
brings to the role an incessant fund of
gaiety, archness and coquetry.
Charles H. Hoyt offered to write play
and star Frank Daniels in it on partner
shin neyf SEASON Willard Snapoar offayad
to star him in Princess Bonnie, and
Nixon and Zimmerman. the Philadelphia
managers who have backed De Wolf Hop
per, offered to star him in comic opera.
Kirke La Shelle and Arthur B. Clarke,
now managing the Bostonians, take Dan
tels away from all, simply because they
have an opera that caught his fancy. 1t
is by Harry B. Smith and Victor Herbert,
and is called The Wizard.
Marion Lea, the American actress who
has made such success this season as the
leading woman of Mr.. and Mrs. Kendals
English company, will play with an
American company next season. Miss
Lea is an American girl who has APP
peared so far only on the English stage
principally III London, but like her Eng
lish cousins who have come to this coun-
try to play, she has probably come to the
conclusion that there is more opportun-
ity, both artistic and pecuniary, in the
company of the American eagle than of
the British lion.
I Fanny Davenport ought to be thorough
~ posted with regard to the character
and environment of the Duchess of Athens
in Gismonda, Sardou's latest play with
which she is initiating her bank account.
Before staging the piece the actress bought
more than two hundred books dealing
with Athens, Florence and the Renais-
sance period. Of couse she has not read
every volume, but she has at lea st turned
the pages. furthermore, she spent a
great deal of time in scanning the Astor
library in New York and the public library
in Boston with the purpose of becoming
imbued with the spirit of the times of
Gismonda. The result is, her brain now
teens with thoughts appropriate to the
time of the action of the play.
Fanny Warde, the petite and piquante
American actress, who began by playing
ingenue roles in the companies of Angus
tus Pitou and Charles Frohman, and who
eventually kicked her foot out of such
burlesques and extravaganzas as Cinde-
rella, Sinbad and Adonis went to London
last fall, 1t will be remem bered to appear
in the Gaiety Theater company, leaving
behind her in America a big suit for
damages against Duke Brown, young
New Yorker, noteworthy chiefly for the
fact that his father has money. Nothing
has been heard about Miss Wardes ap,
pearance on the London stage and this is
explained recently by the fact that she is
not in England but has been living in
New York City for quite a while without