The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-23

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such actor-managers We're Lester wal
| lack, Edwin Booth. George l.. Fox.
Dan Bryant, John Brougham and Josh
Hart.
| FOOTLIGHT FLASHES:
Mrs Potter will act Rosalind.
Bernhardt has bought an island.
Edwin Stevens has entered the vaule-
vile field.
Pinero's Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith' has
been launched in London.
Oscar Wilde's fun name is Oscar Ban
gor O'Flaherty Wylis Wilde.
ION the Rialto" is the title of a new
farce-comedy by W. \. Mestayer.
Stonewall Jackson will be imperson-
ated in David Belasco's Heart OF Mary
land"
Willard will play in London all next sea-
son and will produce Il new play by Henry
| Arthur Jones.
| American managers threaten to boycott
Canada If the government persists in levy
| ing duty every time company visits the
| Dominion.
The coming production of 1.-THE Brown
| icS' III this city at the Frothingham V!
| lne JEFFERSON, hilW anu I-IidlS'i N''''7
panv will be a notable theatrical event.
| Paul Potter's dramatization of "Trilpy"
Iachieved success in Boston. The east in
| cludes Amy Mcintosh. Wilton Lackaye,
| Virginia Harmed and Johnstone Bennett.
Creston Clarke will star next season
in Hamlet" Richard H." "Richelieu,"
The Fools Revenge" David Garrick,"
and other plays. James Taylor will man
! age the tour
| a. Oakley Hall. ex-mayor of New York,
at one time managing editor of the New
York World, and later the London corre-
| spondent of that paper. has been en-
gagged by n. Henry French as press agent
of his Broadway and American theaters.
| Richard Mansfield's long-cherished am
| bition Is realized. He Is to have a theatrr
| of his own in New York and be an actor
manager, just as are Irving, Tree. Alex
| ander and Hare in London. Mansfield has
| taken Harrigans theater in New York
| from Edward Harrigan for five years with
| the privilege of renewing the lease for
five years more. Mansfield says he will
| have 10 orchestra and everything about
the house will be simple but substantial.
The main thing will be acting
Olga Nethersole's new play Is a superb
version of Prosper Merimee's story CT
Carmen, from which the book of the opera
| was written. Has it ever occurred to you
how alike in some respects are Trilby and
Camile?" says Miss Nethersole. Both
| love fondly and both sacrifice their loves
on the altar of duty. only in Camille's
case father comes between the fond
lovers; in Trilby's, it is mother. But
then Camille's love is deeper, more firmly
rooted, more assured than was Trilby's
for Little Bilee."
Manager w. a. Brady has purchased
from Manager a. NJ. Palmer the rights for
Paul NJ. PotterS dramatiZation of "Tril-
by" which was recently produced in Bos.
ton, for the whole of the United States
except seven of the principal cities
where Mr.. Palmer will present the piece
with his own company. Mr.. Brady eX-
poets to put six companies on the road as
soon as possible, the first to open about
April in the east, and the second in the
west about the middle of next month. He
has already begun negotiations with Miss
Sibyl johnson, Miss Odette Tyler and Miss
Mabel Amber to play the title role in diff
ferent companies and with Frederick de
Bellevlle, Mckee Rankin and Louis Aid
rich, to appear as Svengali.
The performance of MY Aunt Bridget -
which will be given at Nibos, in New
York, on Saturday night viii be the last
theatrical entertainment that will ever be
given in that historic place of amusement,
and in short time the house will be torn
down to make way for the office building
which Henry O. Havemeyer proposes to
erect on the site, which he recently pur-
chased. william Niblo opened this place
of amusement-it was then a suburban re-
sort and was called Niblo's gardens-n
1923. Since that time many famous stars
have appeared there-notably Fechter and
| Mp(' tll lint ia a
ably, its greatest reputation to the produc-
ton there of the BLACK Crook" and the
later spectacles of the Kiralfy brothers.
Walter Sanford has been the manager of
the house for the last two seasons
| 1t was once remarked that Lester Wal
lace had played more parts than any
other American actor. having played over
seven hundred. Wallack must have had
an easy time OF 1t, for Ada Rehan while
under John w. Albaughs management In
Albany and Baltimore, must have played
at least one thousand parts. and in her
professional career not less than twelve
hundred. Frank Mordaunt has played
over two thousand parts and Is capable of
playing over two thousand more. The
last season of the stock company in Bal
timore, in 1873. william II. Thompson and
Ada Rehan played ten manuscript roles in
one week, commencing with divorce"
and ending with "Ollver Twist" 1t was
at that time Mr.. DAILY saw and engaged
Miss Rehan to play. on one occasion she
got part at noon which she had 10
play that night.-Theatrca Tidings.
Canary & Lederer have scheme on foot
to give grand magical exposition during
September 1t was first intended to have
this at the Bijou theater, but the affair
has grown to such an extent that they. In
all likelihood, will rent the Metropolitan
opera house. Offers have already been
made to Professor Keller, the magician;
Do Kolta and Carl Hartz, who are both I'm
Europe, and Gus Hartz, who is now man.
aging theater in Cleveland, O., and who.
up to a few years ago, was a prominent
illusonist, In this country. Among other
novelties Canary & Lederer will introduce
for the first time In America the famous
Walker Illusion, which has been n sensa-
ton I'm Europe for number of years
If Professor Keller accepts the offer that
has been made him, he will, among a
great many things, expose the shooting
act of Hermann, in which the latter Is
supposed to pose as a target for number
OF soldiers with loaded muskets.
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