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therefore very good news, for Murphy Is a
really able and sympathetic actor. and his
performance of Maverick Brander in his pres
ent production made a fortune for Charles
Hoyt when originally staged.
The report has spread that Stuart Robson
is to appear in only one or two plays this
season. He contradicts this. He has an
extensive repertory, which he will fully
utilize.
When e. M. Holland announced last week
that he had become the father Of a bouncing
infant, Odette Tyler and the women of "a
Social Highwayman" company presented to
that gay young bachelor, Joseph Holland,
a rosy checked doll baby.
While in the city Mr.. Charles H. Hoyt has
finished the second act OF his new comedy,
"a Runaway Colt in which Captain Arson
is to star. The company that is to support
Mr.. Arson has been selected, and its sea-
son will open on November 20.
Walker Whitesides exposed his PERFORM
ancs Of Hamlet" to the Knives OF metro
politan critics on Septernbrr 80, and they
carved into it somewhat. The consensus
seems to be that Whitesides is a young
actor with a laudable ambition and consid-
cradle natural ability, but that he needs
coaching.
This is the way Otis Skinner has to look
when he impersonates Villon, the Vagabond,
in the play Of that title, in which he has
made a notable success this season. The
description of the character is by the late
Robert Louis Stevenson: "a rag Of a man,
dark, little and lean, with hollow cheeks and
thin, black locks. He carries his four-and-
twenty years with feverish animation.
Greed has made folds about his eyes, evil
smiles have puckered mis- mouth. The wolf
and pig struggle together in his face. 1t
Is an eloquent, sharp, ugly, earthly coun-
%tenance. His hands are small and prehen-
sile, with fingers knotted like a cord, and
they are continually pickering in front Of
him in violent and expressive pantomime."
Minnie Maddern- Fiske has returned to the
stage as a star after an absence of about
seven years. Her tour began at the Du-
quesne theater, Pittsburg. on September 30,
In Harrison Grey Fiske's adaptation from the
French of Daudet and Hennique called THE
Queen Of Liars" Mrs. Flske plays the role
of Marie Deloche, an adventures, who is in
love and marries an honorable man. AS in
Camille, everything is against Deloche, and
she eventually, after the habit of numerous
predecessors in French emotional drama.
poisons herself to death. Mrs. Fiske is an
actress OF wide range Of emotion and ex-
preston and great magnetism. She Is re-
puted to have made a strongly favorable i'm
preston in her latest play-which is on a
much higher plane than I'm Spite of All"
and "Featherbrain.
The personal press agent of Theresa
Vaughn sends out the statement that Miss
Vaughn is to be the star Of e. e. Rice's
forthcoming production of r. A. Barnet's
Excelsior, Jr." 1t is well enough for Miss
Vaughn to have a personal press agent, for
the public likes to hear about her, but she
should instruct him to stick to facts. In
quiry at Mr.. Rice's office reveals that that
manager has no Intention of starring Miss
Vaughn. Truth to tell, there is to be no
star in Excelsior, Jr." The nearest ap-
proach to such a luminary will be Fay
Templeton, who is to impersonate the title
role, and who, II she has actually shed her
superfuous flesh, as she claims, will be capt.
tally cast In what amounts to a star role.
The point Is that the writer of this para
| graph has read the libretto, and therefore
talks by the card. Miss Vaughn will not be
| the star Of Excelsior. Jr."