The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-12
News Of the Green
Room and Foyer
Some of the More Important DOings
of These, Our Actors.
DANIEL L. HART'S NEW DRAMA
A Mcritorious WOrk-paulinc Hall OBJ.
jccts to Frivolity-Mrs. Antonia dc Ma.
varrO Looks Upon the Stage with
Aversion -FOotlight Flashes.

This is how the Seattle Post-Intel-
ligencer complimented Daniel l.. Hart's
new play, which will ,'e seen in this city
Monday night at the Academy of
Music: The comedy of 'O'Neil, Wash
ington, ID. c. will, in point of literary
merit, brilliant and witty dialogues
and originality of treatment, rank with
the best dramatic productions of the
day, and the tears, the laughter and
the spontaneous applause that greeted
its every scene, and recalled the play
ers over and over will be musical
sounds to the author that will be re-
peated from one end of the country to
the other To Daniel Sully's deep SYM
pathetic nature and intelligent inter-
probation of the part of Robert O'Neil,
the Irish inventor, gray before his
time is largely due the success of the
comedy. The part is well fitted to Mr..
Sully, and Mr.. Sully well fitted to the
part"
The newest thing in the gossip of the
green room is a Chicago thing, which
materaliZed only last week. 1t took
definite shape at the Fifth avenue
rooms of the Brotherhood of Theatrical
Stage employees, in the snaps of an
hctcrs' p~otec''ve urion, with 400 char
ter members. 1t will be affiliated with
une National organization of Actors
and the American Federation of Labor.
The first organization was effected in
New York nearly year ago, and local
uniuns have been organized In several
cities. According to the last report of
the general secretary there are $500
members in New York and $50 in Bos-
ton. The leaders of the movement de-
clare they will work many changes for
the better. Among other things they
promise to keep prize fighters off the
boards as actors, and to force the
theater managers to furnish fire protec-
ton and safer quarters for the people
behind the scenes. Or, as Walking
Delegate Hampton-how appropriate
his title-explains: I'VE demand an
entire abolition of dramatic agents, the
exclusion of the two weeks clause In
contracts. the payment of salaries Sat
urday night, the exclusion of prize
fighters and other such ilk as dramatic
attractions. and women whose only
claim to public attention Is infamy
actors not to do the work of stage
hands and mechanics, and vice versa
Sunday and holiday performances must
be paid for extra, all contracts to the
contrary Notwithstanding; and finally
we demand that the laws for the pro-
lection of people employed In buildings
from fires must be enforced" AfteI
this, let no one say art Is scornful oi
the sordid necessities of business!
Mrs. Antonio de Navarro. known e
| the stage as Mary Anderson, Is said
| to have told recent interviewer thai
she now looks upon the stage with
positive aversion. For six or seven
years she loved her work, but after
| that the unnaturalness of the life. Its
| unwholesome excitement. its glitter
| and glare, became apparent to her
| eyes. First she grew weary OF the
constant publicity of such a life, and
then her feeling became one OF posi-
| tive distaste. From the moment She
had resolved to leave the stage at the