The sun., 1895-01-04
NEWS OF THE THEATRES.
THE GILMAN OF sESsATIoNALIsM
IN "TBE FATAL ChRD.O

CIssy Lortus's Transit frona Daily 70 Roster
Il Riai-The Goeists 20 Bu,id Another
Theatre The somersauit 0uestion-
where II "samr OF Peseu' Curtis .
The Goolet heirs are clearing the ground on
which to build q large theatre at I.exing-
ton avenue and Forty-second street. The
house will be leased for long term TO Frank p.
Murtha, now manager Of the Windsor, and will
probably be ready for opening next October.
The rental n to be five per cent. OF the coet of
the property. Abbev's Theatre belongs 10 the
Goeet estate, and the lease for twenty -one years
Il on tho same terms
The playwright las tn heed the tastes Of his
audiences. The Hebrew drama at the Wind
cor, at the lower end of the Bowery, Ia pros
perously supported by the Polish population OF
the east slde but they want q full moneys
worth OF entertainment. The curtain rises ut
1880 and usually does not fall finally until after
midnight. new play was presented the other
night, and II was satisfactory in every respect
save one--it was finished at IL O'Clock. The
people Kissed at this early closing innovation.
The author spent the rest Of the night writing
an additional act, 1t was studied and rehearsed
next day, and tho second representation Of the
piece lasted until after the clock struck 12.
The exections of modern audiences render IL
necessary to alter amend some of the old
pays Wnen Jney arc revived, HnrrtsOn Grey
Eiske has thus prepared "The Flying Dutch
man" for production. with Lewis Morrison as
the Captain Of the phantom ship and Edward
Faes Coward Is the reconstructor Of 1.-THE
Bellies Stratagem," as now used by Julia Mar
lowe. One Of Sardou's old comedies, "Maison
Eeuve." Is being played by Mrs. Langtry in an
English Version, called " A House Of Cards" by
sydney Grundy, and another, Family Benoi-
ton." is utilized by Rhea, who calls 1t THE
Parisians."
Mystery surrounds the disappearance Of NJ.
b. Curtis, the "Saml of Posen" comedian
Whether he has gone to Europe, as was given
out, or is in retreat nearer by, as was asserted
yesterday. is n disputed question. His health
seems to have broken down. There Is no uncer-
tainty us to the reason for the disappearance Of
Richard Golden from "Old Jed Prouty" at the
st. James, and so causing the collapse of tho
engagement. There seems to have been some
thing incomplete in his cure at a Keeley insti-
tute.
M"pd Harrison k Is I, the Ell new heroine in " The
r ms with aSas sne
Westwsrd Hos BY Benisma s s %of 'Ssee @Sof
let. in Louisville for the frst time Billy
Birch. once favorite negro minstrel, will APP
The Bijou next sunday evening. George Goes.
who used TO appear IN negro speeialties with
iyssd. Blanche Walsh has Joined n. c. Good.
wins company. Mary Burress has married and
os has oned pys Besss
Bonehill has been compelled by the grip to
.nspsn nd her tour; RICHARD Mansfield has made
the heavy losses of his season at the London.
lyceum.
The secession of Cissy Lotus from the play
ers OF the DAILY company places her In the list
with several well-known predecessors whose tai
en's could never be fitted to the display that the
performances at Daly's Theatre allowed them.
Like Miss Lotus, whose brief stage experience
has no; tended to prepare her for tenuous farce
or Shakespeare. these actors had made their
way through lines Of work which led them to
cSpability in quite contrary characters. Some
of these were Annie Yeamans and May Irwin,
whose talents were SO well known that their
temporary eclipse in their DAILY days never OBJ
scured their reputation rs clever performers in
larts which by no chance fell into their hands,
even when their manager wrote Won Schoen-
tan or Blumenthal farce for his company.
Henry Dixcy's connection with the company be-
gaR too recently for his position in the theatre 4
TO have become as yet one thing or the other.
Miss Loftus will now take her specalties TO
Roster d. Bial's and exhibit them there on the
2lst of the present month. She Is q demure
looking young woman, comely and brown-eyed,
frankly nervous about her debut. and the pos
SCISSOR OF voice peculiarly pleasant in quality.
On the stage in Thirty-fourth street she will
initiate eelebrities some OF them familiar and
some unknown. Sarah Bernhardt will be ono
OF those we know. and will May Yohe. Lefty
Lind. and Juliette Nesville, one Of the degagee
Gaiety Girls. from Dsly's Theatre while Yvette
Gulbert and Eugene Stratton will be among
the strangers.
Ada Rehan will be initiated by Miss
LOTUS. but. as tho young women of her
company have been initiating Miss Rehan
for such q long time, this part Of the
performance will not interest for its
novelty. Mrs. Kendall may be another imita-
tion, but Miss LOTUS cannot always tell just
come. she has to wait until the spirit, moves
her She sees an actor often enough to BECOME
waits anti she feels % that ' she 'e can H repro. @
duce 1t. Sometimes this takes a week.
'SS Effort or sAFsss ss Gat %.Sa ses sn
she has heard. as she says, the voice In her
saTs S, and md then she knows that the Imitation is
Of movement she never troubles herself with
until she .,,h has got the voice. Then the rest
periormsSse at shs Old Park Theatre on on Broad
years ago. il was called The Corscan Broth.
srs,," and very narrowing company Of English
It survive-one Of Marie LOTUS. who sang I'm
so shy" in very clever, fashion, and one OF c. j.
America at that time doing rather bad imita-
tion of Henry Irving.
With the entry Of melodrama to Broadway,
and the employment OF sterling actors therein.
as in "The Fatal Card" at Palmer's, there is u
chance TO compare the crude sensationalism of
previous realistic plays with the highly wrought
article here presented II has one noteworthy
Improvement over former plays intended TO hold
the beholder's breath suspended, and that is in
the delay Of virtues triumph till the very last