The morning times., 1895-12-15
DRAMATIC NOTES.

DRAMATIC NOTES.
"The Gay Parisians'' win have fits Tooth
performance aC Hoyt's New York Theater
on December 1S.
John Hare, the English actor, arrived
in New York last Friday.
james A. ,Herne has written a new play
In which he will star next season.
The Empire Theater Stock Company win
open its New York season in that old
favorite, Sowing the Wind
In the cast OF "The Governor of Ken
lucky the new play by Franklin Files,
which W ii. Crane will produce shortly,
there are the names of several Washington
favorites. Tine fun cas-, Is as follows:
Mr.. Crane, Miss Anna O'Neill. Burr Nc
lntosh, Anna Robinson, Edwin Arden.
Joseph Wheelock, William Boag, Margaret
Robinson. Marion Abbott: Kate Drenin VIII
son, and Lorimer Stoddard.
Lillian Lawrence, who is known here for
her good work last summer as leading
lady of the stock company at the National,
has achievedaa pronounced success in the
part OF Mrs. Belford in The Great Diamond
Robbery" She succeeded Blanche Walsh
In the role, who resigned to join the
"Triby" company. 1t is rather a CO.
incidence that Miss Walsh was leading
lady of the rival company at Aliens last
summer.
Frederick Paulding has declined a re-
engagement with Gladys Wallis COM
pany- r,-.r .a.
Oscar Hammerstein intends to dispose
of all his Harlem property. which in
cludes three ihpaters. flat house and
several pieces OF business property. The
whole valued at about 81 600 600 Oscar
says that the Olympia takes up all his
time, now that it is n success, and he
will sell out his otter Interests aud give
it his entire attention.
On last Friday The annual beucfit per-
Torrance for the Actors Fund was given
at The Broadway Tbeater. Among those
who took part were Henry Irving and
Miss Terry. Olga Nethersoip and company,
the Empire TBc8tcr stock company In TIE
sex against sex scene from sowing the
Wind" JOHN Drew aud Maud Adams, Fritz
Williams and Ellaline Terriss. Mabel Love.
The dancer; Eliia Proctor Otis and many
othcrs. 90
Next season a new opera,ic organiza-
tion Will take the road under the name OF
the De Koven-Smiih Opera Company. The
enterprise viii be u ucler the management
OF Messrs. Charles f. Evans and W. ID.
Mann, and the first opera viii be pro-
Guced at the Herald Square Tbeater next
September. -.
Mr.. A. NJ. Palmer, the weii-known New
York manager. has secured the lease of
Chicago tbeaier and hereafter Will
divide his attention between the two cities.
The tbeaier is now in course OF erection,
and when completed the present Triiby
company will occupy the bouse as stock
company.
James T. Powers would ike to know
iW here he is at He was engaged by
the Aronspns to- play Gentleman Jim in
the play of that name, and now along comes
NJ. B. Curtis, who says the play shall mt
be produced unless he, Curtis, shall have the
title role.
Yyetie Guilbert, the Paris songstress,
has reached New York and submitted" To
the usual amount of interviews. In each
one she has given different impression
of America.
Edward Yroom has engaged Julien
Magnus as business manager for Coppee's
For the Crown which will be pro-
duced in New York ON February 4.
1t is said that the late Alexandra Dumas
never received a dollar in royalties for
any of his plays produced in this country,
and yet several people made fortunes dur
ing the past twenty-five years by the use
or his plays.
Richard Mansfield has become some
what noted for his curtain speeches, but
he hit { he nail on the head when he said to
New York audience, Il assure you, that
there is no place in which 1t Is so diff
ficult to win pecuniary success as New
York, and for that reason l am compelled
to go to what you are pleased to call the
provinces
The cast of Hoyt's "A Runaway Colt"
includes, besides the star, Uncle Anson, such
well-known ball players as Artie Latham,
Joe Kelly, Parke Wilson, and Umpire Tim
Hurst. Even If the play lacked drawing
power, crowds would ill the theater to
see such old favorites Ia new roles.
Francis Wilson and Sidney Rosenfeld, the
playwright, are having a hot fight in the
courts over money matters In regard to
adapting operas. MIR. Rosenfeld has
threatened to sue Francis for libel because
he said Rosenfeld had"teeth on his trousers"
Richard Mansfield says he will cancel the
California dates of the Holland Brothers
and close their tour In Chicago on Decem-
Der 20. 1t is understood that this step
is necessitated by bad business since the
company left New York.
Edward Kilanyi. the man who first gave
us living pictures. died In New York last
week from rapid consumption. His deaths
was FASTENED by the hard work attending
the recent production OF the "Giypto-
rama" at Kosier Il Balls. On the Iirst
night of the spectacle the audience called
loudly for KiianN. He was on his DEATH
bed at his home.
-rhe Wizard of the Nile" will have its
one hundredth performance at the New
York Casino on December 81 when bronze
souvenirs representing q divinity OF the
ancient Egyptians. will be presented to the
ladies. .ss.. r' =.
Miss Della Stacey, who left the Digby
Bell Opera Company at the close of their
engagement IN this city, and who since
then has been pursujng her vocal studies,
has returned to New York, where she
rehearsals Thursday with Ca
nary & Lederer's company In Gus Kerkers.
new opera, 1.-The Lady Slavey."
Col. IngersoI1's Lecture.
Col. Ingersoil viii be seen In this city at