The Anaconda standard., 1895-06-09
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To a New York reporter. Frederick
| Warde said a few days ago:
! Il have just engaged Maud Hoffman
| as my leading woman for next season.
Charles HGnnan will take the place OF
/ Louis James.
Il shall open my season next year on
/ Sept. 26 at the Columbia theater. Brook
/ lyn. / shall produce during that en-
! gagement William Greer Harrisons
1 play "Sunnymede." ! produced the
/ play in Sar Francisco this season, but
/ it-naS lpt been seen East at all.
81 intend now to take good. long
/ vacation at my country home at White
. Lake. sullivan county
Lillian Russell who has been sfiict-
tl with severe congestion of the vocal
chords since the first production OF
4 Ihe Taigapc,' experienced the newt
Z able "Lr.ak-duwu'' on Thursday night
/ n Abbeys ia New York. Against the
/ advice of her physician, Miss Russell
! attempted 10 sing. and after struggling
/ through the first act, was compelled
/ To- give mp ana allow Clara Lane 10
I nnisl the opera.
| The TitteI sisters have .ocated I'm
! Pullman. Wash. where Charlotte and
/ Essie are giving instructions in elocG-
| tion. music and drawing Charlotte
/ will also direct an open air perform
/
shortly at Spokane. in which she VIII
play Rosalind.
| In Munich the opera begins at
| o'clock in Vienna at I, in Venice at 8.
| Florence at $50, and in Rome o'clock
is the universal hour for the theaters
/ To commence. A correspondent who at
| tended the opera in Rome. writes;
| AT II 80. q performance being over,
we prepared TO leave. but learned that
I Ill nd n
| l2:45 Gretchen ballet, in eight parts,
commenced. People now fiocked In and
| took front seats in the pit and talked
\ to the solo dancers on their entrance.
| They did not mind, but took every
| thing good-naturedly. The bright,
lively music lasted until about .
| o'clock
Mrs Langtry." says a London
| sporting weekly, lovely as ever. but
| looking trife tired, turned up at the
/ Newmarket direct from 'Murrica few
| days since. She was enveloped In an
ulster made out ofsa gray horse blank
ct. the designer Of which should be
blindfolded, led out of the city limits
| and shot"
| In Madrid n few days ago Mignon.
| the S-year-old daughter of Nine. Emma
| Nevada. rendered the serpentine dance
| before the Queen Regent and the In
| fanta Isabel. The child also sang, ac-
| companied by the court pianist, Les
| Enfants." of Massenet, and III Baoio
| for the queen. who embraced the little
artist repeatedly.
The question OF hats at perform
ances is being seriously considered in
Paris At the Coincide Francaise
money has been refunded To ladies who
would not rcnounce the charming now
/ er parasuls in the orchestra seats at
| least.
Robert Manten has been for years
! debarred from acting in New York
/ state by the fact that, having failed TO
/ pay alimony to his divorced wife, he
| dares not come within the jurisdiction
| of the court.
I'm a Big City" is the title OF the
| new play i'm which William \. Brady
will star Robert Gaylor next season.
1t is comedy drama, written by
/ Charles 7. Vincent.
Miss Lotta Craotree, the actress, is
| back i'm America again, after nearly
year spent abroad. She went away
sick woman. but returns entirely re-
/ stored to health.
Stanley J. Weyman's stories. The
! House Of the Wolf" Under the Red
/ Robe" and a Gentleman of France"
will be dramatized by Richard Mans
field. for use at the Garrick. New
| York.
! After three years of professional
work together. Warde and James have
separated. Next season each will head
"A company of his own.
Miss Pauline Hail. with her husband
! and Mr.. and Mrs. Duncan u. Harrison,
are about to start on bicycle tour
! in Europe. which is to last all summer.
mime. Sans Gene" has made S50,000
| for Manager Pitou this season. That
is about the amount il cost Abbey,
Schoeffel & Grau.
| Louise Beaudet claims 10 have an
! opera ready for presentation in Au-
gust. Are the public ready?' is the
leading question.
Theresa Vaughn will appear as Ber-
tha, "A Swiss maid, in r.. \. Barnett's
Excelsior, Jr.," under Rice's manage
ment.
Patti may return to America next
winter under an engagement To appear
in opera once a week with the Abbey
x Grau company.
Dessau is a German city Of only
. So 600 inha hitantS, and yet II had. dur
ing the last season, 81 operate per-
I formanCes.
4 company OF deaf mutes gave
/ Humpty- -Dumpty in Boston last week.
sir Henry Irving's American tour
viii omen in Montreal Sept Is.
II is said that Bill Nye and Paul
Potter are writing a play in collabora-
! tion.
Four roof garden shows will soon he
/ running I'm New York.
And now "Trilhy'' Is to be made into
I n comic opera.
Nine Nodjeska will spend the sum-
ncr on her California ranch.
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