The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-15
GREEN ROOM GOSSIP,


He strobe before the footlights
In trappings gay and rich,
But he couldn't buy, when the play was
done,
A little ham sandwich.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
John Drew will give the Love Knot in
London.
Dixey may appear in the Pacific Mail'
| next season.
They say that Nat Goodwin is going to
play Hamlet.
Sam Edwards will star next season in a
comedy by Max O'Rell
L. H. Sothern will be seen in 1.-THE Pris-
oner of Zenda" next season.
All actresses paint, but only the best Of
them draw well.-Footlghts.
Miss Clara Lane is Miss Lillian Rus
sells understudy in "The Tzigane."
Ibsen's new play, Little Eylof," was
lately produced in Paris with great sue
| cess.
Olga Nethersole will appear here next
season in Carmen" Camille" and "Ro-
meo and Juliet"
Marie Wainwright will devote her sum-
mer to giving lessons in acting to few
| pupils in New York.
| Il. II. Sothern has so many new plays
ready for trial next season that he will lay
| the old successes on the shelf.
1t is at last understood why wigs are so
commonly worn on the stage. A bald
headed man can't have part.-Footlights
George w. Monroe and John C. Rice
| have again joined forces and will appea. !.
in their old-t!me farce camedy, "My Aunt
| Bridget"
| Charles Wyndham has engaged Lord
Rosslyn-a real lord-to act on the stage.
| His name will follow life-size coronet on
| the billboards.
Among the theatrical people who will
spend the summer abroad will be Maria
Wainwright, Nat Goodwin, Pauline Hail,
Alexander Salvini, John Drew, Mrs. Potter
| and Kyrle Bellew
prize of $1,000 is given by the French
academy to the author of the best play
| produced each season at the Comedie
| Franchise or the Odeon. Coppee's Pour
Ia Couron" won the prize this year.
| 1t is stated that Mr.. Harry u. Smith,
| the librettlst of Mr.. Reginald de Koven,
was police reporter in Chicago a few years
| ago, and that he now enjoys from his
opera books an income of $4,000 a year.
1t is definitely settled that Beerbohm
| Tree will not return to this country next
season. The foreign stars who have finally
| decided to visit America next season are
Henry Irving. John Hare ana Mrs. Lang
try, and probably Olga Nethersole, from
| England.
| Henry Irving Is the first English actor
| to receive the distinction of knighthood.
| Sir Augustus Harris was knighted not be-
| cause he was q manager, but as lord
sheriff of London, and Sir Arthur Sullivan
was knighted in spite of the fact that he
| wrote comic opera. These two are the
most nearly connected with Henry Irving s
| calling.
Daniel Frohman is arrahglng.for the pro-
duction of American plays In London. IT
| is believed that the tide has turned In
England and that the American playwright
IL going to find good field for his work
in the mother country. The manuscripts
of Alabama" and SHENANDOAH have
| Just been sent for. and It Is believed that
they will be produced in the English capi-
tai early next autumn
| Marion Manola- Mason, after an absence
of more than. two years from the opertlc
stage which time she has devoted to play
! ing comedy with her husband, John Ma
son, has decided to return to her first love.
| She has signed contract with the Mur-
ray-Lane company, and will open with that
organization In Cleveland, O., In "Clover,"
| the charming opera in which she created
the leading role when Colonel McCaull
first produced 1t.