The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-25
DRAMATIC NOTES.
New York is to have a winter circus.

New York is to have a winter circus.
Beerbohm Tree will revive Fedora"
Seabrooke will give 1.-THE Mogul" next
season.
M. B. Curtis will do "Saml of Posen"
In London.
Paul NJ. Potter Is writing a play for
William II. Crane.
Sol Smith Russell will appear in "The
Rivals" next season.
A comic opera libretto is a recent effort
Of the Marquis Of Lorne.
Charles Dickson will burlesque Mans
field in 'The Mimic World"
Paul Potter and Bill Nye are to collab-
crate on an original comedy.
Lotta has returned from Europe. but
has no intention Of acting again.
Henry Guy Carleton's new play for John
Drew is entitled 1.-THE Love Knot"
Eugene Tompkins will produce "Bur-
nah" spectacular drama next season.
Cleopatra will be character in 1.-THE
Wizard Of the Nile," Frank Daniels new
opera.
Charles ]. Ross, of Ross and Fenton,
will be seen in "The Rainmakers" next
season.
Nym Crinkle declares that Sarah Bern
hardt Is the most theatrical actress He
ever saw.
John A. Crabtree brother of Lotta, has
purchased the American rights to Gen
tleman Joe."
"Kismet," a comic opera by Richard
Carroll and Gus Kerker, will shortly be
produced in Boston.
Olga Nethersole will play the leading
role in Pinero's "The Notorious Mrs. Ebb-
smith" here next season.
Salvini's rendition of saul" in Rome
last month Is said to have been the chief
theatrical event Of the year in all Italy.
A one-act play, with Edgar Allan Poe
as one of its characters, and William T.
Burton as another, has been performed.
Theresa Vaughn will appear as Bertha,
a Swiss maid. in r. A. Barnet's Excel
sior. Jr.," under Rice's management next
season.
washington Crossing the Delaware"
will be one of the big tableaux in Camille
DArville's opera, "A Daughter of the
Revolution"
There will be twenty-five musical shows
on the road next season. The great ma
Jority Of them will be directly In the line
Of comic opera.
Charles and Daniel Frohman will look
for clean comedy-dramas representing
the highest class of people," They don't
want any more problem plays"
Richard Mansfield will put on a burlesaue
called "Thrillby." He has engaged Charles
Bigelow as Svengali; L. d. Lyons, as the
Laird; Adele Richie, as Little Billee. and
Carrie Perkins, as Thrilby.
1t is said to be likely that the English
actor w. Fl. Vernon, will be engaged to
play Falstaff In the ambition. revival Of
Henry w." which Julia Marlowe- -Taber
contemplates for next season.
John Hare. the next English actor to
introduce himself to America, is small
and nervous. with the typical features of
the old-time actor. He Is any age, from
30 to 60, and is Queen Victoria's fayorite
player.
In Grattan Donnelly's burlesuue on
"Hamle" the characters will be assigned
as follows: King, John H. Bunney; ghost,
George Broderick; Polonius, jacques Krl-
ger; Ophelia, Catherine Lewis; queen,
Kate Davis.
The Dramatic News says that Marie
Tempest Is now proud mamma. So.
the charming. plump, partridge must have
married julius Steger after all. Julius
was the gallant-appearing young man,
with the yearning baritone voice, who
supported Miss Tempest in 1.-THE Alger-
ian."
Forced by poverty to earn living for
herself and family and in order to save
her titled husband from bankruptcy,
Lady Clancarty, nee Belle Billion, has re-
turned to the stage. She will probably
visit America to "kick" for Americans
and to fill her pockets with American dol
lars.
Bernhardt 80 e.. ects to pass the summer In
an old ruineu ~Istle on the Atlantic coast
OF Brittany, where she hopes to lead the
life of a barbarian, with only two servants
"a rather luxurious barbarism-hrd with
no more clothes than a peasant woman
would need. She cbnes to America In
October. 70ythln.
The managers of the BefAn theatres
hope to reap rich harvest from the visit
ors to the Industrial Exposition in that
city next year. Preparations have been
made to keep all the theatres open during
the summer of 1896, and, in addition to
this, four theatres are to be erected in the
exposition grounds.
Robert Taber, the husband of Julia Mar
lowe, Is graduate of Princeton, and his
father, a well-known cotton merchant of
New York, was earnestly opposed to his
adoption of the stage, upon which he has
been very successful, preferring that he
should enter the profession Of the law.
Joseph Jefferson last week declared that
~t.~~zA
ing was to suggest. Whereupon he quoted
Emerson to the effect that "the imitator
mars his own perfections by giving us the
imperfections of Others" Genius produces,
but art reproduces. II can no more tell
you what perso nal magnetism is than can
Mr.. Tesla tell you what is electricity"
Mansfield's season in New York has not
been a great success. He will close to-
night Carrie Turner Minnie Selgman,
Mrs. Mckee Rankin, Henry Jewett and
Daniel H. Harkins have been engaged for
next season. A novelty in managerial
methods next season will be ten subscrip-
tion performances. Each subscription win
cost 500, and will entltle the holder to five
orchestra chairs for every first night of
the season, In addition to five seats for
the duly advertised subscription nights.
"Actors are far more egotistical than ac.-
resses," said New York manager. 1.-THE
man is always sure he can do part.
Nothing is ever too big for him. At the
very mention of It he will declare that 1t
was Just cut out for him. and he can tell
you on the spur Of the moment about all
sorts of clever business that he can work
in. But woman-she isn't so certain. She
would like to try, and believes she could.
The better actress she is the more modest
she Is. The actress who knows It all Is
rare. and she can neser act"