The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-01
DRAMATIC NOTES.
Herbert Kelcey is to star.

I1eTDeTl NtlCey lS u StdT.
w. s. Gilbert is writing comedy for L.
s. Willard.
Marie Burroughs recently played Juliet
and Leah in Boston.
Minnie Seligman talks of starring in a
new play next season.
Lillian Swain is playing ingenue roles in
Ada Rehan's company
Neil Burgess has written new play and
will appear in 1t next season.
Seabrooke may do the Isle of Cham
payne" In London next season.
The first two weeks of "Trilby" In New
York brought in its owners $4,000.
Mr.. Salvini will spend the summer at the
villa of the elder Salvlni In Florence.
A free ride to and from the theatre Is
what the patrons of a Boston playhouse
get.
JEANNE Winston played the title role In
''Prince Methusalem" at Cleveland last
week.
Hughey Dougherty Is now member of
the Birth Of Venus" (comic opera) COM
pany.
Il. NJ. and Joseph Holland have decided
not to star next season, as they cannot
find suitable play.
c. T.. Werner, an American actor has
scored quite a success in Australia in
Irish comedy-drama.
Covent Garden theatre has just had Its
orchestra sunk three feet and half below
the level of the seats.
Sara Bernhardts Renaissance theatre
has closed Its doors, as its actress-mana-
ger Is touring in England.
The English critics are almost unani-
nous In the opinion that Henry Irving s
Don Quixote" is failure
Maggie Moore (Mrs. ]. c. Williamson, of
Australia), is still thinking of paying this
country visit next season.
Bobby Gaylor will be seen in a comedy
drama by Charles 7. Vincent next season.
1t will be called '.In Big City"
In few years Fanny Davenport intends
to retire from the stage and assume the
management of a frst-class theater.
A pair Of prize slippers, valued at $500,
Is to be given to the woman who shows
the shapliest feet at "Trilby" matinee In
Boston.
Marie Wainwright promises that her re-
vival of a standard old comedy next season
will eclipse any previous production she
has made.
1t Is thought Pinero's latest successful
play, "The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith,"
will be in Olga Nethersole's repertoire
next season.
Cheever Goodwin and William Furst are
to furnish Della Fox a comic opera, in
which she will begin her season at Pal
mer's theatre Sept. 2.
Fred Terry and Julia Nelson, the noted
London actor and actress, will be members
of John Hare's supporting company in
this country next season.
Manager Palmer states that he paws
Author Du Maurier between $500 and 81, ,OOO
per week for the privilege of producing
"Trilby" in dramatic form.
Rice's Excelsior company will be an
unusually strong one. Theresa Vaughn's
is the latest engagement for 1t. She will
play the part Of Swiss maid.
Mrs. John Drew recently presented box
OF stage jewelry to Marie Knowles. The
sleeves and side pieces were made for Mrs
Drew thirty years ago. for Porto.
Der Evangelimann," the Gospel Man, is
the curious title of a new opera that has
Just been performed with great success at
Berlin. Words and music are by Wilhelm
Kienzl.
The Comede- e-Francaise has cancelled M.
Gintry's engagement at his request with
out exacting the usual $4,000 forfeit he thus
incurred. M. Gintry will accompanw Mad
anne Bernhard to America.
Grattan Donnelly's burlesque on Ham
let" will have great cast. 1t is to in
clude e. j. Henley. George Broderck,
jacques Kruger, Catherine Lewis, Kate
Davis and John II. Bunney.
Mrs. Potter stabbed Kyrle Bellew in
charlotte Corday' last week. The wound
was painful, but not serious. A vampire
bat sucked Mrs. Brown Potter's blood
during her performance of Lady Macbeth
in Calcutta.
Duse has a new play, "The She Wolf"
by Verga, which she will do In Italy and
bring here in the fall. Nothing can he
learned about 1t until after the Italian pro-
duction. when the author will sell the right
to translate the play for this country to
the highest bidder.
1t is the intention of Canary & Lederer
to produce only comic operas, burlesque
and musical travesties In the New York
Casino. "The Mimic World" will hold the
boards until September, when "The Art
lists Model will be produced by George
Edwardes' entire company. including Ma
rie Tempest, Lettie Lind, Hayden Coffin
and others.