The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-09-21
News of the Green
Room and Foyer.
Some of the More Important
Doiiags of These, Our Actors.

MED that Wilde, the writer of plays,
possesses q wonderful facility for max
Ing epigrams. Here are some of the
coruscations in his latest play. IAN
Ideal HUSBAND:
1t Is not the perfect, but the imperfect,
who have need to love.
All s.ns, except a SIN against itself, love
should forgive.
London society Is entirely composed now
of beautiful IDIOTS and brilliant lunatics.
hate being educated; ii puts one quite
on a level with the lower classes.
Nowadays people marry as oiteh Us
they can. 1t is most fashionable.
More women grow old nowadays
Through the fa!thfulness of their admir-
ers than through any thing else.
No question is ever indiscreet. All an
0wers are. n..,
like looking at geniuseS ana listening
to beautiful people. ..-.
You have your price, suppose; every
body has nowadays. The drawback IS
that most people are dreadfully expensive.
Secrets from other peoples wives are
necessary luxury in modern life, put mo
man should have secret from his own
wife, She invariably finds 1t out. They
can discover everything except the op-
vious.
What this century worships Is weaitn'
the god of this century is wealth; 70 sue
Ceed one must have wealth; at all costs
one must have wealth. O.,
DO you really think that II IS weak 10
yield TO temptation? tell you that tnere
are terrible temptations that 1t requires
strength and courage to yield 10.
l am always saying what l should NOT
say. l fact l usually say what think,
q great mistake nowadays, makes one SO
liable to be misunderstood.
The world can't stand man VINO al
ways says he is right. but they are very
fond of man who admits that he has
been wrong.
In the case Of a woman who dyes her
hair, sex is challenge. not defense.
y,
night and not quite enough clothes. That
is always a sign of despair in woman.
think that in practical life there IS
something about success that Is q little
INSCRIPTIONS; something about ambition
that is INSCRIPTIONS always. II man
has to climb the crag, he climbs the crag;
If he has to walk in the mire he walks in
the mire.
thing; nobody is incapable OF doing
wrong thing.
Ii is an excellent charity. The object Is
TO try and bring little happiness into
the homes of the upper classes.
Nothing ages one so rapidly as pcihg 100
modern.
Morality is simply the attitude We adopt
toward people whom we personally d's-
like
A man who canno. talk morality twice
week to 4 large immoral audience is quite
over as a serious politician.
I should fancy Mrs Cheveley Is one or
those very modern women of our day who
fnd a new scandal as becoming as new
bonnet, and airs them both in the park
every afternoon.
Fashion Is what one wears one's-self.
What is not fashionable is what other
people wear: Just as vulgarity Is the be-
havior OF other people.
II is not always nice to be expected and
not to arrive.
bachelors are not fashionable any more.
They're a damaged lot; too much Is
known about them.
Romance should never begin with sen,
ment. 1t should begin with science and
end with settlement.
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Edward Langtry from whom the fair
Lily seeks to be divorced. lives at Holy
head and has been pensoner on the
bounty of his beautiful wife for many
years. He Is rather a gay and dissi-
pated gentleman who does nothing for
q living but demands that Mrs. Lang
try support him as the husband of such
an eminent and wealthy lady should
he kept He has never seen his little
daughter Jeanne (who is now about IA
years ODD since she was a baby, and
never comes near the Lfly's many
handsome homes about England and
elsewhere. Mr.. Langtry is commend
ably steady and violent drinker and oc-
casionally a reliable rumor flies over
the Irish sea that Mr.. Langtry is dead
of fit or something stronger, but it is
invariably denied by next mail. Ed
ward Langtry married Emile Char
lotte le Breton when the Jersey Lily
was only Is years old Mrs. Langtry is
on the continent at the baths Of AK
and Carlsbad. She has had distress
ing but not serious attack of rheuma-
tism, which interfered with her keep
ing American engagements for this
season. She sent an agent across the
seas to personally convey to Henry
Abbey the warning that she must break
her contract with that manager for this
year, primarily because of her ailment
and likewise because a play suitable for
the demands of Mrs. Langtry and the
American public could not be obtained.
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Joseph Brooks, who is playing
Cranes company this season, tells Jo
Howard that the story Of a syndicate
enlisting the capital. experience and
enterprise of J. II. McVicker. of Chi
cago Henry C. Miner, of New York;
John Stetson, of Boston; Brother AL
baugh, of Washington, and others not
yet publicly known, Is correct. 1t is
the purpose of this syndicate to pur-
chase plays and make expensive pro-
ductions In sundry eastern cities. chi
cagO being probably the western limit,
utilizing the services OF tremendous
casts can be drawn. Charles Frohman
Is virtually at the head Of a similar or
ganization and Henry E.Abbey Is chief
of another. With Joseph Brooks as
manager and Charles ]. Davis as busi-
ness manager. backed as they are by
men whose aggregate wealth Is nearer
five than four millions of dollars. How
ard thinks that this newcomer should
be able to challenge public attention
and secure general favor.
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Here Is the plot of "a World of Trou-
.ble," In which Thomas @. Seabrooke
stars this season: Middleton Simpkins
(Mr Seabroolse), retired gentleman,
Is the victim Of mistaken identity.
woman he has never met claims him as
her husband AS he Is already mar
rled, he is sued for bigamy, and secures
acqulttal through the disagreement Of
the jury. He retires to the country for
rest, and Is unfortunate enough to ap-
pear on the scene when a girl swoons.
He saves her from falling, and while at
tempting to revive her is seen by his
wife. The girl drops a lOcket, Mrs
Simpkins finds 1t, sees the girls pic
tLre within, and concludes 1t Is love
token. The locket Is peculiar in that
while 1t contains two portraits only
one can be shown at time. Simpkin
notices the locket in his wlfe's posses
sion. His suspicious are aroused, and
when he secures the trinket and opens
It he finds mans picture. Complica-
tions ensue. They are heightened by
the appearance of the woman who
thinks Simpkins Is her husband. by the
presence of a detective hired by Mrs.
Simpkins to procure evidence, and by
the arrival of a young lawyer, the
owner Of the locket
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Says Henry-beg pardon Sir Henry
Irving: II am becoming very much
interested In the possibility Of state
or national theater which shall be sup
ported by the government and shall
contain as the most important part of