The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-07-20
GREEN ROOM GOSSIP.
Rhea will produce Nell Gwynnc.

Rhea will produce Nell Gwynnc.
Jimmy Powers Is studying music.
Ferora Jarbeau goes with The Passing
Show next season.
NJ. b. Curtis will produce Gentleman
Joe here this season.
novelty promised for the next dra-
matte season: No Kendals.
Frank Thompson, the only son of Den
| man Thompson. has been playing Happy
| Jack In The Old Homestead
Wilton Lackaye's makeup as Syengali
has set the Chicago critics fairly wild
with wonder and admiration.
A Happy little Home Is the title of q
new comedy in which George W. Monroe
Will be seen the coming season.
Madeline Shirley has received from Lon
don new burlesque called Little Ma
poleon and Miss Don't Care a.
Oliver Doud Byron Is at Long Branch
| for the summer and is as much of a bike
devotee as Is Miss Lillian Russell.
Helen Dauvray IL In San Francisco,
and Will appear with the Frawley COM
pany In her play, One of Our Girls.
Edwin Milton Royle's new play, Mex
leo, will be produced at the Euclid Avenue
Opera House. Cleveland on August 26.
Courtenay Thorpe will include in his
repertory A PantOmime Rehearsal, in
which Rosina VOkes was so successful.
Percy Gaunt, Thomas Frost and Dore
Davidson are writing comic opera,
which will probably be produced next sea-
son.
sydney Armstrong, after a years rest,
has completely regained her health and
| strength and Is again ready for profess
| sional work.
The Earl Of Rosslyn will be a member
of Mr.. Wyndhams London company
next season. He Is about twenty-eight
years Of age.
Johnstone Bennett has signed with
Richard Mansfield for the Garrick theatre
stock company next season. She says she
Is tired Of starring.
Mr.. Thomas Q. Seabrooke will make his
debut as star in comedy under the man.
agement of Mr.. j. j. Brady at the Park
Theatre In Boston on September 3.
Henry Abbey announces that he will
never bring another non-English speaking
star to this country, as he lost money on
Rejane, CoQuelin, Hading and others.
Girl Wanted is the title finally adopted
for the farce-comedy by r. N. Stephens,
in which Frank Bush is to star the coming
season. 1t had been intended to call the
piece The Real Thing.
Robert Downing will make the greatest
production Of his career in the first per-
formance In America of Sardou's famous
play, Helena, which will be given In
Washington on September 2.
The London comedy, The Strange Ad-
ventures Of Miss Brown, by Robert Blu
chanan, somewhat resembles Charley's
Aunt and the fun Is produced by q boy
assuming the clothes Of girl.
Mile. Rhea has Just signed a contract to
make a tour next season under the man.
agement Of Rich Il Maeder, presenting a
revival OF Josephine, Empress of the
French, and her new play. Nell Gwynne.
Billy Emerson. the veteran minstrel
comedian, has become impressed with the
growing Importance of the vaudeville
business and as q result he has signed
for next season with Weber and Fields
company.
Rose Coghlan has signed to play a six
weeks engagement in L. r. Stockwelrs
company at the Columbia Theatre, San
Francisco. This will probably prevent
Miss COghlan from going out on tour as
early as In previous years.
The following actors have been engaged
by Richard Mansfield to support Joseph
and +. NJ. Holland on their tour next sea-
son: Maud Harrison. Olive Oliver, Robert
Cotton, Hugo Toland, Mrs. T.. ]. Phillips,
Mrs. Rankin, Flossie. Ethyl and William
Norris
Charles Reade's drama, Never Too Late
to Mend, has been revived at the Standard
in London, with Henry Neville as Tom
Robinson 1t was Mr.. Neville's first APP
pearance in London since his return from
America, where he appeared as leading
man in Mr.. Trees company.
Charley's Aunt has reached Portugal,
and is attracting large audiences to an
Oporto theatre. In Its Portuguese guise
II is A Madrinha de Charee. with the
exception of an original play Of Shakes |
peares this is the first time in years
that an English drama has been per-
formed on the Portuguese stage.
The play In which the Messrs. Holland
will make their first appearance as stars
at the Garrick Theatre In New York, |
early next month, formerly called Horace, |
has been renamed The Man With Past |
1t was written by Edward and Harry |
Paulton. In addition to r. NJ. and Joseph |
Holland, the cast will include Maud Har-
rison, Mrs. Rankin and Olive Oliver.
Florence Reed, the daughter OF Roland |
Reed, has just graduated from young
ladies' college In Philadelphia, where two |
years ago she carried of the art scholar
ship, for which there was great competi- |
tion. She speaks German and French flu- |
entity and has inherited considerable his |
trionic talent, but the only Roland says |
he will keep her Off the stage II he can.
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Flske's repertoire next season will be an |
adaptation OF play by Daudet and Hen
nequin. Mrs. Fiske will give occasional |
of A Dolls House. Frou.
Frou and La Femme de Claude. She will |
also appear In triple bill, A White Pink, |
by Daudet. and Grandpapa and A Light |
Of St. Agnes, O louisiana study both from |
her own pen.
A. w. Plnero will write no more prob /
lem plays-at least none for the next few
years. He contends that to write n play |
like The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, or the
Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith, Is three or
four times as great and trying as that re-
quired for q play like The Amazons, or
Sweet Lavender. Pinero's health has
been rather bad lately and he will rest
by writing few comedies.
Miss Minnie Palmer, It Is announced, is
coming back to America to act. She will
begin a tour Of this country about Christ
mas. in new play. entitled The School
Girl. under the management of Francis
Gerard, OF London. A route IL now being
booked for her. Miss Palmer has not been
seen on the stage here since the spring Of
1901. when she appeared in A Mile a
Minute at the Peoples Theatre, New
York. she went to London soon after
that, and has since been starred In the
English provinces In My Sweetheart and
My Brothers Wife, two plays In which
The has previously played here. She also
Misc Palmsr's husband, John n. Rogers,
lecursd . divorce from her In London In
Nay last.