The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-07-13
GREENROOM GOSSIP.

Clay NJ. Greene is modernizing Fan
chOn" for Gladys Wallis.
Duncan Harrison hit y Briton on the
Paris for insulting Pauline Hall.
A comic opera called '"rhe Sphinx" has
been pronounced entertaining in Boston.
Rose Coughlin has produced Enemies"
but II Is only Lady Barter" under new
name.
Cora Tanner Is engaged to play the part
of the divorced wife In 1.-THE Sporting
Duchess"
Creston Clarke is very sick In New
York, and an operation for a tumor will
| be necessary.
The we'll known tenor. De Lucia, Is
writing on a three-act opera entitled 20
Bella Napoli.'' ...
Bessie BOnehill has been engaged TO
| play the role Of the Infarta Of Spain In
"1492" next season.
The comic opera by Klein and Sousa, to
be used by DE Wolfe Hopper, Is to be
called lie Captain"
]. NJ. Hill has purchased new play by
| Augustus Thomas, which Is likely to be
produced naXt season.
The London critics have not been pleased
with Olga Nethersole's acting In "The
Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith."
Miss Esther Palliser is organizing con-
cert in London, the music for which IL TO
be wholly by women composers.
Won Suppe, who died at Vienna tho
other day. wrote forty-seven other operas
than "Boccacc.o' and "Fantin.tza."
Otis Skinner Will add to his repertoire
next season 1.-THE Two Noble Kinsman,"
by beaumont and Fletcher.
1t is announced that Chauncey Olcott
will soon marry his leading lady, Leea
TempletOn. a sister of Fay Templeton.
John Ernest Mccain and Ralph Ed
munds have written a fOur-act drama
which they call "Who Killed Senator
Dawes?"
Marie Burroughs has purchased q new
play by A. W. Plnero, which will be one
of the leading features for her repertoire
| for next season.
Louis James, who will star next season,
will play in "The Robbers" "Virginius,"
| 1.-THE Lyons Mair' and possibly 1.-THE
| Fools Revenge"
A Boston success of an ignoble sort
is "McSor!ey's Courtship," farce by
William II. McSot, with pugilistc role
for John L. Sullivan.
Marguerite Merrington, the author Of
| Captain Lettarbla!r," has finished new
play for f. II. Sothern. She Is also at work
on a new play for Sol Smith Russell.
The piece which Clyde Fitch has written
| for Edward Sothern treats parts Of the
career of Major Andre in the spirit of
light comedy, which seems incongruous.
| Canary & Lederer have sold their musi-
cal burlesque, 1.-The Twentieth Century
Girl" to w. ]. Gilmore, of Philadelphia,
who will put 1t on the road next season.
A comic opera to be- given at the Savoy,
in London, is to- be called Jennie Deans"
and will, Of course, be Scotch. Strange
and Edwards are writing an Irish comic
opera.
| Clinton Stuart has written play which
Marie Burroughs has accepted for use
next season. 1t has a lively comedy m
terest and its scenes are laid in Eng
land.
} Tomaso Salv.na says Duse Is far more
natural than Bernhard. He calls the
Italian actress Theatrical thorough
bred" and the French woman a 'theatri-
cal crossbred."
1t is announced that W. s. Gilbert and
S.r Arthur Sullivan are again reconciled,
and that the old firm Is already at work
on a comic opera. Neither has had real
prosperity In association with outsiders.
Nine. Duse, as a star in our own land,
| snubbed the interviewer and cared no
whit for anybody's personal feelings about
her. Recently she refused presentation to
the queen of Belgium. Her excuse was
that she would be compelled to pass
through the auditorium to Her Majesty's
| box, and 1t would be disagreeable, to her
to do that.
Miss Della Eloise Berry, better known
to theater-goers under her professional
name OF d. Elo.se Morgan, prima donna Of
the Boston!ans, has retired permanently
from the stage, and in ten days will be-
come the bride of George d. Morgan, a
young millionaire of Brockport, N. Y. It
was Morgan who sent her abroad q few
years ago to study.
l. Les Burgraves." one of Victor Hugo's $
most powerful dramas. is going to b. re-
vived at the Coincide Francaise. Since
its production in 1913 "Burgraves" had
never been done. Victor Hugo wrote 4
in imitation, so he says himself in the ad-
mlrable preface that precedes the pub,
lished version Of his play, of the Greek
tragedies. The play was not successful.
Henry Guy Carleton: II do not believe
that the morbid. sinister, and woman
with-a-past style of drama will be long
lived. ] do not believe it will be tolerated
lean people want to see in the play those
phases of happy life and those romances
of which they themselves are knowing,
| and those experiences that enter so vitality
| into their own successful and enterprisng
activities can most successfully be imi-
| tated on the stage for their pleasure"