The evening world., 1895-08-15
DRAMATIC NEWS AND NOTES.
Sir Henry Irving to Bring "King
Arthur" Here.-MRris Millard
Holds Contract Above Count,

until he tells us not to do so). who is
now thinging OF sailing for these shores.
Is going to bring with him an exceed
| ingly comprehensive repertoire, and II
VIII include several novelties. The new
features that he Will have to offer will
| be king Arthur" the recent and not
| very successful production at the Lon
| don Lyceum; Don Quixote." "A Story
| OF Waterloo" which Is merely a one
| act sketch; Macbeth" 1.-The Corsican
Brothers"-one Of his old-timers-and
| little comedy by John Oliver Hobbies,
the novelist, called Journeys End and
| Lovers Meet" This was written for
Miss Ellen Terry. and in It Sir Henry
docs not appear at ALL He will make
| RENEWALS OF Beckett" THE Merchant
of Venice" Much Ado About Nothing" I"
Louis XI.," Faust" "Chares L."
! 1.-The Lyons Mall" Nance Oldfeld" and
THE Bells" Irving will not open at
| Abbey's Theatre until Oct. %, but he
Will stay there until Dec. 3l-or nine
weeks. Last time Irving was afraid
that eight weeks in New York would be
too long, but the phenomenal business
he did entirely reassured him. This
time his title will surely insure him an
extra week of good business. Irving
will visit while on this side, Montreal,
Toronto, Boston. Philadelphia, Balti-
more, Washington. Richmond. Charles
ton. Savannah, Atlanta, New Orleans,
Memphis, Nashville, Louisville. st.
Louis. Cincinnati, Chicago, Indianapolis.
Detroit. Cleveland. Buffalo, Pittsburg,
Providence, Worcester. Springfield,
Hartford and New Haven.
Isn't that lovely about Miss Marie
Miilard and the Count de Brabant,
who has promised TO make her a count
ess one of these days? The story Is so
dainty. she won't marry until sne has
Harry Ask!ns. She positively. declines
to be countess until then. The dainty
part of the story is that she has dis
covered Frenchman, willing to walt
without a dowry. OF course the scepti-
cal Will detect the quaint hand Of the
willy press agent in this little. ro-
nance, but, we are not all sceptical. At
any rate Miss Millard might tell US
where such non-mercenary Gauls are to
be found.
Who shall say that Lillian Russell Is
lacking in consideration for the theat-
rlcal manager, after her sweet and
generous behav Tor ut the STANDARD, The
atre ,hr P Monday night? "A As she sailed Into
Messrs Hill and Leslie Immediately
prepared to offer her n box. Every
theatrical manager is glad to have Miss
Russell in his house, because, as gen.
era! rule, audiences are. very pleased
to look upon her free of charge. But
Miss Russell had. as mentioned before.
EsT saysst Se E" out ner 20 pecke sss
plucked he a big roll of bills. From
that roll he abstraGted sl6. and with
Miss Miss fs Russe let @ m u do tof it S With hoa admra
BILE unseltshness. After the twain had
entered the theatre Mr.. HIN turned to
Mr.. Leslie. Don't you think" said he,
to Miss Russeil-in an envelope?" But
Mr.. Leslie didn't see it in that light.
DR.. Schiller is negotiating with Man
ager Duff for the production of Smae-
tana's Bohemian opera. The Battered
Bride" that was recently produced at
much success. rhe opera vas to have
been presented here by the Rosenfelds
a long time ago, but they claimed that
they were unable to secure the theatre
that they wanted.
J. II. Leslie has now definitely de-
cided to take on tour during the COM
ing season Dorothy" "The Red Hus-
sqr." with an entirely new book. and
and OF which Mr.. Leslie intends to
make a new production-after Christ
mas. He will have the same company
as that now at the Standard. with
few exceptions The presentation OF
Dorothy" will certainly inspire theatre
goers with confidence in anything that
Mr.. Leslie may subsequently do. ITS
not an easy matter to get a good COM
pany together" said Mr.. Leslie yester-
day, .'and manager should feel salts
fed If he can secure people who possess
the negative quality of being-harm-
loss."
cf the score Of "The Chieftain," his
latest comic opera, which Francis Will
son will produce at Abbeys Sept. 8,
has perpetrated a little musical Joke
"wh%ere % pis Yoa' Ya''hs Get That Tsn Hatg hs am IL
several places. notably in the music
attending he ceremony of crowning
Grigg (Mr. Wilson, with the sacred hat
of the bandits band. The air is said
to be most humorously suggested. Sir
Arthur is getting skittish In his old age
where he dallied with Johnny Get Your
Gun"
Rose Coghlan thinks Of going to Eu-
rope. Such thoughts are often with her,
but she Is never able to tear herself |
away from us. Now, however, 1t is her !
intention when she returns from San |
FRANCISCO to 90 to London and get a |
play That Will be wise move. Miss |
Coghlan needs play. and she is not |
very easy to fit. With a good play Miss
Coghlan will again sway us. as she used |
to do in the old days.