The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-10
DRAMATIC GOSSIP.
Queenie Nassar Is i'll.


Queenie Nassar Is i'll.
Carmencita is in Paris.
lola is to write a libretto.
Bcrnhardt Is SO years old.
Marie Nanoni is in London.
London theaterS seat 100000
sydney has a $l00,0O0 organ
Lillian Russelrs father is ILL
Duse will shortly act in Roma
Anna Held Is a Polish Jewes~.
Modjeska has 600 hives of bees.
Bernhardt is an expert sculptress.
Julie Mackcy is singing in London.
Madge Ellis is singing in London.
Sadie Hasson will star next season.
Hermann will open a school of magic.
Frohman will revive The Long strike.
Stage Manager Max Freeman was born
in Berlin.
The Wizard of the Nile" is being sung
in Vienna.
Irving win act Napoleon in MADAME
W. r, Carleton is singing in the vaude-
willie theaters.
"A Parlor Match" was originally a one
hour sketch.
Lillian Kennedy will star in the "Dea-
cons Daughter
+. j. Henley has been engaged for the
revival of Deacon Brodie."
Richard Henry Savages Her Foreign
Conquest will be dramatized.
Ada Rehan, who has spent the summer
in Ireland. is on her way home.
Wilson Barrett is writing a novel based
on "The Sign of the Cross"
Theodore Hamilton will play Frank
Mayo's role in "Pudd'nhead wilson,
The larger theatres In Germany main
tain training schools for actresses.
Adclna Patti has received a royal CON-
mand 10 visit Bamoral, Oct. 10.
The big London music halls have two
balconies, gallery and an orchestra of
fifty.
Nat Goodwin in Australia produced "In
Mizzoura," the "Gilded Foor' and 1.-The
Rivals"
william Terris, formerly of Irving's
company, will make an American tour
next season.
The king of Wurtemburg has sent to
Nine, Cosima Wagner the medal for ARTS
and Sciences
In London there is a noticeable dcarth of
young actresses capable of playing seri-
Gus parts.
Marie Jansen is to enact the girl who
turns into hoy in Gunter's "A Florida
Enchantmcnt."
\ society has been formed at Rotterdam
to build a thcater which is to be devot-
ed exclusively to German opera.
1t has been discovered that the flute Is
the most dangerous instrument that is
played on-dan9erous to the player.
Mrs. Potter. and kyrle Bellew made q
hit in Australia with Joseph of Canaan
play by IL Unitarian minister.
There is niece of Rear Admiral Wor-
den going on the operate boards. She is
Miss Oriska Worden. of Michigan.
in HSnry R E Rssy il the kSns Nsnry shfeem
years ago DiXey did the front legs of the
hefer.
Charles II. Hoyts next farce will illus
trate the misadventures of a nonresident
debtor under Massachusetts law. and
Harry Conor is to have the principal role.
Oscar Hammersteins ballet. "Marguer-
ite,' will be sent on the road as the princl-
pal feature of II vaudeville company. which
will include the Hanlons and other fam
Gus spccialties.
1t is said that Marie Van Zandt will
shortly sing in Paris-fOr the first time in
twelve years. The night she made her de-
but a dozen years ago she did not make
a hit. They say she was tpsy.
At the end of next year ,.>an de ResZke
says he will forever sever his connection
with the theater, as he wishes to retire
to his estate in Poland and live the life of
wealthy country gentleman.
New York's Chinese theater employs
musicians from China, four Chinese stage
hands, two Chinese BARRIERS, two Chinese
cooks and three American helpers.
Negotiations are now in progress having
for their object the arranging of a reSu-
lar South Sea circuit" which shall in
clude the Honolulu theater and others in
New Zealand and the Australian prov
inces.
Leander Richardson's Dramatic News
has suspended publication. Mr.. Richard
son. than whom there is no more trenchant
theatrical writer. is now the dramtiac edi-
ton LaCkaye's tour.
There is very little hone of young Sal
vini's return to the stage for some time.
He is most dangerously i'll with an intes-
final tuberculosis. His father attends to
him with most loving care. They are at
Nagioli, near Sienna.
Seven of New York's chief theaterS are
now occupied with comic opera or musical
comedy, and presently another work of
this kind will fill the Garden with melody.
in addition to these light scores, New
Workers are promised three grand opera
companies this winter
Yvette Guilbert has repertoire of forty
new songs. On Dec. II she appears at
Roster g. Balls. remaining q month. ON
Jan. Il she begins her second American
tour under Ted Marks direction: appear
ing in thirty cities going as far west as
Kansas City, and south as far as New
orleans. They will be nearly all one night
stands.
The Dramatic Mirror publishes its sec
ond instalment of the theatrical roster for
the season of 1869. With the first in
stallment, printed about Il month ago. this
will practically include all the regular or
ganization in the field. AS ii stands. the
roster for 1S9i-g7 Is thus compared with the
roster for the three preceding wears.