The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-08

serve the player rather than~the au-
thor's character Tree, Dodson, CoQue-
lin and Duse step into their characters
as they come upon the scene, and we
steady the author instead Of the actor.
GOSSIP OF THE STARS:
Virginia Harmed will star.
Rice Is to revive "Evangeline."
P9uiins Hall Is a mamma. It's girl
Lottie Collins will be seen here next
year.
Frisco has continuous performance
house.
NJ b. Curtis is acting ''saml of Posen"
New Orleans Is to have q season Of
French opera,
Young Prouty" is the title Of Richard
Goldren new play.
new farce comedy.
Russ Whytal win present For Fair
LecOcQs new opere,tta, "Ninette," did
not make a hit In Paris.
The tenor Duprez is still alive in Paris,
and over 80 years Of age.
John l.; Sullivan and Paddy Ryan ap.
pear in Wicklow Postman"
Paderewski's price for playing the plano
at private reception Is $500 minute.
Henry Il. Dixey will be seen in Froh-
mans production of Thoroughbred"
John Il. Henshaw Is to appear in a new
comic opera, philadelphia Up to Date"
Eiita Proctor Otis will star next season
In the "City Of Pleasure" and Carmen"
Fannie Rice will play the part of Lucy"
In all the star productions Of 1.-THE Riv-
| ais"
Marion Manola and John Mason ap-
peared In "Rosedale' in Boston last
week.
Franz Schubert's operetta Der vler.
jahrige." will be produced in Dresden
| shortly.
The new two-act opera "sjula," by Carl
Won Kaskel, was produced recently at
Hamburg.
Herbert Kelcey will next season replace
Maurice barrymore In the Heart OF
Mansfield will play "shylock" next sea-
''Cacliostro."
Fritz Williams and Katharine Florence.
OF the Lyceum Stock company. will bs
The former husband Of Mantelrs new
wife challenged the actor to duel. but
! Hume says Msrtell refused to fight.
William Calder's latest venture, "A
Country Dance" has closed in Brooklyn
after short and unsuccessful season.
Hubert Wilke will soon head an opera
| company. The repertoire will include
| "Falka," "Beggar Student" and BLACK
Hussar"
Charles Frohman has purchased the
| stage rights of Hopkinson Smiths story,
| TON Googan." Augustus Thomas will
dramatiZe 1t.
William A. Brady will bring twelve real
| Esquimaux dogs from Edmonton. three
| hundred miles north of Winnepeg. for use
in Under the Polar Star"
| Mary Anderson Navarro has declined
| an offer of more than 100000 for q brief
series Of dramatic performances. She
says she Is. done with the stage forever.
| Rose Coghlan celebrated her forty
fourth birthday on March IS. She was
born in London, and made her debut at
the age of 16 as Cupid in burlesQue Of
| "Ixion."
| 4 Rome letter says: Madame Pezzana
has returned to the stage. Many persons
| consider her superior to Ristori, even in
her prime. Duse's first season was with
| this actress
The almost simultaneous engagement Of
Walter Jones and Lillian Russell by
| Canary &; I.ederer is significant. The fond
ness OF these two people for each other
Is very well known, at any rate in thea
| trical circles.
In the past twelve weeks Sousa has
Travelled 12,9Ol miles and given 40 concerts
| to audiences tht aggregate nearly $4,000
people. The territory covered Is bounded
| by the two great oceans on the east and
west. British Columbia on the north. ana
Lower California on the south.
| As a reaction from such plays as "The
Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmlth." "The Second
Mrs. Tanqueray" and ''rhe Benefit of the
Doubt" plays on religious questions are
| commencing to attract great attention In
| London. The success of 1.-THE Sign of the
Gross" is causing other managers to look
| up, and Messrs. Waller and Morrell Will
produce play into which the subject Of
| this time, instead of pagan prosecuting
| Christian, 1t will be Christian the enemy
| of Lutheran. The period Is the sixteenth
| century, and the scene Is laid in Germany.