The morning times., 1896-05-24
nagno is singing in Russia.

cast OF his Absent BOY.
Bank Holiday always insures good bus-
ness at ali English theaters.
Berlin has found occasion TO take on the
anniversary celebration craze.
Julia Marlowe is of English birth, but
has always appeared III America.
Opera, comic and otherwise. has New
York i'll its clutches this week.
Moscow is the Mecca of theatrical ia kris
in anticipation of tue coronation.
Belle Archer will play the widow in
"A Milk White Flag next year.
j. Cheeyer Goodwin is native of
Boston, and is forty-siX years old.
Mile Delna, the new opera singer, is the
rage in Paris. Come, Birdie, come.
The Holland Brothers will star under
the American syndicate next year.
Father Iguatius, the ritualistc divine,
IS lecturing in London on the drama.
Evans VIII not return tn the stage with
his old partner Hoey, in "A Parlor Match"
JudiC recently gave Berlin the cold
shoulder after three weeks oi promising
run.
The Heart OF Maryland reopens its
season in Philadelphia the first week in
October.
"A New York Divorce" is Eeing ex-
plotted in London. Strange things thuse
Englishmen.
A new bicycle comedy is announced for
next year. 1t is called MIR. WHEELER of
Madame Sans-Gene" is to be done as
opera in London. Ivan Caryil is writ
ing the music.
De Koven and Smiths next opera is to be
called The Mandarin" The subject is
ma turaliy Chinese.
Seabrooke succeeds Dixey in ''The Thor
oughbred'' tomorrow night in New York.
No reason given.
Ha waii has a new opera house. ''Trilby"
will be pla yed there as Brady s company re-
turns from Australia.
Bernbardt's son, Ed Maurice Pernhardt
is editor of 1900, Il French magazine, and
mamma contributes.
The Star Theater, of New York city. has
again changed 1t burns the fingers OF
every one who takes it.
"a Midnight Ber' was Hoyt's first
play. 1t was written while he was writ
ing for the Boston Post.
Laurence living i S playing Svengali In
the English k.rovlnces. His fayorite study
is homicide and suicide. -
Lady Sholto Douglas has seen Ne W York,
and New York has seen my lady. II is not
said which conquered.
Nat Goodwin ran a way from home to be
an actor. Hishome was Boston. He made
his debut i'll Providence.
Modjeska introduced Robert Taber to
the stage in 1886. His first chara cter was
Sylyius i'll AS You Like It.
Mark 7 Twan is said to have postponed his
lecture tour i'll the TranSvaal because all the
leading citizens are in jail.
Catharine OF Russia and Nine. Roland are
appearing in Paris in strong type as the
names OF two new historical plays.
Ellen Terry has bought Agatha Dene"
of Russ Whytal II was pIa yet here as
curtain-raiser to For Fair Virginia.
OSmond Tearle played Hamlet" for the
5S5th time on Shakespeare s birthday. He
has played it often enough to know better.
Harry Woodruff, the handsome young fel-
III
peafing in amateur entertainments il BOS-
ton.
Sarah Bernhardt is now on the ocean blue
bound for France. She hasn't any more
than her share OF Washington gold in her
pockets.
Two members Of the Australian contin-
gent of the ''Trilby' company are Harwood
Majeroni and Male SaCQui. Points for Biff
Halls album.
Seventy-five students called on Bernhardt
a her private car at Rochester. She gave
them twenty-five Compimentaries. Puzzle:
Pick the winners.
Henry Irving said once that his elder son
could act and refused to, while his younger
son could not act. but was determined TO
stick TO the stage.
There is d revival of living pictures on in
Gotham aud as one commentator said there
is no necessity 10 give the name OF the cos
tuner on the program.
Henry Abbey has submitted to an opera
proved successful He will get away for
Europe as soon as possible.
Francis Wilson made his debut in a
negro farce, in PHILADELPHIA. To dis
gulse himself from an unwilling parent he
was billed as Master Johnny
Salvini is to play "Rohan, the Silent,' at
a Boston benefit this week. The play was
written for him. He doesn't speak word
till the very end of the play.
Sir Edward Malet, late British ambas-
cadn of uarn "A
was performed at Covent Garden last sea
son, is at work on new opera.
Dumas liked best of his plays LIE Demi
Monde next L Ami des Femmes.'' The
former is translated in The Crust of So
ciety," the latter The Squire of Danes"
Henry E. pixey's real name is Dixon, and
he is a nephew OF William Dixon, the pres
ent stage manager of the Hollis Street
Theater, Boston. Dixey was born in 1859.
A Chicago tteater admoDishes patrons
not to bring fans, the tbeater is SO cool
A Washington manager can make for
tune if he Will intfoduce the means here.
In the audience which saw 1.-The Rivals"
in Chicago all the stars were not on the
stage. There We're Sol Smith Russell, Otis
Skinner, Clay Clement and John Drew .sin
'front.'
Lillian Russell collided with a scorcher
the other day aud bruised her pretty ankle.
That was calamity. Ifit had missed the
ankle and hit the voice all might have been
forgiven.
In THE Leading Lady," which was given
a trial production last week, Etfenne
Girardot, of ''Charley's Aunt fame,
played twentieth century female Of un-
certain age.
In Australia Reuben Tax is the SyengaIi,
Edith Crane the Trilby, Herbert Carr the
Taffy, E. w. Morrison the Gucko, and George
Webster the Zoo-Zoo The hit is, OF course,
a positive one.
A lady of the Metropolitan Opera Com
DanV. who USually DlayS bOys' mart oh.
jected to short skirts and bloomers as
hideously immoral when she took to the
bicycle recently.
Richard Harding Davis found the original
of his mother and girl Of" Her First A pppar
ance" in De Wolf Hopper's chorus. The
society end OF the story is fiction, the
balance Is founded on fact.
"The Sunshine Of Paradise Alley. in
play form is described as vision of dirty