The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-26
DRAMATIC CHAT.
Sardou is a spiritualist.

Sardou is u spiritualist.
At 81 Verdi Is a bicyclst.
Henry Miller will star in "Heartsease."
Seabrooke has opened his tour in 1.-THE
Spectator"
s Beerbohm Trees 'Svengali'' made hit
in New York.
Melba spends seven weeks a year in
Duse has acted the Second Mrs. Tan
Queray" In Berlin.
Fanny Davenport says she will act In
London next spring.
Georgia Cayvan knows how to make an
apple roly-poly pudding.
The. Potter-Bellew company Is break
Ing all records In Australia.
Nancy. Mcintosh will play Hero in
''Much Ado About Nothing"
Pugilist Jem Mace and Champion Bi-
cyclist Hale are in vaudeville.
The Irish opera. "Shamus O'Brien," will
shortly be given in New York.
Robert Edeson will be the leading actor
with Maud Adams next season.
Louis Baudet made her American vaud-
evil debut In New York last week.
r. 3. Willard Is to enact RObespierre in
a drama of the French Revolution. by Will
liam Young
Messrs. Hoyt & Mckee will assume the
direction OF Richard Mansteld's affairs af-
ter January l.
David Belasco is writing new play for
Mrs. Carter Heart of Maryland" may
be given in London.
Augustus Pitou's Irish piece for Chaun-
cey Olcott' has been named Sweet Innis-
cara, after a stream near Cork.
Ivette Guilbert's imitation of Bern
hardt is said to be a remarkable copy,
tinged with feminine maliciOusness
Charles Froham has offered through
the Boston journal prize of $25 for the
best non-profess ssional criticism of Sue"
William a; Brady has concluded to close
the tour of Maurice Barrymore at the end
OF that gentleman's Boston engagement.
Dennis OSullivan and Joseph O'Hara,
principals In the London cast of sham
US OBrien,' are to be imported with the
piece.
Wilson Barrett has two sons-one, AL
fred student of farming in New Zea-
land, and the other. Frank. soldier In
South Africa.
"a Stranger in New York" Is the title
OF the play Charles II. Hoyt is writing
for Harry Conor 1t will be produced in
Buffalo on February Is next.
Lillian Russell Is resting two weeks be-
fore the New York production of IAN
American Beauty" Edwin Hoff will be
the tenor in that comic opera.
Phyllis Rankin. daughter of MCKe
Rankin, made her first appearance upon
theater last week.
Rose Coghlan may act in London. The
amount realized at Miss COghlan's bene
ht-nearly $6.5OD-has been increased by a
subscription of $loO from Elbridge r.
Gerry. The money Is to be put in a trust
fund, so that Miss Coghlan's creditors can.
not touch II.
Friends of the younger Salvini attribute
his death to the '"Three Guardsmen." In
that play the actor was Obliged to leap
through the port hole of ship. The
constant jar. his friends say, led to the
hardening of the intestines, which was the
cause of his death.
Charles II: Hopper of "Chimmie Fad.
den. fame, Is son of the vice president
OF the Standard Oil company, and with
his fathers millions at his back, need
not do stroke of work In two starring
tours, previous to the production Of
"Chimmie Fadden." Hopper lost sl6O, 900.
Recently Sarah Bernhardt was visited
IN her dressing room by the Grand Duke
Alexis of Russia and the Due d'Aumale.
who. In the presence of distinguished
company that gathered there refused to
sit down. saying: II know I am an old
man, but | can still stand in the presence
or genius like yours"
1bsen's Little Eycolt" has proved so
successful that the piece is now played
as the regular bill of the theater IN Lon
don at which 1t was given first only ar
matineesI Mrs. Patrick Campbell has Civ.
en- up the part of the Rat Wife and now
acts Rita. which Janet Achurch PLAYED
first: Irving. they say, will produce one
of Ibsen's plays. 0e