The evening times., 1896-04-23
ABOUT PLAYSA PLAYERS

Charles Fruhman intends 10 place Fritz
| Williams and katharine Florence at the
head Of comedy company IN New YORK
! City next year to open in The Liar : which
was tried in Philadelphia last week.
Fay Fcmplcton saysshe has discovered the
mystery OF mems cIoiiles.- That's rather
ambiguous, bat let IT pass. The real mys-
terry about mems clothes il how to pay for
Them and that easy when Won have money.
Walter Jones walked into THE Lady
Slavey'' anu has now walked out gain, II
least, we hope he was permitted to make
nus retreat peacefully. Candy, Who played
Roberts here, is back in his original roe.
Miss Maxine Elliott has signed a con
tract to 90 I" California as lending lady
III FrawIcy'S Stock Company. Incidentally,
Al is said Miss Elliott VIII secure Il divorce
from her husband while she is in the
West. ..r...
LONDON authorities have resolved TO
ask thpater managers TO open tie doors
an hour earlier than at present in oruer
to do away with the immense crowds
which gather i'll the Strand Just before
theater-tiIne.
Walter Jones will give limitations Of
popular niuHsJai directors in the forth
cunning Casino annual review. He SAYS he
will star next year in Joseph Herbert's
Prisoner Asunder.' The name has a
clever twist.
Cheyaler tells an amusing story OF how
nc sang Il song called "Stutterin sammy"
al a provincial concert. A big countryman
went out to the manager and said, Fancy
payin' 10 ear a chap as cawn't sing with
out stuttcrin ~
When Erniine'' is revived next year by
Pauline Hall, Messrs Harry Paulton and
Harry Wyatt, the original English Caddy
and Ravoy, Will be in the cast Marie
Jansen may be the Javotte. Will the warm
ed-ovcr dish go?
Walter Jones has devised new spe
cialty He enters on n bicycle and encircl,s
The stage. Then he makes for the foot
lights, and rides out over the heads of th5.
audience. Both wheel and rider are sup
ported by fine wires.
Philadelphia last week wept with Uncle
Tom and laughed with Topsy aud Marks
As this piece was supposed to have sue
cumbed to the undertaken years ago, il
is not appropriate to ask: 'Oh, gray.
where is Thy victOry?'
James Doel, who celebrated his ninety
third birthday at East Stonchouse. Devon
shire, March 13, claims 10 be the Oldest
living actor, and was in Edmund keans
support at Exeter, before Kean's London
triumph. Docl last appeared on the stage
In 1881.
The rumor that Marie Stone is to return
to the cas-. st., OF The he B9StoniWS nj W ps%9a61y n
aid and could have returned long ago had
>he been disposed, very long ago. for she is
no longer u spring chicken. She enjoys re-
tiremcDt.
The PLAYERS. Club has presented por.
trait of Edwin Booth in the character CT
Hamlet 70 the town OF Stratford, Shake
spearc's birthplace. The portrait will soon
be formally accepted and hung, and ten
members or the Players now in England
will be present on the occasion.
An iratc Swede waiter threw Il bowl OF
hot soup. not into, hut against W. II.
ThOn,so.i's face in New York the other day.
The waiter fled. Though the bowl cut
his face AMI the skin had 20 b. stitched he
was able to appear, thanks to his art IN
ma ke up, by whici he concralc the wounds
4 New York Herald writer says: II don't
hal I IN MOI
York that for gathering an audience that
loves TO hear itself howl equals The
Last StroEe.' The audience never thinks
OF appiauding u good point with hand
clapping-it shouts and yells. and stands
up to il. too. Indeed, the scene in
the auditorium sometimes beats the roings
ON IN Congress
The sixticth anniversary Of the first repre-