The morning times., 1896-05-31

summer III the Adirondacks preparatory To
next season under Charles Fr0Enan.
Grant Stewart and Kate Osterle are to
be married June 4. They both appeared
here In " A House OF Ca rils." Mr. Stewart
played the Englishman who chewed his
sentences and Miss Osterle was one of
the twins.
The stage OF the new theater. Her Ma
jesty'y US being built in London by Beerbohn-
Tree, will have no rake" but the floors
OF the auditorium will have an unusual
pitcti 10 secure the same result as that OF
tile inciinlDg stage.
What's In Il name? Depends on the name.
There's tue case of Loretta Adds. who
sang in California con cert hall year ago
for $15 week. and this week sings III a
New York tbeater, at about $3.50, as
Lady Sholto Douglas.
Henry Irving is reported to have said be-
fore sailing: Il mean TO take up Macbeth
once more and study il again thoroughly
! begin to think l have miscoBceiyed the
character. So much for the effect nd the
graceful acknowledgement OF American
criticism.
Boston's first local burlesque. The
Merry Go Round was produced Monday
night last ana was successful. 4. A Bar
Herbert, George Schiller, Alexander Clark.
Mamie Gilroy, Marie Cahli, Della Stacey
aud Il Goo yards OF scenery
Among the novelties arranged for the
coronation fetes at Moscow, Russia. was
ballet entitled "Daita,'' founded on a
| japanese legend. 1t is only in one act,
and yet the mise en-scene cost $50 900. 1t
| represents the temple OF the goddess KOn-
| anon, asoTt of Japanese Venus.
The ''pttteS'' in the London music halls
| nave settled the big hat question in their
own peculiar way. When large cranium
| cover obstructs their view they unite in a
| sing-song chorus OF Where did you get
| that hat?' and the performance cannot
| go on until the hat is removed.
The business is going to smash, Every
thing Is goIn" up said an Old-time manager
- 10 nS.yfpf ul-aI
| his listncr- 'Oh. 1t was bad enough when a
man had TO contend with prima d0nnas with
| ordinary wheels; now they are not satisfied
| unless they nave tbousa and-dollar wheels"
Frank Bush, the comedian, ever since the
season ufthe' Girl Wanted company closed,
! has Deen busiiy engaged IN writing novel
which VIII soon appear In serial form IN a
! New YORK sunday paper. IL is entitled
| Asleep III Astoria aud introduces MANY
| curious types OF the Hebrew characters at
| feCted by the comedian.
Oscar Hammerstein hasn't permitted
the week OF our Lord, May "a, 1896, 10
| pass without Lis little surprise He an
nounces the formation OF the Olympia
Opera Company, with Camille D'ArvilIe
| iii the lead. He wants Seabrooke for
principal comedian He threatens t. sign
Pauline Hall and Della Fox
The Side walks of New York has been
| translated into French by well-kno wn Pa
rislan journalist. II viii be presented for
| the first time in Europe at "a prominent
theater In Paris early next fall. The fame
| or the Herald Square scene in this play
| Is the reason for its Paris production
| The Paris edition OF the Herald has nIadethe
| latter scene famous on the continent
Martha Morton is very much in evidence
as a dramatist. She is writing a play for
Sol Smith Russell and another for Crane.
| Inc frawiey stock company are Gevot-
| ing three weeks To her Brother John -
His Wife's Father and "Geoffrey Mid
| dleton John Hare and Fred Terry took
| back the English rights respectively 10
| E,r
One of the CONFERENCE.-The to the great
chandelier in the Paris Opera, weighing
nearly half ton, fell through tie ceiling
into the fourth gallery during u perform
auce OF Helle. May 20. causing a panic
which, however, was quickly alayed by
the attendants. One woman was instantly
killed, ana another so badly injured that
her recovery is impossible. Five persons
| received slight injuries.
! Edward \. Hoyt. who has appeared for
many years in the legitimate drama with
Louis James, Frederick Warde, Frank
Mayo. Charles b. Hanford, Robert Manteli
ana last season with Margaret Mather is
now engaged for leading heavy business
with Buckler's Stock Company at Aliens
Grand Opera House. Mr. Hoyt has made
washington his home for so many wears
that he is practically a Washingtonian
Felix Morris is giving in London a
funny monologue, entitled "A Row in the
fit, which describes with droll accuracy
| The wretchedneSS OF q small bOy who is
preTented by an enormous hat from seeing
!
Tue sketch is deliClOusly humorous and
comments on the very probable fact that
reerfa wHfn o we5ESf 5T 9dS similar he
front and enjoyed the satire hugely
Mrs. Thomas Q. Seabrooke ,stage name
Elvia Crox) has gone to c lev Gland TO fulfill
her engagement as soubrette IN Il summer
opera company. This would seem to bear
| out her contention in her suit against her
| husband. Thomas Sea brooke that she
Is pennies no woman who had dollar
to her name would surely go to Cleveland
to appear III summer opera, with a change
of blii once week, and the need OF lea rning
twelve parts i'll as many
| Sigrid Arnoldson and Tamagno are in
! Russia. singing with a success that must
he grateful after their American expert
ences. rnoldson gets 81 500 n night in
Moscow, and Tamagno draws $50 a seat
III st. Petersburg. Ii is hard to believe
that the same Tamagno used to sell at
the bOX-office in New York the compli-
mentary tickets given him, and wien
| departing from America rolled his own
trunk to the pier to save porters fees
In the street scene from Miss PhiIa-
delphia,' the audience shower coins on
the stage, for which the little gamins
lively scramble. on Friday night the
| amount OF money gathered in by these lit
tie people amounted To S1192 one night
last week gentleman well down iii the
parquet threw 20 gold piece on the stage
possibly in mistake-for Il nickel The foot
bail scrimmage that then ensueI was live
ly ana lauEhaDie scene that was not down
on the program.
Clement Scott found himself behind a
| high hat at the theater on a conspicuous
first night recently and next morning ne de
sCribed things as he saw them. His criti-
cism covered the display of millinery be-
fore him, it did not get beyond it to the
stage. The Mirror ventures the opinion
that If this sort of publicity were to be-
come general, instead of furtheriDg the
decadence of the theater hat there would
be an alarming increase in the number OF
women who would want their hats de-
scribed.
Woman's club in Buffalo. He probably did
not ailude to the fact that the profits ON
the present Rivals tour will not only
enable him to buy himself q brand-new suit
OF dress clothes, but in addition he will he
able to give all the barns on his Southern
plantation an entirely new coat or white
wash. Both or which facts will, no Doubt
be very cheering TO the 100 odd actors who
We're thrown out of employment a month
before their time in order that the star
cast might be organized.
Henry Irving sent to his longtime friend
Joseph Jefferson. while the latter was
appearing in the starcast production OF
! | The Rivals at McVickcr'S Theater Chi
cago, unique and interesting remem-
+ brance. a walking stick, probably one nun.
| dred and twenty years old. The stick
had been handsomely mounted and in.
, scribed. 1t was the daily companion oi
Thomas King. the creator {s" the role oil
| Sir Peter TeaZle. in Sheridan's ''SchooI foI
Scandal which was first presented al
Drury Lane Theater in May, TIT.
} The Dresden Opera House has five gal
leries. The sides of the fifth Go not com.
mand u view Of the stage and they are
called the blind galleries" To these
sections blind people are admitted free OF
, | The two front side rows of the fourth
! gallery are never reserved, and are called
the ren platz trace track Tickets of adj
mission 10 these seats cost 1 mark (about
| "a centS9 Those holding them go tn THE