The sun., 1896-08-03
TOPICS FROM STAGELAND.
, or 1nE INTENTIONS ron
so% rys r0R1HCOMINd SEASON

~, u,,te's nav play Is named sue" and
,.,os are in the Sierras A dramatisation
!" ~ pId., uucsard's king Solomon's Mines
" ,,.ed hy Robert Mnntcll. Devices oi MIR
""' tights by Frederick Btncroft Will DO
,,rc.d ~ by Henry Irving into the witch
=, "NrcHs;b a play exploiting uen.
t~so'' ~ ,;r lc tried by Robert Downing.
I,.s, Iu.', puse says slc will appear n"Ni SEA
=. sb,Rcsi,a:can roles only. sydney
,..,,,l1 Ns- written "Pnpa's ONLY Chi!d'
s,,,d u,eL. Secret Scrvicn" hns been
~. ", ,,,tcrohiy by William Gillette for
Ts.r york rroJrrllon. and tho author will
q Nellie Mclirnry will start Mt Long
So. ~ " e, August with "A Night in New
d." {" / II Stoddart will appear In two
-, w." n "Thc Long Strike" In the same bill
~i,h ,The Liar" at Hoyt'S. The season Of Au-
gu,t,n paiY's company In London VIII ena ai'er
-, -snr.s.n,ntiuus OF THE Countess Zucki"
and Love on Clutches" D'oyly Carte
- ,,r his business connection with tho
noseu 'S SonI Sullivan operas will retire from
1D.scment 1iIU1' in tho iall. John B. Doris has
taken the iN!cty ;or nSXt sGnson T end VIII de-
vote il 10 continuous vaudeNl,e. men ,,i Lon .n
osu oou, tbs Fourteenth Street late this month.
gTsns r. Martha contempates stock com
psny FOR part or the season az the new new n Mur.
raW A
aH ~ pnston tbs summer The Empire stock
campany Is playing In San Francisco. IN which
ct,v frederick Wardc and Rose Coghlan are
iIV i.,tsTe and Louise Thorndyke Boucicault
are At the head OF another, At q projected
charity entertainment In Washington -FOUR
SSw.rdsd SV. to the bes, Of them, as, voted by the
audience. Georgia Cayvnn he's decided to use
s"Mary fonnngton. Spinster" for her 90.
.oS snns at s@sFm m whes sSasGn .Sao cSl,an sR,n
m'fnS n, tbs Grand opera House The Great North
H..t" by Wlnsluw and Wilson, will serve the
nav come % New York to witness the Froh-
man production OF two Of his plays. +. II.
Sothern. Just back from Europe. will begin
his season with dramatizatiun OF Stanley
Weyman's "a licntlcman OF France" the
tItls OF the play being An Enemy of the
King" Elwyn A. Barron. the Chicago critic,
and Wilson Barrett, tho English actor. are
10 colabUrate in drama.
The floating vaudeville show on the steamer
Grand Republic is different from other variety
,hovs in more details than the fact that II Is on
hboat A great deal Is written about the poor
quality Of roo. garden performances, and most
Of II Is deserved. But It IS easy enough TO get
away from a roof garden or music hall. It
tales no greater labor than walking down the
,,eps or getting into the elevator. So escape Is
slvays possible no matter how bad the show
may become The Grand Republic. however.
lacks this feature. Tho passengers are on
beard and they must stay there until tho
steamer gets back to New York. There is
ample deck rom and up IN the bow only an
occasional echo o: the performance can be
heard onlv few interested couples. how
ever, usually seek tie shade OF the bow. SO
,h..o Il ~ hn1i. f6a, bo
gers are perfectly satisfied TO be kept In such
close proximity 20 the performers. The enter
taiameut tulils one promise that its projectors
held ont 1t Is entirely free from suggestive
.ess and indelCacy: II ranks. moreover fairly
well with tie ordinary roof garden programme.
Albert Clevalier has had no imitators since.
he appeared here. and this Is probably account
ed for BY the tact that for ten years before no
sailed for this country the stage had been over
run with limitations OF tde cOster singer. Wo-
Lien and men -rUte>se! to INIT ate him. and so
various we.e tie results that Americans had
no idea what sort Q. person this Cheval!er
might be. He could not possibly have been
the different kinds OF person that the imita-
tors made him out. The best Of them was
Walter Jones. and lie had never seen Cheva:ier
But since ne has come over, becn seen and
heard. tie ir...a.Jfs Lave been less active.
One OF the actors on the Grand Republic Is
harry Rogers. ttl Ee sings costcr SONGS. but
denies that he IS In any way one Of Chevalier's
coster long before Chevaier ever sung at all,
and his Two songs are slight variations OF The
Future Mrs. Awktns" and odd Dutch" The
words aad The melodies differ very little from
those that Cneva!ier su1K. but according 20
Mf. Rogers they are as old as his coster per-
formances. II that be true It emphasizes how
much ChevalieT improved them, for in tho
FORM they are beard on the Grand Republic
there Is little about them to admire. Mr.
Rogers is not coster who would win much in
mest 70 the tyne, and compared with the only
eosteF that New YORK knows he seemed little
mort OF a rank impostor He was as hard In his
yuuth when he sang Mrs. Hawkins" as he was
oSI Sa rg age wnen he put on a white wig TO sing
interesting type. and IL was only Mr.. Chev-
aHsrs art that made him conduer New York.
saI without the sentiment and humor that
SSnevaiier endowed him with, nobody would
ave cared 70 see him twice. Lacking these
saa!lties. Mr.. Rogers. coster IS tiresome
= rsnEer whom NOBODY knows anything about
sS''n s,N q cares to learn There is negro come;
lamor, and he showed Il in a sketch giving an
Eeount OF the troubles that surround the lot
= SsISfonunpous ,fn performer. There was less fun
lle storY he told ABOUT his wife. who was
w Iond Of r,ad!nS the newspapers and in
s.ea on talking politics to him. The result OF
sWE III, teaelny "as male apparent ore day.
1e United STATES should 70 10 war with Ven-
aaeia on account OF the Transvaal? Would
~ 20 TO Cubs. and fight with them for a six
EeRInne ERIDione shot or stay here and work for bill
AeAih4ey, the Boy Orator OF the Platte?"
hfs' Fatrick Cam mpbell, who had partially
s,Msed to come TO thls country with Beer
'Onm Tree next winter. has decided not
w. she objects to visiting the United States
.H@ mas temporarily retired from the stage
ior rest new Napoleon play is by Georges
vanet' the novelist and author OF THE Forge
aA''ef' II Is called Colonel de Roqus-
Sune' and the action takes place at the close
'he great French Empcror's reign. This
@ elafacter IS subordinate, however. Tho play
y ~ Dc acted next winter at the Porte ST. Mar
!. IN faFls. Sardou Is writing a play for
ne"r' irving, aad kobesplcrre is its hero. An
-'h''n pIay revolving around the same per-
aSo mas lust been completed. Augustus
"p"e' an English actor aud celiist, Is to
s- s,A' w tho American Theatre next winter in
,I7 broken Melody" He has given the play,
~, n"n Is an adaptation OF All old piece called
Ironsclr Jacques" more than 900 times I'm
Sin'on, S,e,nn, Ellen Tcrry's son, GorIon Craig.
lIs ,,,,," %rtr" IN I.pHd N Humtt and RDms1, and
iEbh,d sAN ,im Hp II; SAo il said To have
nm, IT, ,T aADuloArdphy recently. and tho
H. 11,, - V'' ~ E!,lJrs aud Du,c. The last OF
A nl',. ,". ''h.,4.r- t. succeed in London is
OF r,"2 ."r acc. Ny inr!." and IL has u toucn
uuc. 'f o,, I!a"''""nl .Nr"rcst in II despite tho
Len 80 No. r','''N. t'.hys oi his kind have long
t.sl1rai - - T'r.fr As You like II " In
ue J"".yp '"'"nr II" ~ play Orlando and
lefs NH ''.' VIZ. %" Julia Nelson, who acted
Lia'. - "'''H iltrr, 4Ar knglish version OF
len yc,. L. 'N'.oi orr ndon success OF M.
tad pgos'. ..s' w. ",Ha lAi, Is been revived there
Il H. .F"'"h' ,yluhrll,,,'' Lr,,,mryf wint"r
In,,J.p 'Htr ICr biblical and rrli.ioiis nIava in