The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-11-01
THEATRICAL MATTERS.
INTERESTING POINTS ABOUT PLArS
AND PLAYERS.
New Ventures On tho stage, and the For
tunes, Good and Otherwise, of Old
Ones.
Coquelin is a millionaire.

AOQuelln Is a HllllOudHcs
Frank Daniels Ii thirty SIX years ola.
Paris has an orchestra OF lV;.
Tho Vatican contains theatre.
klaw ana Erlangcr employ ivJ players.
New York mas three jewish theatres.
The Second Mrs. Ianqueray' is in
Rome.
Not one OF the Bostonians is a Boston
ian.
Sandow is the chsppy father OF =
daughter.
Bernhard has been photographed 1000
times.
Comic opera Is the bill at seven New
York theatres.
Bernhard will act Magdalan in Boyios
Christ"
~ Crown OF ThornS" has not made
hi. in London.
Seats are on sale for Christmas produc-
ttyrs in London
{. W Couldock has joined Wilton Lack
eys cCmp3ny.
"MienOn' las been given l.lO perform
anCeS IN London.
James b. Mackie will be seen in Lit
tie Jack HCIrer.'
Audran's new operetta IS entitled Mon
sier Loherar,n."
Laura Burt claims that she employed
a valet two years ago.
Ebyn Plympton will be seen in Keiths
vaudeville theatres.
Frederick Iaulding is reciting in the
houses of New Yorks 400
Arizona Joe" has been played by an
English company eighteen years.
Anthony Hopes Heart Of the Princess
Osra' is to be dramatzed
Ar,.ur Nik.sch is the best paid OF all
European conductors--slc.OO 90 a year.
Five Philadelphia theatres will give
, midnight performances election night.
Ada kehan played Lady Gay spanher IN
London Assurance" last week.
DR.. Ncltzel declares that the Germans
are the most musical nation I'm the world.
| Jessie Bonstelle. Joseph bowling, ana
Myra Davis will be seen In The Great
/ NorthW est
Louisville has never seen Duse, Tree.
Willard Nethersole. Hare, Coquelin. or
! AIounet-Sully.
, In Italy there are more theatres in pro-
portion 10 population than in any other
country
Adelina Patti Is TO sing at Nice the
4 leading part in CASTOR Pollonais' new OPP
Dc Koven and Smiths Mandarin" was
| given at Ednburg. Scotland, for copy
Fanny Rice will be seen in by Order
| of the King an opera by the authors
| OF "Ermlnie."
| TO the Bostonans. They did the "Bohe-
milan Girl' in New York last week.
Gustavo Sslvini. the second son Of To-
mass Salvini. has been acting at Naples
with great success III The Merchant OF
'"fhe Theirs Refused" is a Rome at
traction. The refused are the Crowned
which the river rejects and throws upon
its shores.
Tho cast OF Klaw and Erlanger's pro-
duction OF Jack and the Beanstalk' en-
braces Donnelly and Girard, Hollins Sis
tiers and Madge Leasing.
The English Lord Chamberlain has de-
clned 70 license Il. Vivian Edmonds' For
Faith and Freedom" or any other play
about the Armenian troubles.
in Stanisaaus STANCES comedy Andrew
Mack will play Dan OF Ballyhara. Not
an Englishman IN the cast. STANCE Is
writing an opera for JEFF De Angels.
At the Neustadter Theatre. Dresden.
ana IN many great German theatres. mn.
sic between the acts viii be discontinued
with the beginning OF the new season.
Maggie Mitchell appeared in public
again last week at New York. but not on
the theatrical stage. She was witness
at Coroner Hoeber's inquest INTO tho
cause OF the death OF John Connors-
1t Is rather expensive for Boston thea
ire manager 10 let band play yam
kee Doodle" in his house on SUNDAY. Mr.
Eugene Tompkins tried the experiment on
May Sd. last. and yesterday the Superior
Court fined him 500.
Within a period OF twenty years Miss
Russells salary has advanced from the
rate OF $50 year 10 5000 q year. Cor
rectly speaking. her name IL at present
Helen olomOnbrahamleonard
but that Is too long a title for the bills.
and so she calls herself Lillian Russell
She IS thirty-six years OF age. During
her career she has earned nearly half
a million dollars. yet II Is question X
she Is worth $4,000 to-day. We are as"
sured that while she was still free she
had matrimonial offers from two men. ono
q banker who offered to settle million
on her before the wedding; the. other a
poor tenor. with no income beyond his
voice She married the tenor romanticai-
" and separated from him traglcslly.
Pauline Hall. the prtma donna OF Evan
gellne," is now going into the continu-
Gus performances OF vaudeville Sadie
Martinez. the prima donna OF "Nanon."
has disappeared Marion Manola, the Nc
Cauli prima donna Is In vaudeville: Marie
Jansen IL In farce: Isabella Urauhart has
| exchanged the operate for the dramatic
J stage Fay Tcmpleton Is In burlerdue;
1 Marie Tempest has returned 20 England:
| Annie Meyers has faded from sight. All
| the singers who ventured to cross lyric
swords with Lillian Russell when she en-
tered this city In triumph with the osd
| Dun Company. have bitten the dust be-
fore the golden diva. At present comic
| orrra IL an American. not Eurorean
| Industry. Our composers and horettist<
are prosperous TO a degree. while those or
| England France. and Germany seem 20
~ Amos. bankrupt Before Lillian Rus
sell nut him on his feet tho native com
poser was q thing Of repreeahs--kSx0Asy
| 6Au n New York PresA