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on the steamer Etruria last Saturday.
She will star this season under the di
rection of Manager Harry Williams
in the sussessful play of New York
life called "a Bowery Girl" The pro-
duction will be an entirely new one in
respect to scenery, company and spec
ialties.
Robert Hilliard has had a very sat-
isfactory London season, and has COM
bined a considerable degree Of finan-
cial profit with his vacation. He got
$3.50 week for his production Of 1.-THE
Littlest Girl" and playing the part of
ivan Bibber" at the Court theater
under the management of Lord Hope.
who is better known in this country as
the husband of May Yohe.
Manager Charles E. Evans returned
from Europe last Saturday He says
that a notable list of attractions has
been secured for the big revival of "A
Parlor Match" He is sanguine about
the success which the famous London
vaudeviller, Anna Held, will make in
this country She is a very beautiful
and talented woman. He was offered
a bonus Of $4,000 for his contract by
the representatives Of two prom
inent New York music halls.
Robert Hilliard, he states, has secured
big success in the new comedy, 1.-THE
Mummy" and it will be presented at
the Herald Square theater after the
run of De Koven and Smiths new
opera, 1.-THE Mandarin" RehearsaIs
of the latter will be given on Aug. II.
under the direction of Richard Barker.
While in London Manager Charles
Frohman brought together Elwyn A.
Barron, the former scholarly critic
of the Chicago Inter Ocean, and Viii.
son Barrett. 1t resulted In his making
a contract with them for new drama.
the scenes Of which are in New York
and London 1t is to be ready Oct. 81.
1t has already been accepted for pro-
duction at the Lyric theater, London.
The copartnership is a splendid com
bination Of literary ability and dra-
matte SKILL and their work will be
watched with the keenest interest.
especially in this country in which
Mr.. Barron Is so highly esteemed and
the drama.
Tim Murphy will begin his season
In october. He will present a new
comedy called "Old Innocence" It is
an adaptation from the French by
Richard Kingsley. He will play the
part of an old man who sees honesty
In every one, and though he meets with
deception and disappointments his
faith in the truth and integrity of hui
man nature still prevails. In coniunc-
ton with the play Mr.. Murphy will
present. his sketch "Sir Henry Hypno-
tized," in which he impersonates Hem
ry Irving in THE Bells" and gives i'm
itatfons of Lawrence Barrett. John r.
Raymond, Stuart Robson, Joseph JEFF
ferson, Sol Smith Russell and other
famous actors.
Among the sensational features
promised in 1.-THE Great Northwest ;,
new melodrama by Herbert Han
Winslow and Will r. Wilson ara
volunteer firemen's race with hand
fire engines, prairie fire, blizzard
a windmill upon which the heroine
makes three revolutions twenty times
in mid air, and a game of polxer
played for mans life To make the
denouement interesting the man who
stakes his life should lose occasionally
IAN American Beauty" the very ant
title of the new opera in which Lillian
Russell will appear under the dirac-
ton of Canary & Lederer, will not be
seen in New York until next February
1t will have its first production ut
Scranton, Pa, on Sept IA, and after
that will play through the large cities
of the South and West before begin
ing its metropolitan engagement. The
book of the opera is by Hugh Morton
and the music by Gustav Kerker Mr.
Morton is one of the very brightest
newspaper writers in New York. and
has shown his exceeding capability for
applying his keen literary wit and pol
ish to the stage by his cleverness in
I'm Gay New York
Miss Russell's coming season will un-