The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-26
DRAMATIC GOSSIP.
Sadie Martinot will star.


stage.
The BLACK Crook" will tour Mex
| leo.
Americas stage employs 1892 ac-
| tors.
Irving will produce "Cymbeline" next
| week.
Mansfield will shortly revive "Rlch-
ard ILL.,"
Bancroft, the magician has returned
| from India.
| There are ten minstrel companies
now on the road.
Ielie De Lussan is a member of the
Carl Rosa Opera company.
| Fanny Davenport will not produce
any new plays this season.
George Thatcher and Edward Maro!e
| will act together In vaudeville.
Nat Goodwin will open his American
tour With ''An American Cousin"
Hillary Bell says that Francis Will
sons Half q King" is but half an
| opera.
Katherine Kidder has completed a
| comedy which she calls Loves at
| War"
Charles b. Hanford, the tragedian. is
the exact counterpart Of Candidate
| Bryan
| MY Lord and Two Ladies'" roman
tic comedy, will be acted by Louis
James.
Arthur Bourchier and his London
| troupe will appear in New York in No
| vember.
Duff declares that the opera "Sha-
mus O'Brien" will be given in America
| this season.
Janauschek will play the title role
in RobinsOn's production of Mrs Pom
| derbury's Past"
French actors complain because they
| are paid only one-third the salaries uf
American players.
Wang is on the boards again this
| season, with AL Hart and Norma Koop
| i'm the leading roles.
Mamie Giiroy and Eugene O'Rourke
will be seen i'm the Strange Adven-
lures of Miss Brown
Augustus Thomas has just completed
a comedy for Digby Bell Its title is
| ''The Hoosier Doctor"
The youngest leading man, in the
| country Is William Faversham Of the
| Empire stock company.
John Drew has shaven off his NOUS
| tache. He has signed three years
| contract with Charles Frohman.
The new Murray Hill theater, New
York. will be opened October IS with
| the Bostonians i'm Mexico in 1885,
The cast of Charles Frohman's pro-
| duction of Les Deux Gosses" will en-
| brace Mary Hampton, f. j. Radcliffe
and Minnie Dupree.
Bret Harte's Sue" made a hit in
New York Annie Russell played the
| title role and Joseph Haworth imper-
sonated Ira Beasley.
Leon Margules has sued Walker
Damrosch for $1,000 claimed as COM
| missions for engaging the singers for
the opera company last seaso1.
The American version of the French
melodrama Les DeuX GosseS" IL to be
called 1.-THE Two Vagabonds," and Ed
ward J. Ratcliffe IS to be its hero.
Mr.. Crane and Mr.. Robson are to
come together in one act of THE Hen
riettta" at the Actors Order of Friend
ship matinee next month in New York,
During his stay in New York ii
| Hung Chang, the Chinese vicerOy, went
40 see w. A. Brady.s big production,
"Under the Polar Star" at the Acade-
my of Music.
Aubrey Boucicault. Annie Meyers.
Celie Ellis, Hubert Wilke, Mrs. j. X.
Emmett, Billy Emerson, George Thacfl-
er and William Pruette have Joined the
vaudeville ranks.
Lillian Russell pens her personal Ccr-
respondence on square gray sheets Of
paper, having her monogram, sur
mounted by a'cornet, stamped ojliIne.
ly on in corner.
Nellie McHenry designs her own ccs-
tunes. In her new piece. "a Night in
New York." she wears some start!ing-
ly original ones that are likely to be
extensively copied.
1t has been decided by Robson and
Crane to do scenes for Julius Caesar"
instead of ''The Henrietta at New
York benefit. Crane Will play Brutus,
and Robson Cassius.
There will be comparatively few for
eign stars of note in this country this
season. Foreign plays, too, are not 50
numerous in the announcements as
they were q year ago.
James O'Neil is going to make q
great scenic production of THE Lyons
MaiI' this season. The dual roles Of
Duboscq and Lesurques are we'll suited
to his admirable personality.
Among the plays now touring Great
| Britain are "A Trip to Chicago" Lady
Godwa," Forgive Us Our Trespasses."
1.-THE Wearin' O. the Green and Skip
ped by the Light of the Moon"
The second son of Tomasso Salvini
has recently made his appearance on
the stage in Naples. He Is said to bear
a striking resemblance to his father,
and was very well received in Ham
let
Good-natured and square" James r.
Grimes Cellar Door Mackie has gone
For the remainder of the season Mr..
Mackie will play in the Railroad Tick
ct" company on salary.
The "Geisha' has made a hit at
Days. New York. The cast includes
Violet Lloyd, Edwin Stevens and Doro-
thy Morton. The London cast includes
Marie Tempest and Hayden Coffin. A
geisha is a Japanese singing girl, in
dentured to q tea-house keeper.
II Ii. Ii
"An American Beauty" Lillian Rus
sell sings little song with French
accent. She described her antics at n
ball, kicking off the hat of the old
Judge before whom she was arraigned'
the following morning. The audience
at Scranton could not get enough of it,"
TT has come to be the ia shiOn among
some contributors to the press" says
Leander Richardson, In the Dramatic
News. "to indulge in all sorts of ex-
travagant tales about Goodwin. with
out endeavoiin ing to adhere to the truth.
I will wager that there is nothing but
imagination behind the reported tn-
gagement between himself and Miss
Elliott"
Lost. Strayed or Stolen" made a hit
in New York. There Is christening
party In the first act. and the baby
Is missing. 1t Is sought for. with pre-
posterous mishaps to the searching
party, comprising the bewildered faith
er and three rival godparents, In the
barracks of an infantry regiment at
the inspection hour. in the boudoir of
an opera bouffe singer Of remarkable
personal attractions. and in the gar
dens of the Luxembourg. The cast in
cludes Louis Harrison. Joseph Herbert.
M. A. Kennedy. Cyril Scott, George
Caine and Irene Verona.
During the day Shakespeare wo-
men were not allowed on the stage, and
their characters were assumed by folk
with boards or the alb llty to raise
them. But In this era things are re-
versed. and II frequently happens that
J our sisters can outdo us in histronic