The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-11-29

IN DRAMATIC ;
CIRCLES. ;
Ellen Terry is very III.
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Ellen Terry is very III.
Lolita is in her 5Oth year.
Ravmon Moore will sing in London
Violinist Ysaye is playing in London.
Maxine Elliott has secured divorce
Ibsen's Little Eyolf' made a hit IN
London.
The benefit for Miss Coghlan will oc-
cur on December II.
Padcrcwski is hard at work on his opera
at Aix-les- Bains.
A New York German stock company
will shortly play in Berlin.
Young salvini will probably never be
seen on the stage again.
Mrs Clara Fisher Macder is said to be
the oldest living actress.
A Cleveland theatre has been ordered
TO stop giving Sunday shows.
The Potter-Bellew Company did School
for Scandal in Australia.
Won suppes Donna Juanita" was re-
Gently revived at the Frisco Tivol.
Paul Arthur will be seen IN the Lon
don production of TOO Much Johnson"
willard will appear only in The
Rogue's Comedy during his American
tour.
The latest musical lad in British So
ciety circles Is for ladies to learn the
bagpipes.
saint-Saens. who has several unpro-
duced operas. says he will write no more
for the stage.
Among the latest teams" for the
vaudeville stage are Sisnor Perugni and
Mime. Cotrclly.
schrader. the healer. was the chief at
traction nc the Philadelphia Dime Museum
last week.
oscar Hammerstein says that Olym-
pia, New York. must take in SIT 900 u
week before it pays pront.
Nat Goodwin inaugurated HIS Ameri-
can season at Frisco last week with the
American Citizen Last night be did
THE Rivals"
In every European country except En-
gland barrel organs are either absolutely
forbidden or their players are under
severe restrictions.
Frau Natcrna has bought q fine castle
near Grls. and says that she intends ~
1--we there In peace and retirement Tor the
rest OF her life.
Little Lord Fauntloroy Tommy Rus
selD, now youth of is. is member "
the football team of the New York Uni
yersity. His salary was $50 a week IN
'FauntlcrOy.'
Frederick NJ. McCloy has joined forces
W. John h. Rogers in the conduct OF
r. Strange Adventures of Mis-.
Brown" which resumed its career in
Chicago on Sunday night.
The order has just been published for
the Nagneran representations at Bay
reuth I'm July and August. 1897. From
July 10 10 August 10 there will De three
series of the Ring of tine Nibeiung." and
ols-- representations of "ParsiflL"
An opera singer. Sguorina Emilia
Ricca, has just rcnOuncod her profession
al the beginning OF what promised % be
successful career. and has retired 10
the convent OF SAINT Antonio az Paus-
Hippo. Italy, where she is soon TO take
the VOWS.
At the Ambigu. which is the Paris
theatre OF melodramas. play called
Les Deux Gosscs' has been i'm steady
use Tor year and a half An English
version, entitled The Two Little Va
grants was performed in New York last
week.
hose Coghlan's first appearance in New
York was made in ISL. when she came
here with the Lydia Thompson burles-
quers and acted Venus in "lNion." She
appeared for the first time on any stage
as one Of tho witches I'm Macbeth" al
btetuock scotland. In 1865.
Whoever can recollect having heard
Camplnni Is lucky. for. leaving out Pat
Il, about the only great voice left TO a
great singer on the operate stage. u.
we know 10. is that OF EdOuard de Reszke
New York Sun. He was the first singer
10 receive $1,000 night I'm New York.
They are singing In London n lot OF
verses about Barrisons ono Of which
goes thus:
On the bad little. mad little Barrison
girls
Have exceedingly little to show.
Yet what they have got they exhibit a
lot.
And so they are all the go.
Under date Of October p a correspond-
ent from Australia writes OF the Amerl-
can productions there as follows. ",rho
tour Of Mrs. James Brown Potter and
kyrle Belew has been an artistic ana
financial success. Nat Goodwin was fha
worst frost we have had out here. I'm
every city. A Trip 10 Chinatown has
been success. while on the other hand
a MIX White Flag has failed to draw"
Leander Richardson says the sign
OF the Cross is an immoral play. and
declares that II should be suppressed
Under cover or religion" says Mr..
Richardson. this play introduces n story
indecency Of which has never before been
equaled on the American STAGE. re-
fer 10 the situation at the end Of the
thir- act. where Marcus Superbus at-
temps 10 rape the Virgin. Mercia, his
prisoner"
The young women who sell flowers at
Olympia had pretty rough night OF il.
by reason OF the peculiar sense OF humor
w..ch prevails in football circles. and
some ~ the girls In the march probably
have black and blue spots on their legs
this morning, where the precious young
sters pinched them as they went By. The
behavior OF these cubs from Yale and
Princeton was. indeed. OF the most repre-
hensble character II you and ! were
10 thrust our paws into the breast OF =
flower woman's dress any male bystander
would hammer Us 10 within an inch Of
our lives.-Leander Richardson In New
York Mercury.
OF certain class OF managers Harry
L. Knapp. In the Philadelphia Inquirer.
says: They are thoroughly conscience
less, with no regard for the sufferings
OF others. and can skip a town wi... the
agility of q Wyoming cowboy. Many OF