The morning times., 1896-08-16
Dramatic Notes.

! Daty mas clO8e0 MS LOnuOn eeabOo-
Charles Abbe goes with Roland Reed.
InnescaIls his band ..The Famous Fifty :
Georgia Cayvan la In the White koun-
| taiBs.
s.'Chimmie Fadden" Hopper tsin his ohio
home.
The Roland Reed Company is rehearsins
In Boston.
Jennie Yeamans will be a Weber & Fields
girl this season..
., viii Gillette calls bis now bouseboat
"Tbe holy Terror"
Beatrice MoreIand will be with Sol Smith
Russell this year.
Mrs Pat Campbell is credited with q
hit as Lady Teazle.
The season in Philadelphia opens earlier
than anywhere else.
Benhardt began her French provincial
tolr Tuesday night last.
That good cid bunch OF Keys" will
rattle q gain this season.
ZeIic de Lussan was recently entertained
by Henri LabOuciIere.
Enrol Dunbar win head one Of Aorri-
sons western companies.
"The Brownies will scamper over the
usual tour again this year
Wilson Barrett is not in the cast OF ..The
Sign OF the Cross" at present.
EIwyn Barron and Wilson Barrett are
collaborating on a new play.
There are at least ninety y four companies
playing In the United States.
They say Mapleson onoe more holds the
reins in the operatic world.
FregoII begins his tour OF Lightning change
towns the last day of this month.
The latest working girl to be dramatized
In London is ''The Telephone Gih.''
The principal events In London at pres
eDt are the closing of the theaters.
"TriIby" is reported to have cleared
81 s, 900 in six weeks in Australia.
Gus williams returns to lone OF the
Finest" this year. Will the public?
Grand opera salaries are shrinking like a
stagnant pond before q summer sun
Nsays wise writer The play is the thing.
and the thing Of the lay is the plot"
1t is rumored that Willard will produce
"Cymbciine' on his American tour.
John W. Dunno will manage Eddie Foy
this year in '.Off the Earth" revised.
E H. sethen has returned from his
vacation In England with old friends.
Irving begins rehea rsais OF ''cymbe
line" aI the London Lyceum tomorrow.
The New York press sheets are again
coming to the dramatic editors tables.
George Lockhart is Eow teaching his
eIepha n,s no W TO play game OF teDpins.
Julia Wilson is to play Rosalind. She will
at least be .'more than common tall"
An LAS You Like IT, cast has been sug-
gested, with Richard Harlow as Audrey.
Flora Irwin, thin sister of fat May, Is to
support Peer DALEY in "A Gcod Thing"
Tie Three Bells-Digby, Laura Joyce and
the Midnight their seasoDiastnight
Otis Hot Stuff Harlan is once more out
of reach OF the lion and under the eagles
wing.
Lillian Russell is resting at Edgcmere,
Long Island, but her press agent knows no
rest.
lie will tins year ira vel with '.AEother Mans
Wife,
John L. Sullivan. the eminent actor.
sometime athlete, is now a hotel FRO
prietcr.
The Mormon choir is singing the chorus
OF the summer opera production in Salt
Lake City.
Rutland Darlington. an Engi:shman, has
MIA yed PooiI-Rah in the '.MikadU' over
/ 800 times
LaviDia Shannon Is a Washington ac-
tress who has an attractive advertise
mept in the Mirror.
George Bonifaoe will create a role in the
new opera to he produced at the Herald
Square in October
AIRS. Potter and Kyrle Bellew, after six
years absence from Australia have made
a success OF their return.
Gordon Craig, little Miss Ellen Terry's
boy, played Hamlet the other day in Lon
dun. and ma was present.
W s. Hart has been engaged TO lead in
THE Great Northwest" AS far North and
as fsI West as possible, please.
In reply to some discussion as to the date
of Edwin Eocth's death 1T Is stated that he
died JuneT l s93, at liz a. III.
Brady's Trilby Company is playing To
larger business in Australia than any other
Company that ever visited there.
Rose Cogian will use Carmen" on tour.
Her other plays aJe .'Nadan.e, 'Jocelyu"
ard Max O'Rei', ''Heartease."
Annie Russell and Estelle Clayton arc
both mentioned as possible members of
PaImer's projected stock company.
Austin Brereton is frequenter of the
Lotus Club in New York His profession
Us critic bars him from the Players.
D,oyly Carte, who has been the original
producer OF all OF Gilbert & Suiliyan's
operas in London, will retire next season.
The stock company at Denver played "Dr.
Bill" recently, and Lockhart's elephants
lpla yed an afierpiece. There's democracy
Emma Nevada has lest her pearl shell
gwen her upon her debut at the CIcTa
Con,iQue and Inscribed "a Pearl TO
Pearl"
w. II. Thompson will Play his original
role ofthe Eskim guide in nter the Polar
star" 1t was first produced twelve Yeas
ago in Frisco.
1t is whispered in London that Wilson
Barrett has for some time been married To
Maud Jeffries. but that the matter has been
kept a secret.
Little Tuesday is so called because she
was born on Tuesday morning. She Is ten
years old, is retired from the stage and
goes TO school.
A Lady Come edienne'' advertises in
a thcatical weekly. It is to he tCped Jcr
comedy is better than her combinations
OF French and English.
. Nathaniel Hartwig, last season with
Marie Wainwright as leading man, goes
with the new syndicate stock. presumably
to take Charles Mackay's place.
Edmond de Goncourt, the French drama
.tist. and one OF the founders OF the modern
naturalistic school. is dead at seventy four.
ZOla delivered the funeral GRAFTON.
Henry Dfxey will be starred in His
Absent Boy playing the role originated
last season in this city by Frederic Bond.
Margaret Craven will be leading lady.
1t is said that Sol Smith Russell is cUnsid-
ering w. ID. Howelrs nauzatiOn OF The
Rise OF Silas Laphain,'' which was Origi-
paIly announced as a possible play for W. II.