The morning times., 1896-11-01
Dramatic Notes.

james Whitcomb Riley is again ON the
Lyceum stage.
Lillian Biauvet has gone to Fargo 20
grow up with the divorce colony
Olga Nethersole will speculate on
Lohuoh production OF Brian Boru-"
! :, Olga Brandon she of THE Midnight
lard '" WIN "H
AN Innocent Sinner, is going on tour
again. Horrors!
shannon OF the SIXTH juInps TO New
or November "'i
LYDIA Thompson hobs up sereneiy in
LoGIon 20 n WIN new farce comedy, The
10 congratulate Col. Maplcson on mis- bril-
hant operatic opening
A reduction in prices of the best seats in
several or Brooklyn's best theaters Is
SAID To De contemplated.
Good intentions count for little i'm the
pIayWrlgits case, says X. A. Barnet: he
is Judged by his acts.
According To the Lafayette program
York, playing IAN Evening to the King
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett VIII ,nine
10 America this winter To arrange for the
production OF her "a Lady or Quality"
Sue is a dramatization of Bret Harte's
Judgment OF BJlina Plain,' and not The
Frame NOif,' as mas been eTroneOusly
stated.
Judges OF pretty women have ceased to
wonder why natflmony mad no terrors Tor
Aubrey Bouccicault since they have seen his
bride.
Michelena, who was leading tenor with
Hinnchs two OCCASIONS IN Washing
ton. has been re-cn2aged az leading tenor
OF the National Theater, Mexico.
With the sad news that Alexandra Sal
vini is slowly dying at his Italian home
coiies the good news that his brother has
made successful debut as AN actor.
Fanny Davenport believes that the re-
qLirerncnts % Il good actor should be,
flrst, temperament, then a pleasing Voice.
ihlmetic power sympathy and mtel!ec-
tuaiity.
Marie Dressler was divorced from her
husband last week with neatness AMI
dispatch. She accused him and he ac-
R6owledged il, and the Judge was LEFT
no alternative.
Charles Is. Hanford says that Thomas W.
kecnc looks ~ much like Mckinley that he
lad To escape from Canton, ONO, IN hurry.
last week because he WAS afraid he wGIid
be elected President.
1t iswhispered that j. T.. Dodson is writ
Ing play 1t 5 sure to be decidedly
original, for the comedian declares that
Lis villain is Ia die in the last act from cX-
cessive cigarette smoking.
blanche Walsh is the defendant in a
suit brought by an Australian woman
in New York. She alleges that Blanche
brought her To America as a ccstuuer.
But Blanche can see 1t.
Lawrence Lowell was several years ago
Il member OF the summer opera company
here. lie has made remarkable advance
ments. He has rnndnesS for the uaSti-
cation OF scenery which experience will
probably temper.
York. As Zou-Zou said, La, la, la-ia la
VIII II. Fox, in his 'PaddyWhISkI''
piano act which Lyeenn patrons viii
Palace, in London.
duncan b. Harrison, manager OF a Mid
night Bell, is an enthusiastic Mckinley
worker. He jumped his company to Chi
cago for registration, and Will take them
there to vote, when tney ~ Ia Canton. play
ing there the night after election.
Robert Downing ST. W Hamlet PLAYED for
the first time last Wednesday night. He
has many times acted in II. in TACT, every
character from the King to the second
grave digger, but never had he seen the
many moVded Dane from the 'front.' be
fore.
George Appleton has arrived in San
Francisco from Australia. His star Ma
thanel Goodwin will arrive shortly and
NJ P2s" rdM IN NAV re E!; piyTc c,,i1aS .ee:
by Madelainc Luoette Ryley. will also he
given. II was tried in Australia.
David Warfeld. whose inimitahle work
in his Hebrew speciality and i'll his bur
chief points OF In Gay New York. is
under contract to klaw x ErIanger Tor Il
term Of wears and Will shine ms star next
season iii play now being written for
him.
The following notice is han,leG to every
woman who pas SeS the doOrkeeprTs OF all Uf
san Francisco theaters: The mana cement
earnestly requests ladies wnnSc hats are Of
dimensions iikcIy 10 obstruCt the view. to
remove tGeir ants wiiiit ln the th.ater. ;s
those back of them are entitled to an IN
obStruCted view Of the stage
Here is a Jewel Of theatrical note
from PiuSbure paper: Miss SwipeS, a
female pu9llISt and all-Iruund athlete. is
dciishting admirers OF the new woman at
the Eden Musee TINS week. Her bac-punCH-
ing feats are interesting In the thcater "A
cmbination of capable speciality people
present new vaudeville bill
Washington and New York are juggling
attractions III a friendly fashion We
sent My Friend from India" to the Biiou
and the Casino sends us today Peter Daily
in A Good Thing" When Barrymore has
produced his play at the National he Will
20 directly to Palmers and Georgia CAY
van VIII vacate that theatcr to come Il
rectly here.
The PRINCIPAL PLAYERS are This week
playing: Gus skinner in Detroit: ''PnsOn-
er Of Zenda' III salt Lake City; Richard
Mansfield III Chicago; Roland Reed in At
laHta: Sol Smith Russell in St Louis:
Walker WhiteSide in Kansas; Madame.
Sans Gene III Minneapolis: L. NJ. dnI
Joseph Holland III Boston; beWOlf Hopper
in Philadelphia, anu Lillian kusSeIl IN
Kansas City.
oliver Byron is appearing with success
in Boston in a piece called The Turn of
the Tide Mr.. Byron is a Baltimorean by
birth. an "a Jue none StTcrt healer uSc,I
To he plain o. h Doud. Then he went
To New Orleans and became Oliver Byron
Doud. Then lie started out a star and
was Oliver Doud Byron. Now he becomes
simply oliver Byron, and after II while may
even drop the Oliver.
Rev. Dr. ParEhurst says Ladies' Hums
Journal he has TO prelcssrssinn against the
theater but from information he has CLEANED
Ia1T n.nk I,sr lois
bill-,oards. and ''une of our most dis
tInguiSirtl ru.tl>h actors H. has Iti,. ,lIS
tinct impression that ''if the American
tleater were suddenly To omit all its
vicious accomplishments. and To come out
| frankly upon the ground OF unequivOCal
purity, the theater going world would
Withdraw in impatient disgust and the
| whole business 70 INTO the hands OF u re
CeiyeT inside of a month";