The herald., 1896-08-16

son, Barney McDonough, Keating and
Saunders, Joseph Roberts, Emily RIGGS
the West Sisters and Fred Swift. The
Dixie Picaninny band of fourteen color
ed boys will be a special feature.
e. S. Willard may possibly present a
Shakespearean play during ms Iortn-
coming American trip, and his choice is
to be Cymbeline. Mr.. Willard was very
successful Jachimo some thirteen years
ago in Miss Wallis revival of the play
at the London Gaiety.
Maggie Cline, in her new play, Or
Broadway. in which she will star this
season, will have the support of very
large and excellent company numbering
about twenty-five people. Prominent
in her support will be John G. Sparks
who will have capital comedy role in
the play Other members of her COM
pany are such capable people as Ben T
Ringgold. Harry B. Bradley, Fred w
Peters, Jerry Hart, Isabel Waldron
Beatrice Morgan and others equally well
known.
A grand ovation was accorded to Mrs.
Potter and Kyrle Bellew upon their re-
turn to the Australian stage at the Prin-
cess theater, Melbourne, June g. The
newspapers record an unusual demons
stration in honor of the popular players
who had been absent six years and their
capable company. AS You Like 1t was
chosen for the initial performance, and
the prose of the press was unanimous
and unequivocal A most prosperous
season at the antipodes seems more
than assured.
A French soldier named Durand is
exhibiting himself in London. His spe
cialty consists of hanging by the neck
without choking to death. He has ac-
complished other remarkable feats in
the past; for instance, he has stood for
S.s~ to- .f Ix.t.r ~ =
light without closing or winking his
eyes once. He has held his arms out
horizontally for six hours, and has stood
for twenty days on top of a column with
out changing his position. He may come
to America soon.
J. ]. Buckley-A Soldier of Fortune is
the title of a new romantic drama writ
ten by Otis Skinner, who will produce it
with his own company at the beginning
of the season at Chicago. The play deals
with the adventures of young Italian
mercernary of the French army in Italy
in the fifteenth century, and is under
stood to present some historical features
in the character of the Due de Nemours.
Caesar and Lucretia Borgia and the
secretary of the Florentine Seignory,
Niceolo Macchiavelli.
A contract was signed in Washington
recently between Robert Downing, the
whereby Mr.. Morrissey becomes Mr.
Downing's manager for the next four
years. Two new plays will be produced
during the first season-which begins in
Washington in the latter part of Sep
tember-one a romantic drama entitled
In Search of Happiness, by Edward
Dousard and Robert Downing, the other
an historical drama entitled Putnam,
a Hero of the Revolution. Both plays
will receive elaborate productions.
There is a great diversity of opinion
as to the present and immediate future
of the theatrical business, in view of the
excitement that will prevail until cleo
ton day and of the result of the election
1t seems to be an accepted fact that the
atrical managers are moving more
slowly this summer than it is their wont
to do at this season of the year, and that
fewer companies than usual will take
the road during August and September,
although from all the signs it may be
said that the theatrical enterprises of
the season will be as numerous as ever