The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-08
DRAMATIC NOTES.
Iodjeska will act next year.

Black Patti will star next season.
Henry f. Dixey may star" in His
Absent Boy"
"Around the World in Eighty Days"
has been revived in Paris.
Frederick Warde and Rose Coghlan are
in the cast of Carmen" at Frisco.
Frederick De Belleville's father is a
retired colonel in the Belgian army.
Fred Hallsn, formerly of the starring
firm of Hallen g. Hart, has entered vau-
deville.
Sims Reeves. the veteran English tenor
| has just been made happy father at the
age of "A years.
Richard Mansfield will revive "Rich-
ard III and 1.-The Merchant of Venice"
at the Garrick. New York.
Lewis Morrison's repertoire next season
| will include Faust" "Yoricks Love-"
! "Richelieu" and THE Indian
William Faversham has been selected to
succeed Henry Miller as leading man of
| the Empire Theater Stock company next
season.
Strange. isn't it, tnat Richarl Mans.
| feld, actor and manager, prefers to figure
in the New York city directory as "au-
thor?"
Henry Irving, jr., and Dorothy Baird
just married in London, have abandoned
| their intention to come here on n profess
| sional visit.
Jean DE Reszke's horse, Matador. won
| the recent derby at Moscow. worth la.OO3
| roubes. and a trophy given by the Grand
Duke Sergius
In China in time OF pestilence persons
are permitted to witness gratutously the
atrical performances and displays of fire.
works. the object being that their minds
may be distracted from the prevailing
epidemic.
Fanny Davenport promises production
| of new play by an American author sea-
son after next. She says that next sea-
son will be her last in the Sardou roper
tOirc. which includes "Fc lora' la Tos-
ca" cleopatra" ana "Gismonda." Sar-
dou will lose a profitable source of reve,
nue..
Mr.. and Mrs George Henschel recently
! gave a concert in the rooms of the Ger
man embassy in London in aid of a fund
to build monument to the famous ballad
singer and composer, Johann Carl Gott-
Tried Loewe whose centenary will be cele.
DRAFTED throughout Germany November 80
Melbourne Mcdowell, husband of Fanny
Davenport. won the race of the DuXbury
Yacht club last Saturday in the 3O-foot
class with his racing machine the Cleo
patra. Mr. MacDowcll sailed his own
boat, while the other yachts were sailed
by experienced captains. At the finish he
Henry Miller, formerly of the Empire
Thcater Stock company. has signed a
contract with y. Nj. Palmer as leading
man Tor the company to open the Great
Northern theater in Chicago in October
Miss Blanche Walsh will be the leadine,
woman. The piece to he presented Is a
new romantic drama by Mr.. Paul Potter
Louisa Payne's name used to be one to
conJure with. She was public idol in
n ~ g, NJ
neor Of English opera, in England and the
United States with the pync-ulrrlson
troupe. she was a renowned prima donna
in the. operas of Balfc Wallace and Rcn
edict. She Is stll living, at an advanced
age. and rs Nine. Bodda-Pyne receives n
pension of $3.50 a year
John Mishler. of the PENNSYLVANIA the
atrical circuit, says: "In PENNSYLVANIA
last winter business was very much bet
Ter thah Tor the seasons of 1881 and lS9l-5
l attribute much of il to a reduction in
prices to 10, %, so and 7j cents. and to give
In the different cities the class of enter
tainments that the largest number of pa-
irons prefer. The theater business when
conducted as any other successful COM
merclal business. will always be satisfac-
tory. In prices everything has come
down why not theater prices and per-
formers salaries?"
Adrienne Dairolles, who played several
parts IN New York admirably last year
Dut ialled TO get a firm footing on our
stage. has returned to London with n ha
| tired of America. Really fine comedy. =.
| she says In talk about us, lis incompre-
hensible to the Yankees. 1t Is utterly be-
yond the power of the American UNDER
standing. To be blonde and blue-eyel is
| half the battle on the transatlantic stage
-lhdeeu, IL Is more; should say it is well