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over next season. Fougere returns at
$1,000 per week next season, where she
formerly got $3.50 or $500. The five
Barrison sisters, who receive $500 in
Paris, will get $1,750 per week in this
country next season and their fare both
ways. Dan Leno, very clever low
comedian, who gets the highest salary
on the English vaudeville stage, S625
per week, and does his turn at five diff
ferent halls each night, is coming to
America to do ONE turn each night, for
which he will receive $1,000 per week
ard his fare both ways Anna Held a
French soubrette and very beautiful
woman, has refused $3.50 per week to
come to this country. She wants 81 900.
Her salary over there is t40.
The same is true in other fields of the
business. The craze has spread into all
the details of theatricals. Americans are
easy prey to foreign performers and
| managers.
The vulgarity of much of he theatrical
dancing of the day is the subject of dis
cussion in some of the London news
papers. There can be no doubt that the
abominahle contortions in which some
ly indefensible, and as a writer in the
Academy remarks, cannot possibly
please or amuse anyone whose taste has
right to be consulted
VIII II. Fox (Paddy Whisky and
| Marion, Daily. Winship and Marion have
captured the British fancy and are
| going strongly at the Palace, London. A
few Of Fox's jokes are objected to on ac-
count Of their antiquity, but otherwise
the turns are pronounced ''all right
| Emma Calve is to make a concert tour
OF this country next autumn before the
| opera season. That is the present plan,
| but as Messrs. Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau
are her managers, the matter will de-
| pend on the settlement of their troubles.
1t is to be a. sort of operatic recital,
Calve appearing in costume-a revival
of the Patti method.
Maurice Barrymore has had three or
| four offers to have his new play, Roar
| ing Dick & Co.." produced in England.
He declined them. as he wants to play it
in America first, and if it is a success he
wants to. produce it in England him
| self. Roaring Dick is said by those
who have heard the play read to be ad-
| mirably suited to the clever actor-au-
| thor. The play itself tells a strong and
interesting story and has big and strik-
ing effects.
| Mrs. Hodgson Burnett is at work on
play founded on her novel "a Woman
| of Quality The American rights of
this piece have been secured by Daniel
and Charles Frohman.
| 1t is reported that the late Clara Schu-
mann has left for publication a diary
and "reminiscences covering period of
forty years. AS she knew nearly every
famous musician of this century, these
memoirs will doubtless be an interesting
contribution to the literature Of music.
Rose Coghlan is not a beauty, but,
what is more to the point, she is inter-
esting and versatile. and, when it suits
| her peculiar disposition, she can do a
great deal more with an audience than
| she realizes, says San Francisco Music
and Drama
| A new farcical comedy in three acts,
| by George D. Day and Allan Reed,
called THE Mummy" has been produc-
ed in the London Comedy Theater, with
Fionel Brough at the head of the cast.
A. play made out of "The Pilgrims
Progress" has been performed for copy
right purposes in the London Olympic
| Theater.
|
The famuos French organist Gull
mant, who won so much cordial praise
during his recent American tour de-
voted his organ recitals in Paris during
the past season, chiefly to Bach and
Handel.
! Among the comedians at a west side
theatrical boarding house:
do you believe in casting bread upon
the waters?"
Yes. when it doesn't come back later
as pudding"
Minnie Maddern Fiske will star next
season under the mana cement of A. NJ.
Palmer in a new play.
| Josephine jefferson was married on
June 29th to William Rolfe, a Shake
spearean scholar at Cambridge. The
bride is the daughter of G. b. Jefferson
of the firm of jefferson, Klaw & Erlan-
ger. and granddaughter Of Joseph JEFF
| f5rson.
Pauline Hall was arrested recently in
Pittsburg for riding an unlicensed bi-
cycle all wheels being required to bean
a license plate. She was fined 81 and
costs,
The Princess of Wales has entered
the lists of composers. She recently
had printed for circulation among hei
fiiends several pieces for either com
posed by her.
There are forty-two speaking parts ir
the production of Madame Sans Gene
which Kathryn Kidder is to put on al
the Baldwin. San Francisco, shortly
On Broadway a new comedy drama
by Clay NJ. Greene and Ben Teal will be
produced by Maggie Cline at Buffalo
y Y, August 10Th.
SissieTetta Jones is the real name OF
| Black Patti. an accomplished colored
singer. who is filing an engagement al
the Chute Casino, San Francisco.
r. ]. Jones, "the sagebrush tenor" Is
making q hit with his new song, 1.-THE
Girl l Love Loves Me-" at the Great
| Northern Roof Garden in Chicago.
Alice PiyIpy who is tn ioin tho E,ra1t-