The morning times., 1896-05-03


all right; We never heard of Nick, but we
hope he's all right, and trust the venture
will be success.
Otis Skinner ami W. H. Thompson head
| the cast of zone of the nravest,'' which is
| 10 be presented tomorrow night in Chicago
| for the first time.
Father bougherty of Honesdale, Pa.
did the unusual by willing 100000 at his
| assa,n Tor tselere% non OF a theater. This Is
| better than scolGing.
| Will Hayden, who manages Stuart Rob
| son, owns the rights TO the English melo-
drama New Babylon, and viii produce
| 1t in This country next year.
| Philadelphia is enjoying Mrs Dion Bou-
cicault at one theater in Boucicault
| drama and Aubrey Boucicault at another
| tbeater lii The Shaughraun.'
Walter Kennedy is bound to stick TO the
| boards. ishGetermination has Samsons
strength. Next year he will add Richard
| III. and Macbeth TO his repertoire.
Now Anthony Hope denies that he is
to marry the English Princess Flayia. The
English noyelists re rabbing the American
| actors or their advertising thunder.
When Divorcons is translated into English
| the principal trouble seems to be name.
| Hare called his version Mama the latest
| London version il THE New Baby
Jimmy Powers has concealed in the dark
recesses ofhis trunk playan he threatenns
| TO star. Take the New England circuit,
| please, Jimmy, and all will be forgiven.
| John Stetson once said. Introducing a
rich restaurant keeper in Boston. This is
| John bingham, BE made hundred thous-
| ana COLLARS cutting pies in live pieces.'
George Holland will end his connection
| with the Girard Avenue Stock Company,
| Philadelphia, after this season. He has
| conducted it successfully for five years.
Louis Harrison is said to be writing
new comic opera. He has done some
good work In this line and has had rest
long enough to have developed a few new
| ideas.
presarloS wife, Is 10 return to the stage next
year. She Is an American woman, but
gained most ar her professional experience
abroad.
VIII Mcdonald is the proud pcssessor of
silver medal which admits him TO every
National League baseball ground in the
country. 1t was presented TO him by j
Earl Wagner.
Some one propounded the query al TO
whether John Drew nd Sydne Drew were
brothers. Well replied a wag, 'if you
ask Sydney, they are; IL you ask John,
they're not"
Gilbert Porteus, of The Artists Model
company, is Marie StudhoIme's husband.
They lead a peculiar married life, ac-
| coTdiDg 10 their friends, and see very little
OF each other.
When the manager OF The Rivals
cast saw the diagram OF the Providence
opera House he imii ediately cancelled be-
cause the house wouldn't hold enough to
pay expenses.
Etenne Girardot, who appeared here in
"Charley's Aunt, " VIII be featured by Mr
Palmer in a new farce by Michael Nor
ton, brother OF Martha Morton, called The
Leading Lady
J Gay New YORK; is to be produced tue
29th Of this month. month rddt MeCie,ian' Wdr, Wng
canized The Lady shvey," is the author
of the new piece.
A M Palmer adyertises the Garden
Theater as the coolest play house IN New
: York city. Guess he's right. Several com
panies have just about been frozen TO death
| III that house this season.
Thomas Q. Seabrooke has been sued fol
divorce by his wife, Elvira Crox. Same
old story. They have drifted apart since
| Tom dropped ''Pimeroy H. and Elvira
took 10 billee's pantaloons in ''Thrlby."
{. Sydney Resented hassued Francis Wilson
. for S5O,Q00j for alleged libellous state
! | ments made in IA newspaper interview.
sydney is hound 10 keep his oar in: he has
4 eiijoined Fawfey from using Maxine Elliot
Parker and Cartons new play, Rose
mary which Charles Wyndham viii
} soon produce at the London Criterion. tell:
; | a oaching STORY with an eiopement, and The
hopeless passion of an old man for girl
Della Fox will next season go 10 the
= Pacific coast under John W Dulhle's man ma
, TTooper" IFeS and and -Fleur de Lys." It is
l said that Hetiy Green's son Is backing The
enterprise. il
/ Nat c. Good win made a speech in Pitts
S burg recently. announcing that he wouli
shortly return to that city with a band o
Y ambitious but struggling actors headed b.
il the rising young Tnespian, Joseph Jef1er
son." in The Rivals
= The enormous success of Mark Twain
j. lecture tour through Australia has decided
Manager Charles E Evans to send Franz
Mayo and his dramauzation of Twain
= "Pudd nhead WILSON, to the antlpodes II
Il the summer or 1897.
j., The A American Theatrical Syndicate wi
= y give its first production at McNickeri
u Theater in June. The piece to be presente'
is comedy, and Mr.. Fred Wright, o
8 IAN Artists Model company, Will pla
e one of the leading roles.
Mr. Glamour, who has published severa
j small volumes of poetry, has been commits
a stoned by Beerbohm Tree TO write u new
play in three acts dealing with lie in tn
a middle ages. The contract calls for it
i completion by next August.
Loie Fuller is not going to Europe jus
II vet. She opens in San Francisco. In O(
= tober and November she dances in Paris
In December she may return to open th
Chicago Music Hail. Then euga gements il
e Nice, Cairo and Russia will follow.
L The other night in Pittsburg when Good
win was playing '.Garrick' the audiene
n demanded a curtain call Nat had bun
y ricd to change" but had to appear: II
encased his bare feet in slippers and az
q peared in bath robe. The call made
t. big hit.
1t is interesting to note that the ind
II vidual hit OF Wilson Barrett's great SUI
:, cess. The Sign of the Cross is made b
a Young American. His name is Frankli
- McLeary He is n native of Toronto an
d a pupil of the late James Murdoch c
= Cincinnati.
New York is to have Debutantes' Opel
u Club. That is an amateur operate con
a pany 10 give a performance once wee
Of standard operas. There is no other wa
n for an American boy or girl who wishe
IS 10 take up grand opera professionally t
s. get a repertoire.
ar The Geisha, ora Story of Tea House.
a. was produced at Daly's London Theater
d. few nights ago ana went fairly well.
% is on the order of the recent English mus
n n cal alleged comedies. Marie Tempest, Lett
u - Lyud, Hayden Coppin, and Harry Monk
o. house were i'll the cast.
I'D Who spoke of degcneracN Of the dram;
w Carl Gardener will next season produce
II. play called I'm Canada and impetus W
5c be given the elevation OF the boards by
to 4eiicntsty pa theuc stornnng @ of the Montre
with the Lachine rapids.
er Lerimer Stoddard, the little fellow wi
g. played the stenographer in 1.-The Govern
1t of Kentucky" has completed new pa
at | Mansfield. Little men write big play
at at Not only is Stoddard a little man, but P
al Kester and Charles Klein are youngste
al in size, men in age and giants in ability.
es CHRISTOPHER last week. A star dressir
c5 room at Ford's caused the trouble. win
~ Collier got mad, said he ought to have
and refused to play in the same compar
he with Theresa Collier plays eight part
To Theresa only one, and the majority rule
u The facts don t show Collier in a galla
light.
OF OF Next Saturday, night will mark the er
W W of the season for Margaret Mather, 'Huma
Us Hearts,. Rhea and Derby Winner" tt
Following Saturday closes 'The Stran,
of Adventures OF Miss Brown Thomas Keel
,d ara the TahprS, IOIra Nethprsole Fam