The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-08
Dramatic Notes.

In a recent performance of Hamlet
In New York city il was done in Itakan
in cheap East Side tbeater. The ghost
wore a black beard and flowing mantle
OF yards OF blue mosquito netting.
Ben johnson has signed with Richard
Mansfield. He played Richeiieu in Alex
ander SaiyiDi's production of THE Three
Guardsinei' for i've SEASONS aud last son
was the Hans Otto in .'Frends.''
Madge Ellis of New York, has made a
great nit i'll the London music halls. and
has been engaged Tor the whole season OF
1897, with offers for three years more.
She Ubbed the American Marie Lloyd"
The heirs of Frank Mayo have won in
the contest with Manager Evans for pos
session OF "P uddnhead Wilson" The
awful possibility OF Edwin Mayo again
slouciiInG about in his fathers shoes, pre-
sents itself.
Frederick Warde gave a lecture recently
on Shakespeare at the New Auditorium San
Francisco. He will make a special prcduc-
ton OF King Lear this season. and also
has an option on a new play The Rise
OF Islander
II. v. EsmoDd, who has written plays
which Olga Nethersol and Georgia Cayvan
will produce here this season, was the
original Little Billee in tie London pro-
duc,ion or Tnlby by Beerbohm Tree at the
Haymarket Theater.
A Philadelphia manager not only checks
bicycles free. but he furnishes a machinist
in attendance. who repairs the wheels while
the performance is going on II he gives
good show his theater ought to be at
tractiye to wheeimeD.
Thomas f. Murray is taking London by
storm. He is playing comedy role in '-0n
the March" ClemeDtScott recently deyotcd
and the Prince Of Wales laughed himself
red in the face at recent performance.
Miner and Brooks haye postponed their
production OF Flower Moyne'' and dis
missed the company. Charles Mackay was
engaged for tie principal roles. but got
out OF the company. not caring To be idle
until November, and Joined Sol Smith Rus
sell.
Marie Burroughs. after a year at starring
aud a year of retirement. viii this season
support Maurice Barrymore in Roaring
Dick & CO.. The tables were exactly
turned two years ago. when Barrymore
was her leading man. The couple will re-
call stock days at Palrner's.
Russ whytal is having good luck and
bad with bis Agatha Dene." Ellen Terry
bought it for English production. but that
lady is SO i'll she may nc; play this season
or again. But the play has been translated
into Gernlan and IL is to he produced ut
the LEASING Tbeater in Berlin by Hans
Merry.
Under the Polar Star must have been
n success, for Manager Brady sends The
Times a yard and half of choice notices
from the New York papers, who are in
faliible in praise and failihle in censure.
They would rather see Hohoken annexed
than overlook a weak point in a new pro-
duction.
Maurice Hepner, the well-known ma
gcian of this city, has signed contracts
for Il six months tour through Pennsyl-
wanna. Maryland and West Virginia. A
company OF Vaudeville artists win support
him, and his tour has every Indication of
prospective success. HepEer is expert at
his art, and will increase his reputation.
Washington will not have the oppor-
tunity to see Olga Nethersole's Carmen"
1t failed in London and she has dropped it,
1t is just as well for us. 1t was only a
SENSATIONAL bit OF yulgarity that made it
talked Of We will not have this blot on
her memory to forget, but can so on re-
membering her as We last saw her, an
ideal Juliet, Frou-Frou, Camille and De
Mise.
Recently firm OF European managers
h as made a habit of translating into French
and German the sensational dramas OF the
English stage. and the expe riment has
proved successful. Pieces lately utilized
for TIL is purpose were "a Dark Secret"
The Span of Life" The Silver King
and THE Sign of the Cross all OF them
known here for one striking feature or an
other.
Minnie Maddern Fiske has secured from
Thomas Hardy and Harper Brothers the
American rights to Hardy's dramatization
OF his famous novel, Tess of the d'Urbe-
villes' For several months rumors have
fioated about in the American and English
press aSsocations the names OF other promi
neHt actresses and OF several well
mana gers with this play Mrs. Fiske's
many adm irers will be pleased to lea m that
she has carried off this dramatic prize.
Tess OF the d 'Urbevilles'' WILDE deliberately
produced by Mrs. Fiske the coming season.
Mrs. Fiske's first new production, however,
will be OF The Right to Happiness" a
strong and novel play adapted from the
German by Marguerite Merington--Mirror.
The Paris theaters are compelled by the
French Society of Dramatic Authors to
make public their yearly receipts. The r.
suits OF the past twelve months show gen.
eral increase The receipts at the Theater
Franchise were $4,000, and the Gym
nase under the direction OF NJ. Porel the
husba nd OF Nine. Rejane, almost doubled its
receipts during the past season. Sarah
Bernhardt's theater, the Renaissance, show
ed decrease. probably due to he absence
from Paris, and the Odeon was another
one OF the few theaters, which had less
profitable season. The music halls were
with increased returns, and the
theaters which showed no substantial differ
ence in receipts were somewhat ahead OF
their last season
In spite of her starring tour and an her
other pressing engagements, Sarah Bern
hardt has found the time to write play,
making good use OF hints given her by. Sar-
iou, to whom she showed her first draft
OF the plot She rs very much Perplexed
Just now where and how she will be able
to present it to the public, for the principal
part is, OF course, written to suit herself
But, according to the bylaws OF the So
clety of Dramatic Authors, OF which she
Is member, she cannot perform her own
play in a theater of which she is the pro-
prietor and manager. Curious laws, those!
It is happy, indeed, that shakespeare and
Moliere were not members Of such a So
ciety OF Dramatic Authors. Among other
plays she will produce next. tall q new
drama by Sartou, which Is entirely ready,
excepting only the title.