San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-19
FOOTLIGHT BREyITIEsi

elaborate production next rep
ruary in Boston.
John G. Sparks will probably
star next season in an Irish play
that is now being written-by a
prominent author.
Otis Skinner is credited with
quite hit in the romantic drama
written by himself entitled "a
Soldier of Fortune"
j. II. Gilgore has joined the
Empire stock company at St.
Louis to play his old part of Bra
bacon in Sowing the Wind"
Albert Chevalier declares that
he has only three of four coster
songs in his whole repertory. The
rest, he says, are just COckney.
E. S. Willard has been visiting
Hall Game, who is writing a play
which the former hopes to pro-
duce during his forthcoming A
merican tour.
Charles b, Hanford will be the
Mare Antony in the great produc-
ton of Julius Caesar" which
Thomas w. Keene will give this
season. The latter will be seen
as Brutus.
Sir Henry Irving will follow
"Cymbeline" at the Lyceum The
alter, in London, with a revival of
Orchard ILL.," Then will come
the long promised English ver-
sion of "Mme. Sans-Gene."
Thomas W.Keene believes that
the middle classes support the
best drama and the best houses.
without their aid" adds the
tragedian, "high art would die
in two weeks of sheer exhaus-
ton"
John Hare will begin his tour
at Montreal on November 16, and
his company will include that adj
mirable comedian, Charles
Groves Frederick Kerr, Gilbert
Hare, Frank Gilmore and Mary
Harvey.
Charles Frohman will prOba-
bly, send to Australia a company
of comedians, including w. j.
Ferguson, Sadie Martinez and
James o. Barrows, to present
"The Gay Parisians' and "ToO
Much Johnson"
Edward Paulton's clever must
cal comedy, "Dorcas," will be
played by a picked company,
which includes Marie Willard,
Eva Davenport, Drew Donaldson
William Broderick, Charles Bas-
sett, Fred Fear and others. The
season begins in New England
on October %.
The wisdom of subjecting a
new opera to a process of revis-
ion out of town before placing it
before a New York audience is
shown again in the case of can
American Beauty" the new op.
era in which Lillian Russell is
now appearing. Since the first
performance of the work at
Scranton, Pa, one act has been
wholly rewritten by the authors.
w. II. Bachelor, whom Da-
vid Henderson brought over from
the COvent Garden Opera house,
in London, as musical director of
the American Extravaganza
company, is the new conductor of
Francis Wilson this season. Mr..
Bachelor is an excellent must
clan and a composer of no mean
skill. His work in "Half a King"
has won the warmest praise from
the New York musical critics.
While in Denmark Thomas W.
Keene, by permission of the d.
rector of the Museum of North
ern Antiquities in Copenhagen,
had a sword made that was per-
feet copy of the one used by Hol-
ger the Dane, one of the tutelary |
saints of the empire during the
eighteenth century. 1t is a half |
sword, half dagger, about two
feet long, with a curiously fash
Toned Open-worked guard, elabo-
rately presenting a scene of Dan
ish warfare, and is of singular
interest.
Fanny Davenport thinks that
he women on the stage ought to
nave as good parts to play as the
men, but they don't. "Plays with
strong male character parts are
nnumerable," says Miss Daven-
bort, "but roles for actresses are
hose in which she appears as her
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