The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-11
AMONG THE. PLAYER-fOLE
What Has Been and NiIl Be 10 Our
Local Theaters.
GOSSIP or STAGE FAVORlTES
Paragraphs OF News a.A Comment Con.
eerains the Iuhabisaats Of the Minnie
Worid-Auuouuesnsst Of Comiug
Attractions -Thsstrieal Tidinea


Attractions -ThsatriesI Tidinsa
The starring fever has caght several
good comedians, who will next season
appear with companies of their own.
One of the foremost will be Jefferson
DAngelis, whose rich and picturesque
humor was one of the hits of The
Little Trooper" Mr. D'Angelis will
appear next year as the central figure
In THE Cal!ph," new opera by
Harry b. Smith and Adolph Englander.
II will open September at the Broad
way theater, New York. Harry ConOr,
of "A Trip to Chinatown company.
whose drolleries pleased u large au-
dience at the Academy last Saturday
night, Will be another star to come out
In a new piece. Charles III. Hoyt is now
putting the finishing touches to COM
edy which Is said to afford SPECIAL facil-
ity for the exhibition of Mr. Conors
capacity as player of eccentric humor
This actor Is one of the most success
ful of NJ. Hoyt's stars, and will be very
prominently featured I'm the forthcom-
ing production.
Robert Mantell will tomorrow night,
at Cincinnati, produce a new play by
Espy Williams. 1t Is q romantic French
u.
Mantell and other OF the younger school
OF actors. The action takes place In
the time Of Henri ILL.,, and the piece
Is full OF adventures and intrigues.
The plot hinges on the alleged theft by
the hero Of a jeweled garter belonging
to Margaret OF Navarro. She tries to
fasten the crime upon him for having
repulsed her amorous overtures. 1t IL
said to be full of stirring incidents.
a M Nntif HntA anti
demand attention throughout. Mr..
Mantell appears In the character OF a
bOyish sailor. who appears at the court
OF Henri. and with whom Margaret Is
Immediately captivated. The role is
said to fit him perfectly. and allows full
play OF his peculiar melOdramatic pow
erS.
Nine. Duse will appear In America
next season with an English-speaking
company and a Shakesperian roper
toire. The suggestion OF the pOlyglOt
company was Nine. Buses, and her
idea seemed to be- that IL the Eng
lish-speaking public heard her COM
pany. II not herself, In their own Ian
guage, they could follow her closely
through the play without the eternal
fiuttering OF liberetto leaves through
out the theater. and eyes fastened on
the pages instead Of the actress. She
imagined. also, they would like her
more than ever In Shakespeare's char
acters. and that. coming from the land
of Juliet" she could invest that char
acter with u true Italian color that
might give new interest to 1t. The
abandonment of Duse's modern roper
toire In America will be pleasing news
to Bernhardt. 1t Is said the divine Sara
q mi a. IL h l,n,,
Italian rival as well as she hoped
ScrantOnians who saw Creston Clarke
when last he visited Scranton and who
were then strongly impressed with his
intelligence, despite his kinship to Ed
win Booth, will perhaps be interested In
a. few words by Penn" Of the Rhila-
delphia Bulletin, who. In the courUe OF
an article on young Clarke writes:
What Clarke may turn out to be In an
interesting speculation among play
goers. He has a following at least here,
which has faith In his future. He has
had as much recognition as Edwin
Booth had at his age and probably not
less financial success. Booth spent the
first few years of his professional life
knocking about i'm California in it's early
days and even In the Sandwich Islands
and Australia. He had not conquered
his public. in fact. until he surprised
New York with that achievement cele-
brated In theatrical annals thirty years
ago. OF playing Hamlet one hundred
nights In the Winter Garden-an un-
dertaking Of which the elder Clarke,
who has always had a sharp eye to
business. was associated in the man
agement In fact, after he made
his first starring tour he had no
higher ambition than to settle down as
the leading man OF good New York
stock company. Men who remember
him at this time say that Creston Clarke
looks u good deal like him and that he
had not matured as to either voice or
strength. never having had the vitality
Of his father. Liquor was then a neces-
sity to him; the taste was probably in
herited from the cravings of his Wild
natured sire for strong potatiOns, and
the reputation of the vice stuck to him
long after he had freed himself of 1t. In
this respect, at least. his ambitious
nephew has not followed i'm his foot
steps. The day when tragedian was
almost synonymous with rounder or
profiigate has gone by.
Clarke and his admirers. who hope
great things of him. may be encouraged
by the fact that recognition and success
tor before middle age. They depend
good deal on Il physical force, which
some men do not acquire until they are
forty. They depend even more on the
study by which man often requires all
that time before he can know his own
defects and cure them Irving. for ex-
ample played humble parts in support
of Booth when Booth hrst went to Lon
don, and he was forty before his repu-
tation had expanded. John Mccullough
hammered away for many years before
he developed into u popular favorite.
Lawrence Barrett. who, season after
season. used to come to Philadelphia
to empty benches, was nearly fifty be-
fore he obtained general recognition.
Davenport was in his middle years be-
fore ii came to him, Ii. indeed. ii ever
came to him i'm the measure that his
powers deserved. a comedian general
ly gets the start of the tragedian by ten
or twenty years. jefferson, Clarke,
Florence, Raymond. Toole. Owens.
Wallack and Sothern were on the full
tide of success before they were much
past thirty-five."
CHATTER OF THE STARS:
"'rhe Globe Trotter," with "Old Hoss"
Hoey, has closed its season.
jerome Anthony has been re-engaged to
support Walter Whiteside for his spring
tour.
james O'Nell and family go to Europe
at the end of the tragedians season,
June l.
John Drew will appear in new play,
with Maud Adams, within month, at the
Garrick theater, New York.
David Henderson Is making prepara-
lions for a new extravaganza, to open IN
Chicago some time in May.
Albert Chevalier. the famous London
music hall coster singer. will begin his
American engagement March q.
Edward Nroom will shortly commence
a tour with his new production. For the
Crown" and several other plays.
W. H. Power has almost completed ar
rangements for the production of his new
melodrama, shannon Of the SIXTH
ChaunceY OlcOtt will spend his summer