The herald., 1896-06-28
Green Room Gossip

| Mrs. George S. knight has announced
/ her intention of returning to the stage
| next season, presenting a new Partisan
| comedy.
There will be but one Trilby company
| on the road next season. This will be
| the company now appearing in Aus
tralia. Returning to this country they
will open in San Francisco in October.
| Colonel William E. Sim has gone to
Redlands, Cal, for summer vacation
with his son, Walter L. Sim, whose
healtlt is now greatly improved. They
will travel along the Pacific coast, Col
onel Sim returning to Brooklyn early
in August to prepare for next season.
Charles Wyndham is so impressed
with the success of his new play, Rose
mary, that he has declined the offer
John Hare and e. S. Willard have made
or the American rights of the play. 1t
is not improbable that Mr.. Wyndham
will make another tour of the United
States soon with Rosemary as the chief
attraction.
Mcintyre and Heath, who will star
Jointly next season in Dixie Land, prom
Use an innovation in the portrayal of
Southern plantation character. Both
comedians are artists in their special
line, and if their play does justice to
their capabilities their venture is bound
to reap success.
Elvia Croix Seabrooke is singing in
Dorothy, with the Garden Theater Opera
company at Cleveland, Ohio Other
members of the company are Mini Ber-
TIM Humphreys. Eva Davenport, Oscar
Girard. Edgar Temple, Douglas Flint,
Mark Smith and Kirkland Calhoun.
Florence Alva, a Cleveland woman, re-
Gently made her debut on the profess
sional stage with this company.
The first man to sing "coster songs"
in this country was Harry Rogers cf
Robert Hillard's company, who came
here fourteen years ago. Neither the
stood, and Rogers abandoned the effort
and went to win success in the field Of
melodrama.
Will H. 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 account
of their antiquity, but otherwise the
turns are pronounced "all right"
Emma Calve is to make 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 sort of operate recital Calve
appearing in costume-a revival of the
Patti method.
Georgia Cayvan, now in England has
OurchaSod tho American rights to W.
r. Wakes new success. Mary Penning-
ton, Spinster. and J. w. Pigotts Mr.
Wits Widow, adapted from a story by
Anthony Hope. Frank Atherly has
been released by the Kendals tol join the
Cayvan company. Mr.. Wakes new play
is down for New York production in
October.
Queen Victoria is the heroine of an
exciting drama now being acted in the
leading Siamese theaters. The plot runs
like this: Victoria is about to be married
in Ceylon to the King of Siam, when that
outspoken monarch breaks off the
match and for revenge Victoria invades
his country She is repulsed with great
loss. The duke of Cambridge does his
best to turn the fortunes of the day by
swinging battleax against three Siam
ese fairies. Matters are looking black
for England. when the king of Siam re-
lents and bestows his hand on Victoria.
AS she has been madly in love with him
all along, she forgives her first jilting.
the slaughter of her army and marries
hims