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| be correct, diminished in number.
| The announcement is made that Sa-
| rah Bernhardt will play her next en-
gagen1ent in London, beginning June
u. 1897, in the old AdelpM Theater,
| which has not been reckoned among
| first-class houses for many years. 1t
| is a fine theater nevertheless, has been
associated with the triumphs of many
| famous players, and has been redec-
GRATED recently in very handsome fash
| ion. It is said that there is a duel scene
| in Sardou's latest play in which Mad
anne Bernhardt expects to make a
| thrilling effect.
| Malcolm Watson's "The Haven Of
| Content" which was produced in the
London Garrick Theater the other day,
seems to be clever, but unconvincing
and artificial piece. The London
World says of it: There is plenty of
| thought and knowledge of the stage; /;
the mischief is that it doesn't really
exist, that it never for a moment gives
Us the sensation of life. The characters
| are sympathetic or unsympathetic alb
stractions working out a plot; and the
plot dances by measured stages to a
| fOregone conclusion.
Mozart's Don Juan after years of
neglect, is now the center of attrac-
| tion at both the Grand Opera and the
Opera Comfque. At the Comique Maui
rel is the Don Juan and Fugere is said
to be a good Leporello; but the orches-
ira. does not do justice to the music and
the translation of the lbretto is
Wretched, SO the correspondents of
German papers say. The Partisan
critics praise everything, as usual.
The "Gazetta Musicale" of Milan re-
minds its readers that some time ago
Rossini's "Barbiere' was performed at
various places in Italy with all the
parts sustained by women. The director
of an opera-hou in Buenos Ayres has,
| it seems, reached a lower depth by CIV
ing the second act of the same opera
With the male characters impersonated
by women and the female by men
Gilbert Parker's stage version of his
own romance, The Seats of the Mighty,
has turned out to be such a dismal
failure that 1 fancy quotations for
dramatized novels will rule lower says
the dramatic critic of the New York
Times" but what a splendid novel it
is; historical story brimming with ro-
nance.
THE White Elephant" the new farci-
cal comedy at the London Comedy
Theater. written by r. C. Carton, is
described as very brightly written
piece, which begins well, but ends fatty,
the trouble being an excess of compli-
cations and a Lack of sufficient inven-
ton to unravel them effectively.
Berlin has a Mozart Society with al
most 800 members and a special publi-
cation which appears at irregular inter-
walls. The last number of these "Mitt-
heilungen" contains a picture of Mo-
zart's sister Nannerl and a rare print
of himself.
Music and Drama of Sam Fran
cisco says: Managers Nixon and Zim-
norman of Philadelphia announce that
they will prosecute any person discov-
cred whiStling, stamping or causing
any other unruly disturbance in Che
gallery of any of their theaters in that
city" More power to those managers.
Their action commands universal ap-
prevail
While Wang" was playing the New
England towns recently the local au-
thorities on several occasions insisted
that Business Manager Shean should
get out circus license because there
was an elephant in the show.
"The Cotton King" has traveled over
81 900 miles and played to more than
half a million dollars gross receipts
since William A. Brady produced it in
America thirty months ago.
Virgie Jackson is playing in a stock
company at Louisville, KY, where Ralph
Cummings-a graduate OF Walter Moros-
co.'s original stock company-is stage
director and leading man.
Some people depend on queer things
for their living. Miss Leola Mitchell
depends for hers on her resemblance to
a doll 1t is a very pretty doll that she
looks like, and no doubt she will find
many audiences willing to look at her.
Herman Merivale's play Charlotte
Corday' IS to be produced in the Lon
don Princess Theater at Easter, with
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Bourchier in the
leading characters.
"Oh, Anastasia," is the title of a
three-act farce by Robert Buchanan
and Charles Marlowe, in which it is
hoped that Mrs John Wood will appear
soon in London.
Estelle Burney has written a one-act
play called AN Idyll of the Closing
Century" which will be played at the
Actors Association benefit in London
by Cyril Maude and Winifred Emery
Tt is announced that Margaret Mather
will appear in an elaborate revival of
"Cymbeline" in Wallack's Theater on
the 18th of January.
Daniel F'rohman has commissioned
Lewis F. Shipman and Glen Macdon-
puSn To make pidy IuT Il. H. oOIIefH
out of dncidents in Thackeray's "Es-
mond."
The London Daily Telegraph" says
that Miss Florence Gerard (NIrs- Alb
bey) will return soon to the English
stage.
1t is stated that an arrangement has
been made by which a Milanese impress
sario will have for five years the right