The evening times., 1896-09-28

Miss Parker is very i'll at her home.
Maggie Cline comes here from Brooklyn.
Lincoln j. Carter has nine companies ON
tour.
c. W. Couldock is the oldest American
actor
..Chimnie Fadden" amused Baltimore last
week.
The American stage employs 1852
actors.
Fritz Williams is back in Thorough
bred"
Chicago now has two permanent opera
companies.
Bancroft calls himself the Brummel of
magicians.
Dublin has new theater Well, so has
Washins ston.
New York is to use My Official Wife"
in German.
The Lamb Club, or New YORK CITY, mas
new clubhouse.
a Daughter of England is the newest
London spectacle.
The Black Crook comes to the Grand
from New York city.
The French opera season in New Orleans
opens IN November.
Prisoner Of Zonda'' will play only two
weeks III san Francisco.
The Hniland Brothers will play from
coast to coast this season.
Della Fox opened her season in Brooklyn
last Monday. Nothing new.
Andrew Mack played his 'Myies Aroon"
in Philadelphia all last week.
A serio- comic singer in Chicago attacked
a critic who had criticised her.
Patti has written an opera: She Gra-
ciously confined IL to one act.
Two Little Migrants" was produced
successfully in Boston last Monday.
Paris supports 2T5 music halls and Chi
cago has but eighteen variety houses.
1t is said that Aubrey BouCiCault VIII
retire from the stag after his marriage.
Anna Foley. a female violiaist, is the
Gecko OF an English ''Trilby" company.
Cheap family thcaters with stock com
paDies are sprlnGlng up ai! over tahlofnla-
The Broadway Theater, New York, Will
have nothing but comic opera this season
Someone suggested that Otis Skinner
would make the greatest Zcnda OF them all.
Wilton Lackaye is again i'll New York
city after Il successful season on the Pacific
coast.
The rip Van Wrinkle" which the Bos-
touaus VIII produce is by an American
author.
Washington is one OF only eight cities
which Arthur Boucher will visit in
America.
Myrou Leffingweli will, on October
16, produce his new Cuban play, The
Dawn of Freedom" ----
Inc '1TlSObeT OF LenCit CUHpdiy tIiS
morning takes the train out Of Cincinnati
for san Francisco.
Walter Jones ran away from home at
ten years or age and joined circus. His
tramp was realistic.
A St. Louis theater recently gave two
performances in one night, the second be-
ginning at midnight.
Henry Woodruff. the Republican candidate
for governor of New York, Is an exact
double OF Andre W Mack
When Nathanial Childs Good win gets
back from Australia he will open his tour
with AN American Cousin"
Mrs Thorndyke Boucicaults reign as
leading lad yof the Frawley Stock Company
was short and not very sweet.
Wilton Lackaye's starring tour opens
in Chicago November s. His first pro-
duction will be ''Dr Belgrafr."
Philadelphia has the only permanent
minstrel house In the world. There are ten
minstrel companies on the road.
Charles Hauan's new play for Daniel
Frohman is called "The Flower OF the
Farrn, Hanan wrote "Gilosts."
Lydia Thompson is now playing the part
of nj eccentric spinSter in a farcical comedy
which tours the British provinces.
They do not distinguish between day
and night at the C,Iuiniie Three shifts
OF men are working az; the new theater. ----
]. E. Dotlson has discovered that stage
limelight aud stage goodness have some &C
cult connection. Possibly, were rectitude
10 real life pointed out by an extra bit OF
illumination" philosophers the clever char
acter comedian, .heroes might be more
plentiful"
The question Of wearing gloves at the
theater and opera is again being agitated.
especially in London. j. E. DouSon, the
eminent character actor, who Is an acknowE
edged authority on matters OF dress, states
that years ago in England it was unusual
for gentlemen to appear at the opera IN