Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-05-23

q DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL NOTES. Z
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Nancy Mcintosh has signed with Angus
tine DAILY for next season.
Theresa Vaughn and her brother, Joe OFT,
will star Jointly next year.
Mr.. George Grossmith has resumed his
society sketches in London.
Bland Holt, the Napoleon Of Australian
managers, is writing an Australian drama.
In Garrick's time when the weather was
warm the men in the pit took off coats and
vests.
1.-The Wedding Day" will be produced in
London next October, with Irene Perry in
Miss Russell's role.
Australia is to have 1.-THE Gay PARISH
enne." Williamson and Musgrove having
secured the colonial rights.
Fred c. Whitney will star Amelia Sum-
merville next season IN a new light COM
edy with a strong support
DeWolf Hopper denies the rumor hat he
and Edna Wallace Hopper are the parties
to a serious domestic discord.
Come Kiss Me-" a new coon song by
Rudolph Aronson and Dave Reed. will be
featured by May Irwin next season.
1t has been announced that Joseph Muir
ply will put on a new play next season.
This is probably too good to be true.
Rumor has 1t that a Boston lady unknown
to literary fame has written a play which
has been accepted for Maude Adams.
A new three-act comedy. by Paul Will
stach. had its initial performance in WASH
ington last week. and proved TO be a sue
cess.
Mrs. Leslie Carter will shortly go to San
ia Barbara, Cal, to spend the summer. Her
next season begins in San Francisco in Au-
gust.
Reginald De Koven has been elected to
the presidency of the Manuscript Society.
succeeding DIR. Gerritt Smith. recently re-
signed.
Julia Marlowe closed a long and success
full season last night in Washington. d. C..
She promises at least one Shakespearean
revival for next season.
POe's CHASTITY story. Hop Frog" has
been dramatized in French. and is now be-
ing performed with two light one act pieces
at the Paris Eldorado.
Since the announced engagement of
James Hackett and Mary Mannering the
Lyceum has been spoken of as the Froh-
nan matrimonial agency.
Richard Harlow. the Daisy Queen of
SLain,n in Rice's 1872" is to. make his
debut in Philadelphia this week, in a sketch
entitled, Catching a Duke"
Thomas W. Keene has received a fatter-
lnE oher 10 enter vaudeville. IL he does
appear in the continuous" IL will be I'm n
condensed version of Drink.
In four years Mr.. II. c. Miner. the owner
OF Shore Acres has cleared $4,000. ami
yet the New York critics predicted. when
/. was produced, the play would not last Il
month.
Stuart Robson's repertory for next sea-
son MI NH include Tbs J1cklinsm a revival
J asst and a new production, not yet an
uOunCed.
Pauline Hall has received an offer to ap-
pear next September at the winter garden.
Berlin If she decides to accept, Miss Hall
will probably sing at Paris and other Con-
tinentaI centers.
In the days of Queen Elizabeth it was
customary 10 StreW green PUSHES on the un-
Carpcted floor OF the actors retiring room
IN the theaters. hence the term green
room. '-EXchauEe.
Theodore Hamilton. who has gone West
with the Frawley company. will join Jo-
Seph Jefferson at Boston in October. on
December 20 he will begin u starring tour
Wilson"
.Yvette Guilbert has quietly married Or.
Max Schiller, OF New York. DIR. Schiller
was the personal representative of Sarah
~Bernhardt last year i'm Americn. The cable
gram does not include Sarah's blessing
among the gifts.
The veteran actor. w. ]. LeMoyne. has
successfully followed by his wife, Sarah
Colwel LeMoyne, who is well known In
the social circles OF many cities as 4 read
e. OF great merit.
Maude Odell, who played Antoinette in
The Prisoner of Zenda,' has been rc-en-
ga;ged for the Lyceum Stock Company to
play the same part and that of Lady Sark
placing Marie Shotwell.
nayid Belasco has written a new drama.
and 1t might easily be ready for an autumn
production, IL is said, but IL would be in
Iudieious in a business way to withdraw
Mrs. Carter from THE Heart of MARYLAND"
as long as its popularity continues.
II Is noted in London that the acceptance |
by Paderewski of Loo guineds for one per-
'AAAAh AiAt ffAafA - me SuOleEt |
OF discussion and even envy" But of |
course other ~VirtuUsos are at liberty To get
such a lee " they can. and probably Pade- |
rewskl would not envy them II they could
Wilton Lacknye produced his play. king |
ana Player" at Montreal. IL Is founded |
on the life OF Moliere. Miss Marie VAIN
wright IL no longer a member OF his com
pany. but. accompanied by her daughters
VIII sail shortly for London. where IL Is
possible she may appear.
The composer Of the Greek national
hymn. an almost unknown man. was born |
at Corfu, In 1873, and studied ut Naples un-
Ger Llngarelli. His name was HipDote /
Nicolas y. MantZaros. A street I'm Athens |
Is named after him. but most Of his works |
are sun imprinted. The hymn Is the
lfst part OF the elaborate ode TO LIBERTY
by ,Saionos. who was born ut Zante in 1870. |
ana died at Corfu, 1851. II opens with the