San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-05
GOSSIP OF
THE STAGE.


Sol Smith Russell is playing A Bach
elor's Honeymoon.
Clara Palma is distinguishing herself
as a clever character actress in Court
ed Into Court.
Adele Richie has scored an unques-
toned hit in the London production of
the Wizard of The Nile.
According to George Backus, the
stage adventures is only the grasping
summer girl transformed.
Bessie Bartlett Davis corresponds
regularly with a young man, and her
husband doesn't object. The young
man is her son and he is IL years old.
r. A. Barnet has devised some new
and startling mechanical effects for the
musical comedy on which he is now at
work.
James ONeill is considering two new
Danish plays for production next sea-
son.
Charles Leonard Fletcher has a new
one-act play called A lesson in Love.
j. E. Dodson made his first appear
ance on the stage at Manchester, in
England, with j. L. Toole, the famous
comedian, in a piece called The SPELL
ing Bee. The late Sir Augustus Har-
ris was at that time the stage man.
ager Of the theatre.
r. f. johnson & Co. will figure very
largely in the coming musical season.
Some of the principal artists are Ysays,
Plancon, Pugno, Gerardy and Nordica.
They will furnish the artists for near
ly all of the concerts of the Philhar-
monte Society.
THE lack of serious plays this sea-
son." observes Annie Irish, recalls the
significant observation attributed to
the Viscount in Martin Chuzzlewit.
1t crystalizes the general view of this
subject: What's the legitimate object
of the drama? Human nature What
are legs? Human nature. Then let
us have plenty of leg pieces and I'll
stand by you
Nat C. Goodwin is playing An Amer
lean Citizen.
A toga that was once the property of
John. Mccullough is used by Charles
b. Hanford when he appears in Vir-
ginius
The Bostonians are meeting with
overwhelming success in New England.
They will not produce Bob Roy for
some time to come, as the Serenade is
| in general demand.
George Backus was decidedly sue
cessful in the title roll of Christopher,
Jr. which he interpreted for the first
time at Toledo. Ohio.
The actors of the Coincide Fran.
caise," declares Annie Irish, ARE deep
ly indebted to the prompter. He is a
| first prize man at the Conseratoire,
and able to coach in the pitches of
the voice and information as he goes on.
He is much more needed for this than
to refresh memories in regard to mere
words. He earns a very large salary,
and has a percentage on the profits,
this being a way to keep him up to the.
standard. Nobody in the company
studies so much as, or more carefully
| than he does, or is more watchful in
| his peregrinations through Paris for
new and true vocal effects which might
be supposed to give zest to a play that
is on, or so soon to be on, the stage in
front of which his box is placed The
actor or the actress needs only TO study
his or her own part, unless in its rela-
ton with other parts, but the prompter
must have an intelligent conception of
every part taken separately or rela-
lively to the rest of the play. He has
therefore to enter into such character,
whether masculin, feminine, or tragic,
comic, pathetic, espeigle, or other. In
this country we have no such man as
yet"