The herald., 1897-04-11
next season underline direction Of George

next season underline direction of George
Edwardes.
Henry Miller's first season as star
Will close with the lastweek In April.
The regular season at the Lyoaum the
alter, New York, closed on the 10th inst.
The Crescent opera house, Searcy,
Ark, was opened March is by the Hasty
Brothers to large audience.
The 2000th performance of In Old
Kentucky" was celebrated last Friday
at the Academy of Music when the SOU.
venrs were candelabra In the shape OF
alligators.
An actor named William Boucher was
reported from Louisville last week to be
begging his way eastward. The COM
pany of which he was member strand
ed In Colorado.
Chauncey Olcott has signed new con-
tract to continue under the manage
ment of Augustus Pitou for the next
five years. Mr.. Olcott probably will be
seen in Mr.. Pitou's successful new play,
Sweet Inniscarra," Throughout next
season.
Matt B. Snyder left IA Milk White
Flag" at Manchester, N. H., to join "A
Contented Woman" He was presented
with a handsome silver set by the ladies
of the milk White Flag" company In
token of their appreciation of his cour-
tesy and efficiency as their stage man
ager
Alfred S. White of San Francisco has
brought civil action against Cissy Fitz-
gerald for breach of contract contend
ing that she had agreed to appear under
his management for ten weeks after
March /, and that she has accepted other
engagements during the period men
toned.
pp awarded
week, by Kentucky court, $4,000 DAM
ages for injuries received at Louisville
four years ago, when she fell into an ex-
cavation and broke leg. Miss Mark
hams suit. bitterly opposed, was car
ried through many courts, but the de-
oision of last week was final.
Augustin Daly's long promised revival
of Shakespeare's 1.-THE Tempest" was
presented at the DAILY theater in New
York on the 10th inst. Ada Rehan ap-
peared as Miranda. Virginia Earle as
Ariel George Clarke as Prospero, and
Tyrone Power as Callban. The regular
season at this theater will close on April
"a.
The Empire Theater Dramatic school
of New York gave the fourth exhibition
OF the season on April 8th. 1t consisted
of sketch of western life, entitled
''Dick O. the Plains" by Lottie Blair
HarkeT, d IOutIH tplsOuc, cHtitieeu
Heroes and Heroes" by Dolores Mar
bourg, "a caprice of a by-gone age" en-
titled "Sir Peters Paradise" by A. f..
Lancaster, author of Romeo's First
Love- and concluded with a farce en-
titled by Hook or By Crook" by Alice
Yates Grant.
Charles Frohman gave special matt
nee at the Empire theater last Tuesday
OF a new play entitled "A Man and His
Wife," by George Fleming, co-author of
"The First Gentleman OF Europe" The
cast included William Faversham,
Viola Allen, Robert Edeson, Jameson
Lee Ffnney, E. Y. Backus. Ida Conquest,
Mrs. Thomas Whlffen, Ellen Gale. Jane
Harwar. Under the Red Robe" has
been so successful at the Empire that II
will be continued throughout the entire
season.
Creston Clarke and Adelaide Prime
with an excellent company, are playing
the new romantic drama, 'The Last OF
His Race" and have just finished two
weeks engagement at the Broad Street
theater Philadelphia. The drama has
achieved a decided success. Mr.. Clarke
enacts a dual role of father and son.
He has an intellectual face, resembling
in a marked degree his uncle, Edwin
Booth, and he acts with force and grace
Wilfred Clarke, George Sprague, Alice
Gale, Mrs. John Carter, Agnes Maynard
Charlotte Lambert, and Henry Brooke