The morning times., 1897-01-19
Theater Folk

DON ol cigars a week by Tine requirements or
his roie n Too Much Johnson
Miss Margaret Mather offers So 900 for
Il four-act play, suited to her personality
and abilities, to be written by an American
citizen, on an American theme, and sub
mltted on or before June / next. Dccs-
ion will be rendered on September next.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree has printed a
brochure entitled Hamlet from an Actors
Prompt Book containing succinctIy his
| views regarding various disputed passages
| in the tragedy ana his own treatment Of
certain scenes.
IAN actresses paint observes r. A Bar
net. but only the best of them draw We'll"
Thomas w Keene has played Richard
| III = ,3o6 times. This means that every
night, including sunday, OF over six years
| of Mr.. Keene's life has been devoted 10 this
| role.
| Charles b. Hanford, the mana ger and Lead
ing man OF Thomas w. Keene, recently
received in a Western city a unique app:i-
| cation for position in his company 1t
was written with lead pencil on the paper
around one of his shirts returned from the
| laundry, and read as follows Dear Sir:
If you want another girl i'll your troupe
| cali for Ella of this laundry
At the Walnut Street Theater, Cincin-
natl, on New Years eve, after a perform
ance OF Richard III by Thomas W keene
and his COMPANY, the curtain was raised TO
disclose Mrs. S. A. Baker seated upon
| molly -canopied throne, surrounded by her
fellow 3iayerS. II was the SiXtieth an
| niversary of Mrs. Bakers first appearance
On the stage, her debut having been made
December 81, S36, at the Walnut Street
Theater. Philadelphia, when she came
forward as Virginia TO the Vireinus OF
George A. Parsons
''Ali last week the intensely cold weather
| brought in its train many tales of suffering
| of want, and Of DEATH says Charles A
| Bieelow, the bright comedian of The Girl
| From Paris, but the nobleSt tale Of death
that combined devotion to ones profession
comes from England where / hear that
ballet girl i'll Il spectacular piece threw such
fervor and enthusiasm into her little role
| that, in scene depicting the Arctic regions,
| she froZe TO death on d painted iceberg.
while the paper snow from the flies soItly
| fiuttered ownand covered her"
The Carroll kerker Opera Company, head
ed by Camille DArville and Richard +
| Carroll, opened its season al Wallacks
! Theater. January ! in the Turkish comic
| opera, ''kIsmct.' the joint work of Gus
tave kerker ana Richard F Carroll After
| the New York enga cement the company
| plays in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Baltimore,
| Washington and Chicago Messls. Lee x
| Block, the managers OF the Company, have
| in preparation some exqUisitciy handsome
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| Hatch, William Steiger, Henry Leoni,
| Gerald Gerome, Belle Bucklin, Rose Leigh
ton, Nellie Parker and several others, with
a strong chorus Of fifty voices
Talking Of Sunday papers l heard the
other day of manager who advertised
for young woman acrobat to do d
dangerous trapeZe speciality in a continu-
Gus performance. One of the applicants
was "a paie-faced, shabbily gowned little
woma n VINO sa id sne had had no experience,
but was sure she coul d do the work. why
my dear said the amazed manager,
II want a woman W no can climb a rope
to the very roof of the dome where she
is TO perform on the bar and then dive
into a net stretched over the heads of the
audience Unless you are trained aero
bat l cannot imagine how you could even
think of such an attempt" why / have
TO do much worse things than that, sir"
She answered. Il have been writing
stories for the Sunday papers. Mirror.
Would Have Frightened a Lady.
Mexico (Mo.) Intelliger: Col Clay had
an experience with monster rat last week
which he will not soon forget. After re-
turning from the wilkins Yancey wedding
Tuesday night, Col. Clay drove to his
barn and put up his horse. After stabling
the animal he took a scoop and went to the
DiH tO ScU SOIUe COTu Az ue SUOopeu TO get
the corn, he felt some object strike him
heavily in the breast and run around under
his coat to his back. Col Clay went
vigorously to work to dislodge his unwel-
come guest. His efforts, however, only
made matters worse. lii shaking his coat
the rat ran down Col. Clay's back, and
forced it's way into his trousers. The sit
uation was getting exceedingly interesting
AS yet the rat had made no effort to bite
but Col. Clay was in mental dread OF
an attack at any moment. He threw off
his coat, hastily unhuttoned his trousers
and undertook to shake the thing out at
the bottom Of the leg. The rat. however
was determined to hold possession, and
after going down to the foot, turned and
came back up the leg. In sheer despera-
ton Col. Clay kicked off his trousers. In
this way he managed to get away from
the rat, but the latter continued to hold
possession of the trousers. The rat finally
emerged from the trousers leg, and Col.
Clay killed it with currycomb.