San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-24

the matter of dressing. In one of his
scenes with Miss Nelson he had oc-
casion to wear a pale blue jacket of
| which he was very fond. But he had
| occasion to be sorry he had before the
season was over. After a few perfor-
mances Mr.. Miller noticed that the
front of his jacket was stained in some
way There were long streaks in II
which he could not account for. That
night Miss Nelson and he were in one
of their pathetic love scenes. Her
head rested on his breast. She look
ed up, turned her face to the audience
a moment, which at once burst into
! tumultuous applause. When she
| turned her face toward Mr.. Miller
| again he saw the tears streaming
down her cheeks. He glanced at his
costume and saw the cause of the
stains. There were several fresh wet
streaks on the handsome pale blue silk
made by Juliet's tears. Mr.. Miller
tried to hold her away from him, but
the costume had to be sacrificed to art,
and when the season was over his cos
tune was a striped instead of a pale
blue silk. the change having been caus-
ed by Juliet's too realistic weeps
Olga Nethersole was so i'll at Column
bus, Ohio, that a weeks engagements
| were cancelled.
Yvette Guilbert is considering the
Partisan possibilities of Miss Twins
latest ballad, "Crappy Dan"
Joseph w. Herbert's new burlesque,
Zeneda's King, with music by w. II.
Francis and w. II. Glover, was sue
cessful at the Chicago Gaiety theatre,
where it was produced by David Hen
derson.
Louis n. Parker, the English play
wright, arrived last week from Lon
don to supervise the American produc-
ton of a new play.
Marguerite Sylvia, of Herbert Beer
bohm Trees company, will remain in
New York to appear, it is said, in COM
ic opera at the Casino.
James O'Neill has offered to advance
81, 900 toward monument to be placed
in Schenley park. Pittsburg, in honor
of the memory of his ancestor, the
Prince of Ulster. He makes the prom
Use with the proviso that nine other
affluent O'Neilrs shall each contribute
a like sum, and the rest of the neces-
sary sum be provided by other descen-
dants in this country of the Prince Of
Ulster.
Kathryn Kidder was taken i'll while
playing Madame Sans Gene at Nc
Vicker's Theatre, Chicago, fainting on
the stage. She was removed to her
fathers home at Evanston and rapidly
recovered.
Mary Mannering, the new leading la
dy of the Lyceum company, was pro-
fessiOnaIly known in England as Flo
renee Friend. On assuming profess
sional life in this country she took her
mothers name.
Mrs. Henry Z. Abbey will return to
the stage as Florence Gerard at the
London Strand Theatre in John Slee
per Clarke's revival of The Prodigal
Father, and the one-act play, Home,
Sweet Home.
Madame Nellie Melba has announced
that i'll health will forbid her adver-
tised appearance at Washington, with
the Damrosch Opera company.
Edwin Milton Royles romance of
the Mexican war, Capt Impudence"
appears to be one of the pronounced
successes in New York last week. The
week was a notable one, Electrically,
there being no less than six new opeT-
ings on Monday night. Capt. Impu-
dence is at the American Theatre and
the first week was so encouraging
there is already talk of extending the
engagement.
J. E. DodSon, who is an old friend of
Arthur Pinero, declares that the ia
nous English dramatist COmpOses his
plays with great rapidity. Like Sar-
dou," says Mr.. Dodson, "PinerO is slow
in accommodating material, but when
once the time for using it arrives he
writes with remarkable speed, and
within three or four weeks the drama
is ready for the stage manager"
r. A. Barnett is a clever draughts-
man and plans out on paper all the
scenes in his various burlesques. His
most successful achievement in that
line has been the finale of the second
act of Jack and the Beanstalk." The
grouping is decidedly novel, and the
whole forms a spectaCularly dramatic
picture that is invariably redemand-
ed by the audience.
Elizabeth Marbury has noticed that
French dramatic authors seem to be
long lived. Adolph D'Ennery and
Eugene Cormon. joint authors of The
Two Orphans" are both lightweight;
Ernest LegOuve,a senior member of the
Academic Franchise, is eighty-nine
and Ferdinand Dugue, author of the
Pirates of the Savannah" The Rag
picker's Daughter" and many other
melO-dramaS is eightV-One
Mile. Cecile Cahminade and Henri
Marteau will make a tour of this coun-
try next season under the direction of
Henry Wolffsohn.
1t may be worth noting that the high
topped theatre hat, like nearly all of
mans troubles, has a woman at the
bottom of it,
Jessie Bartlett Davis will have an es
pecially strong role in the new opera
by Herbert and Smith. which the Bos-
tonians will shortly produce.
1T is the originality of variation up
on the old themes" says James O'Neill
mot startling novelty, that is wanted