The herald., 1897-08-01
Green Room Gossip

Green Room Gossip
1t Is reported that Richard Mansfield,
who is at Blue Hill, Me-, Is writing his
autobiography.
Emily Rigl, who has recovered from a
serious illness, has gone to Milford, Pa,
to complete her convalescence.
| Louis F. Morrison and Blanche Hall
Morrison will join the Jexsie Mae Hall
company in Chicago, ILL.,, this week.
| Lottie Collins has won a verdict of
Sl25 in libel suit against London pc
riodical Society, for saying that one of
her songs, "The Little Widow" was vul-
gar.
| Salter & Martins Uncle Toms Cab
in" company has been out since August
15, 1895, and has missed but one per-
romance, that being caused by the
| burning of the therater at Belvidere, Ill.
H. A. Du Souchets new farce, '"The
Swell Miss Fitz Swell" written for May
Irwin, will be seen at the Bijou in No
vember. The cast will include Joseph
Sparks, Ignacio Martinetti, William
Post Marion Giroux and Gussie Hart
Theodore Bert Sayre, who wrote "The
Wife of Willoughby," and a new play
which will be produced by Wilton Lack
eye next season, has just finisheda novel,
called 1.-TWO Summer Girls" which will
be published about the middle of Au-
gust
THE Girl From Paris,," is said to. be
the most pronounced success of the New
York season and continues to crowd the
Herald Square theater in New York
hoC
nance there, and in London it has passed
beyond the 4OOth presentation.
Amelia Summerville, who made hit
everywhere last season with the Whit
ney Opera company in Brian Boru, ,
will be featured, it is promised, next
winter in a new light comedy which has
been written especially for the purpose
and which will be directed by Fred c.
Whitney.
Beerbohm Tree has accepted a, dra.
matization of the novel, "Quo Vadis,"
the scene of which is laid in Rome under
Nero. 1t is shrewdly surmised by many
who have read "Quo Vadis" that it fur
nished good portion of the material
used in that other semi-religious drama
called 1.-THE Sign of the Cross
Mr.. Sydney Grundy's "a Marriage of
Convenience" an adaptation of Dumas
"Un Marriage sous Louis XIV" has been
received with much favor at the London
Haymarl1et theater, and is commended
by most of the critics. Both Mr.. Ter
riss and Miss Winifred Emery are cred
tied with excellent acting as the hero
and heroine.
The announcement that the engage
ment of an Episcopal clergyman, the
Rev. E. H. Redding, to the daughter of
w. T. Carleton, the well-known opera
singer, was broken off because the rec
tors mother did not think that a
clergyman should marry an actress" has
occupied considerable space in the
newspapers for several days past. Con-
gratulations are due the young lady, for
a husband, whether cleric or layman,
who permits his thinking to be done by
his mamma, Is a somewhat dubious
proposition.
A Herald cable from Paris announces
that Charles Frohman has secured"
the Renaissance theater in Paris, and that
he will produce there next season
French version of Secret Service" by
Pierre Decourcelle. The dispatch i'm
plies that he has taken the theater and
will manage it. OF course, says the
Mirror, Mr. Frohman will do nothing of
the kind Madame Bernhardt, who is
the lessee and manageress of the Re-
naissance, announced some time ago
that she meant to open that house from
time to time to foreign plays and play
ers, and the results of the Duse engage
ment have encouraged her in that pol
icy.