The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-20
DRAMATIC NOTES.

Ristori is &c years old.
Irving was once clerk.
Burr Mcintosh Is to star.
Nevada is singing in Russia.
Herne is rewriting Hearts OF OAK.
Katherine Clemmons has 100000 ran.
Denman Thompson was born in 1888.
Marie Halton will star in musical com
pany.
Nina harrington will be seen in vaude-
vile.
Anna Held will star in "The Real Girl
from Paris"
John G. Rice's right name Is Wllupers'
and he is q Swede.
Chorus girls in an English pantomlthe
struck for 81 week
n. S. Wood, the hoy actor" has joined
a Boston stock company.
Nat Goodwin says he may some day
play "Richard III" and "Iago."
"The Walking Delegate" is the title OF
an opera to be produced in Boston
John Bradley's Money is the title of
Comedian William Barry's new play.
The "Star-Spangled Banner" a new
opera, will shortly by given in New YORK.
William Hoey says he has decided to
stay with "a Parlor Match another sea-
son.
Aubrey Boucicault and Paul Arthur are
in the London cast of His Royal High
ness'' c'My Friend From India'o
Burr Mcintosh, Mckee Rankin and
Richard Garfield will be seen in 'At Piney
Ridge" new play by David X. Hig-
gins.
THE most sublime play ever saw"
says James Herne, was The Passion in
which James O'Neil represented Our Sa-
vor."
| Minnie Hauk lived as a girl at the now
! deserted town of Sumner, three miles be-
| low Atchson, and waited on the ta-
| ble.'
| Flora Irwin, a sister of May Irwin, is to
star in the widow Jones" next season
| under the management of Rich and Har-
| ris.
| On Jan. % Mrs. Beerbohm Tree, whose
husband was just finishing up his tour of
| America, gave birth to a daughter in Eng
| land.
Jesse Bonstelle Stuart and Frank Doane
| will be seen in "The Lady of Banbury
Cross" which will be produced in New
| York on March l.
Albert Chevalier, the coster singer is
seriously thinking of appearing next sea-
| son in a musical comedy, which Will be
written to fit his specialties.
An English tea merchant offers to give
| away with every pound of tea gratuitous
lesson on the violin or mandolin, the time
| limit of the lesson being fixed at twenty
| minutes.
| The Holland Brothers separated at the
| termination of the run of DR. Claudius"
| in New York. e. NJ. will be seen in Froh-
mans production of Never Again.
Captain Macready, youngest son of the
| tragedian, after winning the Telel-kebir
clasp for gallantry in the Egyptian cam
paign, is acquiring fame as an amateur
| actor at Aberdeen.
| Bettini Girard at one time the idol of
| stage-door Johnnies in America, has been
singing as a chorus girl in London. Until
it's closure she was entered on the pay
roll of the chorus in My Girl as a Miss
| Williams.
| The new plan for the exhibition of John
| l.. Sullivan on the stage will make him
| the interlocutor in the first part of what Is
| known as q female minstrel show, and a
| whtened model of statuary in the second
part.
The grand opera field continues to sup
ply recruits for the vaudeville stage. The
latest seceder is Payne Clarke, the we'll
| known tenor who will make his continu-
Gus debut this week at Keith's Union
Square, New York.
| George II. Primrose will star out q
white-faCe minstrel company next season
1t is now over a quarter of century
since white faces and minstrelsy went to-
| gether. There will be no "blacking up
| by any of the company.
The Columbia Opera company was at
tackled by cowboys at Shelby Junction
| Mont, on the Great Northern railroad
last week. 1t was fired upon, the womer
of the company and the men maltreatec
and threatened with revolvers. The COW
boys We're drunk.
Mile. Guilbert sails for France with tn
knowledge that while the American peo
pie valued her genius they could not tol
crate her immodesty. Her first night il
America earned $1,000; her last night il
America resulted in profit over expense!
of $3.40!-New York Press.
1t is certainly interesting to note tina
out of the enormous sums of money whici
are paid by the public for their musica
entertainment the greater portion is takcl
by foreigners and Immediately sent ou
of this country This amount has beef
estimated at S2,0O0,0O0 annually.
Mr.. DAILY has decided that the title o
the version of Guy Mannering," Scott
novel, to be offered at his theater at
futured date will be THE Witch of Darn
cleugh," with Miss Rehan as Meg Mcr
rifles. The piece will be presented as
musical drama in three acts and a pro
logue.