The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-05-02

Melba has $4,000 invested in gowns.
Iackave is rehearsing the Royal Sc
cret."
Nellie McTenry will probably play in
London next season.
Hayden Coffin has entered vaudeville In
London.
sam1 Of Posen Curtis will be seen at
Chicago In gentleman joe
Sybyl Sanderson Will sing the role or
Media i'm Leoncavalo's "Pailasse.'
The author of "Zanuha." lyric drama
that has scored hit in Bordeaux Is -
years old.
The two Reszkes, Calve and Melba, re-
ceived this season about 100000.
A niece of Austria's Empress has mar
ried the baritone Of the Munich Opera
House.
Josephine Knapp is a member OF the
Washington Castle Square opera Conl-
pany IL.
John Drew has prevailed upon his
mother Mrs. John Drew, 10 abaLuoh hoi
proposed vaudeville tor.
Ex-senator Brice's son denies That ne
is 10 marry Anna Robinson, an actress.
Laura Joyce Bell will shortly be seen
AT Boston in The Walking Delegate
q new comic opera.
Katherine Germaine and Frank Deshon
will be the principals ir summer opera
company at Atlanta.
Mascacni has sold 10 the Opera, Lon
don. the first performance Of his Japan
ese work for $4,000.
II is said that great success has been
ocbieved AT Oldenburg by "Fatnme' an
opera the words OF which were Wiiltt',
bv Prince Emile Schanaich-Car0ltn ana
the music by the I.andgrave or Hesse;
The composer of the opera is bind ana
af.IH. ..H ira
II seems incredible that any man Tor
tunate enough to have Annie Russell Tor
a wife should wander after strange god
dcsses and long for the heshpots or lne
Rialto. The man who was married 10
this loveliest of women IS now being sued
for absolute divorce, and soubrette mas
been named as correspondent. kldule
rs that If you can. Annie Russell WOO
ing and Wedding were long cnerished as
romances Of the stage. He was pol
trait-painter. a pastoral actress she. lie
was cOmmissi stoned to make drawing or
her as Hazel Kirke for Harper's Week
" and he mixed his colors with senti-
meut. Each stroke of his brush caress-
ed her fancy, and as the picture made
progress she would with tender ear de-
vonr nm his discourse on art She gave
him for his pains world OF signs anu
cried: I'm faith. twas strange TWAS
nassinc strange; twas pitiful, twas won
drous pitiful She wished she had not
seen IT: yet she wished that heaven had
made her such man: she thanked him
and babe him ii he mad friend that
loved her he should but teach him now
10 naint and that would woo her. Upon
This hint he smoke She loved him for
the pictures he did paint, and he loved
her that she did niiv them. And so they
were married.-Hillary Bell. In New
York Press. .
NJ Daly's Theatre and the twenty-eighth
season of Augustin Days management
came 10 an end He began his pres
ent career as a critic OF plays and play
ers. During his long career In man
aeement theatric dynasties have come
up. triumphed and been overthrown; ac-
tors have risen. earned fame, fallen mo
oblivion: dramatic systems nave cnahetu,
puhlic taste has gone through all SORTS
~ humors: costumes and scenery, hght-
inc and stage mechanism once modest
and inexpensive. have become elaborate
and costly. He has avoided sensational
nlove morbid nlavs problem plays ana
vulgar entertainment. lie has hidden
the ugly and uplifted the beautiful. He
has maintai~o' '"anaF.'H"n' ~
and removed IL from the sordidnsss or
...s- 10 voc Witnessed the downfall
OF Burton. Wallack. and Palmer. yet
he still carries the standard erected by
frose once worthy directors. We ma
him now rs an earlier generation fOunc
him thirty-six years ago-the friend or
ant. of beauty. and OF truth. Rose Ey-
tinge Mark Smith. Mrs. Scott-Siddons.
Mckee Partin. Mrs. G.. II. Gilbert. T..
T.. Davenport. Georre Holland, Fanny
Davenport. Clara Morris Sara Jewett.
owen Fawcett. Mime. Janauschek. Pau
line riucca. Mrs. John Wood. Emily
Rigl. Edwin Booth. Adelaide Nelson. f.
A. Sothern. Joseph Jefferson, Otis Skin
ncr Craston Clarke Mrs. Yeamans. Hen
Nv Z. Dlxey Efle Shannon. Edith King
don Frederick Bond. Catherine Lewis
Maxine Elliott. Adelaide Prince Isabel
Irving May Irwin. John Drew and many
more players have served under Dalv
and learned In almost ell instances their
art from him.-HilIary Bell. In New York
presa.