The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-06

ming races on the English turf. Sloane's
magnificent style of living astonishes the
at the Hotel Cecil, with his valet, and
goes back and forth by train to the varl,
Gus race meetings. 1t is now announced
that he will probably stay here year.
Sloane, however, is much criticized for
betting. He had 9500 ($5,00) on st. Cloud
II. for the Cambridgeshire stakes, and, as
jockeys here are not allowed to bet, the
Jockey Clubs attention is being called to
Sloane's proclivities. 1t is urged that II
he remains here he must be stopped from
betting. The Evening News" hopes
the Jockey Club won't gloss it over, as
it did when it permitted Croker to use
the Jockey Club enclosure"
Neither the "Cat and the Cherub' at
the Lyric Theatre nor '-The First Born.
at the Globe Theatre are successful, and
as cabled to the Associated Press .yester-
day, 1.-THE First Born will be withdrawn
company, after six performances, will re-
turn to America. The comparisons which
the critics have drawn are decidedly in
ese play. Mr.. Charles Frohman was
quick to recognize this, and like a wise
general. who after having done his ut
most to achieve victory accepts defeat in
the spirit of graceful acquieSance," as the
"'St. James Gazette says, closes his
season tonight.
Clement Scott, as well as the London
critics generally. has been unstinted in
his praise of May Buckley Scott says
in the Daily Telegram" E.
cosmopolitanism of dramatic art, to the
injury, perhaps of our people but brief
ly. The Cat and the Cherub' is worth
a music hall turn, and The First Born
is not worth an evenings entertainment.
America is very welcome in England,
but she must give US better than we can
produce, and The First Born is not
that"
Much feeling seems to have been arous-
ed by Beerbohm Trees offer to Ada
Rehan of the part of Katherine in ''The
nNov ,f11,
opened the season al Her Majesty's The
atre on Monday. Augustin Daily says
81 could not have considered it possi-
BILE that Mr.. Tree would send me such
an unmanagerial, coolly insulting propo-
sition as to separate Miss Rehan from her
companions and ask her to descend to
play in an emasculated version of Shakes
peare's play, after she has established
her renown in the production with which
she is distinguished"
Never Again seems to have settled
down into a financial success at the Vau-
deville Theatre and now seems likely to
have a long run.
Mrs. James Brown Potter does not
speak in the most complimentary terms
of the Australian managers under whose
direction she was introduced to London
as star. The season of eight weeks at
the Duke of York's Theatre, for which
the contract with Mrs. Potter and Mr..
Bellew We're engaged, closes tonight, and
the American actress will rest in Lon
don for the winter, after years of hard
cillon,'' which was the only play in which
Mrs. Potter appeared here has not at
traeted great houses, the quality of the
audience has been of the best the Prince
of Wales being included among the audi
tors, and9the tone of the critical comments
has been generally f1attering. But Mrs.
Potter does not hesitate to say that the
English company which the management
provided for her support, was not up to
the American standard, and that with her
old American supporters the season would
have proved more successful.
Il did not expect to set the Thames on
fire when l came to London Mrs. Potter
said; but l am realty gratified by my
success
"In my ten years on the stage I have
earned enough for living in comfort the
rest of my life and | do not fancy risk
ing any OF my money on new theatrical
ventures. Offers have been made me for
a tour of the provinces, but I have de-
clined them for the present, though may
make provincial tour in the spring.
7 am glad to be one of thpe few Ameri-
can actresses who have gained a position
on the London stage-I believe Mary An
derson, Miss Rehan and myself are the
only ones.
fession, | determined to achieve reputa-
ton over-reaching the borders of the
United States, and 1 think 1 may say
measure succeeded"
Speaking of the audience of different
nationalities, Mrs. Potter said
1olluOH pidySOerS are the least cos
mopolitan and the least apreciative of any
in the world. In the United States we
have contingents of Germany, of French.
of Italians and of English so that all
phases of life are understood and appre-
ciated. In England there are only the
British and they are slow to understand
any life except their own, SO that a play
like "Francillon," dealing with French
conditions, fails to be understood, as it
would be in other countries.
..All things considered, I am satisfied
with my London success. AS far as the
theatrical profession, my only regret IS
that l did not adopt it twenty years ago
instead of ten. 1 might prefer to be
painter or writer; but for woman to
do some sort of work, make some sort
of a career, is better than dwelling in So
ciety. And the temptations of this life
are less than those of society woman,
for we work too hard and there is no time
to think of other things. And when let
ters come to me, like the one | had to-
day, written on a drumhead at Fort Lock-
hart, where they are fighting the Indians,
thanking me for the pleasure my work
has given the writer, and when 1 think
of sthe many friends worth knowing /
have met throughout the world, whom
would not have known under other cir
cumstances, | am sure that the compen-
sations of the profession outweigh its
trials"
DIR. WINTERS HOLDS THE FORT.