The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-11-07

Tho story deals largely Win the trials
of a vounx soldier. who Is desperately IN
love with the Kings ward with whom
he became acquainted quite by cnance.
Charles Frohman has four plays IN
rrsparation for production this month.
Tacy are "A Marriage Of Convenience
foe John Drews temperance az .ne
Emplre: "The White Heather for MS
annual melodrama at the Academy; Inc
Circus Girl" for a tour, ana Inc oai.
of the Earth" in which Annie hussen
will be conspicuous. -
Verdi. who objects TO hand organs
has an effective. though expensive way
Of suppresslng them at Moncaheri WIZ
he spends his summers. lie nIes an 'nc
organs I'm the district for the season
and stores them in his house repor.e,
OF lie Figaro counted IS instruments anu
the composer told him that IL Gust NM
500 a year 10 suppress them
Nellie sylvester, than whom there Is
no more popular actress in buriesque,
will Join the Pen.z- Santley company al
Albany tomorrow night. MISS SyiVes.ei'
who Is a Southern girl, has been on inc
boards but two years. She was an ar
lists model in New York. when PROM
nent manager discovered that IN auui,
ton to a faultless figure and a beautllui
face. she possessed a voice. Her coon
songs invariably arouse great enthusiasm,
Miss Sylvester will star next season
There Is no love between AuSusth
DAILY and Charles Frohman, that Is sure
and II is feared that something like hatred
Is felt by those rival managers. Mr.. DAILY
owns the rights in THE Circus Girl for
this city and Mr.. Frohman for the rest
Of the United States. May Young. VINO
had role in the piece at Days, made an
engagement to go on the tour OF the
Frohman Company. and for doing that
Mr.. Daily dismissed her a week ago.
The stock company at the Lyceum
Theatre. Baltimore. is attracting i'm
mense audiences and its clientele is al
ready larger than that of any house in
the Monumental City. The plays to be
produced by this organization include:
Nancy & Co." Captain Swift" In
cog" 1.-THE Ironmaster," "Dr. BILL"
Held by the Enemy" "All the Comforts
Of Home" Shenandoah" Diplomacy"
1.-The Amazons." Jim, the Penman.'
1.-THE Wife" "The Charity Ball,
Sweet Lavender" "a Scrap OF Paper.
"CCnfusicn," "Still Water Runs Deep"
ours" Trenton" and 1.-The Bankers
Daughter"
It is surprising, confess, that with all
the discussion caused by "A Lady Of
Quality" first as a book and now as
plav, no one nas yet pointed out That the
melodramatic device that has really made
the fame Of the story is a palpabie copy
of one that figured in a French Drama
twice adapted in English. ] refer to the
scene wherein the heroine Kills Sir John
and then conceals him under the divan.
1t was i'm Victorien Sardou's lie Maison
Neufe" that such proceeding first tooH
Arfh
fair" and Mr.. Clyde Fitch, In "The
Social Swim" presented IL to the En-
glish and American stage respectively
New York Mail and Express.
Augustln DAILY and Beerbohm Tree have
been engaged I'm a merry little alteration
which has attracted a great deal Of attrr-
ton from theatrical folk. II seems that
Mr. Tree has had his eye on Ada Pelham
for a long time I'm connection with his
p, oduction Of Katherine and Ps.ruchio.
A. any rate he has told some Of his
friends on the London papers that he
has made an Offer to Miss Rehac TO
play the role Of Katherine. and has narled
figure far out of proportion to that
usually received by even the most emil
nent English players. For some reason or
other Mr.. DAILY denies that Mr.. Tree has
ever made his leading lady such an effer,
ana MT. Tree III turn Repeats iiS hA'N
story and says that he stands ready at
any time TO close arrangements with Miss
Rehan on the terms first proposed.-Lon-
don letter In New York telegram.
Charles Coghlan will open his season
at Washington about November p In
his own play called Royal Box" under
the management of the Lieber Company,
represented by ]. A. Reed and George
{. Taylor. The company will comprise
Albert Brunng. Edward j. RadcliG'
Grace FiIkins. Charles Stanley Claude
Brooks. Gertrude Coghlan, Lulu Klein
Guy Nichols. Frank Sheridan. Taylor
Granville and probably Mrs. Boucicault.
William A. Brady has just acquired
the American rights of n new farce-com-
edy. which he will produce at the Schiller
Theatre. in Chicago, i'm the near future.
The comedy is adapted from the Ger
man, and deals with the tribnlatons Of
a professor Of science who unfortunately
marries a young woman who does not
love him. A brother scientist advises
him TO infuse the blood of a lamb into
his wife's veins on the theory that her
disposition will thus become as gentle
and affectionate as the lamb Itself. The
professor does so, and the result is that
his wife goes to the other extreme and
falls In love with every man she meets