The herald., 1897-04-04
given today, the change OF bill going into
effect Tuesday evening.
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Green Room Gossip
Ellen Beach Yaw was booked, to sing
| at Athens, Georgia. the 9th ult
John Hare appears in Chicago begin
ming April IL, in "A Pair of Spectacles, ,"
Caste" and When George the Fourth
was King"
Kate Claxton and Charles A. Steven
son are again appearing before New
York audiences In their old stand by
THE World Against Her.
Amy Busby. pleasantly remembered
by Los Angeles theater-goers, was mar
ried last month to Eugene Fl. Lewis. a
| prominent lawyer of New York
A. M. Palmer does not at present in
tend to organize a combination indepen-
dent of the Hayman syndicate, notwith-
standing all rumors to the contrary.
Caroline Miskel Hoyt has been playing
IA Contented Woman" in Brooklyn.
New Workers declare it impossible for
any woman to be contented in Brook
lyn. aa.r osl.
Julia Marlowe is now playing in
Brooklyn, N. Y. She achieved instan-
taneous success by her presentation of
For Bonnie Prince Charlie" an adapta-
ton of Francois Coppee's play. "The
Jacobites."
1t is related of Edwin Booth that his
tavorite dish was the plebeian one of hot
waffies. So fond was he of this dainty
that one night in Boston he ate twenty
five of them, with the result that he was
unable to appear in "The Merchant OF
Venice" and a large audience had to be
dismissed.
The Bostonians have made big hit
in New York with their new comic
opera, "The Serenade," book by Harry
b. Smith, music by Victor Herbert. The
feXf nj thn nlQV jS nrOn0nnced very
funny indeed, while the music is sam to
be a charming chain of brilliant, CT
fective melodies.
Carrie Sanford, who will be remem-
bered as the Laughing girr' in the
Strange Adventures of Miss Brown,
intends leaving the legitimate and join
| ing the vaudeville fraternity. She will
shortly appear in musical comedy, en-
titled 1.-The Marriage Bureau" written
expressly for her by Frank Dupree.
Eugene Blair's company. directed by
Robert Downing, includes Edwin Ferry,
William Owen, J. r. Amory. w. b. Ar
mold, William Bramwell, w. B. Downing,
Stuart Robertson, Louis Frohoff, Joseph
Williams, Fred Eduards, Linda Down.
ings. Mrs. Ella Wren, Katherine Debar-
ry Cora Wells, Dora Booth, Mrs. Proc
tor and Lottie Wells; Albert Riddle.
business manager; ]. Henri Gressitt,
treasurer.
James O'Neill will appear in a new
production next season. Apropos of
dress, Mr.. O'Neill says that clothes help
to make a man more on the stage than
in any other position in life. Every play
should be produced with the costumes
of the time. and the exact date which the
author had in his mind when writing
it. OF course, I do not mean historical
pieces, for that goes without saying. /
allude to the mounting of a comedy, say
of the period of 1910. 1t is a piece of
folly to act such piece in modern dress
clothes of the latest models. 1t has al
ways been grief to me that Camille"
Is not enacted in the quaint habiliments
true to Louis Philippe and Marie
Amelie.
Fanny Davenport has many odd stor-
les related of her. The latest is told in
Theatrical Tidings, and is about 'Fe-
dora" When the curtain rises in this
play. Prince Vladimir lies mortally
wounded in a room off the stage, which
is in full view of the audience, and Fe-
dora rushes in twice-once in wild anx-
iety to see how he is, and again to fling
herself in an agony of despair on the
body of her beloved. 1t seems that this
aristocratic corpse is most coveted role
In the play. All sorts of eminent people
write to Miss Davenport and offer them
selves to be wept over. and the actress
writes back: impossible for tonight or
tomorrow, but you can have the third
night. Wire acceptance and don't be
late" Her tears have dropped upon the
corpse of many we'll known people. She
likes weeping over journalists, and she
has a weak spot for poets, one of them
having played the part with great ef-
feet. Curiously enough, women also
greatly covet this part.