The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-28
Mark Sullivan is in vaudeville.

II is said that Miss Elsie De Wolf
IS going TO marry the Mr.. Yznaga, who
was recently divorced from his former
wife. Mabel Wright, now tho Countess
Itchy.
Nine. Janauschelo and Mrs. Annie Yea
mans are 10 have new honors thrust
upon them. Messrs. +. NJ. Alfriend and
A. G. Wheeler are going to write a play
specially for them.
Max O'Rell has made an adaptation
from the French play called THE Voy-
age Of Monsieur Perrichon' which he
has named "On the Continong" In this
adaptation he will himself play the prin-
cipal part.
Sardou has made such alterations I'm
an English version Of mime Sans Gene"
that Henry Irving may play Napoleon
without being subordinate in interest 20
the title character, which will bo as
sumed by Ellen Terry.
New Orleans has tho credit OF estab-
fishing the first regular opera seasons in
America. IL was i'm existence when at
tempt after attempt had been made I'm
New York and failed-Georgc T.. Barnes
in San Francisco Bulletin.
vaudeville shows between stations"
says the New York Journal, "is the lat
fHA hlllLAH lA'th ANA lA|Hriiln lAAiRil1 VI
the great trunk lines This experimental
vaudeville car IS handsomely fitted up.
At ono end is a stage with all the neces-
sary stage paraphernalia. An orchestra
OF several pieces may also be carried In
the future but for the present piano
and violin will furnish the necessary mu-
Sic. Tho car will seat about seventy
i've people az q time.
u now seems clearly settled that Nine.
N0rdica viii not sing at COvcnt Garden
next season. and she has given up the
/ opportunity she had TO appear IN London
/ rather than be compelled TO fOrego her
ambition 10 sing Isolde and Brunnhiide
| in "Siegfred' there. Tt was with the
idea Of singing these roles I'm London
/ that she accepted Mr.. Maurice Graus
! invitation. and If her unfortunate quar-
rel with Jean de Reszke hal not arisen
the plan would have teon accomplished
I'm accordance with the original arrange
ment.
! The efforts OF dramatists generally are
| towards writing plays containing as few
! characters as possible for the proper de-
| velopmont Of their plots. In London
! just at present however. there seems 10
! Doc a disposition in the opposite lireetion.
! in Wilson Barretts new play, az the
ILyric Theatre. called Daughters of Bah
] ylon," there arc no less than thrty-thros
! characters. in Arthur W. Pinero's FORTH
coming piece at the ST. James Theatre.
| TO Doe produced March 81, under the title.
| THE Princess and the Butterfly" there
| arc thirty-twO speaking parts.
| The cause of the recent illness Of Nine
| Emma Eames-Storey can be spoken of
/ in only the most delicate way. Her
| friends sta.e that both tho prna donna
]
over tho mishap which caused her tenn
porary breakdown They have the sim
cerc sympathy of those of their intimate
J acquaintance who have been made fa-
miliar with the facts not alone by rea-
/ son OF Mime. Eames-StOrey physical
| eumerings, but also on account of the
deep disappointment 10 both herself and
her husband.-New York Mercury
Alexander salvnrs wife Maud Dix
| on. arrived in New York last week TO
| the adverse criticism with which his
! Hamlet and OthellO met i'm Chicago Mrs.
| Salvinl attributes the worry and over
work which precpitated the breaking
! down of her husband health. lie gave
| his fathers Interpretation of OthellO I'm
/ Chicago. believing ii was tine greatest.
| Tho criticisms-some OF them-were adj
/ verse in the extreme. Well he said
to me, II l had given my own interpre-
| tation Of IT, instead of my fathers. they
would have blamed me for my Dresump-
| ton In not giving his Next year 1 shall
| give them mine.
Tho advance booking for Wilson Bar
retts Daughters of Babylon is consid-
| crably in excess Of S60000-an achievement
that would be impossible in New York.
! although il is of quite common occur
renee in London, where q manager who
makes one or two genuinely great sue
| cesses so far gains the confidence Of the
| public that when he has a. new DrOduc-
! ton ready practically all the seats are
| sold IN advance for two or three months.
| In connection with some of George Ed
wardes productions these advance sales
| have reached dimensions Of 100000 or
more. In New York an advance sale
| for a new production does not often ex-
| tend beyond the first week.
one Of the latest eccentricitles Of the
atrical taste IN Paris IS tho formation OF
a new theatre TO be called after tho dra-
matlst Corneille and devoted 10 what are
called the Christian plays. The scheme
seems TO be practically the same UNDER
/ taken by The White Theatre which
presented only plays suited In every par
! ticular TO the most scrupulous audiences
The new theatre viii put more emphasis
on the religious character or the drama
It presents. Works Of the classical dra-
matists will be presented and the theatre
| is named after Corneille in view of his
reputation for piety The demand for
| theatres Of this kind IS beginning 20 look
genuine. and 1t may be that Paris feels
the need Of them.
sardou has already been accused Of
using in "Splritisme' a scene given on
the Paris stage not long ago in another
play Of a very different character One
| Of the situations in the Sardou piece that
Is said 10 be among the most effective is
the restoration of the wife to the hus-
band, who believes her dead. He thinks
she is a spirit. Bison, in a farce called
The Mistakes OF Marriage" restored
wife to her husband in the same fash
ion. in the Sardou play the woman IS
believed 10 have been killed in a railway
accident. In the Bison farce she was
in a steamboat explosion. Another stu
alton in the play is said TO be nearly
identical with a scene in Jules Lemaitre's
lately acted Pardon" The seducer IN
the original version Of "spirltisme" is a
Roumanlan musician not Mexican.
Il got that accent" says May Irwin,
from Whitby, near Toronto. Canada,
where l was born, and ] am proud Of
#. lust as I am proud OF Toronto, where
they don't read Sunday papers My Sis
FER Flo and I sang In the Episcopal
church choir there for three years when
a., ,,-ere GIRLS One OF the greatest bless