The herald., 1897-05-16


commits the artistic uin Of writing play
around the personality Of an actress.
But in all Of his plays. and particularly
the inner ones. like "Patrie" ana LA
Haine." he shows very great care and
skill in the setting and development Of
his theme. All three Of these dramatists
said the lecturer. erred in placing good
construction above truth. literary merit
and everything else In the plays make
up. OF the work of the younger writers
M. Brunetiere gave high praise to Henri
Becque's LES Corbeaux." Maurice Don.
nays LA Douloureuse," ana Paul Her
vieu's Les Tenailles'' and La Loi de
pHomme." The last-named playwright,
he said. IL the most promising Of them all.
Green Room Gossip
II. A. Dusouchet, author Of my
Mexico" Il to write a play for Walter
E. Perkins.
H. Grattan Donnelly Is at work upon
new comedy-drama for Ada Both
ner.
Isabelle Evesson has acquired the sole
rights to Mrs Augusta Campbell Wat
sons charming story. Dorothy, the
Puritan" which Estelle Clayton is
for her use. Miss Evesson
will present the play next season with
a carefully selected cast
George v. Hobart, author OF Miss
Manhattan" is the editor Of the Bal
tomore Life. He has been telegraph
operator, q press association reporter.
an amateur actor and a baseball man.
ager, besidee establishing national fame
as q writer of humorous verse.
Nance ONeill, the clever young &C.
tress discovered" this season by Mckee
Rankin, will probably appear soon as
Magda.
The benefit proposed for Mrs. Henry F..
Abbey has been indefinitely postponed.
j. A. Fraser, Jr., writes that several of
his plays are being pirated, and that he
proposes to prosecute the guilty parties
under the new copyright law.
Damon Lyon says that he left the
Daily company after giving two weeks
notice, according to contract. and that
contrary statements are erroneous.
Alethe Craig will be member OF the
Girard Avenue Theater Stock Company.
Philadelphia, next season.
4eC1iu DdNiC NohCPACAN ohu AAiAo ooSeAA
Lee Kirkland, professionally known as
r. D. Mclean and Odette Tyler, were
married in New York City on April 1.
The wedding was kept secret, and the
couple spent their honeymoon at Mr..
Shepherds home, Wild Goose Farm, in
West Virginia.
The entertainment by the Grant Me-
mortal Entertainment Committee" -ad-
vertised at the Metropolitan Opera
House, New York, did not occur. The
person who talked Of engaging
the house, and who distributed tickets
for the entertainment, failed to close the
bargain.
Agnes Findlay was obliged to refuse
offers for summer stock companies in
Boston, Washington and Louisville,
owing to the success Of 1.-The Mysterious
Mr. Bugle." which is now running at the
Lyceum theater.
The American, Garden and Wallack's
theaters and the Academy of Music
closed last Saturday for the summer.
Mrs. Adelaine Stanhope Wheatcroft
will give private stage instruction dur
ing the summer pending the opening of
the consolidated dramatic schools in Oc-
tober.
Emily Rigl is considering an offer to
appear in vaudeville.
Beerbohm Tree took pains when in
this country to resent the adverse ver-
dict of New York upon drama which
he tried here as upon the dog" and
persevered in his original Intention to
open his new London theater with the
play. He assumed that the American
opinion of the piece did not amount to
but in legal parlance. 1t was ION
all fours" with the London verdict,
which was crushingly unfavorable.
"Her Satanic Majesty" a new farce
by Homer B. Day. will tour next
season under the direction Of WELL
known New York manager. Mr.. Day is
also negotiating for a production of his
play. IAN American in Cuba" melo-
drama written in collaboration with
member of the Cuban junta.
A. r. Oakes has completed two new
plays, Margaret, the Traitors Wife"
and Madame La Fargo"
Albert Bigelow Paine, author Of "The
Dumpies," now running in New York
Truth and London Sketch, and con-
trbutor to leading magazines, has col
with Mathilde Estram, the
dramatist, in writing play and several
farces.
Rollin Cutter, who is completing new
five-act romantic drama. "The Rogue
and the Regent" contemplates vaude.
Vile production for HE one-act sketch
With Hearts"
Mrs. Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland and
Miss Gertrude Hall have written in col
Iaboration drama which will probably
be produced early in the coming season.
1t deals with early Roman times, and is
strong. Miss Hall is the
daughter of Nine. Edna Hall, and is
we'll known from her novels. Far From
Today" and Foam of the Sea-"
"Change Alley" is the name of Louis
N. Parker and Murray Carson's latest
play. The story is placed in the reign
of George l., and the title has reference
to the street during the English South
Sea Bubble excitement where shares in
all sorts of mythical enterprises were
sold at fabulous sums. The American
rights to the play are owned by Daniel
Frohman, who has transferred them to
E. H. Sothern, to begin his season at the
Lyceum about September 1st.
Felix Morris declined a cabled offer
from London because of his contract
with Daniel Frohman, but as the sum-
mer tour of the Lyceum company will
- Gov Nv Morric Mr Etrrb-