The morning times., 1897-01-17
DRAMATIC NOTES

Nat Goodwin got fat on his Australian
trip.
Otis Skinner arrives this evening from
Pittsburg.
Babette Rodney has returned to ''The
Lady Slavey.''
Baltimore iast week had Mansfield, Day-
export and willard.
Clay Clements new play is called, "A
Southern gentleman
Jersey City has been enjoying ''in Old
Kentucky the past six days.
Acute tonsilitis was the cause OF olga
Nethersole's lay-off last week.
Elenor Moretti and A Arnold DAILY have re-
signed from ''Pudd' nhcad Wilson"
Sandow is pilng on IN ythology in London.
He calls himself the Adonis Hercules.
Arturo Mutini, the Blind Paderewski,"
is on this side. He will make II concert
tour
Margaret Mather has bought Of Ellen
Terry the American rights to Nance Old
field.''
|, Frederick Paulding is going into vaude-
vile with Il vengeance. He Will not only
act, but sing.
!. Clementine DeV ere-L Lapio, of New York,
sang Melpa' s Parts last week during the
diva s illness.
Daily has the record for IN atinee receipts
Much Ado About Nothing" drew So 500
for a charity.
Ernest Remains ''Caliban.' i'll which he
continues Shakespeare's Tempest has
been translated into English.
The illness of Ellen Terry gives Julia
Arthur her chance She is To play Imogen
in the .'CyInbeline' revival.
DonneIly ana Girard opened a starring
tour in My Friend From India last Mon
day. DonneIly plays Bonds part.
Clyde Fitch has made a translation from
the French, in which he hopes to have E.
L. Davenport and Cora Tanner star Jointly.
Cheyalier Will return To England upon the
expiration OF his twenty weeks contract
with Froiman. His salary is 81 800 per
week.
Frederick Kerr says that the reason he
came TO America in Hare's company was
really To look for good new plays for
London.
Augustus Thomas has gone into vaude-
vale, at least, as far as he can. A one act
play by the author Of Alabama is to be
put in the circIit.
Thursday afternoon last Nat Goodwin
gave complimentary matinee to the MEM
bers OF Sol Smith Russells and Julia Mar
loves companies.
Ht liTSt Wtth OF L tDTudTS Wllillltl l. NJ .
and Joseph Holland producing Marion
Crawford's ''Dr. Claudius.' New York Will
have the production.
Four elephants escaped during a fire in
the Bridgeport winter quarters Of the
Barnum circus and were only captured
after q four hours chase.
The minstrcls will not open at the Co
luinbia until Wednesday, evening. DR..
Stafford tomorrow night. and the Boston
Symphony Tuesday evening.
A Chicago correspondent says: THE cos
| TUNES of the Black Crook Company on its
| way 10 Detroit, were held here last week.
| They were held for debt, not portage"
One week from tomorrow night Margaret
| Mather produces ''CyInbeline" at Wallack S
| Theater. New York. After the run there
Washington Will be the first city visited.
Creston Clarke has in preparation a ro-
| mantle drama, The Last OF His Race
which viii he given is initial performance
| at Ford's Opera House, Baltimore, during
the week OF March 1.
Mary Mannering. the new leading lady
| Of the Lyceum Company, was professionally
| known i'll ngland as Florence Friend. on
assuming professional life in this country
| she took her mothers name.
| tits u curious coincidence that Thomas Q.
| Seaprooke and Digby Bell both under the
| management OF Duncan B. Harrison, should
! have made their first distinctive comedy
| success as the beacon in Hoyt's A Mid
night Bell"
Mansfield will be seen here for the first
| time as Shy lock and SombraS and SkiHne
will appear in all his pieces for the first
| time in Washington. except Merchant OF
| Venice He was co-star with Modjcska
| playing shylock.
Zangwill recently said, in a lecture Oh
tnR drama: The Greek dramatistS trained
| their actors the English actors train their
| dramatists.'' and modern play contained
| IAN ounce OF sin, pound OF sorrow and u
| pint OF cheStnuts
Leo Stern, an English 'cellist, brother
iE-law OF Gilbert Hare. arrived last Thurs
| day from London. His instrument known as
the General Kidd Strad,' was made in
1854. and is believed to be the largest
"Strad'' in existence.
Maud Durbin, leading lady to Otis Skin
ner, is in private life Mrs. Otis skinner
| and Beatrice Cameron is leading woman tC
! ner own husband. Each husband fell III
love and married his present wife Will,
she was playing his leading parts.
The police prevented the beginning OF q
| play in aid OF a Hungarian society last
| sunday in New York, and the large audi
ence waited patiently until after midnig ht
| NitcH TIE ptTjpIHiduCt COulu De given WIN
| out infringing on the SundayIaw
Louis n. Parker. the English dramatist
is recent arrival He has come to super
intend the production Of his play, The
Mayflower.' at the New York L Lyceun HI
is the author OF Rosemary" "Gudgeons.
! and The King of Peru" The latter wa.
| produced by Mansfield
AuguStin Daily has secured the American
rights to Joseph Fabre's Jeanne dare.
| which will be produced next season al
| Daly's Theater with Ada Rehan in the It'll,
] part The work will be translated int
| English verse and given an elaborat,
| production, with the incidental music
| The Girard Avenue Theater Stock Com
| pany, OF Philadelphia, is perhaps the only
| resident stock company in this country to
| day. They play a season of thrty-eigh
weeks, from September TO May, remaining
| in Philadelphia, changing bill weekly an,
| presenting only high-class plays.
Charles Frohman threatens 60 cause TIN
| Murphy trouble because of his producn.
| ''Old Innocence" which Mr. Frohman
| claims is merely an adaptation of "A z all
| OF Spectacles, which, he says, he has ths
| sole right of using as an original play. Mr.
| MurpbyS manager, Charles Marks, ha,
| taken action to avoid trouble and is pre-
pared to combat Mr.. Frohman's suit, il
| brought
AT the Bangor, Ne. Opera House ol
| New Years night, there happened an acci
| dent of fatal possibility that was applaude,
| by the audience as part of the play. Rob
| ert Mantell was approaching T. A Eberlc
member of his company, in scene II
which they were the chief figures, whel
| just between them fell from the gridiron ;
| bag OF sand weighing fifty pounds Th
rope holding this curtain weight had part
| ed. A difference OF a fraction OF secom
| in the time of the falling of the bag NIGH
have meant a fatality. Mr. ManteIl turne,