Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-27

also been engaged Tor this piece.
Miss Mary Marble, who Is visiting MT
at Buzzard's Bay, is TO be. featured mex
season in Hoyts "a MIX White Flag"
Mary Mannering VIII play Fay .. z ~ an
byceumt Julie Opp having been loaned 70
Daniel Frohman by George Alexander &c
play the leading role.
A. NJ. Palmer has purchased a farce COM
edy in four acts entitled That Man. by
Emma Vivanti-Chartres. The scenes OF
the play are laid in New York. and 1t viii
be produced IN October.
Garrick once asked John Rich, the man.
ager of .COvent Garden, how mucn he
thought his theater would hold. Il could
tell YOU to a shilling" replied Rich, III you
would play Richard in it,"
Elenora Duse has at last been inter
viewed. 1t happened in Paris, where she
station by an enterprising newspaper man.
He was a Partisan, not an American.
Chevalier, in his eleven months stay in
America. pocketed over $4,000. II he worked
three variety halls a night in London, and
was never idle, It would take him about six
years to earn this amount Of money.
Secret Service" will be back from Lon
don to open the Empire season in New
York September l. Maud Adams IN a new
play will follow and John Drew will have
a new play for his nnual engagement.
Juliet Gordon, who was a member of the
Bcstonians several seasons ago, Will return
10 the stage next season; She will pToba-
bly, appear in THE Highwayman,' to be
produced at the Broadway theater, New
York.
Jean De Reszke has recovered from his
recent indisposition, and has reappeared
at Covent Garden, London, with great sue
cess. M. De ResZke is said to have won
$4,000 by his racehorses during the past
year.
Notoriety seems to be Of money value in
thu lower stratum of theatricals. Little
Egypt has begun legal prosecutions against
other dancers who steal her name. rms
will furnish a new wriggle for international
| copyright.
Marie Jansen has signed with warde
and Beebe to star next season in THE
| Nancy Hanks" The author, Frank Tame
hill, Jr., will write a new comedy for Miss
Jansen to be produced at San FRANCISCO
next April.
The current attractions in New York
have narrowed 10 a small list: Under the
| Red Robe" in the Empire; The Whirl of
the Town at the Casino; "A Round of
Pleasure" Knickerbocker; The Circus
Girl" Days.
In al years. from 1851 to 1880, there were
153 theaters burned down, killing no less
than 7.c0 people. In the list of these fires.
New York third with 80, San Francisco, q;
Philadelphia, ~ Boston, H. and Bor-
deauN, Z.
At the Theater dss Ternes, Paris, a young
American actress. Miss Booker, appeared
on June 5 in the title role OF a pantomime
called "Chiffonette," by II. Williams. with
music by Marius Lambert. Both Miss
Booker and the pantomime were received
with favor.
Gladys Wallis, who is a member of
Frawiey's stock company ct the Columbla
theater in San Francisco. has received ana
accepted an offer from John Hare 10 ap-
pear In his London ~RrodTeti3n OF "A bach en-
the other side in August.
An exchange has it! Mrs. Langtry once
objected to a picture OF herself Just com
pleted by a well known artist. She thought
it too much idealized, and when q friend
tried to persuade her that therein was no
blemish, she said; Some women can never
forgive the Involuntary sin Of beauty
Nine. Materna formally withdrew from
the concert platform as well as the stage
on April p, at a concert given In vienna
authors and journalists. She sang Eliza
beth's entrance air from ''Tannhauser' and
the finale from Tristan and Isolde"
Greater Boston IS a city OF about a MILL
ion souls; but whereas German cities of
$1,000 inhabitants have fifty or sixty oper-
attic performances a year, Boston is unable
to support two weeks of the best opera
with the best singers and the best con-
ductor in the world.-Bosto Herald.
The reiterated rumor that Lulu CHASER is
to take Della FOx's place in the comic op-
era triple alliance the coming season is
without foundation. Miss Chaser is under
contract TO Francis Wilson. She intends
to remain in his company, and she says
that she has not had an offer from the al
lance manaEement.-Dramatic Mirror.
Il want my legs six inches shorter and
my neck taken away This seemingly
startling message was simply an order
from Sir Henry Irving TO his theatrical
hosier for a makeup as Napoleon. The
first costume was not quite satisfactory,
so Sir Henry was shortened another inch.
Manifold are the wonders Of theatrical
makeup"
Otis Skinner and Mrs. Skinner will spend
a few weeks in vaudeville "a resort IN
which pleasure and profit are cOmbined)
this summer. 1t is not Mr.. SINNERS inten-
ton to remain in the continuous, as his
plans call for an opening in ST. Louis early
in September in a new play. He will prob
able make his vaudeville debut at Proc
tors.
The largest and most important meeting
Of the music cache national association
ever held will be the present session
at New York, June "a to q, at the Grand
Central palace. An immense attendance,
variously estimated at 10000 to $4,000 music
teachers and musicians, is expected, and
the colossal programme Is in keeping with
the event.
1t is said that the dramatic version of
"A Lady of Quality" prepared by Mrs.
Hodgson Burnett and Stephen Townsend,
in which lula Arthur Will star In this
from the novel. One of the important
changes is the elimination of the seduction
episode and the substitution of another mo-
tive for the lovers murder.
A peculiar incident in the theatrical
world is the fact that its leading and most
successful puryeyors hall from the West.
Sandusky, o.; Al Hayman came from
Wheeling, W. Va; A. l.. Erlanger Is a
"a INV NAN ASAAN - N-1 IA u W el AAtH
Ind, and Marc Klaw and Frank Mckee
are from Louisville. Ky.-Boston Ideas.
New plays for next season are promised
by w. H. Crane, Henry Miller, Maud Ad-
ans, John Drew, Frank Daniels, Minnie
Maddern Ffske, Julia Arthur and the Lilt-
p~utians, and new productions by Charles
Frohman, Augustin DAILY, Daniel FrOhman.
Augustus Pitou, w. A. Brady Elmer +.
Vance, Andrew A. Mccormick. Weber &
Fields, Hoyt & Mckee, Davis & Keogh,
May Irwin, Jacob Lift, L. L. Rice and
f.. J. Abram.
In a tragedy Just produced at the Thea
ter Francois the programme explains that
a dozen murders have bean by
the queen of Chilperic before the play
with the assassination Of her stepson, a
bishop and the ingenuc. This moves an
exchange to remark: The French some
times beat the English in taking their
pleasures sadly"
1t may not be remembered that Henry
Irving had accepted a drama that had
Robert Emmett for its hero. but was forced
to abandon the idea OF production In defer
ence 10 English opinion. Next year. when
substantial prize may be offered for the
best Irish drama. The Scots have their
Rob Roy" we may yet have our Michae
DWyer.-Dublin Independent.
"A Southern Romance" the adaptation
of Dolly Higby's novel, in Gods Coun-
try" by Il. b. Valentine and Leo Dietrich
stein, will probably be produced at the
Fifth Avenue theater. New York. by Max
Blieman. The actors already engaged for
the performance include Leo DletrichsteIn,
Jack Saville, Emmett Corrigan, Frank Bir-
beck. Thomas Oberle, F. II. Bostwick,
Catherine Grey, Maude Haslam and Emma
Brennan.