Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-29
Merely Players.


house this week.
This is L. s. Willards most successful
season in America.
James K. Eackett is dangerously i'll with
typhoid fever in New York
Chauncey Olcott will tour the British Isles
next season in his Irish plays.
Mrs. Leslie Carter and the bellclapper are
in their second week in Chicago.
Mckee Rankin and Nance oNeil are play
ing "Oliver Twist" IN vaudeville.
Thomas @. Seabrooke has made hit in
London in The Scarlet Feather"
Maud Harrison is soon to return tc the
stage, after prolonged absence.
Colonel Jack Havery is reported to be or
ganizing another minstrel uoupe.
Denman Thompson will present "The Old
Homestead" in st. Louis next week.
Adelina Patti is singing at the rate of $500
an appearance in London this week.
Friediander, Gottlob & Co. now control the
three principal theaters of San Francisco.
At Dalys this week THE Gesha" has been
revived, with substantially the original cast
May Vokes will soon appear in Washington
in Lieutenant Allerdce's new play, 1.-The Old
Coat"
Teresa Vaughn has retired from the cast ol
''The Whirl of the Town" and will shortly
appear in comic opera.
h
World Clement Scott's aspersions on the
women of the stage.
big BIZ Devere, who has recently pub
lished volume of poems, has come verselets
in the Chrstmes Mirror.
Sousa's new opera, The Bride Elect" will
be produced at the Boston theater next week
by a company of 100 pirsons.
Hobart c. Chatfield-Taylor is beguiling the
leisure of yachting trip along the North
African coast by writing a play.
Ex-President Harrison and James Whit
comb Riley enjoyed "The HooEier Doctor
in Indianapolis one night nst week.
'"The Nancy Hanks had it's first New
York presentation last Monday night, with
Marie Jansen in the leading role.
"The Telephone Girl was produced this
week at the Casino. Clara Lipman, Charlec
Dickson, Edward S. Abeles and others are il
the cast.
Kathryn Kdder is lying i'll at the home oil
friends in St. Louis and her company has dis
was failure.
Loie Fuller gave luncheon to forty o
her frisnds in Paris the other day in cele
bration of her 600th performance at tn,
Folies-Bergere.
Julia Marlowe is rapidly recovering from
her recent illness and expects to open hel
New York engagement next Monday nigh
with LAS You Like 1t.
Minnie Radcliffe, who was Sol Smitf
Russells leading woman Oh the occasion o
his last appearance here, Is now a member
of a Philadelphia stock company.
Bronson Howard and Charles Klein ar,
collaborating on a play treating of social life
in Washington. This is the first time Mr.
Howard has ever taken a collaboration.
The editor of the South Center (Minn
Times pertinently remarks: 1--WE want II
| understood that all our dramatic criticisms
are written by the show people themselves
Fanny Davenport carries a set of false
walls with her, which she sets up in heI
dressing room at every theater in which she
plays, and so keeps her dainty costumes
clean.
The famous Banda Rosa, which has ere
ated a veritable furore during it's presen
tour in this country, will be hearl in Omaha
before long. Its concerts are said to be G
revelation in band music.
What Dreams May Come" is the title OF
a new drama by Paul Kester, which will bt
produced early in January, with Madame
JaDauschek Maud Banks, Mrs. Alexander
Salvini. Courtenay Thorpe and William Red.
mund in the cast.
Duncan b. Harrison, the we'll known man
ager who has charge of Digby Bells for
| tures, has bought Paul Potter's 1.-The Pacific
MALI of William H. Crane and will cooT
make an elaborate revival Of that piece He
will also produce Harris new play, I'm ILL
! noy," soon, with Bell in the leading role