The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-03-21
IN DRAMATIC
CIRCLES.


New York house for $500.
LII Lehman acted Brunhide for the
first time in America last week
bicycling again threatens the prosper
ity OF spring theatrical season.
No person under sixteen years OF age
I is permitted 10 enter theatre in He'll
Eoland.
Frank Iosee will head the cast Of Lifts
production OF the "Showman's Daugh-
ter"
Victor Maurel and Marie Van zandt
were seen i'm the recent revival Of Don
Juan" al Monte Carlo.
Townsend Walsh. a newspaper man,
/ has the leading role I'm his own play
| Tho Logs of Kilkenny
The 1unior which has teen current
/ for some time that Miss Olga Nethersole
/ IS TO marry Or. Stuart Oliver, an Eng
fish physician. has been confirmed.
Madame Potiphar" is declared to be
the most Utterly, openly and brutally in
decent work ever presented in q Paris
theatre
At Licge. France. grand opera may
be heard for from 10 cents to Sl20 on
Mondays. performances are given at half
price, which brings the cheapest seats
down to five cents.
An exhibition OF painting and sculp-
ture IS being organized by Sarah Bern
hardt and Bouvet. OF the opera Comique.
The works displayed are the productions
of persons connected with the theatre.
I'm London an artist who has popu-
lar turn may give the same performance
I'm three different halls an evening and
as many smoking concerts or private
entertainments besides.
The author OF the most successful COM
edy Of the season. MY Friend from In
I dia." is a telegraph operator in the news
room of the New York Tribune. His
play for May Irwin is called 1.-THE Coun-
tess"
A day laborer in the arsenal at Venice
has written two operas. A committee
was recently formed in Venice 70 open
a public subscription 10 defray the cost
OF producing his works. over 1000 francs
have so far been raised.
venture 70 say that nine Of OF ten
persons call 20 vaudeville. II cost me
a "V'' 20 discover my mistake, but l am
willing 10 furnish the information free
OF charge that II is vod-yille. Two syi-
Tables. with the accent on the hrst.-New
York Mercury.
Amy Busby no longer is leading wo-
man boo "Sccict Service Some actors
say her withdrawal is due TO Charles
Frohman's rule forbldding players whose
L
actual lovers William Gillette. II Is
said. has been attentive to Miss Busby.
The report I'm London IS that Mrs.
Abbey IS shortly 10 be married 10
wealthy anc very prominent member OF
Iondon's ultra swell set. Rumor goes
further and says that the prospective
husband is a former sweetheart Of Mrs.
Abbey. who knew and loved her before
She married the great imprcssario.
May Irwin has a little son of g years
She started ~ private school the other
dag. That afternoon. after his first morn
ing at school, he rushed over 10 sec his
mother. and found her IN the LOBBY OF
tho Biiou Theatre. well son, how did
YOU ike It? asked Miss Irwin. 81 don't
like il at an pouted Harry. 1.-THE
teacher put me on q chair and told mo
To sit there for the present. and she rev
or brought the present"
Invitations 10 attend performance 81
Only Friend from India" az Hoyt's (Now
York; last Tuesday were extended only
TO actors ana actresses actually employ
cd I'm tho city. Hoycs theatre VII seat
a trife more than SD people. yet nearly
100 requests cor seats were received.
when it - ,o1sders1 thar the unrm-
ployod outnunler those playing. the the
atrical population Of this city must he
considerable.
England has IS irving, France its
Beruhafdt. Italy its Duse. so has Ameri-
ca its Mrs. Fiske. and there is no actress
IN America to-day who CT n better repre-
sent her country. Mrs.. Fisk is the dra-
matte revelation OF the year. She IS
tho true exponent OF dramatic art, such
as America has looked for these many
years Clara Norris once gave promise.
Ada Gchan likewise. but Mrs. Fiske has
cartured.-Dramatic News.
Proctor can give Sandow $1,000 for
fortnight and make money. Hammer
srcin can even afford $1,000 20 Guilbert
for a week or two and make money.
Where is the present value OF Cissy Fitz-
gerald OF BOney or Amann2 Sandow
Is teaching IN an athletic school IN Lon
don. content with one-tenth the wages
Proctor gave him. Lottie Collins receiv-
cd $500 a week with us. She is now re-
ceiving 500 in England.-New York Press.
Neil Burgess rushed out Of hiding and
tearing himself away from a cloud Of
creditors las. SUNDAY afternoon, sailed
for England. Eight years ago Burgess
was a female impersonator on the yaude-
Vile sage Tn three years the County
Falr' Mought' bin s300C00 Five COM
palie5 We're Ilnyng IT, Before the cur
tain was raised on the WEAR One,' the
piece had cost him $4,000. tt was
failure and cold Miss Podd" did not
make a hit. lie lost money I'm other
ways and now goes 10 act in England.
They say he a comparatively poor man
90 day.
remember when Sol Smith Russell
was q side-partner in the entertainment
given by the Berger family Of bell-ring-
ers. He was then q recitcr; or, as they
then began 10 be called. an "impersOn-
ator" At the same time III. G.. Barnaboe,
OF the BDstOnians, was in the same class.
Neither had any idea IN those days Of
adopting the stage as q profession. /
don't believe Oliver optic civilian Il.
Adamsl would have allowed Russell 20
have had ais daughter for a wife II he'd
expected his son-in-law was going on
the staee-The Diaagreeable Man, in the
Baltimore Herald.
Not very many years ago Katy
Foote. o. slip %, a girl, attended TIE town
school IN Adrian, Mich. Her father, a
well-to-lo mc-cf ut insisted that Ills
daughter should have q thorn, b musical
education, and when hardly y Ell into her
teens. she was sent 10 Paris in cha'.e
OF a chaperone. TO complete her studies.
She made her stage debut IN Wilson Bar
retrs company. was highly successful,
and soon owned a company. While tour
ing through Europe she met and married
the son OF one OF the wealthiest families
I'm Hull lie was disinherited. Later he
cot into trouble and was imprisoned.
When her savings had melted Miss Foote
returned 90 America and secured an en-
gacomeut In "Gaycst Manhattan Ten