The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-18
TOPICS OF THE THEATRE.
SOME ODD DRAMATIC THINaS TaAT
UhVE HAPPENED.

n'OV"' u p'es NOV now III uso' ana 10 utiilhe
n.n " pVS1 on.itou Naushh was put 10,
No."'. u N"",,oS io"nseuu' "utnor Oh inc oio
euo' nus pcen eoio 10 STOP inc performances OF
Aas,",Sn I,,. An.
In a scene wherein n Gagged lion was nm exhibit.
eot 100 close TO the beast ana no reached out
hor her' n badly scratched arm was tho result
The manager of Cora Van Tsssoll's company
.u "'O i"s 'ne noaru om' III south 'aronna
town. and was held back from a departing train
by tho ACTRESSES husband. There waA n scrIm-
mace to,lnyo5 hv nrro,,s "a ~ atShan5-
n"se' Io,oweu oy "rr'"'s anu the uisooha-
A girl diod Of heart disease in a PittsburR
thcatre bni 1, wos not mn on,o,tono, r,ar ,hat
brought on the attack, as the piece played was
q farce.
Selma Hcrwin. tho leading actress of a Gin.
cinnati stock company, went forward to take
some flowers and tho descending curtain
~ ner schseicss' mat was TOO oad' ana
Yet X every floral demonstration across tho foot
rood thin,
W. ms
fermances arc given on Sunday. hut some Of
fho vell.establisbed "stars" yiI, MT t,to n,,t
An them. Modleska Is ono of these, but in
chicago she broke her rule, stipulating that.her
snare OF tho profits should be given to q Polish
hospital.
fe"t inulah actress eowohYo MohawR, ID
sne heroine III an indian molodrama now tray
eh'hg OUT VEST out she 10 no new thing on the
stage having spent years IN tours OF the minor
AnG n Clues ID readily accepted exponent OF
A sweeping change has come tn tbc tbeotroa
of San Francisco. Many years ago, in the times
.. Ereat Roia anu silver prosperity on the Pacific
panios prospersd there. Even after The audi.
ences did not pay enough to support such amuse.
me -, sSnGrat Oh rhS m9lto millonaires made
accustomed to the very costliest of stage Shows
and rejected everything else. The losses sus-
nanins W managers IN senaihg nrst-rale com
single CITY OF medium siza have Sccn vcrX
heavy In recent years. Charles Frohman an
thia oa,o an"t ny wVuiu maKe no suon venture
the other inportant prod snrh n a Tiaw
d Er!anger, Daniel Frohmen, Augustus Pitou
n Nik Ss ~ n,hniermani nave determined to
two fashionable theatres In that GIN. y teie'
graphed yesterday that he had relinquished
mem. SaR francisco ID now left to her own
travelling orrnnizations of The chen NOR eort so
there, but most Of the performanccs nre Svy
have been. Smrren, in TIA pas pt"'sS ~ Ina u are or
acting is not very good. hui an m comnensatinn
the admission prices arc lowered.
When William IT. Gran. bro,yht nm, .1I;,
W. IN n orane Drought out ms
commented on its essentially German cbarac.
~terlstics. and Minated that ,,s Har,an soano,
might have been transferred from Berlin. Mar
tina Morton, to whom the play was credited on
inc oil,s' became indignant at the imputation OF
nnoriginahty. But the piece was quickly iden'
tiaod as the ocmDO"itionlof L Arrongo, and a per-
aOrhance Oh II IN German at the irving fiacc
Theatre proved that Miss Morton had done little
more than make a free translation. She had
verv c,ever,v ett.d , ra,o 20 NJ CIV, ~.
very oie,eriS h.'eua roie 10 ME- Srehe' now
value. A moro rocent instance of her exnertnesa
vas IA Rachclor,s Romance !" hv moan. a,
which Sol Smith Russell won his first success
in this city. That play is now said to be practi.
cally a dramatizatiOn of "A Little Rebel" a
novel oy Mrs Hunserlora; an English author
,rh,,.h.rz C.orro w ,1n,s,. r.n.....- All.
ppun,.n' 80 w. oon,' ~. "
positively. and the case may be taken INTO tho
Che same. In snite Of all this IL does NOT seem
as though the play had been taken wholly from
the DOCK. Inc SUMMARIZES are unusually strong.
Sulte aparL rom the nam tnemoma middie-
father~there are incidents in The Two works near.
ly identical, and the development Of the stories
ere atihe, even 10 tho County, soene OF Sne INST
The idea of the love between the Girl and her
guardian IL as old as the hills, OF course, and it
VIII pronapiy sorNe u gneesuaIiy IN tne tutqre
there are male Star actors that Get more than
90 years old, and in which the public insists
Snas unS nanIn Dn;I III pa shaia 10
peiied to fall in love with their Junior leading
ladies. Miss Morton says, that. she intends, to
osulIe tne same srouna Iaea IN ahotner play
successfully as shc did In "A Bacheior's Ro-
NANCE" there will BIO further qualification for
INC GGnhinaed use or the meme; MISS Mortons
heard OF il before Ler play was written is made
in the. strongest possible terms. Even with the
resemblance between them, the comedy Is well
done. In spite " the incongruities, and tho
curious views of New York life. 1t entertained
its audiences. and proved highly profitable 10
its author. What nm incentive to the careful
study of contemporary novels! To stumble
over the elements for such a play as "A
Bachelors Romance" in q half.forgotten
novel Is reward enough for such a futile brows-
ing in fields that yield such q treasure only
at rare intervals. Miss Morton, according 10
her statement. conceived almost precisely tho
same story that Mrs. Hungerford had written.
But somebody else might have observed the
dramatic quality OF the book, and made q play
f.. out OF it nearly as profitable as this one.
Miss Morton's "a Rachelor's Romance was
NA'' 49,