Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-05-30
Pole a commander of the Order of the


Pole a commander of the Order Of the
Crown Of Italy.
The management OF the Haymarket have
accepted from sydney Grundy an adapta-
ton Of a well known work by the elder
Dumas. 1t is a pure comedy of the domes-
tic order, with its scene laid IN the roman
tic period Of Louis XIV.
Daniel Frohman declares that he is done
with curtain raisers. He has produced sew
eral this season, all Of which were failures
not so much from lack of merit in the
pieces themselves, but from the little inter
est shown by the public.
Fanny Davenport will not go to Europe
] this summer, Notwithstanding the many
paragraphs to that effect which have been
sent to the papers. The first engagement
for her company was that Of Henry jew
EFT, who was with Mansfield this season.
The Actors Society has issued a black list
OF managers who owe their people and re-
fuse to pay. Some prominent names are on
Il. This same society Is going to rest the
legality of the Sunday performances in Gin
cinnati, st. Louis, Chicago and other cities
the coming season.
Fay TempletOn writes from Paris that
she has reduced her weight from $50 to 40
pounds by gymnastic exercise and bicy-
cling, and IS ready to return to America
and again appear in public. 1t is only
proper that the public should be given
time to go into training.
In Edward Compton's Lcudon production
of Henry EstmOnd," the dress the star
wears in the prologue actually belonged
to George ~, who gave it to Liston, who
gave it to the elder Mathews. who gave it
to the late Henry Compton, from whom it
descended to Mr.. Edward Compton.
John A. Stevens has Just finished an
American comedy-drama called Nobody
which will be produced by Edmund Tearle
in Plymouth, England. next season, and by
himself in this country He will play a
character part similar to that in I'm
known" which he played for eighteen
years.
Frank c. Bangs. the well known actor.
who is probably best remembered as the
Marc Antony, with Lawrence Barrett and
Z. /. Davenport, In the Booths theater
production of Julius Caesar" is cOnsid-
ering an offer to appear in variety and
act, with supers and scenic effects, the
forum scene from Julius Caesar"
a party of actors and literary men with
a fondness for the uncanny gave a con-
cert the other night in the Catacombs Of
Paris. About 100 per sons were present,
and in a dimly lighted chamber, surround
ed by the bones of the dead, they listened
to mournful and merry music discOursed
by, the musicians from the opera and the
Coloune and LamoureaX concerts.
Mr.. Richard Mansfield and Mr.. Frank
Slocum drove down Broadway together on
Monday afternoon. When II was learned
that Mr.. Mansfield and MeSSrs. Mckee 81
Hoyt had severed their business relations
the RialtO goSsipS at once concluded that
Messrs. John and Frank SlOcum were
about to resume management of the star.
stuff and NONSENSE was Mr.. Frank SlO-
GUMS remark on the rumor last night
New York Herald.
The coming performance Monday. June
Z at the Auditorium, of st. Clair Hurd's
farce comedy THE Skinner Commission
Company promises to be a notable event
strong a cast of local talent has been got
ten together, and the rehearsals. which are
IN progress under the careful direction of
Mr.. Hurd, assure a performance that will
crowd the professional standard very close
ly. There are medleys, marches, choruses
which has been rewritten and carefully re-
yised. Seats will be on sale at Grand
Junction ticket office June >.
A notable feature of the early days of
the London opera season is the success of
another American singer, Stella Brazil
Mrs. Pratt, nee BraZier. of B~rattlebOrO,
hauseE'' is emphasized thus by Runcimann
in the Saturday Review: Mime. Brazzi's
Venus was an agreeable contrast to the
17-stOne Nenuses of previous years, and il
is to be hoped that after her success of
Wednesday night the COvent Garden
management will no longer. consider it
necessary to scour Europe in search Of
prima donnas whose proper place is the
Fat Woman's Show"
Alfred Bradley. manager of The NIys-
FERROUS Mr.. Bugle," who owns the Ameri-
successful comedy, christopher, Jr.," has
concluded arrangements with Emily
Bancker, who Will play The part of Dora.
Miss Bancker will be starred. though not
in the conventional sense. as Mr.. Bradley's
policy is to star the play first, and then
the actor, believing that il is the play in
which the public is primarily interested.
no matter how much fame attaches to the
player. Negotiations are under way for
Madeleine LUcette Ryley to write a new
comedy especially for Miss Bancker.-Dra-
matte Mirror.
While commenting on the subject Of
large salaries paid to singers the other day.
the veteran operate manager, Colonel
Mapleson, told this story of the first big
salary paid to an artist in opera. 1t was
to Christine Nilsson. At that time the
colonel was I'm London. Nilsson was sing
ms in that country when her agent cabled
Mapleson that she was positively going to
be married and retire from the stage. and
that, If he chose to pay for it. he might
engage her for two or three performances.
But. he said, THE price will be high"
How high" the colonel wired back. Two
hundred pounds a night" was the answer.
This was a figure Unheard of in those DAYS.
but MaplcSOn was ready for "A new attrac-
ton, and he cabled the Swedish Nightin-
gale to come. When Patti. who was sing
ing in London. heard that Nilsson was get
ting more money than she was. she sat
down in her managers room in tears, and
refused TO sing a note till the old order
of precedence was restored. Her manager
gave her 200 guineas, and from that time
her salary never wavered except to 20
HIGHER ~