The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-19

Wednesday night on the call board of
the stage at the Grand. appeared the fol-
lowing significant notice signed by Hop
per himself:
Hereafter there will be four seats in
dicated and reserved In the special car OF
the DeWof Hopper company on day runs
for Mrs Hopper, Miss Wallzinger, Miss
Judson and Miss Hosmer
"All members Of this company are noti-
fled that no visitors will be permitted in
the dressing rooms or on the stage at any
time without special permission of Mr..
Grips. DeWolf Hopper"
Grips Is the stage manager of the COM
pany. The second paragraph of the no
tice, according to members Of the COM
pany, who should be well posted, was aim
ed directly al Mrs Hopper who, IL Is
said, has received numerous gentlemen
friends i'm her dressing room at almost
every town the company has visited of
late This custom has often so greatly
angered Hopper that he has with great
difficulty restrained himself from making
an outbreak.
THE relations between the Hoppers
have long been strained, and husband and
wife are becoming more bitter against
each other of late. II Is believed by some
of the company that this order OF Hop
pers will eliminate in Mrs. Hopper leav-
ing the organization, although she Is un-
der contract for the remainder of the sea-
son.
1T Is said the strained relations exist
ing between husband and wife are due
to the admiration of Hopper for Nellie
Bergen who was, until recently, the prima
donna of the organization, and who is
soon to create the leading role in Sousas
new opera, The Bride Elect Mrs. Hop
per is said to have declared that either
she or Miss Bergen must leave the COM
pany, and Miss Bergen left"
wang" has proved profitable to its
owners for three years, yet De Wolf Hop
per has not appeared in it in over four
years.
Henry e. Dixey will appear in London
in April under the joint management of
Charles Frohman and Bloom. The enter
tainment that Dixey viii present will be
a novelty in London. Magicians have not
hitherto appeared in theaters in London.
Hermann gave his entertainment at the
Egyptian hall.
The agitation against high hats in thea
ters is on I'm earnest George Alexander
the manager and star of the St James
theater London, has brought an epistolary
tempest about his ears by publishing in his
programme "a little statement containing
the following phrases: IF patrons who
are intent on viewing the performances
will recollect the similar purpose Of those
who sit behind them" and IF every large
hat were removed the lady so doing would
confer a great benefit on her immediate
neighbors." The English are a letter
writing nation. Almost any topic of ma
tional interest that happens to come up
sets them off at a fever heat, and for
months thereafter the pages of the leading
newspapers are fairly overloaded with the
written comments of English men and wo-
men DESTROYS Of freeing their minds In
the present instance they have turned
their attention from the papers to Mr.
Alexander, upon whose desk every morning
there is stack of correspondence large
enough to brighten an ordinary man. He
probably wishes he had let the theater-hat
problem solve itself.
Actors methods of studying the lines of
part vary. Some, says the New York
Evening Post, memorize quickly. After
a few rehearsals with book in hand they
know the lines, and no further effort in
that direction is necessary. Others burn
much midnight Oil in acquiring the au-
thor's words. Some never learn them.
Others pace up and down the stage. re-
peating the words monotonously, and a
few go through every action of the play
while studying. Each gesture and move
ment suggests a line
After few rehearsals the stage mana