The herald., 1897-09-05
North Cucamonga, Cal.
Personal

Kathryn Kidder has engaged Thomas
w. keene to appear in Nine, Sans
Gene"
Pfolliott Paget appears prominently
with Rose Coghlan and Jeffreys Lewis
in THE Sporting Duchess" this season.
! Digby Bell, the comedian, opened the
season of the Grand opera house, Chi
cago, with THE Hoosier Doctor" Au-
gustus Thomas comedy drama in which
he plays the title role.
James A. Herne will appear next sea-
son in new play entitled REV. Griffith
Davenport" a dramatization of the
novel, AN Unofficial Wife," by Helen M
Gardiner. This season Mr.. Herne will
appear in "shore Acres"
Adam Asnyk, Poland's greatest poet
and dramatist, has just died at Cracow.
at the age of SO. He spent the greater
part of his life in exile, having been
driven out of Poland on account of the
part he played in the insurrection Of 1868.
Phoebe Davis, Joseph r. Grismer.
James o. Barrows, Forrest Robinson
| and Sadie Stringham have been engaged
by William A. Brady to appear in the
new play by Lottie Blair Parker, en-
titled Way Down East" which was
to be produced at Newport September g..
Green Room Gossip
Clara Morris, Madame Tavary and
Harry Dixey are the latest acceesions
to the vaudeville ranks.
Herbert Kelcey, the matinee girls
idol. has got back to New York, accord
ing to column interview in the Mirror.
| Charles H. Hoyt is writing a new
sketch for S. Miller Kent and Johnstope
| Bennett, who have returned from Lon
| don.
The Liliputians will soon arrive from
| Germany to open September u at the
Star theater in their new spectacle, "The
Fair in Midgettown."
The New York theatrical season has
fairly opened and from now on deluge
of criticisms on productions new and
old may be expected from the press OF
the Empire City.
The public censor at Berlin has re-
fused to grant a license for the produc-
tion of Herr Sudermann's drama 30
hannes," because the subject Of the play
is biblical one.
The editor Of London Society. who was
ordered to pay e25 for daring to say that
certain song sung by a certain aero
batic dancing serio was vulgar" an.
piled for a stay Of execution as to the
costs pending an appeal. His applica-
tion was refused.
Harrington Reynolds is organizing a
repertoire company to play THE Burg
lar, Little Lord Fauntleroy" and a new
play by W. A. Tremayne and the late
Logan Fuller, authors OF Lost Twenty
Four Hours" entitled ~. Brown, MD"
Their season will open in the latter part
of September.
Frederick Warde has engaged w, M
Wilkison as his business manager. Mr..
Warde will open his tour at Philadal-
phia on the 18th instant in a romantic
play entitled "Iskander," written by w.
D. Eaton Of Chicago. The play is an
adaptation of Disraeli's story, 1.-The
Rise of Islander"
The company which will support Maud
Adams includes Robert Edeson, w. H.
Thompson, Eugene Jepson, Guy Stand
ing, Margaret Gordon, George Fawcett,
Jessie Mackaye, r. Peyton Carter, Nor
man Campbell, Thomas Valentine, Will
fred Buckland, James Ten Eyck, Lille
B. Henry and Frederick Spencer.
"A beautiful theme absolutely spoil
ed" is the verdict of the critics in Lon
don in regard to Martha Morton's play
''The Sleeping Partner" which is known
in America as His Wife's Father" The
general consensus Of opinion seems to
be that 1.-THE Sleeping Partner" is vulgar
and wearisome, and utterly lacking in
the qualities which go to make a sue
cessful play of the farce or light comedy
order. The piece was put on in London
in good style, was well cast, but was
not liked.
| In addition to the production by Beer
bohm Tree of Hamlet" and 1.-The Tam
ing Of the Shrew." the London corre-
spondent Of the Mirror says: Altogether
we shall be well ND for Shakespeare next