The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-11-06

a remarked at washington by the Rev.
! Father Mackin, OF ST. Pauls church.
| Only for three weeks may "a Colonial
| Girl" be seen al the Lyceum. virginia
| Harmed Sothern will then 60 away 10
learn nursery rhymes and how to rock
cradle. and her husband will take 10 the
road.-New York Journal
| Nictorien Sardou's play, "Uncle Sam
| which occasioned great alarm TO the gov
| eminent censor in Paris at the time NJ.
| Theirs was President, has just been play
cd again in Brussels. Americans are mer-
! cilessly lampooned in the piece.
A performance at once extraordinary
f, and pitiiul was given on last Wednesday
| night at the Matteawan Insane Asylum
| before an audience composed almost en-
| tirely Of inmates Of the institution. The
! playwright. Ernest Bostwick IS insane,
/ and all but three of the players who
| took part In the production were chosen
! from among his brothers in misfortune.
J The drama was decidedly up TO tho times,
| bearing the title For Love and War"
and having for its scene of action tho
| battlefield of Santiago. In the dialogue
were many illusions 20 the topics OF the
| day, and the audience displayed won
derful acuteness IN catching the witty
| points and i'm approaching the thrilling
situations OF the play.
Clara Throp's starring tour collapsed
/ AZ Frisco. VI. b. Lcavitt, who had advanc-
ed $500 10 Miss Throp, swore out war
rant for her arrest, but she had left be-
| fore it could be served.
Although Daniel Frohman stands on
record as an enemy of wedl0ck many OF
/ his best players 80 of and get married
| Ike ordinary folk The Lyceum mana
spa ca
not only agin matrimOny IN others, but
devoted 70 single blesscdness himself.
fow days ago Edith Crane and Tyrone
Power cot married, so TO speak, under
Mr.. Frohmans nose. lie had no sooner
engaged Julia OPP than she married
Young Mr. Lorraine. lie imported Mary
Mannering and engaged J. X. Hackett,
and they Immediately fell In love- ana
presently espoused for better or worse.
Although in his grand climacterlc anu
therefore. reasonably beyond romance,
Mr. lie Moyno became cnamored or and
took to wife Sarah Cowel Fritz VIII
liarns and Katherine Florence being low
ors in the play became lovers I'm earnest,
and married in fat contradiction OF their
managers principlnes Young Mr.. sothern
fell in love with Virginia Harmed on the
Lyceum stage. ana welded her although
the heavens might fall-New York
Press.
Mr. Frohman's affairs indeed, appear
to be booming just now. The receipts
at the Duke OF YOrk's Theatre, in Lon
don, are pushing the capacity Of the
house: John Drew IS playing 10 an aver
age business OF 5000 o. week az tho En-
pire; the Madison Square Garden aud
Garrick are up 20 the limit; "The Con
orerors' played last week in Philadel-
phia to fully $1,000; Maude Adams drew
almost $4,000 I'm Boston, Julia Mariowe
has had receipts running between 5000
ana $1,000 "a week since leaving New
York; Secret Service has averaged
S 600 a week. and Henry Miller has been
playing 10 $500 a night since early IN Au-
gust All these attractions represent Mr..
Frohman's own productions. lie has had
but one loser this seasOr-"Lttle Miss
NobOdy"-and he cut that or withou.
any unnecessary Observation-Disclosures
Richardson in New York Telegraph.
Helen Faucit gained her reputation
as an actress at n time when reputation
was far less easily gained than il Is at
present for she was brought into protes-
slcnal association with men and women
OF various and superb talent ana Of high
and watchful and eager ambiuon-lrc-
scnting plays Of the highest ogder-and
she proved, and maintained. her equality
with the best Of them. Much Will be
written about her acting but the great
illuminaitVe fact which ought especially
to be observed and remembered IS that
she was always adequate TO all that IS
essentially noble in WOman-lKe churlc-
ter-that she could greatly express
great and pure ideal. This is by no means
a common power, and at present the
stage scarcely shows a trace Of 1.-THE
Hfr.r. Of ffrr
being such hcroincs as exhause every eX-
podient of bestial wicScdness and at last
supplement hldeous sensuallty with fan
tasuc murder-sOmetimes welding
Ratchet and sometimes a hatpin.-New
York Tribune.
Playwrlghts become great and clas-
steal only after death: and Moiiere and
Leasing are higher In the temple Of fame
to-day than they were I'm tho hours of
their activity. To-day Henry Irving is
depending upon the profits Of tour
among the rustics TO enable him TO get
back to Shakespeare via king Richard
H." Duse the greatest artistic Of these
times. finds little announcement outside
Of italy. Modleska has made less money
from Shakespeare than Lincoln J. Car
ter has earned with a couple Of "me-
chanical effects" Whenever Mansfield
makes a new effort 20 please the few he
is compelled 10 20 into bankruptcy. and
revivals Of Doctor Jekyli and Mr.. Hyde
or "a Partisan Romance" Week after
week the managers who have produced
a dramatization OF Hall Gaines "The
Christian" publish statements Of receipts
that are positively appalling I'm opulence
but Augustin DAILY has made no money
with THE Bard" 10 whom he has re-
NAMED faithful THE Turtle" is draw
ing so much money from metropolitan
theatre-goers that ono wonders that any
is left for "Cyrano de Bergerac." Why,
I'm these circumstances should managers
be expected 10 devote their fortunes and
their labors to anything more pleasing TO
the few than French farce. music-farcs
or extravaganza? And why should they
be denounced for giving the public what
the public insists that il shall havo?-F.
J. Dohaghey. in Philadelphia Item.