The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-17
PLAYS AND PLAYERS.

james A. Hearne is rewriting Hearts
81 Oak"
Grace r'ilkns will be James O'Neill's
new leading lady.
A :nelcdrama has been produced in
London With the tile of "Snowdrops."
The Rogers brothers are to lie started
this season ir d play written By John j.
Mentally.
After this seasons tour of "Pud'nhead
Wilson," Edwin NJ. Mayo proposes to
take the play to England
Rose Coghian has returned to vaude-
Vile and Is appearing in a one-act sketch
called Between Matinee and Evening""
Tim Murphy is to star this season in
play called THE Carpetbagger." Jonn
ii. Blackwood, of this city, is his advance
man.
Lillian Russell will sing in Berlin for six
weeks and will then visit st. Petersburg.
Vienna and other continental cities. She
expects to return home before Christmas.
I'm Old Kentucky" which is n favorte
IN every city in the country, will enter
upon its sixth season this month. The
company still retains the original Picka-
ninny band. and the supporting company
is said to be very strong one.
Nine. Melba is a good oarswoman and
she is fond of rowing on the upper reach
the riverside, both above and below Mar
low. and may almost any day be seen
skimmng the waters in her trim-bult
wherry.
The war revenue law requires that the
atrical companies contribute to the war
revenue $40 for each state played. To the
companies that cross the continent the
tax accumulates into a considerable fund;
while those that play every state in one
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| $500.
Ethel Marlowe will play Polly Love in
| ''The Christian" The play will be in iive
| acts. The first scene will picture the
| ruins of Deel Castle, Isle of Man; the Sec
| ond, saloon of Coliseum Music hall, Lon
| don; the third, club room of the Church of
| ST. Mary Magdalene, Soho. and the fourth
| Glory's apartments in Clements Inn,
London. The fifth scene is the same as act
| third.
| Among the war plays to be introduced
so far announced, are as follows: 'Tho
| Maine Avenged" 1.-THE Dawn of Free
DOM" "A Cuban Patriot" "A Daughter
of Cuba" sunk at Santiago" 1.-The Com
modore." "a War Correspondent" "The
| Siege of Santiago" Between the Lines 4"
| with Dewey at Manila" "The Heroes
| of 49, "Hobsons Choice" and Young
| Miss Cuba"
Lew Dockstader some years ago became
| heavily involved pecunlarily and it looked
| as If his liabilities were to such an amount
| that he would never be able to pay his
| creditors; but he went to work on a sal
| AIRY and one by one he settled with them,
| and after four or five years of incessant
| labor he was at last able to reach the end
| of the long list of claimants Today he
| Is able to say, II owe no man." Lew
| Dockstader's courage is to be commended.
Such men are a credit to the profession.
The Omaha Bee editorially comments
| upon Clay Clements "A Southern Gen
| tleman" thus: 1--WE want to make a pre-
diction: 1t is trat Clay Clement, who
| last night produced at Boyds opera
house his own play "A Southern Gentle
| man. will not only become one of Amer
| ica's greatest actors but will be known
| as one of Americas greatest playwrights.
| "A Southern Gentleman is in sentiment,
| action, humor and human interest above
| the ordinary drivel and rot, so common
upon the stage today, as the heavens are
| above the earth"