The sun., 1898-11-06
AND PLAYERS
Stage Items Of the Gossip of
the Green Room What They
are Doing.

the Green Room What Thcy
! are Doing.
Corbett is in vaudeville.
Ida Fuller is in Germany.
Ugo Biondi is in Australia.
Florrie West is to appear in Aus
tralia.
Wilton Lackaye will star in "Charles
O'Malley."
Queen Wilhelmina is clever amateur
actress.
Sam Bernard's career as star termi-
mated last evening.
There are Chinese, Hebrew and Ger
man playhouses in New York.
Sofia Scalchi and her husband, Count
Lolli, have been divorced in Italy.
Sol Smith Russell will appear in 'The
Honorable John Grigsbv," play by
Charles Klein.
Verdi is at work upon two new operas,
"King Lear" and Nero" He is now
S5 years old.
Australian productions include "Under
the Red Robe, " 1.-THE LIARS" la Pou-
pee" and MADAME Sans Gene"
The Schrode Brothers and Sarony
Lambert have named their new musical
pantomimic comedy "a Curious Voy-
age"
Louis Mann and Clara Lipnan, of "Ihe
Telephone Girl" celebrated the third
anniversary OF their marli@e at Chicago
recently.
Robert E., Graham and Carolyn
Cook, both OF the Della Fox company,
were remarked at Washington BY the
Rev. Father Mackin of St. Paurs
Church.
Clara Tbropp's.Aarring tour collapsed
at Frisco. M. B. Leavitt, who had ad-
vanced $500 to Miss Thropp swore out
warrant for her arrest, but she had left
before it could be served.
William Winter, in criticism Of "a
Colonial Maid" says that L. H. Sothern
was "as hard as barrel of nails and his
harsh and dry vocalism, in the utterance
of feeling, would have chilled an ice
wagon"
Only for three weeks may ga Colonial
Grip be seen at the Lyceum. Virginia
Harned-Sothern will then go away to
learn nursery rhymes and how to rock a
cradle, and her husband will take to the
road.-New York Journal.
Victorien Saldou's play, 'Uncle
Sam," which occasoned great alarm to
the Government censor in Paris at the
time M. Theirs was President, has Just
been played again in Brussels. Ameri-
cans are mercilessly lampooned in the
piece.
Bert Coote made an elaborate produc.
tion Of Buckstone's old comedy, ''rhe
Dead Shot," in a Brooklyn vaudeville
theatre last week, assisted by Julie
Kingsley, George Trader, Harry CASH
man, Albert Roberts, Leslie Haskell and
others. Mr.. Coote intends to present
this play in vaudeville in the spring,
after his special twenty weeks starring
tour in 'The New Boy"
Lola Small has the Atlanta craze for
female notoriety. She is dying to be
talked about and written up. Incidental
ly she is dragging her poor old fathers
name in the mire. l hear that she got
mad with her manager and company be-
cause some of the players talked slight
ingly OF her attributes. This remark put
her in great pet: Girls, what's the
matter with Sans daughter? What come
they here for to see? Lola SmalPs legs?
Nay, nay. Lola's small legs" As a mat
ter of fact, Lola's attributes are not
small, and she should not have minded
the railery.-Ne'v York Press
A performance at once extraordinary
and pitiful 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. The
drama was decidedly up to the times,
bearing the title "For Love and War;"
and having for its scene of action the
battlefield at Santiago. In the dialogue
were many illusions to the topics of the
day, and the audience displayed WON
deriul acuteness in catching the witty
points and in appreciating the thrilling
situations of the play.
Mr.. Frohman's affairs, indeed, appear
to be booming just now. The receipts at
the Duke of York's Theatre, in London,
are pushing the capacity of the house;
John Drew is playing to an average busi-
ness Of $1,000 week at the Empire; the
Madison Square Garden and Garrick are
up to the limit; "The Conquerors,"
played last week in Philadelphia to fully
$4,000; Maude Adams drew almost $l1,-
600 in Boston; Julia Marlowe has had
, receipts running between 50, 600 and $l0,-
t 600 week since leaving New York;
Secret Service' has averaged $4,000 a
) week, and Henry Miller has been play
ing to $500 a night since early in Au-
> gust. All these attractions represent
Mr. Frohman's own productions. He
has had but one loser this season-"Lit-
tie Miss Nobody"-and he cut that off
without any unnecessary hesitation.-
: Lednder Richardson IN New York Iele-
graph.
Playwrights become great and classical
only after death, and Moliere and Les
sing are higher in the temple of fame to-
day than they were in the hours of their
activity. To-day Henry Irving is de-
pending upon the profits of tour among
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