The times., 1898-09-25
BRIEFLY TOLD.

Ida Conquest will remain William Gil
lette's leading woman this year.
Alice Nelson and 1.-The Fortune Teller
seem on the high road to success
Lucie Rogers, of this city, has signed
with the American Athletes" for this
season.
Isabella Evesson is making a hit In
vaudeville with Augustus Thomaf one
act play. THAT Oyercoat.'
why Smith Left Home the latest
Broadhurst success, will probably not be
seen in New York this season.
E. S Willard has Abandoned his Ameri-
can tour for 1883. Sustained results of
his recent illness is given as the cause.
Pictures of Louis James, Frederick
! Warde and katherine Kidder adorn the
I pages of all last weeks dramatic jour
mails.
Sam J. Ryan, the well-known comedi-
/ an, has been engaged by Weber and
/ Fields for their burlesque, The Con-
curers."
Helene Mora is to play Hamlet" 1t
is to wondered fshe will introduce
Just Break the News to Mother in the
last act.
Lillian Russells failure in Berlin has
been abject For prophecies concerning
the same, see one of the June numbers of
The Times.
Three hundred and seventy-five COM
panies are now on the road. And the
season has just begun. But there will be
fewer when it closes.
Viola Aliens tour in THE Christian
really opened Friday in Albany, although
her formal debut will be made tomorrow
night at the National.
Edwin Milton Boyle is going TO take
his sketch, Captain Impudence," to
London. Which proves that he has got
ten used to the title role. at all events.
/ Last week the advance agent of Blan-
/ ey's Hired Girl" was married to the
soubrette of Blaney's Boy Wanted" :"
And yet Shakespeare wrote, What's in
! a name?"
W. H. Powers will not take Shannon
! of the Sixth out again but instead an
| nounces his intention of reviving Ivy
Leaf a play in which his father made
a fortune.
Sporting Life" a big melodramatic
| production under the management of ia
| cob Lift, is 10 be given its initial pre-
| sentation tomorrow at the Acadamy of
Music in Gotham.
Nat c. Goodwin was thrown from his
! horse while riding near his country place
! in England, and slightly injured. The
! accident will not prevent his season OPEN
! ing on schedule time.
Maud Haslem is very i'll, and has retir-
! ed from Sam Bernards Marquis of
Michigan The clever actress was not at
1 all well when she left here, and her break
down is not unexpected.
! ]. II. Stoddard will not continue his
/ starring tour in Beside the Bonnie Brier
Bush" but viii stick TO vaudeville. Evil
/ IDENTIFY this bush was not the one which
/ grew from the root of all evil
! Clara Morris is rehearsing a new sketch
called THE Evil That Men Do" But the
/ evil that men do can't compare with
that Miss Morris is showering down
alike on the just and the unjust by re-
manning on the stage.
Little Miss Nobody" will end its tour
in two weeks. The farce was produced
that long ago in Philadelphia, where it
was heartily scored by the critics. If the
| play is ever revised a good title might be
/ Miss Nobody of Nowhere
1.-THE Little Host" is the latest title
! devised for Della Fox's musical comedy.
/ The star must be anxious to show her
repertoire of brilliant names to the pub
lie This is the third that has been men
! toned for the piece within a fortnight.
Willis Granger has severed his connec-
ton with the DAILY forces. Between los
| ing his London theater temporarily. get
/ ting INTO q ISnl dDOul 1NTdIO Qe teE-
| gerac' and having trouble with MIR.
Granger the cup of Mr. Days happiness
should be full.
Hope Booth has gone into the legiti-
mate having arranged TO do a society
woman and do her posing in "A Boy
Wanted 1t is rumored that if Miss
Booth dresses the former part after mod
els that are 10 come into vogue this year
she may be arrested.
Lee Harrison is the latest notable ad-
dition to the forces of the Rogers Broth
ers, who are, by the way, being adver-
ttised in a remarkably clever manner by
Klaw & Erlanger, whose last year pen
ny-for-your-time" checks will be remem-
bered as being the cleverest things of
their sort ever used for exploiting an at
traction.
A number two Little Minister COM
pany will be sent out this month-and. of
course, will visit Washington. Equally, of
course, the very people who created a
panic in their efforts to stay away from
Maude Adams production of the comedy
will pack the theater in which the imita-
ton presentation is given. Truly, de
public is tam FOOLS
The Dramatic Mirror is at last publish
ing its roster of theatrical companies for
the season of 1859 The list is not
more complete than was that printed
some weeks ago in The Times, and Mr..
Fiske draws from his figures much the
same conclusions then expressed in this
paper. The first-named table does, how
ever. include an exhaustive account of
the persons engaged with the different
organizations mentioned. besides contain
ing several combinations that had not
been formed at the time that the prior
list was being compiled.