The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-05-01
WITH MASK and WIG
Personal Paragraphs Con-
corning Stage FavOrites.
PLAYS AND PLAYERS
Stage Items Of the SeasOn-..GOssip OF
the Green ROOm-..What They
are Doing.
"The Geisha" was fiasco in Paris.

MARIE an Litllut is 10 marry nusSiaH
nobleman.
The "Hoosier Doctor" Company has
been disbanded.
Richard Golden has written a new
play, "Senator Prouty.'
Seven Frohman companies closed their
season on April 80.
Kellar is at work upon new Illusion,
"How to Free Cuba"
1.-The Curse of Gold" free silver play,
has given up the ghost.
Robert billiard will be seen in "The
White Squadron" on May2.
"Robin Hood was given its 250oth
performance on Monday last.
"The Transit of Venus" is a new
comedy by the authors of "The Ballet
Girl"
Duse will be seen in Paris in "The
Princess of Bagdad," Mora" and can
thony and Cleopatra"
The Wilbur Opera Company will pre-
sent light opera in Boston this season
and will charge only five cents seat.
Next season the Smyth and Rice
Comedy Company will produce Henry
Grey Carleton's "The Wickedest in
Paris"
Gladys Wallis played the title role in
"The LAZY Slavey" in New York last
week. Marie Dressler and Jules Steger
are also in the cast.
Nella Bergen has left the Bride
Elect" and will rejoin De Wolf Hopper's
company. llilda Clark is singing the
title role in Sousa's opera.
Grant Stewart and Charles Dickson
have written comedy, entitled "Nlis-
takes viii Happen" in which Mr.. Dick
son Will start next season.
klaW x Erlanger have twelve war plays
on the subject OF Cuba. Almost every
other manager has at least two or three
plays on the same theme.
The new play written by Mrs. Ethel
Watts, in which Annie Russell will APP
pear on the afternoon Of May 10, at New
York, has been named 'The Seen
ario.'
Robert Downing is to give the arena
scene from The Gladiator" in the
vaudeville theatres. Amy Lee will make
her vaudeville debut in mistress and
Maid"
1t is not at all unlikely that Elvia
Croix Seabrooke will once more rejoin
her husband, Thomas Q. Seabrooke, and
play her orrinal role in The Isle OF
Champagne.
George b. Mcclellan says that he has
engaged Dixey not merely for the forth
coming new Casino review, but to appear
under the management of Lederer and
Mcclellan for one year.
Garment was sung by an opera com.
pany in New York last week. If there
is one opera on the face OF the earth,
says the sun, which it would be sup
posed that American managers would be
anxious to avoid just now Carmen is
that one.
Saharet danced ON Il platform near the
Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Cleve-
land. She drove around the downtown
streets, armed with basket on a long
handle, into which people were re.
qnested to drop contributions for the
Maine monument fund.
Edna Wallace Hopper emphaticallv
denied to a representative of the New
York Telegraph that she intended to
marry "Tod' Sloane the jockey. Mrs.
Hopper punctuated her denial with
blusnes. Contrary to the Morning Tele.
graph mans expectations. she did not
exhibit much indignation as to the
rumOr.
The best contributions to the drama
by American plavwrights and the tirmest
foundations for the ng-desird Ameri.
can drama have nearly all been war
plays. tnquestionably, there are in this
war all the materials for thrilling melo,
drama OF the most approved type.-
Washington Post.
''Delimonco's at Six" was presented
in Frisco last week. The Can said.
Marie Jansen cannot sing any better
than many OF the little girls at the Tiyoli.
who are glad to be alive on incomes Of
$l5 week; her acting is OF the defunct
comic opera school-mock. heroics and
infantile drool. She has rather pretty
face and prcttier legs.
Charles II. Yale of Devils Auctionu
fame, will produce "The Devils Eve,
next season. Yale is general manager
OF the Gilmore theatres in PHILADELPHIA
Thirty-fve years ago Gilmore was
office boy in a theatre which occupied
the cite of Gilmore's Auditorium, the
finest theatre in Philadelphia He
earned 500 Il week. Today he is
worth 100000.
In Louise Moore the Waite Opera
Company possesses the Youngest prima
donna in America. This little blonde
has a repertoire of 60 operas, and an.
peared in % works during season of ~
weeks at keith's Theatre, Philadelphia.
The Atlantic City Press described her as
a miniature Lillian Russell" Miss
Moore scored a hit in vaudeville this
season. The Cleveland Press said: Miss
Louise Moore, young singer, with a
phenomenal soprano voice, astonished
patrons of the theatre, who were not
looking for music Of the quality which
issued from her pretty throat The
World described her "as splendid sing.
er and marvelousy pretty girl" At
Rochester last week Miss Moore added
paul Jones' to her repertoire. The
Democrat and Chronicle said: "Sbe has
a clear, soprano of excellent quality,
which she knew how to use when oppor.
tunity is offered. She is pretty and
spri!uell.e, and makes very charming
heroine"
The melodrama called "The Conoucr-
ers," which has been current here since
January l. had its final ranrcscntot,tion