The times., 1898-05-15


inally intended the present unpopularity
of this country abroad and the consequent
uncertainty of his success being the rea-
sons assigned
Godfrey Stein and Kate DENIM Wilson
! are members of the Shupert Stock Com
! pany in Syracuse, n. Y. Both are clever
! people and should win there the same
opinions they created while with the CO.
lumbia company in this city.
Tickets for the Lambs Club entertain
ment in New York were sold at auction
/ there on Thursday Boxes went for $l60
and seats at $3.50 each. That should go
long way toward showing how much
/ good such a sale will do here.
Joseph Arthur's melodrama, "on the
Wabash. - was successfully produced for
! one consecutive night in Hoboken, Mildred
/ Holland appearing in the title role. The
/ Wabash seems TO be getting a great deal
/ of gratuitous advertising lately.
Madame Alexandra Viarda is going to
/ make brief tour of the country shortly.
1 But then Madame Viarda grew so used
to playing to empty benches during her
engagement at Fifth Avenue Theater
! that she viii not object to that
A Miss Yates, who suggested HELD by
| the Enemy" as an excellent opening bill
for the Columbia Stock Company, has
won the prize for the best suggestion re-
&, ceived and will occupy the box offered,
on a week from tomorrow night.
Fred Bond viii shortly make his debut in
vaudeville in Her Last Rehearsal" a de-
/ lightful little comedietta by Willard Hol-
comb. The sketch has been several times
presented both in this city and elsewhere.
and always achieved the greatest success.
| Jerome Eddy's new play will be produc-
! ed in New York next October 1t is
| called The Last of His Tribe" and
| while the title sounds very like "The Last
| OF His Race" il should prove an emphat-
| tc success. the authors cleVerness being
well known.
'The Moth and the Flame" has achieved
! a notable success in New York Its run
has been extended, and the Kelcey-Shan-
non combination have contracted for
regular Spring season at the Lyceum
Theater on the strength of its financial
! returns
Fanny Rice will begin her next season
on October 3, Sol Smith Russell starts
in on September ), Chauncey Olcott takes
10 the road again on the same date. and
Joseph Jefferson's all star company
makes its initial bow on the first Monday
\ in October.
Lillian Russell, by a decree of the court,
secured permission two weeks ago to be
legally known as Lillian Leonard Rus
sell. Careful Miss Russell! 1t IS begin
ming to be hard enough to remember you
without the addition of another dual
syllable to your name.
George II. Broadhurst. author of THE
Wrong Mr.. Wright and What Happen
ed to Jones" viii produce another farce
in August. MIR. Broadhurst is undoubted-
y the most prolific farcical writer of the
day and his many friends all wish him
success in his latest venture.
George Primrose and Lew Dockstader
I nave combined OTUlnfZfory
show. Both are artists in their lines and
should be eminentIy successful. But IL
does seem that minstrel comedians change
partners with the rapidity exercised by
bits Of glass in kaleidoscope.
George c. Boniface. jr., has joined a
Summer opera company. Such ventures
are often dangerous, but Mr. Boniface
has the satisfaction of knowing more
things could hardly occur to him In real
life than he was forced to combat with
in What Happened to Jones'"
A new spectacle TO be produced shortly
bears the title. The Evil Eye or the
Many Merry Mishaps Of Md, and the
Weird Wonderful WandeTings OF Nod.
Getting all that on a three-sheet should
be harder work than engraving the
Lords Prayer on a 10-cent piece.
Jerome Eddy wants to know if any
actor has volunteered to fight Spain, and
answers Ills own question IN the negative
Some stranded player must have been
called away from New York suddenly
and have forgotten to pay Mr.. Eddy
money borrowed to settle a wash bill.
A long list of notables including the
Prince of Wales. took occasion to con
graduate David Belasco and Mrs. Leslie
! | Carter on the success of the Heart o1
Maryland" a few days ago. Now We
shall have Mr.. Belasco wearing a mon.
/ nd 81,
when they return.
Buffalo Bill was arrested in Philadel.
phia a week ago Sunday for putting VI
| tents so that the horses connected witt
: the show might be freed from the cars
[ | Sabbath work goes against the grain il
) the Quaker City evidently, but in Gods
name why should the horses suffer fol
| mans foolishness?
} Edgar Selden, author of "a Hot OLD
| Time" and Scott Marble, author of ''The
| Heart of the Klondike'' took turns las
= week in abusing the critics in print. i
is just such third-ciass writers of second
a class plays who failing to win commen
dation for inferior effort, attack the mer
D they have failed TO coerce.
Edna May, of 1.-The Belle of New York.
< has already received the usual tempting
offers from London managers. Strang'
/ | none of those begged for ever accept
| TO London must have engraved next e
her heart the verses of that dainty httl,
, song, yield not to Temptation"
a company known as the big Four
| Is reviying Shakespearean plays this weel
> in Brooklyn. The organization includes
Charles Pope, Edmund Collier, Eller
Plympton and Mary Shaw. Ben Ring
, gold and Robert Smiley. both members
| of the cast are all that Is needed to make
that big Four seem like a "Shor
, Six"
! New Workers will probably get tired o
the war sooner than anyone else. Their
| are twenty music halls in the ga!
metrop. each music hall has a program
! averaging twelve acts and every ac
| brings in at least ten mentions of th
present trouble. If this continues non
combatants will soon be forced to leav'
the city.
Metropolitan dramatic paper las
> week published the following: mis-
Smith was presented with beautiful dia
mond necklace while playing at the Bijel
Theater, Brooklyn, recently, by he
friends Mr.. and Mrs. Brown" Sounds
little less definite than the address on th'
s famous envelope sent to John Smith
l America" doesn't it?
Harrison ]. Wolfe has sued Manager
| Henry NJ. Savage, of the Castle Square
: Company. for alleged breach of contract
contending that he had been engaged fo
$ the leading role in 1.-The Prisoner of Zen
2 da," but had been dismissed as incompe
tent after a weeks rehearsals. Mr.. Wolff
is a clever actor. and the incompetent
story sounds little unlikely.
: A Necessity Gained.