The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-04-10

next season with the Grau Opera Com
many hut she says that In case OF war
she will not be expected to fulhll her
contract
Sir Arthur sullivan's new opera IA call
ell "The Beauty Stone" The piece -
described as a combination OF roman
tic play and musical drama The book
Is by Pinero and Carr.
Tie chief incident OF Tho Beliring-
or" a new play by sutton Nane. occurs
in n church belfry. whore the murderer.
hv reason OF his trade, Is compelled TO
ton the funeral krell OF his victim.
The Lady Slavcy' IS TO be revived
NJ the New York Casino. and the cast
will include Walter Jones Richard Care,
Marie Dressler. Edna Wallace Hopper
and Thomas O. soabrooke.
open the theatres and baseball parks
Sundays and every other day" says
Rev Dr. Roberts, OF Kansas City. You
can't force a man 10 90 10 church. but
you may force him 10 go TO worse
places"
Miss Marguerite Merington has named
the play in which Mrs. Fiske
at New York this week Love VIII Find
the Way" AS a curtain raiser for the
new piece Mrs. Oscar Beringers "A Bit
OF old Chelsea" will be performed.
Mrs. John wood who viii return 20
this country next season 10 act with
Joseph Jefferson In Tie Rivals" has
lived In London so many years that her
American career Is forgotten, and IL is
difficult to believe that she vas not well
received when she made hei London
debut IN 1866.
mo. there are no legitimate sopranos
IN light opera nOwadays,' said Jessie
Bartlett Davis. THE girls In comic opera
arc 100 lazy. They take two or three
lessons. know a graceful step when they
come on the stage and that IS all. The
Bostouans have been looking for q
Marie Stone for the past i've years and
We cannot find her"
Harrison Grey Fiske. editor Of the
New York Dramatic Mirror who was
recently arrested for criminal libel on
the complaint OF the theatrical trust won
a complete and sweeping victory in The
courts. IL Is generally admitted that Mr.
Fiskc will also win the civil suit now
pending Criticism cannot be controlled
as easily as theatres.-Cinclnnati Tines
Star.
Il Is singular fact says Leander
Richardson. that when any play IL pre-
scented upon tie New York Stage which
Is denounced as immoral. It's biggest au-
diences are composed principally OF wom-
en- When their husbands and fathers
take IL upon themselves to prescribe GER
tam works IL ism. at all surprising that
they seek Information at nrst hand and
ION the quiet"
In spite OF Buses request. the fam
ny has refused again 70 allow the per-
formance OF the Road 10 Thebes' with
the explanation that shortly before the
death of Dumas Withdrew his promise 10
let II be acted on tie ground that he
was stlll uncertain as to the final solu-
ton of the intrigue The play IS said TO
be written more than any OF Dumas
dramas under the influence OF lbsen.
Plans are being made for the formation
OF a stock company in New York CITY
with the novel feature OF travelling stars.
Branch companies are % be organized In
other cities. making a sort OF circuit over
which the stars viii travel Thus, IN
stead Of shipping an entire company from
city TO city. the star male or female
vii travel In solitary state and reflect
on tne money saved In railroad fares.
u has become quite the piss
nowadays for dramatsts or writer's OF
pieces that pass muster as plays.
they are scarcely worth being dlgnlhed
with thai title, to first study the bttla
pecuHarlties and characteristics OF the
scintilaung star for whom the
grinding out The frothy matter and then
start to work at building the piece aro.nd
that person or his other cccentricities -
Tho Can Boy Harry l.. Knapp in Phil
adelphia Inquirer.
Eremote Norelli has lately been act
ing In Milan an old play called THE
Origin Of a Great Banking House which
has OF been seen on the italian stage in
many years II e. a thinly disguised his
tory OF tho Rothschid family, and the