The sun., 1898-01-09
NTH MASK AND WIG.
Personal Paragraphs Concerning
Stage FayoriteS.
SOME PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
Stage Items of the Season. Gossip OF
the GIccnrOOm. What They
Are Doing.
Alice Nelson's son is 7 years old.

New York's permanent circus has
failed.
Clara Morris was born on st. Pa,rick's $
day.
William Winter has been Il dramatic
critic for 10 years.
A trained nurse is employed at Phila
delphia theatre.
Laura Biggar has left her husband and
"a Railroad Ticket"
Next season Mark Smith will pro-
duce an opera called king Frappc."
"What Happened to Jones' is to be
given in South Africa and Australia.
Mrs. Alexander SaIvini Maud Dixon
will short y return to the stage.
Buffalo Bil's Wild West will he Il iea-
ture of the Paris Exposition in $500.
Camille D'Arvillc will probably sing
the prima donna role in 'rhr Highway.
man.
1t is said that Corinn, lost $50, 900 in
Lillian Russcl's old opera, AN Ameri-
can beauty
Weber's 'FrcySchuz' has Just been
performed for the OOOth time at the Ber-
lin Royal Opera.
William Daniorth and Norma kopp,
both of Frank Daniels Company, will
shortly be married.
Frank James, brother of Jesse James
is the door tender Of the Standard
Theatre. st. Louis
With the exception Of +. ). Willard,
nv tIn thnV, ~ InTIi.I
touring America this year
Olga Nethcrsoe has decided not to
return to America this spring, dcicrring
her visit until next autumn
Lost, Straycd or StoIcn' has given up
the ghost. Anna @ kccir was the back
er, and played one of the principal parts.
Verdi was denied admittance to the
Milan Conservatory on the ground that
he showed no special aptitude for music.
J. X Murray and Clara Lane will
star next season in plays somewhat
upon the order Of those made famous
by William J. Scanlan.
Pinero is now II wears old. He was a
lawyer and an actor before he became a
dramatist 1t is said that he was ten
months writing THE Princess and the
Butterfly"
Vienna is going to turn moral too.
The ballet corps at the Imperial Opera
House has received orders to wear
'roony white silk stockings" over IT.
tights henceforth.
Miss Marie Burroughs has decided not
to join Mr.. Robert IIilly Yards "A New
Yorker company, at Hoyt's. She may
possibly return to the stage III some
other play, however, before long
Ms. Annie Ycamans, Johnnie Wild
and Dan Co!yer are to appear at Il New
York vaudeville theatre next week in a
new sketch based on ''Chimmie Faddcn,"
and arranged 10y Edward W. Townsend.
Sieyfrird Wagner is in Rome at work
on a comic opera, the book being on Il
story oi the Thirty Years war. His
Music is said to e not Of the school Of
his father, but Of that Of lEumpcrdlnck.
the composer OF ''lIanscl and Grctc..
Sixteen plays have been produced this
season that cost $4,000 to meet the in
ital cost Charles frohman states that
"a Marriage Of Convenience With on,
scene. cost $4,000; "Ihr Little Minis
ter @,o0a, and Change A"ey" Sl4,0Ot.
:. bli-pu>ting combination has been
turned mo a limited IiAbjIny corpora
ton III London, with Il capital Of SI2.-
25OCO'. 1t holds ont as ~ nhuccmrnt
to buy ares number OF contracts it
has for hilI po>;ilgat the rate Of Il penny
sheet per week.
Pan! Potter has written a p,av for
Rccrb"hn Tree about tir Indian nu-
tiny oi the Iil}iC<. hul has decided NOT t.
use FOR it Mr.. kiu'iN% title. "rIr Man
Who Wat.' Lronravuilu j. setting Pot
tcr's dramatic vcsirn ui "Ili.by' t.
music and taNr las promised IT, sing
he It'll rpIc
The year IE"S "p, ned at tine Ncw
York theatres on Monday with tine door,
OF two p,ayhouSc- only. I've newest unc-.
closed to patrons. At two houses. i'm
unusual thing even in the varied record
"f Ne" York amuScn,cn,S. Silakcsprarc's
AS lcu Like IT. was pfr-rntrI
''llumpty Dumpty' an I'll Tuya,urc'
were also among the offerings.
Sarah Bcrmhardt and Mile. Ealtct, oi
the ("ncdic Franchise, have been elect
ed we" presidents OF the committee il,
charge Of class XVIII Materials Of The
Mrical Art Of the 1900 exposition, Of
which NJ. '}aiIhard director ui the tirand
Opera, i president. They are the first
women chosen aS official managers ON Il
ronml'i"" not connected with wuman'.
work.
Julia Marlowc, says Hillary Bell. who
may b" considered no longer Il wife. II
mad or a widow, returns to town thi.
evening IN the second scmbancc. Tn
less nairmony has much improved her
conception OF naidcnhuud. we shall little
Ike her HosNIlnd. She played the char
actcr some years ago in the Fifth avenue
and lacked not only the physical but the
tcmpcramcntal stature Uf ShakrSrnarr'-
heroine.
However, Miss NARROW learned a GOOD
Zeal from Robert 'Iabcr, although # j.
now deemed wise managerial policy to
separate them, and among her connrIbaI
acquisitions may bc Il cumprrhcnsiou Of
the essentials which infatuated Orlando
and all lovers after him.
erred, c. Whitney has paid $500 for
the privilege Of Il nine months option ON
an opera which he has decided not to
use. 1t is called "Thc Bpygar Prince.
or Royal Tricks" Joseph Comfy, OF
Hungary, is the composer Of the music,
lie IS Official author to the royal opera
houses at Budapest and Vienna. The
pppr. hoU Iona ,I,,v ; , i,I .... ii.