The sun., 1898-01-02
NTH MASK and WIG.
Personal Paragraphs Concerning
Stage Fayorites.
SOME PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
Stage Items Ofthe Season. Gossip of
the GrcenrOOin. What They
Are Doing.

Alice Judson is seriously i'll.
New York is TO have another theatre.
Kathryn Kidder's company has been
disbanded
Sam r. Jack has leased the New York
Jonah Theatre.
'The Saint" is the title of play to be
produced in Rome.
1t requires half day to sing the ma
tional hymn Of China.
Helen Betram has scored a hit in
"Cinderlla," at London.
sydney Roscnfeld's new play is called
"a Divorce Colony
Franklin Fylcs "CumtrrIand 81" is
to he produced in London.
Next season Matthews and Bugcr will
tr seen in new play.
Frederick Paulding is a member Of Il
Frisco stock company.
Sam Bernard will star next season in
the marquis OF Michigan
"Kid' Mccoy punched the bag ut Il
New York music hall last week.
Laura Burt will be seen in the London
production of "Bluc Jeans"
Jerome Sykes will star next SEASON in
a new opera by Harry b. Smith.
Dumas comedy, "les Jcnnessc de
Louis NNI," has been revived in Paris.
Robert Hilliarl and Marie Burroughs
will play thc chscf roles in "a New
Yorker"
4 Boston stock company is to act
diplomacy" prisoner OF Zenda' and
'In Mizzoura."
The three Hawthorne sisters are in
the cast Of aladdin" now being pre-
sented in Dublin.
The Alice Nelson Opera Company
will produce new work by Victor Her
bert next season.
Nine. Pillar Mnrin, ni Orange
Blossom" fame, viii play the titk role
in "Thc Paris DOLL"
jules Massenct has announced that
with "Sappho' his career as a" opera
composer Is at an cnd.
Estelle Clayton will make her first
vaudeville venture in a new sketch
founded on Anstey's Tinted Venus"
i The .Adclphia Theatre, which has been
closed since William Terriss' death,
opened Tuesday night with "Secrct
Service
James X. Hackctt, the actor, who for
days has been dangerously sick with
ont of danger.
Jacob Lit has bought the meIodrama
Sporting Lifc,' by Cecil Raleigh and
seymour Hicks, and will prcsept it in
New York within short time.
The Fart OF Eoslyn is going'to be an
actor. lie will appear at the Court
Theatre, London, in next years produc-
ticnl OF Il new play by \. ". Piner".
/ DAnnun2io's dead City" has only
five characters, and their parts are the
very longest that actor nr actress has
ever studied. I'll" leading part is that
Of Il blind girl.
Mrs Leslie Cancr's new erection will
he the leading role in Il new play by
David Bc|asc". Eventually she will ap
pear in a Winters Tale" Hamillc'
and "Much Ado About Nothing
Charles Coghlan is Il grandfather. His
daughter Gertrude was married to the
son " Presbyterian minister three
years ago, when she WAS fifteen. She
wants divorce Gertrude is amother.
Loco. Teller, manager tor Weber Il
! Fields Broadway Music Hall, convinced
the Magistrate in the jefferson Market
Court, New York, last weak, that the sale
of liquor in the music hall was not Il
violation of the law.
A,Igustin Daly's company win bc-sccn
in New York in "As You Lake It,"
"Merry Wi OF Windsor" School for
Scandal "Lpndon Assur,nrc,' "Mer-
cham Of Ncnirc,' 'Frou Frou,' "'Much |
Ado About Nothing" and "'rhc Country
Girl
Ellen Terry has been playing ~Mmc.
Sans l;cnc,' through the EngliSh pro-
vnces without Sir Henry Irving, who in
London was the Napoleon od that com
edy. She has been drawing fully as
large houses as she did when Sir Il",ry
accompanied her.
Nine. Sembrich is positively to re-
tam tothis country neai scaspn. Mluc.
S'mbrich is the highest pail woman
singer III Europe, next TO Patti. When
she sings at the Metropolitan Op4ln
House, New York, it will be at Il fgsuc
pruportinasc to here European salary.
"Tlcspis" says that New York Press,
in these days is in IL licentiouS mood, {
and js kicking up her heels in a way
that is extraordinary and innlodcst.
thaI1uion, at kostcr x BIaFs, is carry {
ing Partisan hensaionaliSm to an rx- t
trrmc and ''!hc Telephone Girl" is by
J me udds the hroadcst emrrlamnynt
which has ever been presented in that |
huliSu.
Several Of the stock companies cSlab- /
I.shed Ibis season, including the unc ,
headed hy Mckee Rankin and Nance
VNrii! IN New York, have given up the {
ghost. TIl" most successful ui these ven t
lures is the organization formed by Man ,
agrr AhNu%h, Of Baltimore. The A. =
Mrqh clientele, il il said, already cX- {
rro@- that OF any hons" in the Munumrn- Y
lNI City. r.
IT is likely that julia Marlowc'y ncw :,
piece will not bn called "rhc Countess
after all. It is not an hator- |
irat play, but as il is laid in the time of Y
Napoleon the litIc first selected would be- +
likely t. suggest nisIraIingIy II certain '
Polish lady who was more on less con- 1
.crncd with the imperial terror of fUropo Il
at one stage Of his career. h
On the opening night Of "Thc Prairie b
King ut the sydney CAuS } LyceuM, -
lLp canon in which NIrI,,In Niiii,n.,,,