The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-06-19
Theatrical
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tOrinne is 20 enter NAudcFlitc-
Rose Coghhn has n bicycle. -
"Jin tho Penman" was revived In Nc"
The Dorothy Morton Opera Company Is
Eesr6ohm Tree will play Rich'D'n's
Blanche Walsh was fined for riding .
lghtess wheel. $3.50
Lottic collins is starring in England
In The White Blackblrd: =,
Eddie Foy tour IN MI. PacAeF' oA
Chicago" lasted ten days -,
Roland Reeds new play was Written oy
Madeline Lucette Ryley.
YORK Casino company. A..
Harry 3. smith and Englaender. the
composer, are writing new opera.
How'll How'll Is the title or 2 new
italian melodrama recently performed
In Rome.
colorado's Supreme cour, has sppro,y..
ef n Denver ordinance that PROMPTS
Sunday theatrical performances a..
We have four American tragedlansS nv
ing--LOuis James, Frederick Warde, ROD
ert Downing and Joseph Haworth.
Tue spectators at New YorH theatre
the other night included May Irwin, Ne-
roma Jarbeau. Isadore Rush and Marie
Dire ssler
yankee Doodle Dandy" is to be the
title OF the new MortoR-kerker-Le derer
production scheduled for July 4 az INC
New York Casino. It Will be the nfth N
cludes I'm Cay New York" and The
Lady Slavey." but present ndefstano-
ing l. that this years piece viii be not
so much a topical review as genera
extravaganza. War is 10 be its theme.
'If there is one novelty which the sea-
son OF iS97-sS has evolved II Is ina
slender and willowy type Of chorus girl
yes. and star. The kind OF girl gu SCI III
marble standing In emily costumes ia
fountains or footing with butterflies on
PEDESTAL Tho Junoesque woman Of the
stage Is lowly but surely beng iorced IN
10 line with the fat comic lady OF opera.
Ii Is an age Of bant and bicycle riding. IL
ID the survival OF the thinnest. Matinee
dir I'm Dramatic Mirror.
Keene carried the echoes or SNAKES
peare into the Businesses ot the wilder,
ness ne sung In caves and waved nj!
garish banner through the darkness ana
there is nobody else ready 10 eaten up
the broken hagstaff and carry crude ou!
welcome drama into the highways and
hedges. He viii be missed for years, NOT
here. OF course, but In the woods ana on
the praries. In the folds empty OF music
and the villages where rustic faith IS
invulnerable and where keenes mastery
was complete He went about with MS
wild harp strung behind him like the
Ministries and historians OF old and all
his faults accumulated were most tor-
giveable.-Amy Leslie In Chicago News.
Charles Lecocq. after he Is FORGOTTEN
rs the composer or La File de Nine.
Angot.' will probably live In leading
case in French law. When he married
the wife from whom he was divorced a
year ago the marriage contract declared
that the parties should share IN common
all property that might be acquired dur
ing their married life. The divorced wife
brought suit FOR half Of the composer
authors rights and royalties on all works
composed during the period The Paris
courts have decided In her favor, holding
that intellectual works are products OF
ha 10 "a in "a n
tho law are not 10 be distinguished from
the material products of commerce or in
dustry. and that under such contracts the
wife has right TO an equal share In
the profits OF the husbands writings,
plays. compositions. paintings. or sculp-
/ ture. Moreover. though divorced, the
wife continues 70 be a business partner.
and must be made party 20 all future
contracts involving any use Of authors
rights in works produced during the
period Of WedlOck.
b. +. Keith. the widely-known theat-
rical manager was a mess boy on the
steamship Ashland IN 1858. II made him
quit the sea-" said Captain Norton, "be-
cause he was always terribly seaslck in
/ heavy weather. We have kept up cur
friendship ever since, and indulge In an
occasional correspondence. Keith Is pa
! triOtic American, and he has no use Tor
! Europe with all sides OF which he made
himself familiar during a recent journey
covering eighteen months OF time abroad.
here Is a paragraph from one OF nav
/ recent letters 10 ne, showing mat ne Is
] abreast OF tho times I'm general matters.
/ as well as IN those pertaining to his BUSH
| ness as a theatrical manager: When we
| learn 20 respect ourselves and what we
/ have in as proportiOnate and dignfied
/ way and manner as foreigners
| do themselves and what they have,
/ we shall DO vastly more respect-
| ed abroad. Admiral Dewey has
/ driven a great entering wedge in a naval
way i'm this respect. which can be sue
! cessfully followed up by Americans gen.
orally. in private as we'll as In public
life."