The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-05-08
Personal Paragraphs Con-
corning Stage FavOrites.
PLAYS AND PLAYERS
Stage Items Of the SeasOn.-.GOssip OF
the Green RoOm---What They
are Doing.

Aupnstin DAILY has shelved Audran's
"Le Poupee."
Edna May has been introduced to the
Prince of Wales.
Joe OFT has joined Rice's "Monte
Carlo" Company.
Denvers stock company revived the
''Clemenceau Case"
Marie Wainwright and James B. Mackie
are to appear in vaudeville.
Henrietta Crossman played the title
role in THE Dancing Grip at Cincin-
natl last week.
Wilton Lackaye and Edith Crane were
seen in Charles O'Malley" in Wash
ington last week.
when the real American opera is
written" says May Irwin, ''the coon
songs will be predominating feature
Viola Allen may star in tie Court
ship Of Miles Standish," or in dramati
cation of Hall Gaines ''The Christian"
Yvctte Guilbert is OF Paris committee
to raise war fund for Spain. Does this
come Of her having married an Ameri-
can?
Lewis Morrison has added the MAS
ter OF Ceremonies to his repertoire. In
San Francisco next month he will play
Voltare in Frederick the Great"
Captain Sigsbee in vaudeville! The
biograph at kei,h's Philadelphia theatre
last week pictured the hero of the
Maine leaving the Army and Navy
Building, at Washington.
The new play, 'Iysiane," recently
produced by Sarah Bernhardt at the
Renaissance, in Paris, failed utterly.
Another Partisan failure. Jean Richie
pins la Martyre."
Shenandoah began the fifth week of
its run in Philadelphia on Monday last.
Otis skinner and Mary Hampton will be
seen in the Chicago revival of "Shenan-
doah."
Messrs. STANCE and Edwards have
named the new opera The Lady, the
Doctor and the Devil" RUSSELL Fox
and UAngels will probably appear in it
next season.
Nellie Bergen Of Fargo, n. D., is on a
New York hotel register. In Mrs. Edna
Wallace flopper's suit for divorce from
Mr.. De Wolf Hopper, Mrs. Nellie Bergen
Is named as correspondent.
Rose Coghlan will produce ''Washing-
tons Surrender at keiths Vaudeville
Theatre. Boston, on May l6. Robert
Downing will be seen in the Keith the
"tres in the combat scene from ''The
Gladiator"
Merri Osborn played the title role in
tho rt,ur1 ('b,,,S ( ,irl - lac ,raaly
The cast vi The Cureans," an opera
sung in New York last week, included
Richard +. Carroll Samuel Edwards and
Alice IIolbrook.
Companies touring Scotland tom,
Dick AMI Harry, The Gay Paliaiennc, -
"The Wandering jew" "a Night Out, "
'When the Lamps are Lighted "
"TomnIy Atkins, Girl Of My Heart
and The Grip Of Iron
Charles T.. BIancy has engaged Joseph
J. bowling and Myra Davis to head
''The Electrician company next season
and GEORGE Richards, Eugene Garfield
and Willis +. Swcatman. for his new
farce-comedy, "A Female Drummer"
Mr.. Mansfield has no less than five
new plays for next season. He has !;
play by MIR. IangwiIl, the well-knowl
London novelist, and another by George
Bernard Shaw. He also has an adapta
ton Of Robert Louis StcvenSons re-
nance, est. Ives"
''God Save Columbia" the new IA
tional anthem, composed by Mrs Caro-
line Mccartney School of Philadelphia
has proven popular with the probes
siona!s, the music having an elevated and
spirited quality. and at the same time Il
simplicity which MAKES it catchy.
Ellen Terry's daughter .Ailsa Craig, i,
an acteSs in the company supporting
Mrs Potter and Mr. BclIew in tie Brit.
ish provinces. Miss Craig : mother went
the other night to see her daughter act
and the audience recognized her as she
entered the theatre. she was chrercd
more heartily than the stars OF the occa.
sion.
he word is full of men and women
spendidIy endowed and ghlyeducated
yet who can scarcely get a living, and
yet Anna Held has the privacy OF hel
palace car, enjoys purple and fine linen,
and her weeks profits run into the
thousands. All this on the smallest
capital know Of What folly to say
that ability will always telI!-Denver
Post.
AT the present time Fanny Davenport
is suffering from sciatica and can scarcely
move her limbs. Within fortnight she
will be moved to her country home at
South Duxbury, Mass. 1t will take her
the better part Of the summer to become
strong again. Miss Davenport has three
new plays under consideration, and will
make an expensive production of one OF
them in the autumn.
Rose Coghlan will make her vaude-
vile debut at kcith's Boston Theatre
tomorrow in Nance Oldfcld." The
Coghlan engagement was made in twenty
minutes John Iris, who got Miss
Coghlan to go in. went down to see Mr..
lIodgdon, Mr.. Hodgdon called up Mr..
Albee by long-distance phone and he
and Mr.. Keith talked it over in Boston
telcphoning back to New York their as.
sent, and contracts were signed inside of
half an hour.
"The Purser," a farce, was produced
for the first time in America at Frisco
last week. Ferris Hartman and Lena
Melville playing the chief roles. Just
as the purser and his bride were about
to settle down to several months of sta
tionary honeymoon he was ordered off
to sea and sooner than leave her NO