The sun., 1898-01-16
WITH MASK and WIG
Personal Paragraphs Concerning
Stage Fayorites.
SOME PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
Stage Items of the ScasOn---Gossip of
the GrccnroOm---What They
Are Doing.
Adele Ritchie is in Paris.

fNlc hlltiilt Is III IaflS
Bcttna Girard il about again.
Ellen Terry has had four husbands.
Louis Mann wants to play Shylock.
Joseph Arhur's "Salt Of the Earth is
to be shclvcd.
There will lie no prize fighting IN Cor
belts new piece.
| Mrs. Richard Mansfield is i'll, and may
not act till next season.
Charles Ross, OF Ross 4 Fenton, was
a rubber in racing stlble.
Paul Pottcrs ''rhe Conquerors" is said
to be Sardon'S la lIaine.'
Mrs. Leslie Carter is to play the dual
role of mother and daughter in "The
Winters Tale"
Nat Goodwin will shortly produce
"Richard Savage a tragedy by Made
line Llcettc Riley.
Minstrel George Thatcher has retired
from the stage and opened hotel at
Elizabeth, n. J.
Nina harrington sued a Paterson, n.
j., physician for breach OF promise, and
"ss' "N"'tN' ri.oo
A bill before the New York Legisla-
ture will permit performances in New
York theatres on Sunday.
Ian Maclarcn's Beside the Bonnie
Brier Bus'" is to have its American
premiere at Washington in February.
Next season W. II. Crane will appear
in ''Treasure Trove," a play by Louis
Parker, co-author of "Rosemary."
The curse scene from "Leah, the For
saken," was acted by Mckee Rankin
and Nance ONcill, at a New York
Vaudeville T hcatre last week.
Davis 4 keough's big production,
"Heart OF the Klondike," is booked for
a long engagement at the Drlry Lane
Theatre, London.
The period Of Modjcska's rev play is
the "First Enpire,' and some of the
characters are prominent Americans of
those stirring times.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
preferred the Rosaind OF Julia MarIowe
to that of Ada Rehan. Daly's theatre
does not now advertise in that paper.
"An opera something like Carmen
would almost satisfy my ambition" said
Reginald DeKoven, and the manner of
his speaking suggested the idea that such
work is already projected.
A New York music halls chief card is
u woman. She disrobes exactly as she
would were she in her bedchamber, and
is clothed in every article of feminine
apparel generally worn by women.
The Harlem IN. W Republican Club
presented Catharine Lenyard with Il
pair Of gartcrs. The committee during
a performance Of the "Whir of the
Town. placed them on her limbs.
Sousa wrote the music Of the Bride
Elect six years ago and called it ''Thc
Wolf" 1t was declined by every comic |
opera star in America. Yet it seems to
be the most successful opera produced
in several seasons.
In England during the holidays
"Cindcralla'' was the attraction at nine
teen theatres, and "Dick Wilmington"
was the bill at nineteen houses. There !
were fifteen "Aladdins,' and thirteen
"Robnson CrusOcs.'
"In the case of my own little girl,'
says Lillian Russell, "who is now Is, |
shall not restrain her nor advise her to
adopt the stage asa vocation. shall
leave it to her own inclinations." Lillian
Russell, Jr., is at the convent at Fort
Lee, n. J.
Next season Mr.. Willard is coming
over again, opening with rcpertory in
,luding several new plays. Irving has
decided to stay at home. So has Charles
Season after next the Ken
lals, Charles Hawtry and George Al
,xander will tour America.
Belasco's new play deals with a
phase of the late civil war. 1t will be Il
ovc story, seasoned with gunpowdcr, the
clash of steel, and more or less gore, but
jhesc latter elements are to be subjugat-
ID to the main theme of the picce-thc
rumph Of love over sectional hatrcds.
Sothcrn, who will shortly produce
'Esmond," says: 1T ought not to be
'allcd Il dramatization of 'Esmond.' The
tory of the book has not been adhered
o at all closely. EslnOnd in the play
will win Bcatrix for himself finally, and
will not be satisfied with her mother, ;ls
n the novel;
"If master hand" asks Hugh Nor
on, "could place before us virgin fig
ire, human, healthy and careful OF her
kirts. set her within surroundings that
re clean and carry her through vicis-
itudes that are not necessarily con- !
aminatng, would she fail to be interest
ng merely because she was virginia. and
,avnr nucn had hnr honnr thrcotnup1 p'
The success of the Boston Lyric Com
ANY at Denver has been SO great that ,
were completed whereby ,
he original engagement of ten weeks .
las been extended to fifteen. Milton :
born, stage manager and comedian OF
his company, has a repertoire Of lob :
peras. Clara Lane and $. X. Murray t
re members of this organization. {
Taken as a class, there are of course {
ONE few exceptions. The men on the a
tage are probably the most immoral /
lass of men in the world If the wo-
zen on the stage are made bad it is be- r
ause they have to associate with and
,bor day by day with class Of men i'm
,oml:s :sand rotten to the core. Atlanta
constitution. L
When in the first frenzy OF her grief r
nd terror at the murder OF her old G
lend, William Terris, Jessie Milward G
jood beside his body where it lay in a
he dressing room at the Adelphi and de- !,
ared that she would never appear upon :.
le stage again, she was making no vow ,,
orn of hysteria, for the latest news from II
ondon is that Miss Milward has gone r