The sun., 1898-11-13
WITH MASK AND WIG
Personal Paragraphs Con-
cerning Stage FavOrites.
PLAYS AND PLAYERS
Stage Items Of the SeasOn-.- Gossip of
the Green Room What They
are Doing.

At two Philadelphia theatres on elec-
tion night the performance began at
1l3O. ~
The Castle Square Opera Company has
thus far given 800 performances in New
York.
Joseph Jefferson, owing to illness, did
not act last week, and they say he may
never appear again.
II 1t is announced that there is new
law in Paris making it compulsory for
every theatre to provide an attending
physician and surgeon.
Anthony Hopes play, "Phroso,' from
his own novel of that name, will be pro-
duced by the Empire Theatre Company
on November 2S in Boston.
The actress of Louise in "The Two
Orphans" fell i'll at Elmira, and the audi
ence enjoyed the incongruous sight Of a
supposedly blind girl reading her lines
from manuscript.
Five blind young men perform as
acrobats in Western vaudeville theatres.
They acquired their skill in the gym
nasium Of a St. Louis asylum and are
sald to be wonderfully proficient.
"a Dangerous Maid" was produced at
the New York Casino last Saturday
night. A sensation scene is a duel be-
tween Laura Burt and Madge Lessing,
both ladies disrobing to the extent shown
in famous picture.
The reports that Marie Dressler had
been compelled to resign from fashion,
able New York gymnasium because the
other women members objected to bath
ing in the same tank with an actress are
believed to be erroneous
Sol Smith Russell will produce his new
piece, "Hon. John Grigsby," at the
Broad Street Theatre, in Philadelphia,
November q. This is the first time when
Mr.. Russell has been compelled to put
forward a second play in any single
season.
Having booked two shows for the same
evening, Utica manager was forced to
give both entertainments. One began at
II p. IN. The novelty attracted an i'm
mense audience, both performances being
furnished for one admission. The attrac
tions were "Finnegan's Ball'' and "All
Aboard"
Mr.. DAILY announces that he will be-
gin the twentieth regular dramatic sea-
son at his theatre on Saturday evening,
November 19, producing "The Merchant
of Venice" with Ada Rehan as Portia,
and Mr.. Sidney Herbert as Shylock.
"a Runaway Girl" will be transferred
to the Fifth Avenue Theatre on Novem-
Der 81
Two actresses, at one time associated
in the support OF Daniel Bandmann, are
now in Broadway theatres. Louise
Beaudet, who stepped from comic opera
into heavy Shakespeare roles in the
Anglo-German tragedian's companies, is
Mile. Fih in "The Belle of New York"
i Julia Arthur, who was accustomed to as
sumo lighter roles with Bandpann, is a
star al Wallack's.
| There seems to be an effort to make it
appear that W. II. Crane has Il mass
of new plays to produce in New York
in case "Worth a Million" by Eugene
! Presbrey, falls down. Gilbert Parker,
Clyde Fitch and Leo Ditrichstein ale
Cranes stock of waiting comedies. As
a fact, the actor is relying on the Pres
brev comedy, and the others are not en-
gagged iii cutting any large, cold areas of
! ice.
"Indiscriminate pufiery," said b. +.
Keith, the vaudeville king, sis disas-
trous alike for the newspaper and the
theatre. The theatre-going public of
this country are intelligent and discrim-
mating, and are quick to estimate at its
true value-or rather to recognize the
utter lack of value in the so-called opin-
ion OF newspaper that apparently finds
every theatrical performance whatever
worthy of the most extravagant praise.
The readers of such papers have no con-
fidence whatever in its criticisms, and
the theatre suffers just as much as does
the paper. On the other hand, even a
severe roast as you newspaper men
term it, often leads the public to 60 to a
show just to see whether it is quite as
bad as described, while the opinion Of a
newspaper whose reviews always reflect
sincerity of purpose, honesty towards
both readers and performers and ability
to detect varying degrees of merit, has
an immense weight with the public, and
a word OF conservative praise from such
paper is worth hundreds OF dollars to
the management, where the laudatory
gush Of one of the other class of papers is
worse than valueless-injuries 10 an ex.
tent not always realized by managers
themselves.
The thin, nervous woman is the woman
, who wins renown in dramatic art. Sarah
Bernhardts slenderness has long been 9
theme for the wits, Eleonora Duse is 0
rack OF bones, Nine. Rejane is slender
Jane Hading has the figure OF young
, girl, Ellen Terry is devoid of fat, Julis
, Arthur and Julia Marlowe are thir
, women, Maude Adams is emacated anc
Annie Russell is first cousin to the living
i skeleton, Minnie Maddern is nothing
, but skin and bones and genius, and Mrs
Leslie Carter and Mrs. Cora Potter arr
3 diaphanous, Viola Allen, although no
thin, is slender, and Jessie Millward
t her successor as leading woman of th'
r Empire, is bv no means plump, Mari'
3 Burroughs is thin, and thin also is Eff
r Shannon. So long as she kept her figur
9 Georgia Cayvan remained in high favo
! at the Lyceum, but when she took t,
E flesh and showed it in "The Amazons'
trouble awaited her. Virginia Harmed
has wel-rounded form, but she is mar
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