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on the stage. 1t enchanted public stated
with stronger fare Just by reason of its
very innocence. Like party of sybarites
indulging In the country In beans and bacon,
and processing to enjoy itself. the public
went into raptures, real or affected, and real
rather than affected. This Is well, and we
would not have 1t otherwise. We are most
Of us in our hearts much less wicked than
we would have people think us. and the
worst of us is capable of an incidental de-
bauch upon junkets and sillabubs. 1t Is,
moreover. morally gratifying to see cyni-
cal and fashionable world going into costa
cies over a play in which not the slightest
puncture Is made in the least of the COM
mandments. John Oliver Hobbies must not,
however, led away by her triumph, jump
to the conclusion that she has written a
good play. She has written a nice, present
able, sympathetic entertainment, to which,
according to the phrase of the day, "a girl
may take her mother and has supplied 1t
with dialogue at once epigrammatic, appro-
pirate and enforced. There is, moreover,
a vein of good-humored cynicism. Add to
these things that the management has sup
piled an excellent Interpretation and love-
ly mise-en-scene, and the secret of success
is apparent
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On Playhouse Subsidies

Beerbohm Tree has been lecturing to the
Society for the Extension of University
Teaching at the London university. OF the
ACCESSIBILITY of substituting the playhouses
Mr.. Tree thought that some assistance
should be extended to it. AT the present
moment the theaters are carried on at the
risk of the manager, who Is bound to be
guided, whatever his artistic aspirations, by
commercial considerations In order to keep
his theater open, and it is these very COM
mercial considerations that clog the prog
ress of the theater Whether the piece will
pay or not pay is what the private mana
ger is first bound to consider whereas we
is the piece that l am about to put up
worthy or unworthy?' Therefore, 1 say,
for the theater have a subsidy, and don't
let its manager be an actor. At the present
day we find our best managers are our best
actors, Nothing In these days is more de-
structive of true theatrical art than the
long run. Nothing, 1t is needless to say.
puts more money into the pocket of the
private manager The long run has delet-
erious effect upon an actor, because 1t STILES
ambition, induces sovenliness of perform
ances, and after a time that dreadful lack
of interest in his rork which Is the greatest
bar to true artistic achievement. With an
ideal theater, furnished with subsidy, the
manager could afford to be independent of
the long run. He could be constantly pro-
ducing new pieces"
Now Mr. Tree is an actor-manager, who
chooses all the best parts for himself, and Is
renowned for the eXpensiyeness and showi-
ness of his scenery.
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Green Room Gossip

In the action brought by Edwin Arden to
recover 5000 from Richard Mansfield for
alleged breach of contract the jury
brought in verdict in the city court,
New York, In favor Of Mansfield. Mans
field denied the alleged contract and said
that he had consented to give Arden a trial
in his theatrical company to ascertain
whether he would engage him. He said
that he had never engaged him.
1.-THE Cat and the Cherub," the Chinese
play by Mr.. Chester Bailey Fernald, or
iginally produced. so far as England is CON-
cerned, on October 80, 1897, has been re-
vived with the Original cast at the Royal
theater, London.
Articles of Incorporation of the ]. IL.
Haverly American and European Minstrel
company were filed in County Clerk
Fishers Office in Jersey City. The cap
ital stock is $4,000, all subscribed for.
Frank Houghtain of Taylor's hotel, Jer-
sey City, Thomas II. Wagstaff, a we'll
known theater manager, William NJ.
Thatcher and Frank M. Case are con-
nected with the corporation. 1t is under
stood that it is intended to reorganize the
old Haverly Ministries.
An attractive announcement for the
new volume of Scribner's Magazine is
a series of musical impressions from the
letters of the late Sidney Lanier. These
letters were written to his wife and are
descriptions of the poets ideas and feel
ings while listening to different kinds If
music on different occasions.
On Ibsens SEVENTEEN birthday not less
than five of his plays were produced in
Berlin, "Hedda Gabler," THE Wild Duck
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A French Critic

Under the title of "Drame Ancien, Drame
Moderne," Emile Faguet, the French critic,
has published volume on the theater. In his
preface ne has some remarks about the
reasons that impel people to go to the play,
his belief being that the foundation of all
dramatic emotions is to be found in the
sympathy of man with man, and that on
the stage it is In the bad fortunes and not
the good fortunes Of the characters that we
most delight Thus, he says: do you ever
see a picture of happiness in the theater?
Never! Comedy and tragedy? Why, comedy
is a picture of ridiculou- misfortunes and
tragedy of terrible ones. Somebody once
wittily said: why do comedies always
finish with wedding? Because it is only
after the marriage that the tragedy begins.
Well, this is not bad, but 1t is not all. What
ought to be made clear Is that comedy
itself is a picture of unhappiness, nearly
always turning on the misfortunes of two
young people who would like to marry and
cannot AS soon as they can be the thing
is at an end. Oh! drop the curtain, for
heavens sake-theyre going to be happy
I'm off. They interest me no longer. No
dramatic author ever painted a honeymoon,
or If he did. 1t was just when the honey
was beginning to turn sour"
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1.-The Pretemders to the Crown "An En-
envy to the People" and mora" were the
five. This is good showing for one town.
five theaters capable of putting out plays
of this class-and audiences which make
such attempts no risk for a manager!
Mr.. Thomas Thorne after an absence of
six years. is to resume his place among
the London managers. He has taken pos
session of Terry theater and on the 18th CT
July will give the three-act comedy 1.-THE
Wears Dilemma" in which he has acted
already, and with success, in the English
provinces.
Beerbohm Tree is soon to present Jean
Richepin's lie Chemineau."
"Peleas ct Melisandre,' a play by Maetcr-
linck, is to be presented by Mrs. Patrick
Campbell and Professionalism at mat
inee in London. Among the many weird
plays that the Belgian wrote none is more
peculiar than this tragedy.
lies Girouttes," a farce by Lecocq and
Matthew, had its premiere at the Dejazet
in Paris on May 81. 1t is work of little
originality harping on the well-worn
theme of divorce, but is amusing enough
to make an idle evening pass pleasantly.
At the Theatre de Republique in Paris
there is a revival of lie Roi de Rome" a
play originally produced nearly fifty years
ago. Its authors are Charles Desnoyer and
Leon Beauvallet. Renee Congo takes the
title-role, that of the young son of Napo-
leon. and does excellent work therein.
T.. Ziegfried, jr.. of Anna Held fame, has
acquired the American rights to the Fa-
risian success, LA Torture" by Leon Gan
dillott, which will reopen the Manhattan
theater next season.
Among the promised novelties for next
season are the Marionettes of the Brothers
Parandi of Milan. These figures are seen
in operas, plays and spectacles, and are
said to be exceedingly ingenious and inter-
esting. They were exhibited with consid-
cradle success in England at the Syden-
ham Crystal Palace.
Sarah Bernhardt's repertoire for Lon
don includes "Medee," new tragedy writ
ten on classical lines by Catulle Mendes,
1.-THE Second Mrs. Tanqueray" and Dan
nunzio's 'Dream of a Spring Morning"
which was originally produced in Paris by
Duse at the Renaissance. Both the latter
plays have been played by Duse. and Sarah
Bernhard further proves that she means
to court comparisons with the Italian
whenever she cam
True s. James, author of the military
comedy, "a Prisoner of Russia and the
romantic play, The Black Arrow" has
decided to change the title Of the former to
"A Roval Prisoner"
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play, the central character Of which IL q
New Yorker who suffers reverses Of for
tune somewhat after the manner Of "Old
Lavender
A memoir Of W. G. Wills, the Irish
dramatist, has recently been published by
his brother. Freeman. Wills wrote "Oli-
via," Charles L." and other plays for
Irving. and a drama. which has Rienzi for
it's principal figure, may yet see the light
at the London Lyceum.
Miron Leffingwell has disposed Of the
rights of his Cuban drama, 1.-THE Dawn
of Freedom" to Paul Gilmore.
Max Nordau has completed play, doc
tor Kohn," describing the vain attempt of
an assimilated Jew to sever every tie with
his race. 1t will be published in the au-
tumn.
Mr.. ]. M. Barrie has completed a new
play of contemporary life in Scotland
which will be produced by and by by Mr.
George Alexander at the London St.
James's theater. The piece, although
Scottish, is said to deal with no special
popularity of life, law or character.
1t is announced that Mr.. Hall Game, who
hitherto has had Wilson Barrett as an ally
and assistant in his dramatic enterprises
has undertaken to dramatize 1.-The Chris
tan" by himself alone. thus monopolizing
profits as well as responsibilities. His play
is now finished, and it is understood that
arrangements for it's production have been
perfected. In this country the theatrical
rights are vested in Miss Viola Allen, who
will star in the character of Glory Quayle
Mr.. Caine. as reported, intends to make
his first appearance as stage entertainer
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Ing to at least Els ,00O-and he has already
made arrangements to revisit the antipodes
in 1899.
Sarah Bernhard has decided not to ap-
pear as Josephine In a Napoleonic play
which was made for her. She concluded
after two years elaboration that the role
did not suit her and Coqueiin has taken the
play for the sake Of acting Napoleon.
Filson and Enrol are rehearsing a new
sketch written for them by Chicago news
paper man.
Adgie and her lions will be feature with
one of Gus Hills companies next season.
Pi,rot, the mimic, sailed for Europe on
Saturday last. Eel Zobedie and Mile. Ancion
remain here to fill engagements during the
summer. Pitrot will return to America in
the fall.
Mr.. Sims Reeves, who has probably
made as much money in the course of his
life as any tenor who ever sang, is the OBJ
ject of an appeal for help, which is being
widely signed In England.
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plays on divers and sundry instrumsnfs,
and gets all kinds OF music from them. nm
ME Wentworth, whose limitations of0rew-
ing-room musicians are very clever3Z DONE
will remain another week. Other hoidovere
will be Kate Rooney, in new songs ana
sayings; Fielding, comedy juggler; Wills
and Loretto, tramp and soubrette, ana AL
burtus and Bartram, club swfngers.
A special matinee will be given tomorrow
afternoon.
LOS ANGELES THEATER-(Adwanc
Announcement. The bills for next week
will both be comic opera. which seems to
be more desirable than grand opera for the
summer months. On Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings 1.-THE MtkadD'
will be given, also at a special holiday mat
inee on Monday Miss Linck will be COM
PEELED to hide her beauty under the guiss Of
the ancient but susceptible Katisha. May
Gooch appears as Yum Yum. assisted by
Maize Moores and Franc Strange as Peep
Boo and Pitt Sing. Mr.. Simonsen viii sing
part congenial to him, the wandering
minstrel Nanki Poo. Eddie Smith, prince
of fun makers. secures his first chance In
comedy as the redoubtable Ko Ko. Harry
Rattenberry will be heard as Pooh Bah.
1.-The Mikado" always was favorite In
Los Angeles and very clever presentation
Is promised.
The latter part of the week will be de-
voted to la Mascotte." Several new
operas never presented in Los Angeles are
In preparation and 1t is sincerely hoped that
the proper patronage will greet this first
effort at summer season of opera. The
work of the orchestra is excellent. the
chorus is very good and the costuming thor.
oughly in keeping with thetext. This week
hot ttan
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Personal

Last week was Lew Dockstader's last in
vaudeville. He has been a member of that
branch of the profession for four years and
has been wonderfully successful, but the
destinations of his old love have been too
much for him and he returns to minstrelsy
in August, opening the first season of Prim-
rose and Dockstader's MINISTRIES at Utica
N. Y. His personal popularity Is attested
by the throngs who have attended the roof
theater, New York, within the last week.
Edna Wallace Hopper, who was attacked
last week with hemorrhages that threatened
to prove fatal, has sufficiently recovered
to be out again.
Jennie Eustace has sent over from England
very handsome printed circular contain
ing the enthusiastic praise of the English,
Irish, Scotch and Welsh press upon her
performance of Madame Sans Gene"
Fay Davis, the young American actress,
with George Alexander's company In Lon
don, has scored another success In Mr.. Alex
anders latest production, 1.-THE Ambassa-
Gor."
Elita Proctor Otis has signed with Jacob
Lit for next season to play the leading
role in Sporting Life"
George c. Boniface. Sr., has been engaged
through Colonel T. Allston Brown for the
Lyceum theater stock.
According to a New York dispatch dated
June Goth, Fanny Davenport, who was
taken i'll some time ago while on tour
with her theatrical company has suffered
a relapse and is now In critical condition
at Duxbury, Mass. DR.. Getchell Of Phila-
delphia has been summoned to Duxbury to
consult with the attending physician.
Wilson Rarretf has j,,st c1oSed he A,,S.
tralian tour In Adelaide. Mr.. Barrett's tour
has proved an enormous financial success
his individual share Of the profits amount
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COMING THROUGH THE RYH~
An Indignant Protest in Dogmatae
Language Against q Little

1t is an unfortunate fact that in most o4
the copies of Coming Through the Rye
so attractive from its naivete, Rye -
spelled with q small r, as If the grain rye
were meant, and not the burn or rivulee
Rye which is small stream in the north.
west district Of Cunningham in Ayrshire
In this way the whole point of the story, ~
told in the song, is lost. and this beautiful
lyric is degraded from the portrayal OF
romantic episode to an account Of mere
commonplace kissing match.
The Rye Is small burn. or stream. which
in many places Is quite shallow. and 10
crossed by the familiar device of stepping
stones These steppng-stones do not leave
room for two persons, coming from oppos.
lite directions. to pass each other without
taking hold of each others hands. When
a young man, on arriving at the edge Of
the burn, sees another traveller OF the same
sex, or a lady with whom he Is not ac-
quainted, or for whom he does not care
much, approaching he waits until the path
is clear. But If the passenger should be an
attractive lasse of his acquaintance, he at
once begins to cross. They pass by taking
hold OF each others hands. so as not to lose
their balance. In such cases the lassie -
expected to 'pay toll" just as young ladies
have been known to do In this country
when crossing a bridge on a sleigh excur-
sion. So that the fact the lad did not wait
until she got to the other side was good
evidence that Jenny was not considered
unattractive.
To say that rye grain is meant Is absurd.
The idea that thrifty Scotch farmer would
allow moonstruck young couples to tramp
through his grainfields, kissing and philan-
dering, is highly ridiculous. And, in addi-
ton to this, is the fact that rye Is not
grown in Scotland, except in very excep-
tional cases, and Is, therefore, unfamiliar
to those to whom the song was originally
addressed. Oats, barley, wheat and gray
peas are the staple cereals. cannot call to
mind single instance where rye Is mem
toned in Scottish poetry or songs. while
barley, oats and peas are of very frequent
occurrence.
am aware that the word Rye Is spelled
with small in many copies of the song
published in Scotland, and am also aware
that pictures of lovers wandering through a
field of grain have been labeled Coming
Thro' the Rye, but all this does not alter
the fact that the original idea came from
the Rye burn.
The song Is a very old one. 1t was dressed
up by Burns for Johnson's museum, but,
strange to say, his version is not the one
that is now popular This was by later
hand.-New York Times.
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Shakespearean Notes

Wadsworth Harris, who played Banquo
in Madame Modjeska's production of
Macbeth" last season, has been invited
to give Shakespearean recital at Yale uni
yersity In the fall.
1t is possible that Mr.. Forbes Robertson
may follow hisN production Of Macbeth"
at the London Lyceum with 1.-THE Tenn
pest" Failing The Tempest he has a
dramatization of George Meredith's Ego
list" in reserve, and a play of the middle
ages. by an as yet unnamed author.
An original pen and ink sketch of Ed
mund Kean by himself, and signed, is to
be sold in London next Wednesday. The
actor is seated In an armchair before the
fireside. The portrait was drawn during
his last illness and only few days before
his death. 1t measures nine inches by six
and a half inches. 1t was given by Kean
to G. v. Brooke, after whose DEATH in the
wreck of the London, 1t passed into the
collection of DR.. Barry Delany of Zion
House. Kilkenny; at DR.. Delaney's sale
In 1871 the portrait was acquired by the
present owner, in whose possession 1t has
remained up to the present time.
1t is to be feared, says the New York
Post, that the Elizabethan Stage society of
London does not live fully up to its pre-
tensions. At all events it seems to have
taken great and unnecessary liberties with
the text of Ford's tragedy, 1.-The Broken
Heart" which 1t produced the other even
ing in st. Georges hall. The London
World says: ut Is true that the most
wholesale execution was done in the OPEN
ing acts. which are trifie languid, and
especially in the somewhat superfluous
Prophilus and Euphranea scenes. But
though the longest continuous cuts were
in these outward fourishes' of the play,
there was scarcely page which did not
show serious gashes. while transpositions
were frequent and quite unnecessary. The
tragedy is one which might have been re.
cited almost from end to end in It's order as
1t stands; and who can doubt that If the
Elizabethan Stage society were sincere in
Its professions this is what 1t would have
done?"
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Booth Memorial Window

The stained glass window made by John
La Fargo for The Players and presented to
the Protestant IN. " Episcopal Church of
the TRANSPORTATION in memory of Edwin
Booth was unveiled on the oath of June by
Joseph Jefferson. The ceremony of unveil-
ing was simplicity tslf, and was preceded
by a choral even service conducted by the
rector, the Rev. DR.. George c. Houghton.
Near the conclusion of the service DR..
Houghton conducted Mr.. Jefferson and
William Bispham, chairman of The Players
committee which arranged for the memo
rial, to the south transept of the church,
where the window is situated. There Mr.
Bispham formally invited Mr.. Jefferson to
unveil the memorial. AS Mr.. Jefferson took
the cords to draw the veil, he said:
"Friends, and as glance about me, may
say comrades the duty has devolved upon
me to unveil this memorial of Edwin Booth,
and I need not say am proud of the duty.
1t has been wisely decided to have a simple
ceremony. and 1 shall be done almost as
soon as have begun The words of Seneca
are appropriate here: Life Is like play.
1t matters not that 1t shall be long, but that
II shall be we'll acted And let us be sure
of an honorable exit You know the honor
uDle Liz anu cAlt VI VhL. 1oOOtHs I<Sl tuiS
memorial stand here that future genera
tions may: come and witness what has been
done in his honor by the men who lived in
his day.
TIA church service was then concluded
The window is large one. On the upper
half is the life-size figure Of a medieval
histrionic student seated, and contemplate
ing mask lying in his lap. The pose is very
like one of Mr.. Booths as Hamlet and the
figure was taken by many to be intended
for Hamlet. First under the figure are the
words which some years ago Mr.. Booth
wrote to William Winter that he would
choose for his epitaph:
"As one, In suffering all, that suffers moth
ing;
A man, that fortunes buffets and rewards
Has taen with equal thanks"
Below this inscription is another, as fol-
lows:
"To the glory of God and in loving mem
DRY Of Edwin Booth this window has been
placed here by The Players, 1885,"
New York Times.
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Napoleonic Allusions

At the Theater Antoine. in Paris, they
have just produced Historical episode"
called lie Retour de fAigle," by George de
Labruyere, in which Marshal Ney and his
old father, Pierre, are the principal person.
ages. The time Is the eve of Napoleon
return for the "hundred days" The Mar
shall is harassed in mind as to his duty. 1t
is his nonagenarian father who In duces him
to play false to the king and transfer his
loyalty to the exile Of Corsica. They say
the Napoleonic illusions and historic bonn
bast about imperial glory are received with
enthusiasm There are no women in this
little play.
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de Bombignac." known here - 1.-THE Cam
didate" and THE Nominee" The Odeon,
which was closed during three summer
months, had in all az representations.
Twenty-six new plays were given. There
were eighty-fve matinees In the list were
eight standard dramas for the first time
at this theater, and six fresh productions of
plays from the old repertoire. The larger
audiences were for Sarah Bernhard in lie
Samaritaine." Coquelin in "Cyrano de Ber-
gerac," and the play mentioned at the
Coincide Franchise. They amounted to
about $500. Rejane, In "Sapho," reached
$145O. Among comic operas, 1.-THE Mascot"
with $1430, reached high-water mark.
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Coming Attractions

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more as servant than gentleman. spinks
is introduced as the master and at her re-
quest allows her to take him into her serv-
ice. In the hope that at her house an OBJ
portunity will present itself to secure the
COMPROMISING letters he consents to the
arrangement and goes with her. There he
incurs the suspicion Of her affanced hus-
band. Count Eyertoff. a Russian diplomat.
who is madly in love with her and insanely
Jealous as well. Later Soinks calls and is
introduced as the real Leopod and he and
the count engage in a diplomatic conference
over some Russian brandy that proves too
strong for moor sp,nks. who becomes very
full An anonymous letter. telling of the
filtration of Cloriana reaches the count.
who becomes furious and starts in pursuit
of Leopold and nearly kills Spinks. whom
he believes to be Fitziocelyn Explanati ons
are eventually made and apologies offered
and all is Satisfactorily arranged. The COM
many is we'll cast asnacia1ly Mice Oliver n