The sun., 1898-12-04
WIN MASK AND VIC
PersOna' Paragraphs Con-
cernins Stage FavOrites.
PLAYS AND PLAYERS
Stage Items Of the Ser on -.GOssip OF
the Green ROOM. What They
are Doing.

Hugh Chiluers.
. Maurice Barrymore will star in a new
play next season.
Julian Story designs his wife's Emma
Eames) gowns.
Clara Morris will be seen in Mutton,
at New York this week.
Emma Nevada has enjoyed triumphal
tour through Italy.
Francis Wilson and DeWolf Hopper
were in Newark last week.
De Wolf Hopper will be the principal
soloist at the concert of Sousa in New
York tonight.
Lillian Russell will not appear in
America this season, but is to sing in
London in April.
Madge May, the daughter Of Frederick
Ward, has been engaged for "A
Bachelors Romance"
Mark Smith has been engaged to sup
port Mrs. Leslie Carter in the forthcom-
ing production OF "Zaza."
1t takes a week to produce single
play at the New York Chinese theatre,
and the nightly installments last from 6
p. m. to midnight.
In New York, early in February,
James A. Herne will be seen in ''Rev.
Griffith Davenport, Circuit Preacher"
his own adaptation of popular novel.
Italian walnut, it appears, is the wood
that makes the best violins. 1t gives a
sound that no other wood can equal,
and Belgian is now employing it in
the manufacture of violins intended to
equal if not surpass the best ever made
in Cremona.
"Cyrano de Bergerac" has been acted
27O times at the Porte St. Martin in
Paris. More than 100000 has been
taken in. The two greatest successes
financially before this were "Michael
Strogoff' and Around the World in
Eighty Days.
Sergeant "BilP' Anthony, who dis
tinguished himself when the battleship
Maine was sinking by saluting Captain
Sigsbee and cody saying: 81 have to in
form you, sir, that the ship has been
blown up" appeared in the RED,
White and Blue" in New York last
week.
The famous painting, "An Affair Of
Honor" is graphically reproduced at the
New York Casino IN "a Dangerous
Maid" In the duel scene Madge Less
ing and Laura Burt sent thrill through
the audience by their sensational un.
dressing scene. Both young women
stripped to the waist, the upper part of
their bodies being covered with slken
feshings.
Nat Goodwin's brother made his vau-
deville debut at Keith's, New York, last
week. His speciality consists of imita-
tions of Nat Goodwin, Lawrence Barrett,
John Mccullough and Stuart Robson.
Marguerite Sylvia, OF the Alice Nelson
Opera Company, will make her vaude-
vile debut tomorrow, at the Boston
branch of the Keith Quadruple circuit of
theatres.
The Pope has written poem, te be set
to music by Dubois, of Paris, and to be
performed in Rheims during the festivi-
ties in celebration of King Clovis conver-
sion to Christianity. The poem is called
"Nivat Christus qui diligit Frances. "
The musical part OF the poem is cantata
for the orchestra, chorus, tenor and bari
tone. 1t is divided in three parts: "Clovis'
baptism" "Christian heroism," and
"Christ's Triumph"
Verdi completed the cighty.frst year
OF his age some four weeks ago, and to
celebrate the event newspaper pub
lished special number on.green paper
verde meaning green in Italian-and
printed with green ink! Mascagni, Leon
cavalla, Puccini, Bovio, Massenet, Pougin,
Clarete, all contributed to it, and, more.
over, it gave illustrations Of the house
wherein Verdi was born, his villa OF
Santa Agatha, pictures of Rigoletto and
Falstaff, and portraits of Verdi from
babyhood till now.
The show at the theatre in Dawson
City is a continuous performance, be.
ginning at 3 p. m., aud skimming along
for about seventeen hours. The price OF
seat is 81. &c. and there are no reserved
seats, There are tables inside, however,
and the playgoers there are generally
thirsty, SO that the principal profit in
the show business is in the sale o.
: drinks. Beer costs $6 bottle; wine $40
! a pint bottle. Whisky can be had fol
so cents drink, and a rattling goot
cigar can be bought for IS cents.
Within a brief period--hardly NOR.
than year-the American stage has los
Couldock, Mrs. John Drew, Thoma
i Keene, Joseph Proctor, Thomas Whiffen
Joseph w. Shannon, Charles T. Parsloe
u W. J. Scanlon, John Wild, Harry Mere
9 dith, Charlotte Thompson, Nargare
: Mather, Carrie Turner, and others VIII,
l adorned it. The deaths OF these actor
Q says Harrison Grey Fiske, sum up
y great public loss, but the loss to the pro
4 fession is even greater, for among thos
g who have departed were artists who's
work was an education to the rising gen
Grafton of players who in time must TAX
VI their places.
J. The twenty-frst year of Gilbert an
u Sullivan's comic opera, "The Sorcerer,
o has just been celebrated at the Savo
T. Theatre, London, and it is said tha
r during this period the British publ
= i has paid some $l5,OO0,0OO to witnes
u u performances of the works of thes
y y authors. The American public hs
IL also during this period paid snu
- sum to enjoy Gilbert and Sullivan
works; but in recent seasons, says tn
Dramatic Mirror, there has been
growth here OF native production, an