The times., 1898-11-13
BRIEFLY TOLD

Helen Faucit, a legimate actress of
note, died fen days ago in Wales.
Lucfe Rogers, pretty local girl, has
been engaged fer Mixed, Muddled and
Fixed"
Charles Kent VIII assume the role de-
clined by J. II. Stoddart in Richards
Savage's Red. White and Blue
"A Female Drummer did two weeks of
big business in Chicago Wen, there is
no accounting for matters of taste
Henry E. DiXey, Alice Atherton ard
Jaques Kruger will appear with the
Boston Hotel Topsy Turvy'' company.
Lon H. Macnichol, brother of Lizzie
Macnichol. has been appointed stage man.
ager at the Lafayette Square Opera
House.
Robert Hilliard may star IN drama
tization of DR. Conan Doyle's novel, Rod
ney Stone" Is Mr. Hilliard getting the
'lesit craze along with Nat Goodwin and
Tim Murphy?
J. j. Rosenthal has resigned from the
management of What Happened to
Jones and will shortly produce a farce
called by the euphonious if meaningless
title of Browns in Town"
Gladys Wallis has Joined William III.
Cranes company, and will appear in
Eugene ". Presbrey's latest play, Worth
Million Miss Wallis is one of the best
soubrettes-if not the best-in this coun-
try.
II. B. Sire, proprietor of the Biiou
Theater in New York, has become owner
OF the Casino. George W. Lederer will
continue 10 direct the interests of the
house, while his partner Mr.. Mcclellan,
will probably retire
Acton Davies, the clever critic of the
New York Sun, came over from Gotham
last Friday night to witness production
OF Because She Loved Him So" Mr..
Davies expressed himself as being much
pleased with the piece
Madeline Bouton has recovered from
her long illness in San Francisco. given
her press agent vacation, and returned
to New York. where people have-as
Marie Dressler once put it-"Champagne
suppers for breakfast"
The soloists who viii appear with tbe
New York Permanent Orchestra at the
Columbia Theater are Adele Aus Der Ohe
pianist; Josephine S. Jacoby, contraIto
Max harger, violinist; Sara Anderson.
soprano, and Leo Schultz, violoncellist
'Phroso." the dramatization by An.
thony Hope which Maud Adams was Ia
put on with THE Little Minister" but
which was side-tracked by the success OF
that comedy, Will be produced by the
of this month in Boston,
Kathryn Osterman and Anna Belmont
have resigned from George Broadhurst's
company. probably because of that man.
Hger's alleged treatment of Jake" Rosen-
thai. who is Miss osterman's husband.
Both women are remarkably clever and
that's What Happened to Jones"
Margaret Dibdin, late of the National
Stock Company, has Joined the King
Dramatics; Eleanor Browning has been
engage for "A Stranger in a Strange
Land and John Lancaster has gone with
"A Misfit Marriage" Last week was ev-
identity lucky one for local favorites.
His Better Half" WAS presented sue
cessfully for the first time in America
at Asbury Park. Which is an excellent
guarantee that no woman in the cast in
dulses in ankle display" to the smallest
degree. They haven't got used TO woman
having such things as legs yet in Asbury
Park.
Lincoln ]. Carter wrote Remember
the Maine" because he had on hand some
decorations bearing that legend, which
had not been sold during the war and
which, therefore. would have been dead
loss had their owner been less resource
full And yet they say that commercials
ism governs art in this country.
"Cyranose de Bricabrac," the --latest
burlesque at Weber and Fields's. has
made a hit and is in for long run
Those appearing in the travesty art
Charles ]. Ross, David Warfield, Peter
Daley, John T. Kelly, Lee Harrison, Ma
bel Fenton, Fay Templeton. Rose Beau
mont, and the two proprietors of the
theater.
Says Schenck Cooper of "a War Cor
respondent in the Mirror: This gen.
tleman has frequently had much stronger
mediums, and the piece itself is not cal
cuiated to contribute much to the renown
OF its authors Which The Times said
all along. But local folk would have II
that both THAT Man and "a War Cor
respondent" were 20 be triumphant sue.