The sun., 1898-02-06
WITH MASK AND WIG
Personal Paragraphs Concerning
Stage Favorites.
SOME PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
0taGe Items Of the SeasOn...GOsstp O1
the GreenrOOm-..What They
Are Doing.


Cora Tanner will star in "Alone in
London"
Clifford and Huth will star in "A
High-Born Lady"
Monte Carlo" is musical comedy to
be produced by f. G. Rice.
Ada Rehan played Peggy Thrift in
''The Country Grip last week.
Agnes Huntingdon witnessed paul
Jones" in New York Monday night.
jeff DeAngelis will starr next season
in q new opera by Stange and Edwards.
William Lackaye will act next in q
play made from Levers "Charles O'Mal-
lay.
Emma Eames will sing the role of
the heroine in MancinelPs Hero and
Ieander."
Clyde Fitch calls his play for Eftie
Shannon and Herbert Kelcey "Reaping
the Whirlwind."
Margaret Mather will..revive "a Win
W, Tale"
Frances Leigh is to star in an opera by
Oscar Hammerstein.
Susie Krwin discharged her under.
study at Savannah because, it is alleged,
Miss Poole received too much applause.
Merri Osborne has replaced Ida Mule
in "The Normandy Wedding Papa
Gou Gou). Dorothy Morton will proba.
bly, join the company.
At the end of the present Metropolitan
season Mme Melba intends to 60 on a
Western tour under the management of
Damrosch 4 Ellis.
Looking like ghost of her former self
Bettina Girard is daily seen around the
New York theatrical agencies seeking an
engagement.
The arrangement of Thackeray's s
"Henry Esmond," which Glen McDon-
ough and Louise Shipman had made for
Edward Sothern,is named ''rhe Head of
the House.
Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra"
was acted at Madrid recently as "Cleopa-
tra," and was tiasco in spite of the fact
that it was played by one OF the best
known Spanish actresses and produced
with great splendor.
Joseph jefferson has arranged for the
with Elsie Leslie who will make her re-
appearance. Overtures have been made
to Louis James and Rose Coghlan to be-
come members OF the cast.
Be lin is shortly to hear the o0Oth per.
formance OF Strauss die flcdermaus. y
Streltman, the tenor, who sang here in
comic opera with Lillian Russell. has be-
come member Of the Imperial Opera
House Company in Vienna.
The New York Telegraph says hat Alice
Nelson's 'tormcr husband had pleas
ant habit ui kicking her 4 Kansas law.
yer is not to marry her, but Il we'll
known sporting man pi san Francisco is,
and his name is 'Ton' -WilliamS.'
A cartoon in New York paper, the
other day pictured theatre parties OF the
near future arriving at the playhouses in
masks, to conceal their identity. 1t may
come to this, SAYS the Dramatic Mirror,
should the dramatic debauchcry continue
much longer.
The theatre in MarSclles to which a
subvrntion as large as the Socialists
thought the town should give has been
reused was opened few weeks ago but
ii" public refused to allow the perform
ancc to proceed. After several efforts
the curtain was lowered.
Frau Cosim Wagner has in her pos
.s'>sion. according to Wagncr's friend,
Herr Ilcckel, four unpublished com.
phted plays by her husband entitled
'Luther,' "Fredcrick the Great, p"
"Ilans Sachs Second Marriagc,' and
"luke Bernhard of Saxc-Wcimar."
Irving will shelve Peter the Great -
The cost of maintaining the Ilofburg
Theatre OF Nicnn. which is paid ont Of
the Empcr"r's private purse, grows
greater every year. He has threaten,
to rent the theatre to a private manager
unless its affairs improve.
"Dranatic art, says Sardou, "consiSt.
less in tie choice ,f subject than in tn,
Origina treatment BY which the subjcc,
were two dramatic works Of which cril
cism conId say that they sprang fully
armed from their author's brain owe,
nothing to anybody else
A company including DcWolf Hopper
Eugene Cowlcs, Clay NJ. Greene, +. vii
liams, Cyril Scott, L. J. b. Lincoln, IL
nacio Martinetti, jefferson De Angels
Victor Harris, Chauncey Olcott and f.
W. IIoff will visit the large cities thi
season. The money earned is to be adde,
to the treasury Of the Lambs Cub.
Next season James X. IIackctt will
star in '''rhe Tree of Knowledge" Mar,
Mannering Mrs. Hackett) was injured
last Thursday while playing in eth,
Tree OF knpwledge' at the New Yorl
Lyceum. Edward J. Morgan strlck ;
hairpin SO forcibly that ii was driver
into the actress head. Miss Mannerin.
was overcome and the curtain was low
cred.
'Not long ago" says May Irwin, I'm,
older boy asked me if he might bring
girl friend whom he met some month
ago when he was at school at Sing Sing
That was he first had heard abou
that interesting young person. ] made
few inquiries and found that she was Ill
right. So | secured a box for him and in
yitcd some OF her friends for the sam
evening"
"Why is it that the study of lngeri
seems such an absorbing one to the moe
elm man? Why don't the colleges tax
it up and add it to the curriculum? Me
would be sent out from our universitie
with thorough knowledge OF subjec
which is such an engrossng one wit
them that they spend whole aftel
moons at a theatre studying tn
matter. Matinee Girl in Dramat
Mirror.
We have seen, says Hillary Bell, ho'
Ehakesnpare nsel the Italian Erenc