The sun., 1898-01-02
WITH MASK AND WIG.
Personal Paragraphs Concerning
Stage Fayorites.
SOME PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
Stage Items of the Season. Gossip of
the GrccnrOOm. What They
Are Doing.

Lotte Gibson is in Berlin.
Alice .Judson is seriously i'll.
New York is to have another theatre.
Kathryn Kidders company has been
disbanded.
Sam r. Jack has leased the New York
Jonah Theatre.
"The Saint is the title Of a play to be
produced in Rome.
1t requires half u day to sing the ma
tional hymn of China.
Helen Bertram has scored Il hit in
"Cinderella," at London.
sydney Roscnfeld's new play is called
"a Divorce Colony
Franklin Fylc's "Cumbcrland 'G1' is
to be produced in London.
Next season Matthews and Bulgcr will
BE- seen in Il new play.
Frederick Paulding is Il member Of II
Frisco stock company.
sam Bernard will star next season in
the marquis Of Michigan
"Kid' Mccoy punched the bag at Il
New York music hall last week
! Laura Burt will bc seen in the London
production OF ''Bluc Jeans
Jerome Sykes will star next season in
a new opera by Harry b. Smith.
Dumas comedy, "Ies Jcuncssr de
Louis XVI" has been revived in Paris.
Robert billiard and Marie Burroughs
will plav the chief roles in "A New
Yorker
\ Boston stock company Is to act
"Diplomacv," "Prisoner Of Henda' and
"In Mizzoura.'
The three Hawthorne sisters are in
the cast Of Aladdin now being pre-
sentcd in Dublin.
! The Alice Nelson Opera Company
will produce Il new work by Victor Her
bert next season.
Nine. Pillar MORN, of "Onngc
Blossom" fame, will play the title role
in ''Thc Paris DOLL"
Jules Massenct has announced that
with "Sappho' his career as an opera
composer is at an end.
Estelle Clayton will make her first
vaudeville venture in Il new sketch
/ founded on Anstey' ss'Tintcd Venus
! The Adelpha Theatre, which has been
closed since William Tcrrss' death,
opened Tuesday night with "Secret
Scrvicc.'
( James X. lIackctt, the actor, who for
davs has been dangerously sick with
typhoid fever at his home, is said to he
out of danger.
Jacob Lift has bought the melodr;una
Sporting Liic,' by Cecil Raleigh and
Seymour Hicks. and will present it in
New York within Il short time.
+ The Earl of Ros slyn is going to be an
actor. He will appear at the Court
Theatre, London, in next years produc-
ton of new play by A. ". pinero.
4 UAnnunzio'S dead City, has only
five characters. and their parts are the
ycrv longest that actor or actress has
ever studied The leading part is that
Of il blind girl.
Mrs. Leslie Cartcr's new creation will
be the leading role in II new play by
David BrIasco. Eventually she will ap.
pear in "A Winters Talc,' Camille"
and "Much Ado About Nothing
Charles Coghlan is a grandfather. His
daughter Gertrude was married to the
son of Presbyterian minister three
wears ago, when she was fifteen. She
wants "A divorce. Gertrude is Il mother.
leo {. Teller, manager tor Weber X
Fields Broadway Music Hall. CONVINCED
the Magistrate in the jefferson Market
Court, New York, last week, that the sale
of liquor in the music hall was not Il
violation of the law.
Augustn Daly's company will be seen
in New York in "As You Like IT,"
merry Wives of Windsor,' school for
Scandal" Iondon Assurance" "Mer-
chant of Venice" "Frou Frou,' "Much
Ado About Notlling,' and "Thc Country
Girl"
Ellen Terry has been playing "Mmr.
Sans Gene" through the English pro-
vinces without Sir Henry Irving, who in
London, was the Napoleon Of that com
edv. She has been drawing fully as
large houses as she did when Sir Henry
accompanied her.
Nine. Sernbrich is positively to re-
turn to this country next season. Nine.
Scmbrich is the highest paid woman
singer in Europe, next to Patti. Whom
she sings at the Metropolitan Opera
House, New York, it will be at a figure
proporinate to here European salary.
"Thespis," says that New York Press,
in these days is in u licentious mood,
and is kicking up her heels in II way
that is extraordinary and immodest.
Charmion, at Roster 4 Bial's, is carry
ing Partisan sensationalism to an ex-
tremc and "rhe Telephone Grip is by
lpng odds the broadest entertainment
which has ever been presented in that
house.
Several OF the stock companies cstab.
lshcd this season, including the one
headed by Mckee Rankin and Nance
VNcill in New York, have given up the
ghost. The most successful OF these ven
lures is the organization formed by Man
ager Abaugh, Of Baltimore. The Al
baugh clientele, it is said, already cx-
ceeds that Of any house in the Monumcn-
tai City.
1t is likely that Julia Marlowe'S new
piece will not be called "The Countess
Valcski,' after all. 1t is not an histor-
ical play, but as it is laid in he time Of
| Napoleon the title first selected would be
likely to suggest mislcadingly u certain
Polish lady who was more or less con-
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