The sun., 1898-04-03
WITH mask and WIG
Personal Paragraphs Concerning
Stage Fayo.ites.
SOME PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
Stage Items of the SeasOn---Gossip OF
the Green ROom---What They
are Doing.
Jean De Reszke owns 81 horses.

John Drew has a l6.year-old daugh.
ter.
Go Won Go Mohawk is worth $780,
600.
Milt on Aborn has written the lbretto
OF = comic opera.
Mancinell's "Hero and Leander'' was
recently sing in Rome.
Florence st. Johns illness has devel-
oped into quick consumption.
Ellen Terry and Sir Henry Irving are
scarcely on speaking terms.
After while Mrs. Fiske will play
Daldet's ''Sapho' and Lady Macbeth" "
Patti and Nicolini never sat down to
dinner even when alone, except i'll full
dress; and Patti had 602 toilets.
''Augusta Mack, or, the Murder of
Guldensuppe, was acted in New York
on Thursday last by an Italian com
Iany.
In London tn, chorus girls are ex-
pected to yawn, smile at acquaintance
real or imaginary in the audience, or talk
in animated fashion to one another.
AT the last performance of la Clio
conda," in Azarro, Italy, sung by Sig
nora Pizzagalli, the partsans Of Signora
Antinori decided not to let her sing, and
slch riot ensued that quiet could only
be restored by arresting number of the
spectators.
Mrs. Mansfield Beatrice Cameron)
has temporarily given up acting and is
at her home on West Eightieth street.
Ia irI, bat
Leand!r Richardson are twittering con-
tidentialiy about a coming domestic
event which casts its shadow befoIe, and
in which stork is assigned for one Of
the leading roles.
Scenes and Incidents connected with
The hapless battleship Maine extending
iroia her launching TO the burial OF her
nutilated crew were dipicted in a SERIES
Ot views reproduced on Lubin's ciHeo- !
graph in n Philadelphia theatre last
week. Cheers were provoked by the
first scenes and tremendous enthusiasm
was acorlsed when "Old G.ory' was dis
played.
The necessity for law to pr )tect the ,
members Of travelling companies from
un5crupnlous managers il again demon
strated by the condlct OF Innius Howe
toward the Miss Philadelphia" Com
plny. BY aiI means let rs have a law
which will ctmpet a manager to give
ample security tor their protection before
h1 takes them tp Sealt Ie or Dawson City
and leaves them destitute. The LJunger
&. 0. q. Duff in Philadelphia Press.
How many people in salt Lake recog
nize in the beautiful soprano ut Iaot
night the young singer who for Il lliI
season appeared at oar LyCcum rh2atre
at 25-cent prices five years ag5? Whcn
w. b. Day conducted the LlceItn' h.
installed Il ppp1'ar priced opera com
pauy ui which L 'Se $ hhrn was leading
lady. Miss Sothpru was none ther than
Alic, Nei'se1, tha m,lpr Of the pr sent
Bpstonlan company, Salt Lake Tribune.
An "Unc!c Toms Cabin without
bloo lh,unl<, without slave auction
and devoid oi several characters who
figured in the original play, was pre-
scntel in five acts at Philadelphia I;lst
week lIArkins and Barbou's dramatlza-
ton follows closely Harriet Beechrr
Stoves story. Senator Bird and H.,
. wife, and Uncle Jim Wilson are new
roles that play an important part in the
production. The first act occurs in
Uncle Toms cabin, and in the second,
the home OF senator Bird is the refuge
for Ii .urgc and Eliza. Here Uncle Jim
Wilson purchases tne freedom ui The
Hairless.
The news that Paul Dunbar, Janrs
Whilcomo Riley and Will Crook, Of
Washington, are writnga negro comic
opera is interesting Mr.. Dunbar, in
speaking Of this matter, said: II want
to have the opera played ent ire ly by col
ored singers. The heroine is the dau. hter
ct waiter who has become rich from
the tip. he has received at Il winter hotel
IN st, Augustine. The first act takes
place in the court yard Of the hotel, and
the other is laid in Thompson street,
where tine heroine meets an African King
who is travelling incognito." Dunbar is
a negro. Harry l.. Freeman, of Cleve-
land, is ''colulcd Wagner" He has
'.ad an opera produced, and is writing
irIr more.
Gacoma Puceihi, composer of La Vie
de Boheme," etc, went Il few days ago
10 Paris, where he sought out S@rtyU and
played him all the first act Of his opera
'Ll Tosca." What made the deepest
impression on him was the finale with
the majestic pomp Of "re Dcum" in the
great cathedral, the cIashing OF the bells
and the thunderIng Of the cannon. Into
the second act the !i5lrttist has con-
drn-"d the two torture scenes and the
death ot Scarpa. Puccini is at work
u so on grand lyric tragedy in five acts
entitled Marie Antoiuctle," and the ac-
ton begins at the palace Of the Trianon
and follows tine unhappy Queen to the
s3affod. The opera has twcnty-tlrcp
rOcs.
Not long ago thc writer asked David
BeIasco point blank: "What is the great
est acting play that ever was writtenW
Camille ;" said the dranatist
promptly. "'CamiIle' is the greatest
acting play that ever was and probably
ever Will he writtcn.' lie is right. The
most Iunan heroine that ever stepped
on the boards is Marguerite Gauthier.
The audience forget3 that Camille is a
courtesan-forgcts everything except
that the entire drama shows no more
eloquent illustration Of wOman's love
for man. Anybody who can write a
second "Clmille' may earn million
dollars. THE County FAIR took in
100000, "The Old Homestead" earned
$780, 900. Neither lived ten years. LA
Dame aux Camclias" has survived two
score years, and is still acted in every