The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-06-21
Stories Of
The Stage.

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rical family OF Terrys. Of which all the
English actors of that name, excepting
Edward Terry. are members. an inters
esting topic. Kate Terry. who IL now
acting Mrs. Faber in THE Master ~
the London Court theater. Is the Oldest
OF the Terry sisters of the London stage.
who include the iliustrious Ellen and
Marion. a popular London actress who
is not known here. Fred Terry. whose
last visit to America was made with
his wife, Julia Nelson. in John Hare's
company, Is their brother. Ellen Terry's
SON, Gordon Craig. has been In the Lon-
don Lyceum company since his boy
hood. He Is married now and has chill
dren who inherit the Terry comeliness
and cleverness. He is a versatile young
man. and some drawings by him In
black and white have lately attracted
much notice.
Though Ada Rehan has acted con-
stantly in New York for almost 70
years there are probably few actresses
of local celebrity 80 little known by
sight. She Is rarely seen on the street,
was new known to take part in n Of
the entertainments organized by the
women of her profession n Ii usually
to be seen only on the stage. Her moth
err is living in Brooklyn. 1t Is said that
Miss Rehan. in spite OF long work. IL
not rich today. She has received prob
ably the highest salary paid to an ac>
tress In any regular company for many
years. but unfortunate business specu-
iations are said to have made away
with her money.
william Moxon. who for the past two
seasons has been advance agent Of
1.-THE Wizard of the Nile" Opera COM
pany. relates an interesting experience
which the company had in a big now
storm two seasons ago, when Frank
Daniels was with It. They were play
ing at Plattsburg. N. Y, on q Friday
night. and the following night they we're
to play at Burlington, VT. Now the
usual way of getting from n city to
the other in winter Is to 90 by rail
round the northern end of Lake Cham-
plain, but at this particular time all
trains i'm that part Of the world were
snowbound. Manager Kirke La Shelle
telegraphed the manager OF the opera
house at Burlington that the company
was s~nowbound and could not reach
there In time to give the performances.
The following telegram came back:
you must get here, as all seats are
sold. and I cannot AFFORD to disappotnt
my patrons" OF course the manager
meant that he could not AFFORD to lose
the profits OF the engagement.
Arrangements were made with q liv-
cry stable man to transfer company
and all the scenery, etc., across the
lake on sleighs. When all preparations
had been made and the company were
covered up to their ears In furs and
robes, the procession OF IL large sleigns
began TO move across the ice. cheered
by the townsfolk, who had gathered on
the bank to see them OF.
The company thought IT great sport
at first. never realizing that II was over
20 miles to Burlington All went wei
until they encountered a hlizzard, n
Frank Daniels. who assumes the char.
acter of Kibosh the Wizard. was taken
with a chill and not having provided
himself with the necessary stimuIaEts
was feeling decidedly shaky.
oI wish I had a drink of brandy" hi
muttered TO himself. and I'll bet {
viii get Il too" SO, jumping from the
sleiph. he commanded the procession 10
halt ana SnOuttu. III tHV N~*
some member of this sleighing party
there Is concealed q bottle OF brandy.
and 7 demand IL. You are all aware Of
INV magic powers as 4 wizard--I. who
caused the river Nile to rise and over
dow the city and who made the king OF
Esvpt lay egg / am the aus OF
this blizzard. One word from me would
part the ice under you all and let you
all down i'm the cold water below
Have mercy." pleaded several msm~
hers OF the company. A bottle was
handed over to him. He took a large
drink and. shaking his funny ltttlo
form, said: Am / a wizard? We'll J
guess."
HalIen Mostyn. who plays the part q
the Jack Tar in THE French MAio,~ ~
lates a little incident which happene4
to him while playing at q ~ n19us
stand in Nebraska. Around d l1su9
inn where ne was staying were . uuur
Der of well known character OF the vlls
lagc discussing the demise OF BIN
Jones. Mostyn Joined the group an4
heard the following conversation:
did I understand you to say ID
Jones was deadf"
sYep; died last Thursday"
"Is It possible7"
Eyes, that's right"
$50 Bill Jones Is dead Wens ~
Welt"
Eyes. he's dead.~
do you know I can scarcely oo1Dov&
Poor chapi Poor Bin! knew ~
So he's really dead. n her
re Of the group finally bec1M1o ~
lated at this comic opera dialoGuo 60
retorted: swell. II he amt deed he1
in n darn bad rrcdicament. I saw ~