The times., 1898-02-27
Only Maude Adams to Write
About, Says Will A. Page.
HER REMARKABLE SUCCESS
Now in Her Sixth Manth in New
York, and Still Seats Are Sold n
Month Ahcad-Does Miss Adams
Love Richard Harding Davis:
New York's Theatrical Gossip.

| in New York. Seasons have to wane
4 some time or other and theatrical chron-
! iclers always fix Lent as the time when
! they shall commence. Hence 1T happens
J that receipts have commenced to tall OIL
/ at all of the theaters, except one, ana
I that one furnishes the most starting ex-
1 ception to the rule OF all New York
! places of amusement. 1t is the Garrlck
+ Theater where Maude Adams continues
| to play to crowded houses. in THE Little
! Minister
Perhaps you may remember when this
play was produced in Washington last
! September-the 18th, to be eXact--at the
Lafayette Square Opera House. On the
first night a tumble of idiotic Scotch was
interpolated in every scene, and. as my
7 friends, the critics, remarked that night,
the Scottish battleaXes. which were seen
in profusion on the stage, would COM
mence to get in their work hacking out
dialect the very next morning, under
Charles Frohman's direction The next
night, when / saw il, most of the Scotch
had disappeared, and the little still re-
naming was done daintily by Maude Ad-
ans alone. And barring this change, the
play has remained unaltered
The Little Minister reached New
York at the end of September, opening
at the Empire For two months the
house was sold out and the receipts for
the first week were over $4,000. creating
I record at that house. Only seven dead
heads gained admission that week Since
/ then the success OF the star and her pro-
/ duction has not varied more than few
! hundred dollars worth each week. She
/ was transplanted from the Empire at the
! end of her second month to the Garrick,
1 and for five months she has been the
/ reigning success of the year. She Is now
about TO start in on her sixth month. and
already her sales for the last week OF
March have amounted $u advance to over
/ 1900. This is no press agents yarn. i
am not paid for writing complimentary
I things about Miss Adams. 1t Is simply
record of fact, and oldtimers declare
that never, in the history of theatricais
FOR the past twenty years has anything
! like this been known. 1t deserves men
/ ton every where-this spontaneous trib-
! ute of New York To Miss Adams on the
/ occasion of her first season as star.
I Miss -Adams's success has been 50
! great that she mas had no need for a
/ press agent. This character in New York
is professional gentleman who devotes
| his intellect and time TO conjuring UP
! stories thai Will boom the star he is paid
to lie about Sometimes these tales arc
! OF thrilling experiences, sometimes Of
| a robbery-alihough that idea is anti
| quated-and more frequently OF matri-
monial muddles. Miss Adams has never
| figured in any of these. although the
| other day she came dangerously near
! being classified in the last category. One
| of the papers printed story to the effect
| that she promenaded Broadway every
! Saturday afternoon between 2 and ) with
/ Richard Harding Davis. who. by the
| way, was reported TO be paying her much
| attention.
The denial that followed was most
/ complete Miss Adams Indignantly re-
futed the charge that she was on Broad
way Saturday afternoons, as she usually
| had matinee at that time, and further
| more it was said that she resented in
| situations connecting her name with
"Dicky" ii. Davis. which | consider Il
highly commendable action. Any young
lady who will walk Broadway with a
man who resembles a prize fighter is un-
worthy 10 hum the airs of Lady Babble.
! | don't know whether Mr. Davis is in
love with Miss Adams or not. | hope he
isn't, for her sake. And Yet ii he ism I
he has poor taste. | am sure that If l
ever were lucky enough to walk down
Broadway with this little woman | would
have the cinematographe people take ten
thousand pictures of US from Forty-sec-
ond street to Herald Square. and | would
Immediately run into print about it. But
that is what they say Mr.. Davis did, and
that he himself was responsible for the
story that he boulevarded on Broadway
with Maude Adams. He handled it right
cleyerly if the rumor was true.
The only new opening of this week was
"A Normandy Wedding produced at the
Herald Square Theater, to supplant The
. i 11,ss Loot x-afl-
to do the provinces L understand she
will strike Washington next week, and
can conscienUously say that Miss Olive
! Redpath realizes most charming and
dainty French maid. BY all means YOU
should see her. and you should see Sa-
haret dance as only Saharet can. But to
come back to "a Normandy Wedding. -
1t is nothing else than Papa Gou-Gou''
done over again and rechristened.
Thomas Seabrooke brought the opera to
Washington last fall but it proved a
failure. 1t was taken up by its CON-
posers J. CheeVer Goodwin and William
Furst and done over again. This time II
is a success. 1t is being presented by a
competent company, including Dorothy
Morton. Richard Carroll. William Norris,
and Merri Osborne. 1t will run for sew
eral weeks and will then be succeeded by
Monte Carlo another Edward e. Rice
limbs and lingerie show $50. ]:
''Way Down East" running at Brasl5;
& Ziegfeld's Manhattan Theater. is the
latest popular success. 1t is plain story
+ about plain people plainly told, and it
serves to make the reputation of new
actress of wonderful power, Phoebe
Davis The play is a really delightful
pastoral comedy. with just enough plot to
hold il together and 1t seems to have set
tied down for long run.
Anna Held leaves New York this week
for a 10000 mile jaunt from here to Frisco
and back by way of New Orleans. She
has purchased the private car formerly
built for Lilly Langtry, has had it re-
juvenated and papered with her mash
notes. and will start tomorrow on her
long trip TO be gone until the early pari
of June.
/ met William II. Coniey of Washing
ton. on Broadway the other day. IL
YOU ever want to meet any one it car
always be done on Broadway, if you walk
from Forty-second street to Herald
Square. Conley was over here on a little
junketting trip. and while here made ar
rangements for the appearance of a 1ot
of Washington people at a charity bene
fit to be given at the Waldorf-Astoria
on April 10. Comic writers may assai
Washington as much as they please, bul
in spite of the bucolie reputation it has
been credited with, its people are being
recognized on every hand here in New
| York.
Pauline Marr by the way. Is a Wash
ington girl who is meeting with marked
success in one of Mr.. Frohman's com
panies now producing the White
Heather at the Academy of Music
Miss Marr naively declares that she /:
but sixteen years of age and to tell the
truth, she does not look much older, ye