The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-17

given Friday ana saturday ni~hfx ana
az the Maine fund benedt yesterday AZ
teruocn the star and company generously
appeared.
Among fh9 things talked about among
Stage folks q the report that thouxh
Adeisna Patti 10 S years old she has ccI.-
tracts three years ahead. .....Thzt Miss
Henrietta Crossman viii star next seasonj
Mrs Pacheco, the author q ssIncog.
That Henry E. Dixey's sister, Mabel
Dixey. g playing in PhIladeiphia with
Htce's The French Maid. Nine I'm
ma CAlve u TO appear IN Paris this spllng
In 0'uck's "Armida,. and may repeat The
performances In Cosent. Garden during the
London season. Clyde Fitch has new
Marriages Game. ..-.. .Derman Thompson
appeared In Charlotte Cuxhmau's pro-
duction OF Macbeth In 1880 49, Sixnora
Eltan0ra Dune has achieved q great sue
cess In Florence In IA Italian version of
The Second Mira Tznqueray.'' There
are Tumors Of the establishment OF 1T
least two important stock companies in
New York nGxt season. one of them on
Broadway. Viola Alen win be At the
head OF her own company next season. 49,.
Eitta Proctor Otis has q new play from
the French called Strategy The en-
terprising musical element In Cincinrafi
are discussing grand production OF wag-
ner's "Parsifar' IN the near FUTURE.
Charles Frohman has engaged Jessie Nil
ward, who was for : long time with VIII
liam Terrtss. az his leading lady. to sue-
coed Viola Allen. In the Empire Stock
company....-.R c. Cartons new comedy,
Lord and Lady Algy." viz be produced
In London at the Comedy theater on
April lS..-...Mrs J. H. Gilbert and Charles
nfs.}rv II -.
Frawisy company In San Francisco DUR
inS the summer.
A social comedy with moral has been
written in three acts by Van Type. Bel
Gtan. and brought out In Paris under the
title. The Stairs" 1t outlines the prog
ress Of society In . downward direction.
down the stairs
In the nrst act banker on the verge
OF bankruptcy saves himself from the
disgrace OF . failure by making up with
bis wis, an Immensely wealthy woman.
whom he had left because she had betray-
ed him. He condones her sin ''for con-
siderAtton." and his own relatives and his
best friends advise him to do 50 rather
than face the disgrace Of poverty.
In the second act q similar occurrence
takes place. one step lower In the social
scale. The little merchant. Leblanc. II
forced to the wall by his creditors. but
during the long years he has been In bust
ness his wife has regularly withdrawn
money from the business. which is de-
posted IN bank In her name. As the fail
ura is announced they decide to conceal
these savings from their creditors in
order not to face want now in their old
age
The third act portrays the lowest end
Of this social ladder, family of working
people. The father has been thrown out
of work by the failure OF Leblanc. The
oldest daughter. child OF Is. goes out TO
fifid work and comes home with a gold
coin, the price CT her purity. which the
starving parents accept without any
qualns of conscience. The characters are
drawn in strong lines and with excellent
power OF observation. the whole being an
awful proof of the power OF money"
The Royal Academy OF Brussels has dis
tinguished the author Of the social COM
edy with the Grand Prix for dramatic art
. -
During a performance OF THE Master"
at the Garden theater. New York recent
~. party OF men and women entered an
upper box and int ediately began to talk
and laugh bo.sserously. AT first IL was