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Personal Paragraphs Con-
cerning Stage FavOrites.
PLAYS AND PLAYERS
Stage Items Of the ScasOn...GOesip Of
the Green Room What They
are Doing.
PLAYS AND PLAYERS

JOS6pO 11AIV uuu S0oS80 VIVIAN"
sThe Eumenides, /" q Greek play, was
given one performance in New York last
week.
The body Of Sibyl Johnstone, OF
"Clemenceau Case" fame, WAS cremated
last week.
Il is SAID that Lillian Russell will play |
the title role in an operate version OF
mime. Sans Gene"
Mrs. Tiske has arranged for four
months time III New York next season,
intending to run Becky Sharp most or
all Of the time.
Robert Hilliard will 60 back into the
cast cf "Sporting Lite" tomorrow night
at the New York Academy Of Music.
He has purchased All interest in the
property.
Henry Lee will return to the dramatic
stage in Chicago to act Cyrano de Ber-
gerac in rivalry with M. Coque!in, Rich
ard Mansfield, Jack Gilmore, Edward
Mawson, Charles Richman and Louis
Fields. Edgar l.. Davenport will be the
Christian.
Stockholm has an opera house which
is said to be the finest in Europe, al
though others have larger seating ca
pacity. 1t took seven years to complete
It and the cost was more than 81 ,6OO, 900.
Private enterprise made the scheme pos
siblc, although the property has already
passed into the possession OF the munich
pality.
If Julia Arthur puts on any play after
'Ingomar" on the 2lst and "As You
Like It" on the 28th, it will be "Pyg-
malion and Galatea.' As Gilbert's play
is short it might combine with "Mer-
cedes, or One Touch Of Nature" Miss
Arthur's repertory promises before long
to be varied and permanently val
liable one. Camille" is not likely to be
played this year, but she will do it some
time.
Sol Smith Russell will produce in
Philadelphia tomorrow night a play by
Charles Klein entitled "The Hon. John
Grigsby." The scences are laid in lit
tie town in Illinois between the years
of 1916 and 1913 and the title part is
that of an ambitious and hard working
country lawyer who is loaded down with
number of cases he takes to defend
from conscientious motives of defending
the right, but in which cases there are
very few dollars for him.
A few days ago Julia Arthur made
misstep and fell, injuring ligament
She did not, however, remain away from
the "Ingomar" rehearsal at Wallack's
until Tuesday last, when the injury be-
came quite painful. During the fencing
scene in the first act of "a Lady Of
Qrality," at Wallack's, Tuesday night,
Miss Arthur's foot slipped and the sud.
den pain caused her to fall on the stage
! in swoon. The curtain was rung down.
but in a few minutes Miss Arthur had re-
covered consciousness and the perform
ance continued.
w. NJ. Wilkison's new piece, called
"a Stranger in Strange Land" by Sgd
ney Wilmer and Walter Vincent, was
produced for the first time Monday night
last, at New Haven. The work is in
three acts, and the scene is laid in Eng
land The piece aims to satirize the idea
nteltained by many Englishmen, that
wild animals may be successfully hunted
on Broadway and in the principal streets
of other leading American cities. The
principal character is a Cherokee Indian,
who mas been taken to England as an adj
vertisement by quack doctor selling a
brand Of bittcrs.
Daniel Frohman Jared so well with
, Anthony Hopes adventure of Lady Ur-
sula' when it received its first perfor.
nance on any stage in Philadelphia last
} season that he will launch another OF
Anthony Hopes plays in this city at
, the Chestnut street theatre this week.
! This is "Rupert OF Hentzau" the sequel
to M1. Hopes former most famous play
} "Thc Prisoner OF Zenda," to which fact
t is attached particular interest from the
t start. James X. IIackett will again ap
r pear in the dual role OF the King and
) the Englishman in which he has already
! obtained such distinguished success
: ''Rupert OF Hentzau'' is in four acts ant
c six scenes and will be an especially elab
t crate scenic and costume production
J. The play introduces several new char
G acters besides those old favorites Col
g Sapt, Fritz Won Tarleheim and tn,
: Princess Tlavia.
l. Cdette Tyler is to return to the stag
e in company with her husband, II. D
. Mclean, and the former leading vilail
q OF Booth and Barrett, Charles B. Han
q ford. The tour will begin in the South
y probably in December, and end witt
,r New York. Miss Tyler is SO good
l. soubrette that it will be genuinely in
'e teresting to see what she will do wit
Juliet, the two Portias and Desdemona
1t as the repertory includes "Romeo an
a. Juliet" Merchant Of Venice" "Juliu
Caesar and "Othello." When on
remembers the productions OF Shake
n speare this year, from Miss Arthur
n. GAS You Like It," Mr.. Dalys "Mel
,e chant OF Venice" and the promise
10 "Romeo and Juliet with Maude Adam
* and Mr.. Faversham to the Ward,
er James. .kidder performances, Mrs. Ca
V ter's intended "Winter's Tale' an
at "As You Like" and Miss Tyler
IN plans, it may tairly be asked ovt
again by some investigating gentlema
H. like Mr.. Munsey: "Will the people tai
na Shakespeare"
at This may be the beginning of the en-
en- and those who witnessed Joseph Jeffe
IRE sons recent performances at the FIT
ist Avenue shall have probably the la
ID memory of our famous actor. A fe
ma evenings before his retirement the vene
able comedian showed his age unmi
takedly in the dual scene OF 'TI
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