The sun., 1898-02-13
NTH MASK At6D WIG
Personal Paragraphs Concerning
Stage Fayorites.
SOME PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
Stage Items of the SclSOn---GOSsip Ol
the GrvrnrOOnl---W What They
Are Doing.
Sol Smith Russell is As years old.
The Vaidis Sisters are in Mexico.

Rhea's real name is Hortcnse Lorct.
Daniel and Charles Fro'nmn are
bachelors.
Mark Twain has written comedy en-
titled is He Dead ~
The Queen OF Italy recently gave II
private audience to Duse.
W. II. Crane will probably produce
"a Virginia Courtship' i'll London.
Beerhhm Trees next production in
London is to be "My Lady Virtue"
Miss Grace Henderson may star next
season under the management OF Charles
l.. Young.
Annie Ward Tiffany will appear in the
vaudeville theatres in the "Duclrss Of
Dublin
Irving will be seen in "ty'ano de
hrgerac,' play in which CoJnein
made a hit in Paris.
"The Ragged Earl is the title OF the
new comedy written for Andrew Mack
by Ernest Lacy.
Emil Fischer, Of the Damrosch Com
pany, has been on the stage forty years.
He has sung lGl roles.
In st. Louis, last week, Margaret
Mather pro,luced "I4eah," " The Honey
moon," 'Romeo and Juliet and "Cym.
beline'
On February A, in Philadelphia Her.
bert Kelley and Ehie Shannon will be
seen in "1'ne Moth and tie FIame,' IL
new play by Clyde Fitch
The Primrose & West MinstrcIs will
be sent to England this spring fora pro.
tracted engagement in London, to bt fol.
lowed by a provincial tour.
The dramatization Of Ian NIacIarcn :
Beside the Bonnie Bliar Bush will
have its first presentation at McNickers $
Theatre, Chicago on Easter Monday.
Grau may produce in New York next
season Mancincli's 'llero and leandcr'
and "sapho.' Jean De Rrszke will be
heard us ~iegiried in Goetterca,mmcr-
ing
Wilton Lackuyc is Il member of the
Philadelphia Park Theatre Stock Conn
panv. He played Sir Francis Lcvisnn
in East Lvnnr' last week. Rose F,v-
tinge, Mckee Rankin and Nance ONriIl
are also members oi this company.
DcWoli Hopper announced las, week
that he would engage Miss Percy Has
well now with William H. Crane, in e
Virginia Courtship,' to replace his wife,
Edna Wallace Hopper, as tie prino
donna ,i bis Company when ho produces
SouSa ami KIcin'~ new opera, "ric
Clarlntan,' early in the ~um,ucr.
The gross rccci pts OF the London At,
hambra Music Hall for the year 1897
were ;S4j6,N2O, an increase of S3}.;jol
over those Of the previous twelve months.
The dividend for the year amounts tu
Ii per cent, in addition to Sl3.3oo cu-
ried forward to the next account.
On the recent anniversary of the death
of Sadie McDonald the talented Nncrl-
can soubwltc. III sydney, Aust l3lIa. hrr
grave was libtraIly decorated with flow
crs by some OF her former assuriurcS, as
well as by Il number Of friends she had
made during her tour Of the Antippdes
Rev. James H. W. Harris. fully or
daincd minister OF the High Episcopal
Church. late paStoro the Church Of the
Holy trdrrmcr san Francisco, will
maize his lcbu. in vaudeville at one OF
tn" Proctor HOUSES in NrW York during
tlr last week Of Frtruary appearing in
Il Onc-act bulcsuur by timrtcS Ross Of
Ross X Fcnton entitled ''Anth"ny and
Cleopatra"
F. F. Proctor las secured Il genuine
treasure in }. Austin lyncs, who is to
be general manager OF Proctor's three
heatrcS-thc two vaudeville houses in
New York and the Leland Opera House
i'll Albany. Mr.. Fvnr~ was formerly ~
newspaper man. and in 1888 became
manager Of keith'S niun square Thea
trc. Fyncs was first to introduce Icgiti-
mate actors and complete short plays
into vaudrviltc, and 80 to IcuGvr it ra
siblc Inr Artists to take such employ
ment without loss Of professional stand
ing.
The hour demands Il man. The cry
for the great American drama is genera
tion> old, and more urgent than ever
The stage trrnbles IN the rapids OF
chaos. IIowling nIc!ud"anun, improbable
farce, dccrrpIt comedy, grotrs4nc tlag-
edy, stHgnant burltSGuc. feeble comic
opera and the rrking problem play
hold high carnival and dip into the pub
lies pocket, regardless ut the laws OF
compensation. Actors and managers
sacrifice tu the iH.pS daily, critics plead
or sroid or snrcr, and yet the great play
does not appcar,--HIlicago Dispatch
The big benefit performance in aid Of
Nelly Farrrm will take place at the
Drry Lane Theatre, London, March II.
The Prince Of Wales is Il subscriber to
this fund, two other persons have paid
$3.50 apiece for boxes, and one hundred
stalls have been sold at so each. \ sub
scriptiOn list has been started 10y George
EdWarlrs with $1,000, and several 1T her
large amounts have been added to the
list. j. i. TOplr, the famous London
comedian, has paid 500 for Il gallery
seat It would surprise no one if the
benefit should turn ont Il winner to the
extent Of 5000 or $4,000.
While the IIccge home was filed with
sorrowing friends Thursday. February ..
the new opera. the writing Of which
seemed to cmbody Gas IIccgc's very cx-
stcncr during ,hc closing years Of his
life, received it, first rehearsal at the
Lvceum Theatre, Cleveland. The piece,
which has not been named, is in three
acts. The first takes place ut Lcksand.
Sweden, in the summer the second is a
lumber camp in Wisconsin on Christmas
evening following, and the third on the
shore Of the lake near Marquette, Mich.
The Cleveland World says "rhcrc is Il
march in it with which nothing that
Sousa has ever written can compare.
At Kcith's Theatre, PhiadcI pha on
February IA, Lillian Burkb bart will pro-
duce an entirely new and original fairy