The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-06
PLAY PARAGRAPHS.

Nine. Janauschek is appearing in
vaudeville at the New York Pleasure
Palace in her old time success, Come
Here" which Augustin DAILY adapted
for her years ago.
Sam Bernard, the Dutch dialect com
edian, and Josephine Hall are playing
the leading roles in the first New York
burlesque on Rostands Cyrano de Ber-
gerac at Roster and Balls. The name
of the burlesque is "Sir Andy de Boot
jackS and Richard earle is it's au-
thor
Ellen Beach Yaw made her debut in
London, and was well received. Lon
don commended her without once re-
ferring to those high notes which were
once her chief .stoclI in trade. 1t was
the exploiting of them that enabled her
to travel through this country with fin
ancial profit.
Edward j. Morgan, who has made
such a stupendous success as John
Storm in The Christian" in New York,
is the matinee girls idol this season.
Like Drew, Sothern, Miller, Edeson,
FaYersham, Charles Dalton, Otis Skin
ner and Wilton Lackaye, however, he
is happily married
Lillian Russell is again free from
matrionial ties. Recently her husband.
John Chatterton, professionally known
as Signor Perugini, secured a divorce,
Among the reasons for their separa-
ton which Perugini gave was that his
wife often sat up till o'clock in the
morning playing poker
Edna Wallace Hopper will make her
London debut I'M January when she
will play the leading role in an extrav-
aganza, which will be a combination of
the best features of Hugh Morton and
Gustave Kerkers lin Gay New York, .
The Whirl of the Town" THE Lady
Slavey" and Yankee Doodle Dandy"
Following the example of Eleanor
Duse, Mile. Emma Calve and Jean de
Reszke, have declined to go to Chicago
with the company from the Metropoli-
tan opera house this season. Jean de
Reszke sang last in Chicago two years
ago, during the disastrous engagement
that helped to wind up the old corpor-
alton that preceded the Maurice Grau
Opera Company. He was rlade the
subject of many sneers from the press
on account of the Nordica row which
had happened during the preceding sea-
son. Nine Nordica and her press
| agent prepared a warm reception for
him. More painful was the fact that
the houses We're empty throughout the
whole engagement Calve,. on the other
hand, is i'll in Paris, and will confine
her American appearances entirely to
| New York.
Amateur actress. Didn't I act the
part well?" Friend (ambiguously).-
when you left the stage, the audience
said it was the best thing you ever
did"
The engagement of Viola Allen in
1.-THE Christian" at the Knickerbocker
theater will have to come to an end in
| three weeks, owing to previous ar
| rangement with w. H. Crane but Miss
| Aliens success has been so marked that
| after an interval of one week, when she
plays in Brooklyn, the company will
come back to the Garden rheater, to,
| if possible, run out the season. During
| this run Joseph Haworth will take the
place of Edward Morgan as John
storm. Last Thursday morning Miss
Allen established the unique precedent
of giving a production of the play be-
| fore a specially invited audience o.
| clergymen.
Few recent deaths in the profession
have caused such universal regret as
| that of NAT Childs. As editor of the
Boston Traveller, ard later as business
manager for Janauschek, Henry r. ABB
| hey, Irving, Bernhardt and Daniel
Frohman. Mr.. Childs made himself i'm
menselv popular. and he rarely, if ever
!
his only work that achieved success
was the farce Dreams" which Willie
Edouin exploited for several seasons.
An oddly in the way of dramatic
| representations was given in New York
last week. at the Matteawan insani
4 asylum The playwright, the audience
and all but three Of the actors were
| taken from the incurable inmates of the
! institution The drama was called Love
and War" and was based On the races,
conflict in Cuba, having clear apa in
| teresting plot and q dialogue filled witd
bright and witty lines which the audi
| ence appreciated as acutely as theiI
| brothers of the unaffected worl1
| Olga Nethersole is to try new play
by Max O'Rell on her next visit to this
country.
Verdi, the composer, now IS years ole
is hard at work on two operas, Kline
Lear and Nero" Sydney Rosenfeld
produces next Thursday 1t the Casm5
an adaptation of his own from Wen
| nese play called "A Dangerous Maid
| Unlike most of the Casino. musical far
ces, this one is said to have d consistent
and interesting story and Mr. Rosen-
! field has laid himself out to evolve
bright and witty lyrics for the play.
SOL Smith Russell has a new play
written by Charles Klein, which the
comedian will produce next week II
Philadelphia The piece is named The
Hon. John Grigsby, and is remarkable
in that the entire time which elapsed
between the order given the dramatist
and the delivery of the play to the actor
was Just p days-about the quickest
piece of playwriting on record. Mr.. Rus.
| sell. by the way, learned to play goi1
during his summer vacation. and now Is
an enthusiastic frequenter of the greer
| links.
The Dramatic Mirror reports thai
james O'Neill received an fer from
the owners of "The Christian" to play
John Storm next season through terri