The times., 1898-04-17
BRIEFLY TOLD.

bdIl IidSWln mas revived Little LORD
Godfrey Stein will he a member of the
Columbia Stock Company this year.
Maud Haslam announces her engage
ment to The Marquis of Michigan
Katie Emmett turned people away from
the door last week at the Academy-after
the show was over.
Henry Z. Dixey will cease to be a
magician at the end of the season. APP
parently Mr. DiNey is not "a wiz"
Charles Coghlan's first season as star
closes May II. He will begin again early
in September with a new play by himself.
Negotiations are on foot by which An
thony Hope and Edward Rose vii; dram
atize the formers latest novel, simon
Dale
Julia Arthur's marriage reminds us that
in epidemies of poverty it is a wise pre-
caution to be vacinated with a little
tincture of millionaire.
Madame Janauschek closed her brief
season a week ago yesterday. 1t seems
that she has discovered pretty accurately
What Dreams May Come"
Mcintyre and Heath and the Russell
Brothers are two batcnes OF new stars
for next season. And yet we talk of
the inflated value Of a silver dollar.
Byron G.. Harlan and Edward Marsh,
two local boys who have been very sue
cessful this Winter in New York vaude-
Vile houses. will be home next week.
Samuel French. well known to anna
teurs and professionals as a publisher of
plays. and father of T. Henry French
died last Sunday in London, after a brief
illness.
Eight theaters We're burned in this
country last week Apparently manag-
ers are learning something from the an
cient variety joke on the Jewish cloth
ing dealer.
'Parson'' Davies has been engaged for
"A Trip to Chinatown" This seems
rather strange until one remembers that
after all. New York's Chinatown is "On
the BOwery."
James Corbett. the ex-pugilist, win
| open the season at the Manhattan next
year with Henry Guy Carletons play
The Adventurer." His manager should
have the title role.
Isabel Evesson has resigned from "A
Southern Romance" and is going a star
| ring. Strange how inability to do small
things seems to prompt theatrical people
/ to try large ones.
The Cummings Dramatic Company has
brought to a close its long and success
| full season in Toronto, Canada The or
ganization opened here last Summer, but
| was not well received.
Max Eugene and Amelia Summerville
We're welded last Sunday in New York
Tammany must have come in before DR.
Parkhurst could find time TO shut dowr
on Sabbath marriages.
Musicians all over tne country are
fighting now about their friendship fol
\ the late Anton Seidl. Resurrection daN
will probably be marked by the passin,
of good many lies.
Madge Leasing is to play the title rol,
in Lady Slayey-" A serious legal ques
ton is whether or not Virginia Earle viii
have right to sue Miss Lessing for Iibe
after the piece comes out.
''The Heart of Maryland is credite,
| with having a hit in London. BY tn,
time we send the English a few NOR,
war plays they will understand wher,
our fighting blood comes from
IAN Old Coat did not succeed in NeV
| York and Manager Aronson is betweeI
the devil of THE Tarrytown Widow
and the deep sea represented by a revi
val of THE Isle of Champagne"
Otis Skinner has signed to play Captain
Absolute in Joseph Jefferson's production
Of The Rivals next season. Mr.. Skin
ner is one of our best actors and his fal
1
gretted-
Frederick HalIen. late of Hallen an,
Hart, will star in Weber and Field
success. "Pousse Cafe" The combina
ton will probably not succeed, the fare
being altogether local, and the star no
even that.
Thomas f. Shea will take "The Man-o'
Wars Man" TO the Fourteenth Stree
Theater, New York, next week. Durin
Mr.. Shea's last visit TO Gotham he brok
the records of two fashionable down
town houses.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russ Wythal are to pre-
| sent For Fair Virginia in London /
is not improbable that the Britishers wi
ask this pair to prove their love for tn
State by returning at their earliest con
venience to its borders.
A French journalist has been compeIle
by the courts TO publish an authors ar
swer to the criticism of his play.
such rulings held good in this countr
newspaper men would have to shut u
shop and become press agents.
Ferris Hartman, whose miserable fai
ure in 1893" will be remembered, ha
purchased the rights to an English come
dy, entitled THE Purses" 1t is to b
hoped that Mr.. Hartman viii not fin
that this is merely an empty name.
w. d. Emerson, who shot and kilIe
a manager who refused to pay his bill
was fully sustained by the coroner's jur,
AT this rate there will have to be
salary line drawn between justiiable an
unjustifiable homicide just as there ha
beeen between grand and petty larceny
Stuart Robson and William Cranes oil
line of farce comedy has been readopte
by the latter in his new play. His Homo
the Mayor" And yet Mr.. Crane is one
our most capable character actors, If "
would only take him seriously.
Richard Mansfield has announced tha
his New York engagement, beginning
week from tomorrow, viii open with tn
long-deferred presentation OF The Fir.
Violin" which has been waiting Ion
enough TO have become merely secon
fiddle.
Mary Hampton is being troubled wit
the starring bee and is going to take oil
, | an Indian drama called "The General
Daughter" She will probably next tai
. | out papers on the scenery Of the organ
Zation and the rights TO Hugh Morton
sentimental ballad of real life, TITS Fo
ty Miles From Schnectady to Troy"
Marie Dressler has signed to pla
Madame Vesuvius in THE Marquis
/ Michigan" 1t would seem that Eva Da,
export. the original artist" would |
| more capable of supporting the star, bl
then Sam Bernard is a very small ma
and Miss Dressler proved her dramat
= | strength in that famous dance with Da
DAILY.
Have Veritable Zoo.