The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-06

will be the coming, In about two weeks,
OF DANIEL Frohman's special Prisoner of
Henda Company. Mr.. Frohman writes
from his New York headquarters that he
mas taken great pains in the selection of
the actors comprising this company, and
that the performance will, in every way,
be equal to the demands of Anthony
Hopes splendid story of THE Prisoner of
Aenda, which they present with all the
scenery, costumes and accessories neces-
sary for a tirst-ciass production. We
publish this announcement because the
New York Lyceum manager has always
Kept his promises This is regarded as
the greatest of all the famous Lyceum
theater successes
A big and dreadful lion is used in Henry
r. DiXey's show of tricks and Illusions.
The beast is reality, however and it is
sure, moreover, that in st. Paul he caught
ana cheWed the arm of a stage carpenter
who moved the cage incautiously. The
wounded man was there as evidence for
the newspaper reporters to see. But they
had to depend on Mr. Dixey's word that
he had dashed half-ciad from his dressing
room and saved the imperiled life at the
risk of his own.
Sarah Bernhard is evidently contem-
plating another American tour She has
written to Charles Frohman for route of
three months.
Dan DAILY, the comedian who was injured
in Boston, was given benefit in New York
which netted his about So, 500.
The period of Modjeskas new play is the
First Empire and some of the charac-
tiers are prominent Americans of those
stirring times.
In Wellington, Kan, recently Thomas
w. Keene played Orchard III" and be-
tween the acts John Haughey, a local stu
dent of Shakespeare, arose and explain
ed to the audience just what Mr. Keene
had said and done in the preceding act
and forecast what he probably would do
In the next act says the Philadelphia In
quirer. This is furnishing dramatic crit
ieism while you wait.
Composer Henry Pabst of PHILADELPHIA
has just completed the score of the new
Spanish opera, THE Maid of Madrid" The
libretto of the Maid" is by Messrs Dorr
and Freeman. The opera will be given a
hearing by the Bostonians in the spring.
Paderewsk recently celebrated his 9th
birthday. He is the wealthie5t pianist
The marriage of Miss Ethel Barrymore
to Sir Henry Irving's son Laurence will
take place in the early spring. so it is an
nounced They will be united under their
own names, Ethel Blyth and Laurence
Broadrib.
Lotta's Boston real estate-which in
cludes the Park theater-is assessed at
1920, co.,
1.-THE Geisha" has lately been sung in
Russian at Moscow, and Sudermann's
die F,hre' is a popular drama in Greece,
where it is acted in the native language.
Gustave Salvini, who had received his
share of his fathers estate on condition
that he never act in Italy, appeared I'm
Venice the other day. He has been an
actor for years but has hitherto deferred
to his fathers wishes. Tomaso never
wanted any one of the same name to act
in his country, and the action of his son
is looked upon as another episode in the
bad feeling that has long existed between
them He appeared in Hungarian play,
2
There is an impression abroad that E. H.
Sothern is a native born Englishman, but
such is not the case. He came into this
world at New Orleans while his father was
a member of the stock company there.
Young Sothern went to England when he
was 3 years old and gained his ideas and
education there. His close friends indig-
nantly deny that his tastes and sym 9athies
are all with the British. Mrs. Sothern (Miss
virginia Harned) is a Virginia girl, and it
is claimed that all of Mr.. Sothern's invest
ments are on this side of the water.
"Capt. Dreyfus' Martyrdom," after hav-
ing drawn crowded houses for three weeks
at a theater in Ans erdam, was forbidden
bv the police. Not only were actual person.
ages introduced into the action, but the
ending was changed according to the latest
news on the subject. When the play was
acted first it ended with the reading of
the letter written by Nine. Dreyfus TO the
Pope. Later this was changed after the in
PRODUCTION of the walled lady" episode.
and the audiences every night saw the
drama wound up In accordance with the
latest kilograms from Paris on the sub
iect. All of the personages that figured in
the trial were introduced. 1t was the eX-
element caused by the performance that
led the authorities to stop It,"
Ask any old-timer what is the hardest
thing to do in stage business, and he will
cav II Is to train a bcvy of girls to do a
march correctly Get lot of fresh and
Green Youngsters who don't know a scene
nrop from a calcium light, or their left
foot from their right, and try to show them
anything. and you welcome delrium ire
mems as a merry reliet.
wilton Lackaye has again closed his sea-
con and is said to be looking around for a
s,,itable pIav for another starring venture
either the latter part of this season or next
year.
Rev John Talbot Smith of New York
who Is widely known among the clergy cnd
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