The times., 1898-08-14

ward Harrigan. Marie Wainwright, ]. III.
Stoddart, Fanny Davenport, Lewis Nor
rison, James Herne Frank Daniels, Fanny
Rice. Walker Whiteside, Otis Skinner,
Robert Mantell, Modjeska, Digby Bell,
Carl Haswin, Charles Leonard Fletcher,
Creston Clarke Auguste Van Biene Clay
Clement, ]. e. Toole. Charles Gardiner.
Kate Claxton, Lillian Lewis, Katie En-
NETT, Ward and Vokes. Go-Won-Go-Mo-
hawk and Agnes Wallace Villa. A few
of these people may make productions late
in the season, but even that is not prob
able. In fully three-fourths of the in
stances the vehicles used will be Shakes
pearean or classic drama, while even
those who continue in modern plays-as
Miss Marlowe and Miss Arthur-will vary
their repertoires by presentations from the
old school.
A glance at the years roster of new
offerings, to be done by companies with
OUT a star, almost appals one. AS In
earlier years. the greater part of the
piays-are either farces or melodramas.
Several will be magnificently produced.
At least fifteen of those mentioned have
already been tried in one city, while
others are not yet even in rehearsal The
list is the first complete one ever pub
lished, has been compiled with great care.
and, while perhaps occasionally in err
ror. will be found to be less so than
those hitherto printed. 1t includes the
Bostonians new opera, Ulysses;
Sporting Life" Mistakes VIII Hap
pen." Devils Island" Chattanooga"
''The Cuckoo" "Phroso." Rejanes Ia
ra. ''The Conquerers." Yankee Doodle
Dandy" Way Down East The Tur-
tie" why Smith Left Home" THE
Last Chapter" "A Brace of Partridges,
Hotel Topsy Turvy" La Boheme,"
The White Heather" 1.-The Telephone
Girl THE Greek Slave" THE Runa-
way Girl" ''Trelawney of the Wells"
"a Run for Your Money" "a Spring
Chicken" "A Sure Cure John Mar
tins Secret" "A Misfit Marriage Fin
negan's Four Hundred. - THE Evil Eye"
"Casey's Wife" I'm Atlantic City"
1.-The Airship.'' 'The Minister'S Son."
"A Reign of Terror" 1.-The Finish of Mr..
Fresh" Have You Seen SMITH" ''The
Daughters of the Poor Greater New
York. "A Night at the Circus" Back
Among the Old Folks The Hearth
stone" Mouse Trap Tobe,' AN Irish
mans Love-" His Imperial Highness,"
"A Trip 10 the Races alone in New
York "a Female Drummer" by the
Bowery." John Bradey's Money" bob
and Rob-" "Oh. Susannah." "On the Wa
bash" "Uncle Josh Spruceby,' THE De-
faulter," 1.-The Mimic, and line of
war plays embracing "A Daughter of Gu
ba," The Maine Avenged" AN Ameri-
can Hero" For Love and Law, "Strang
led on Sunday" Held Up in Havana"
and ''The Dawn of Freedom" Besides
made by small repertoire companies, of
which it is impossible to obtain an ac-
count
The holdovers from last season are
'-fhe French Maid THE Girl From
Paris, a Boy Wanted" "A Jolly
Night" "A Railroad Ticket" "a Bunch
of Keys" "A Stranger in New York, "A
Contented Woman" "A Milk White
Flag. AN Enemy to the King" "A
Parlor Match" tAt Piney Ridge" HUI
man Hearts," 1.-The Ballet Girl" Chin
mie Fadden," Cumberland '61" Coon
Hollow The Devils Auction" Down
in Dixie" THE Heart OF the Klondike."
Darkest Russia" Eight Bells ''The
Electrician" "Fabio Romani," For Fair
Virginia. 1.-THE Fast Mail" Fallen
Among Thieves THE Great
Train Robbery" Girl Wanted
Brother for Brother" Cay
est Manhattan ''Hogan's Alley"
The Heart of Maryland" THE Heart of
Chicago" 1.-The Pulse of a Great City,"
Humanity" "A Hired Girl" I'm Old
hentucky, IN Old Madrld, "A Bach
elor's Honeymoon" Lost in Siberia"
''McFadden's Row OF Flats" 1.-THE Man
From Mexico THE Man-o' Wars Man"
My Friend From India Miss Francis
OF Yale" Natural Gas" ''CharIey's
Aunt" Patent Applied For" "Pudd'n-
head Wilson," Sowing the Wind" "A
Southern Romance Shenandoah"
Side Tracked The Sign of the Cross"
tSuperba I" The Sunshine of Paradise
Alley The Pay Train" THE lorna
do" ''The Limited Mail" "The Old
Homestead THE Girl I left Behind
Me-" THE Last Stroke" THE Woman
in Black" 1.-The Land of the Living"
THE Span of Life" THE Cherry Pick
ers,' THE Prisoner of Zenda," .'Tennes-
sees Pardner." THE Twelve Tempta-
tions. Two Little Vagrants,' "The Tar
rytown Widow Uncle Toms Cabin"
Under the Red Robe" Under the
Dome What Happened to JONES'"
when London Sleeps 1.-The White
Slave" Jack and the BeanstaIk," THE
Highwayman," "a Marriage for Conven-
ience." "El Captain" Half King"
1872. Bonnie Scotland "a Breezy
Time ;" AT Gay Coney Island" and 9TH
ers too numerous for mention.
And when one learns that besides these
combinations there are on the road twen-
five bur!esque companies, eighteen roper
toire companies, nine opera companies,
upwards of sixteen stock companies, lee
turers. hypnotists, magIcians, spectacles,
variety shows and minstrels he is no
longer at a loss to know why managers
are called "mercuriaI"