The sun., 1898-10-09
WITH MASK and WIG
Personal Paragraphs Con-
cerning Stage FavOrites.
PLAYS AND PLAYERS
Stage Items Of the SeasOn---GOssip OF
the Green ROom--What They
are Doing.

Judic is to return to America.
In Chicago 25 theatres are open.
Edna Wallace Hopper is to star in a
new opera.
Hoyt's first wife, Flora Walsh, died in
Boston in 1898.
Annie Meyers has joined the Frisco
Tivoli Opera Company.
Tim Murphy presented the "Carpet
Bagger' in Toledo last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russ Whytal will revive
"As You Like IT, this year.
Mascagni's new opera, Girls" is to be
sung in Rome on Tuesday next.
Bismarck preferred the music of Bee
thoven to that of any other composer.
"What happened to jones' has passed
its Tooth performance in London.
Sardou's Fedora" has been made
into an opera, and will be performed in
Milan.
Robert Burns will figure as the leading
character in an opera called "ll
Poeta."
Rstori recently recited the fifth canto
of Dante's 'Inferno' at the Carignano
Theatre.
Jean Richepin, the famous French
playwright, was only few years ago
porter in a Partisan hotel.
Why should woman desire to make
nuisance OF herself by wearing hat in
theatre?-Chicago Chronicle.
On October Julia Arthur played
Parthenia in "1ngomar" at Detroit.
Nance O'Neil has been playing this role
in Frisco.
1t is said that Sara Bernhardt, who
wvs getting $40 month at the Odeon in
1872, has in the last 25 years since then
received $2,5OO,OOO.
Lola Small, daughter OF the Rev. Sam
Small, evangelist, appeared last week as
Virginia Prye in Hoyt's comedy, "a
Stranger in New York" Miss Small
made her debut in tights.
Five years ago Fanny Davenport
wrote letter to friend, in which was
this almost prophetic sentence: "My an.
bition is to retire in l9O-not remaining
long enough to wear my welcome out"
1t now seems almost certainty that
Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry will
visit America during the coming season.
1t is Irvng's intention to do Sardou's
new play, "Robesperre, and version
of "Cyrano." The kendals, too, are
contemplating another American tour.
'Nicandra" was acted in London.
''Nicandra'' is an Egyptian princess over
three thousand years old, and has lived
all that time in the form of a snake.
Some old professor brings the snake
from the tombs of Egypt to his house in
London, where by some chance it be-
comes metamorphosed to its original
form, and proceeds to make trouble gen.
orally.
II is estimated by those who ought to
know that j. M. Barrie's royalties from
~DThe Little Minister" will ultimately
amount to $250,00O The piece, in addi-
tion to playing to between $4,000 and
$4,000 week in America, has begun its
second season in London at the Hay
makers Theatre, where the audiences
are enormous, and it is also going in
Australia to very large houses. Barrie's
'The Professors Love Story drew ar
average of something like $4,000 week,
and Willard only paid Sl75 weekly for
its use.
"I have watched little boys building
men of snow," said Lawrence Barrett
once. "Thev finished their work fairly
and well-and then the sun came out and
melted all that their plans had cost them.
Then turned away and said to myself,
'You-you are doing the same thing.
You are forever building men of snow"
Perhaps this may be the end of the art
OF the actor but one thing is certain
if there is given to the actor the power
80 make an impression on the hearts of
men and women then the work he
sculptures is not of snow. but is as
enduring as stone. -Ddroh Free Press.
The twentieth anniversary of The
Dmmatic.Nirror will happen at time
when its commemoration may be made
unusual by this paper. An anniversary
number OF The Mirror will be combined
with the forthcoming annual holiday
publication. For many years the Christ
mas Mirror has been the most gladly well
coined and widely read OF the American
holiday publications. The publication
will have an intrinsic value never before
folnd in holiday number. 1t will tell
the story Of the theatre and the profess
sion for the period covered as that story
is reflected ia detail in The Mirrors his
tory and pages, and all the artistic and
material developments that mark the
permanent growth OF the stage and the
association OF those who follow it will be
set forth in entertaining and instructive
form. Many special articles on subjects
that will interest everybody are in prep
aration, and the historical value Of the
publication will be novel and notable
1t has no rival in the esteem Of the peo-
pie who make up the threatre Of this
country, and for that matter there is no
dramatic newspaper in the world that
stands more persstently or more vigor-
ously for the dignity and legitimate
development Of the stage, or that enjoys
in greater measure the confidence and
the countenance that follow and support
ajournal whose consistency is but EN-
phasized by increasing years, and whose
position on the right side Of every pro-
5cssionaI question Of importance may,
with confidence, be predicted in ad-
vance.
The majority Of the New York critics
declared tnat ManslieIl Us Cyrano had
scored a great int. Some seats brought
81, and hundreds were turned away.