The sun., 1898-06-26
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.

1.-The Mikado" and "The Gondoliers"
were sung in New York last week.
Next season Jefferson De. Angels will
star in new opera by STANCE and Ed
wards,
Effie shannon's younger sister, Win
mona, will play the ingenue role of Kitty
in ''The Meth and the Flame" next
winter.
In New York vaudeville theatres last
week the performers Included J. H.
Stoddat, Felix Morris and Corinne.
The latter wore tights and played the
mandolin.
Timepieces are to be set in the pros
cenium arch, at either side of the stage,
in KeRh's Theatre, Boston. The clocks
will be set in the ornamental stucco
work. The dials, which will be Of a
unique pattern, will be illuminated, so
thes can be easily read from any part
Of the house.
Charles Z. Blaney and Elmer Vance
lsave engaged Johnstone Bennett for a
rev farce comedy, "The Female Drum
sner," which opens in Boston August 80.
I'm this Miss Bennett plays the role of a
corset drummer and several other char
acters. George Richards and Eugene
Garfield have also been engaged.
The editor and proprietor of the Dra-
matte News and Dramatic Times ex-
plains i'm the current number why he
printed the ''statement' concerning Mr..
and Mrs. Fiske. He declares that the
circulators of the paper would not handle
the publication unless the retraction
were printed 81 wish How,' SAYS Mr..
Bettelheim, *to say that the statement
was made uaVder 3uress and don't CO."
Piper Fimalater, the kero of Englana' S
recent border war in india, is coming to
America, it is said in London. He cones
here, having been engaged by a mlsic
haR manager for 5G9 per week. lie is
expected TO play on llis pipes the charge
and tell the sEory Of the battle with the
Ah'idis, when, althoagh pierced By sew
eal bullets, mis- legs useless, hetsat on
the ground and played to his sfellow-
| Iaeighlanders,
The Ragged y,egimeHit," the new
Cuban war melGdrama by R. n Ste
phens- anthor OF "An Tnenr. to the
Ming," in New Y@rk on MondGs last has
been written around that heroine of
Cuba libre Evsngeina Cisneros, ROW
Mrs. Cares f. 1Carbonell. The action
Of the play paraphrases ITO same extent
1.-THE aescue of that young woman from
Havana prison by an American. Blanche
Wahsh ard Aubrey Rouciceult were in
the cast.
Although foc so Gong 10 ;next-door
neighbor ito Weber d: Fields, .Augustin
Duly has nea,r set foot in the Music
Hail. In fact, Lam cold tits years since
he attended any petfBrmaEresssaveIt these
given by his own companies. To every
'b0ly' surprise, thenefore, &Ir. Daily was
one of the first to e1rter the Grand Opera
House, hn Chicago, " hen Weber& Fields
opened there with +'Pousse Cafe.' He
occupied seat well down in front, and
according to my informantwas convulsed
with laughter.
.AccosdngGo the Dranaaic Mirror the
government has emtered iatoa contract
with Manager .FraBis Burt, OF Toledo o.,
to build and manage, for and on behalf
Of the limited States Of America, a theatre
wath;a seating capacity of $500, at Camp
Thomas, Chickamauga Park. 1t is the
Intention Of the government to devote
the hNlse,to the presentation OF refined
vaudeville. Two performances will be
given'daily. 'Only,.nembefs of,the United
states army will be admitted. No ad-
mission fee will be charged.
Christine y Silsson, whose cold Swedish
beauty and marvellous voice delighted
New Works opera goers "a, quarter of g
century ago, invested some OF her saw
iMs5s in Ame,Bca real estate, which turn !
cd out immensely valuable. The other
day she disposed of the last Of her Boston
holdings, consisting OF valuable mercan- :.
tile houses, which rcalized over $780, 900. 4
The once great singer, after a tempes- |
tueus private life, is Eow the Countess de
Casa Miranda and enjoys hor fortune
and title in the South of France. She is
still a remarkably well preserved
woman.
~ losthe newspapers said Mrs.
Kendall, "and have persuaded my hus-
band to my way of thinking. None is
ever found in my house. and never al
low my servants to read them. \ Il
Go out into the road and break stones;
go and call fish in the street; but have
TO do with journalism. Why is
it that nothing of my private lite ever
appears in the papers? Simply because
will hold no communication with Jour-
nalists. | have never shaken hands with
anyone connected with the press, and am
not going to imperil my hopes OF future
salvation by doing SO now.''
My only astonishment in connection
with Mansfield's latest utterances is that
so long time has elapsed since his hith-
erto latest scheme to Immediately wind
up his affairs'' and leave the stage. 1t
was three seasons ago, in Washington,
that he "renounced acting forever" and
engaged Major Pond to manage his lec-
tllte tours. The lecture tours never got
outside the nimbus of the actors blister
ing brain, and the major, who knew less
abosE Mansfield than about Max O'Rell,
wasted several pads of engraved paper in
correspondence pertaining to Marshall
Z. Wiher's supposed conferee.-N. Y. {
Mail and Express.
The story of Chattanooga" produced
IN Chicago last night, is founded on the
Incidents which occurred while Hooker |:
md Bragg were maneuvering for posi- !.
ions before the great battle Of Lookout :
Mountain. The principal incident is .
AIKEN from history. 1t is that of union !.
)fticer getting important messages to =
5eneral' Hooker on the eve of battle. 1t !,
s actually noted in history that union l
'fficer did succeed in getting an entire l
ralnload OF soldiers through the confed- 5
rate lines in ample time for the battle. 9
The love interest of the play is centered !