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Personal Paragraphs Con-
cerning Stage FayOrites.
PLAYS AND PLAYERS
Stage Items cf the Season---GOssip OF
the Green ROom---What They
. are Doing.
PLAYS AND PLAYERS

in play by Sardou.
Mrs. Fiske produced "Divorcons' in
New York last week.
One OF the New York opera companies
has given up the ghost.
Julia Marlowe is visiting her husband,
Robert Tabor, in London.
William Gillette is now the lion OF the
most exclusive set in London.
Lillian Russell's daughter donned her
first pair Of corsets last week.
It was 300 wears ago, in France, that
the first grand opera was produced.
At Chicago last week Dorothy Nor.
ton played the title role in ''Paul Jones"
The Andrews Opera Company closed
it's four weeks season in Philadelphia
last night.
Last week "Incog" was reviewed at
Chicago and Captain Swift" was New
York attraction.
Lewis Morrison is supported by the
Alcazar Theatre stock company during
his Frisco engagement.
Wilson Barrett's season in Australia
will end on July 2, and he will begin a
tour Of England in August.
Sympathetic references to America are
received in the London theatres and
music halls with hearty applause.
"Jessica," an opera founded on ''The
Merchant OF Venice" music by Louis
Deffes, has been produced at Toulouse.
Laura Joyce Bell made her vaudeville
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Prima Donna; or, Up Goes the Price Of
Milk"
Two Philadelphia theatres are still
open. Keith's vaudeville house is the
only theatre in the Quaker City that has
been open 81 weeks year during the
past nine years.
Mr. Hoyt will personally direct the
production of "a Stranger in New York"
when it is given at the Duke OF York's
Theatre, London. Otis Harlan, Harry
Gilfoil and Harry Conor will be in the
cast.
Miss Ellen Terry is now acting only
in the evening performances OF 'sThe
Medicine Man." her place in the after
noon being taken by Miss Dorothea
Baird the original Trilby on the English
stage and the wife of Irving's eldest son.
Judge Cohen, OF the New York su-
preme Court, has denied the applica-
tion made by Fay Templeton to. set
aside the attachment which was issued
against her property in suit brought by
Edward f. Haskell for the recovery OF
S26, ,617 on breach of contract. The
claim was originally held by Charles f..
and Edward L. Rice, who allege that
the actress broke her contract with
them, by which she was to go on the
road with Excelsior for forty weeks.
"The White Heather" in which
Rose Coghlan is to star next season, will
shortly be played in Australia. ''rhe
White Squadron" which has lately been
revived in several American cities, has
been staged at Sydney. 'The Silver
King" "Romany Rye" and "Sign ofthe
Cross" are also on the boards there.
''The Star spangled Banner" says our
Australian correspondent, John Plum
mer forms popular feature of the pro
gram of. most travelling companies
throughout the colonies. The colonists
to man, are with their American
brethren in the struggle, and l would
raise troop in week If necessary.
The recognition of the stage as an edu-
cational agency in Germany has been
generally recognized since the time of
Schiller, and in recent years this has de-
veloped practical results in the way OF
special representations for the benefit OF
pupils of the common schools. In Ham
burg 5000 children were taken to the
Stadt Theatre in January, February and
March, where such plays as "Willism
Tell" "The Maid of Otleans." and
"Minna Won Barnhelm" were given,
with an excellent assignment of parts.
The seating capacity of the house being
1000, each play had to be given four
times. The price of admission had been
put to cents, and when it was found
that some children could not afford even
this small amount they were provided
with tickets at the expense of oeneticent
citizens
Cooks Tour a burlesque, by joseph
Herbert. was produced at New York on
Monday last. The last scene, laid at
Havana, was devoted to jumping on the
Spanish flag. The starving reconcen-
trados were chased around the stage by
the Spanish soldiers, who later hustled
Consul General Lee about and blew up
the Maine, after which the populace
trooped in and delightedly inuulged in
an eiaboratey consumed ballet. The
United States soldiers and sailors
swooped down on them. however,
headed by General Lee, and had their
innings. he entire ballet was captured
and made to dance to the time OF
"Yankee Doodle" the Spanish flag was
tossed into the sea, and the whole show
ended with a tableau, in which Uncle
Sam and John Bull, Columbia and Cuba
Libre, and the Goddess Of Peace were the
principal figures Of sort of family party
at the fall of Havana. Joe OFT and Ada
Lewis are in the cast. "r
Mrs. Craigie, "John Oliver Hobbes,'
the celebrated novelist and authoress of
'The Ambassador" produced last week
at the St. James Theatre, is about to
write romantic comedy in four acts for
Miss Ellen Terry, in which it is intended
that Sir Henry Irving and Miss Terry
shall play the parts Of a man and wife. 1t
is to be written in similarly light COM
edy vein to "Thc Ambassador" and Sir
Henry will play a part of the Guizot
type. Mr.. Charles Wyndham has also
commissioned Mrs. Craigie to write him
a play, and an historical tragedy, based
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