The times., 1898-09-11
BRIEFLY TOLD

Lottie Gibson is engaged TO be married.
George w Lederer has sailed for Lon
don.
Robert Manten has filed a petition of
bankruptcy.
Peter F. Daley will be with Weber and
Fields again this year.
James A Herne's new play is to be cali
ed '.The Rev. Griffith Davenport" Z.
Daniel Sully's new play, Uncle Bob"
is said to have made an emphatic hit
Harry Woodscu, the famous old negro
comedian, died on August 80 in mad
house.
A picture of Nellie Hawthorne adorns
the first page of last weeks dramatic
Mirror
sousa's s Band will begin its st. Louis en-
gagement next week. The tour was start
ed last Wednesday.
James X Hackett VIII shortly begin
rehearsals for his starring tour in The
Tree of knowledge"
William Faversham is to be the Romeo
in Maude Adams forthcoming production
of Romeo and Juliet
Anna Boyd, last seen here as a feature
of "The Nancy Hanks" was married last
month to Joseph H Coyne.
William Gillettes new comedy, Because
She Loved Him So" from the French of
Bisson. will soon be produced at the Gar
rick TheateT.
George H. Brennan, manager for Thorn
as L. Shea, has assumed control of the
Third Avenue Theater, New York. the
probability being that he viii run it for
his star.
c. w. Couldock, the oldest actor on the
American stage and originator of the role
of Dunstan in Hazel Kirke.' is once
more being seen in that play, this time
as it's star
Sadie Connolly promises to star in 1899,
Sadie is wise in placing the time suffi-
cientiy near TO be of service from press
agents point of view and yet distant
enough to allow of its being forgotten by
the arrival of the season.
A Western hypnotist has developed a
clever advertisement in a dodger on
which is printed the line. This strip of
paper was torn from the walls of the
opera house to make room for the crowd
that attends Professor Lawrence's en-
tertainmentS.
Annie Russell is TO appear this season
in Henri Lavedan's drama, Catherine.
If all accounts of Miss Russell's former
try at the emotions are true, she had
better leave romantic plays alone and
stick to sunbonnets and cleyerly con-
structed smpers.
Hoyt's new comedy is said to be much
like "A Stranger in New York" And
since "A Stranger in New York was in
turn only a duplicate "Trip to China
town." it may be surmised that the play
| wright's works have many of the char
acteristicS of the Phoenix.
Mrs. Fiske will be seen this year in
repertoire of plays including 'Tess Of the
d Urbervilles, "A Bit of Old Chelsea
Love Finds the Way" .Divorcons and
i'Magda'' As was the case with our
greatest actor, our greatest actress will
not be seen in Washington.
Kate Masterdon in one of Gotham's
dramat tic papers propounds the question:
rs the stage going to elevate society,""
Perhaps it may try, but one cannot help
thinking that the theater has sufficient
number of difficult undertakings on hand
without any addition to the list
1 Lincoln J. Carter is going abroad with
his melodramatic successes, "The Tor
nado" "The Heart of Chicago" and .sUn-
der the Dome Mr.. Carter thinks they
will prove revelation to London. and he
| is probably right The town that was sur
prised at the buzzsaw scene in Blue
Jeans will probably have a stroke of
| paralysis when il sees play in which a
house is blown away during the first acf
steamer wrecked IN the second, cot
ton press used on the main character dur
| ing the third, that same person dissected
| In the fourth and reintroduced alive and
| well at the close of the fifth.
| Robert Downing recently advertised in
| the Toledo Blade his appearance in :" The
| Gladiator drama by William Shakes
| peare." Which recalls the time that q
National Theater program, during one of
| Julia Marlowe's engagement cresit I'd
| Lady of Lyons to the same sourca Tru-
\ ly. the players of today must be trying
| to make up for the certainty vita which
| their brothers laid Shakespeare's works
| to Bacon by giving the former gentleman
everything that happens to be lying
] around without copyright