The times., 1898-04-24

Master" The Hoosier Doctor" "A Roy
al Warrant" The Man in Black, "The
Wedding Day THE Swell Miss Fitz-
well. The Electrician, The French
Maid, The Highwayman, "The Idols
Eye, - Way Down East" what Hap
pened to Jones THE Wrong Mr..
Wright" Secret Service Under the
Red Robe Tess of the d dUrberviIles.' .
My Friend From India "a Bachelors
Romance" "A Bachelors Honeymoon"
THE Man From Mexico "A Milk White
Flag" "A Stranger in New York" "A
Virginia Courtship, Nathan Hale"
THE Cat and the Cherub," "Shore
Acres The Man-o Wars Man" The
Princess and the Butterfly THE Moth
and the Flame .The Tree of Krowl-
dge' The Conquerers,' An Irish Cen
tleman." Cumberland 81, AT the
French Ball THE Jucklins' ''Shall we
Forgive Her, THE Adventure of Lady
Ursula The Sign of the Cross, The
White Heather" "The Serenade.' Jack
and the Beanstalk. : "The Ballet Girl"
The Bride Elect Half a King THE
Telephone Gin" cone Summers Day"
'"The Belle of New York. THE Geisha,"
"An Americaii Citizen" eel Captain
'Heartsease, Sowing the Wind" and
one or two others. Days Company and
the Castle Square Opera Company have
also done remarkably well.
prevents a retrospective from being alto
gether pleasant. In the first place. Fan
ny Davenport's new drama, "A Soldier
of France" was early taken from the
bills. and a revival of Rosemary 1.-THE
Good Mr.. Best" Hendersou's presenta-
ton of The Crystal Slipper" Nature
Very Little Faust" My Wife's Step
christopher. Jr.. The Maid of Mar
blehead' and Henry e. Dixey's Thor
oughbred" shared the same lamentable
fate. Wang remained out only few
months; Camille d'Arville brought her
tour with Peg WofIington' TO speedy
close; the scenery of Thomas Q. Sea-
brookes Papa Gou Gou' was attached
in this city. and the revival of the piece
entitled "A Normauy Wedding" Jared
no better in New York. Anna Held
killed La Poupee' early in the Year
Marie Dressler's "Courted into Court"
closed shortly after it's opening; Mana
ger F'rohman did not find "rne Salt OF
the Earth profitable; "a Southern Ro-
nance did not satisfy firss-cIass audi
ences, and was taken out with a cheap
ened company to DO still poorer business;
The Sporting Duchess suffered the
same humiliation. and after losing a los
of money for f, Il. Sothern. '"Chauge AL
| ley was taken off the bills. Further
more, Wilton Lackaye was forced to
| Warde could not pay expense with Tile
| Rise of Isklander, and THE Ward of
| France was a miserable failure from
| the first: "a Paris Model never got
| beyond it's trial performance and both
! Our Boys and THE Old Coat faiiel
| to please Go: ham.
| John Drew, without acknowledging the
wretchedness of the piece understooa the
expediency Of getting rid of a Marriage
| of Convenience some little time ago.
| Auguste Van Bene failed in everything he
| undertook, a revival of ''The Heart of
! Maryland" in this country did not prove
! profitable, and Robert Downing soon
! brought his first attempt of the year to
| a close. Like "A Marriage of Convent
! ence,' Herbert Kelcey and Efiie Shannon
| found "A Coat of Many Colors worthless
and substituted The Moth and the
! Flame, while For Fair Virginia. after
| a wretched season here, went to join Be-
! lasco's war play in London. Corinnes
! production of AN American Beauty
turned out badly; revival of Miss
| Philadelphia" nearly forced the company
| into walking home 1889 was dismal
! failure; The Paris Doll and THE
| Broadway Girl did not prove attractive;
'In Gay Paris closed early; The Circus
| Girl disbanded after leaving Washington;
| zone Round of Pleasure and The Whirl
| of the Town" found New York the safest
| place to founder and one of the companies
| giving .The Girl from PARIS left the ring
| two months ago. A Hired Girl was fire.
| quently disbanded and reorganized. and
Bonnie Scotland did not find it advis-
able to return to the road. 3.
To continue with musical comedies,
| The Nancy Hanks was condemned all
over the country though 1t is still run
had the smoothcst road-to travel, and "Bo
Peep never reached Washington. Bert
| Haverly and Laura Biggar abandoned "A
Trip to Chinatown ''The Pacific Mali
had a narrow escape from stranding
Little Monte, Christie" has not been
heard of, I'm Tpwm1 returned to London.
/ Grau's Ceebrefies never celebrated and
"a Boy Wanted" snet trouble on the
Pacific Coast. The saddest failure of all
was that Of Katherine kidder's original
play, though the fail from grace of Ma
dame Viarda the Polish actress, was not
without its pathetic features. Bertha
Creighton, Isabelle Evesson and Estelle
Clayton were a trio of new stars who did
not set the world afire, and returned to
quiet places in small type, and Eugene
J Blair is said to have broken off her open
ing tour triIe hurriedly.
The Privateer' died about the time
. that "Cubas Vow was forgotten but
did not return so quickly, while 'In Old
, Madrid never reached this city. Under
the Polar Star" and THE First Born
| Gid not succeed, "A Breezy Time" con-
fined itself to small towns. "Old Laven-
der has been doing a frightful business.
| the brownies have not materialized
here and "At Piney Ridge closed its
season before the usual time Human
| Heart had trouble in the South a few
! months back Captain Impudence' was
unfortunate and THE Indian was
scaIred some time ago. Patent Applied
For has been retired. THE city of New
/ York" fell into the slough of despond and
! In the Name of the Gar did not prove
a potent watchword in this country of
freedom.
The Captain of the Nonesuch." "The
Strange Adventures of Miss Brown and
The Sunshine of Paradise Alley were
not much heard from after the first
months of the year and have closed. His
Little Dodge" did not "go" in New York
and was never tried elsewhere, and THE
First Violin has just 1aft its retirement
"Phorso' has not been used by Maud
Adams and awaits production by the
Empire Stock Company, Mansfield has
not fulfilled his promise of giving us The
Master of Ceremonies and ''Timon of
Athens Julia Marowe has not revived
"A Winters Tale" and Ada Rehan will
not produce Joan Of Arc" prince and
| Prima Donna" and The Fight for Hon
or have both been sidetracked while
! when Greek Meets Greek was never
dramatized, despite announcements to
| the contrary Miss Plaster of Paris
did not take form and The Marquis OF
Michigan has been put off until next
season THE Girl From Frisco" shared
this fate and a long list of other presen-
! tations promised at the beginning of the
season have only gone to swell the list
of disappointed hopes and dead ambi-