The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-06

GiIIett's impersOnation of Sherlock
Holmes, the detective for the character
seems exactly suited to Gillett's i'm
pertUrbability and he and DR. A. Conan
Doyle are now engaged upon the drama
tizatiOn which will be produced first in
America next fall.
THE Heart of Maryland" also suffer-
ed by COMPARISON with LOndOn'S first
taste of American war drama and it's
success was also only moderate, the
critics finding Mrs. Leslie Carriers act
ing more to their fancy than Mr..
BelaScO'S stage craft. For the Duke of
YOrk's theater Mr.. Frohman has en-
gagged an English stock company head
ed by Jesse Millward, which will soon
play Anthony Hopes Adventures of
Lady Ursula
The fall season at the Adelphi will be
opened by a melOdrama, the Gypsy
King" from the pen of George r. Sims,
with Julia Nelson and Fred Terry in
Mr.. Alexander has found his new
play, The Ambassador" by Mrs.
Graigie John Oliver HObbs) such
card that he will continue it next sea-
son and is equipping a second company
for the provinces.
Considerable unfavorable comment
has been provoked among Americans in
London from the fact that Mrs. Craigie
herself an American, has introduced in
to the play for it's low comedy element,
a family of illiterate, pushful Ameri-
cans, whose participation is quite I'M
that the offending passages will be
eliminated before the play goes to the
United States.
The long standing alliance of Mrs.
James Brown Potter and K. Bellew is
to be broken temporarily Mrs. Potter
has been engaged by Beerbohm Tree
as leading lady to play Miladi in his
version of 1.-The Three MusketeerS, -
next fall. Mr.. Bellew will become
leading man with Charles Wyndman for
a new play by Louise n. Parker and
Murray Carson, the authors of Rose
mary
olga Nethersole will tour the United
States under the management of Mar
Gus r. Mayer in her principal play
The Termagant'" by Mr.. Parker. she
will also have a new play by Max
O'Reill, yet unnamed; another to be
called THE Mutiny," and will present
Ibsen's DOLLS House"
England is swarming with American
stagefolk this month some of them en-
joying holidays, others pursuing their
studies Viola Allen, who has secured
the American rights of Hall Gaines
THE Christian" is spending a month
at the nOVeIist's castle in the Isle of
Man. Mr.. Game is preparing two YER
siOns of the book for the stage, the
character of Gloria being the leading
in Miss Aliens version while the other
version, which is under way for Wilson
Barrett will give the center of the stage
to John Storm.
James H. Hackett and his wife are
here making the rounds of the theaters
for the purpose of observation.
Nat Goodwin is enjoying life at his
handsome country place just outside of
London, and John Drew is entertaining
his cOmpatriOts at his summer place on
the Thames.
William H. Crane is resting in Lon
don. Thomas E. Murray, the Ameri-
can comedian, is to star with Lottie
Collins in a musical sketch called 1.-The
White BIackbird.' Sydney Drew has
finished an extended season as star in
the comedy My Innocent Boy"
The opera season also closed with a
record of 30 performances of Wagner
out of a total of 81 nights. Fourteen
of these were consumed by the Nib
elungen." ''Lohengrin' was played |
seven times. Tristan and "Meister- |
singer" each four times and Tame
hauser'' three.
There is already a demand for a rep !