The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-15
PLAYS AND PLAYERS.


Edna Wallace Hopper is TO star in a
new opera.
Hoyt's first wife, Flora Walsh died in
Boston in 1893.
Mr.. and Mrs Russ Whytal will revive
"As You Like 1t" this year.
Robert Burns will figure as the leading
character in an opera called "Il Pocta."
The original homicide is to be done up
in opera form. 1t is to be named simply
Cain"
The real name of Julia Arthur was Ida
Lewis. She is now Mrs. Benjamin Percy
Cheney
"Lohengrin" recently had its four hun
dredth performance in Berlin. 1t was
sung for the first time in 1853.
Miss May Irwin is her own stage man
| agcr She puts on all her own piays.
Likewise she is her own manager.
y "Cyrano de Bcrgcrac" bUrlcsquc, with
the famous nose in the star part is al
ready in the course Of preparation.
Lillian Russell is an adventurous person.
1t is announced that when she has ended
her engagement in Berlin she will go to
Madrid, Spain, to fill an engagement
| there.
Mrs r. W. Kecne widow of the TRACE
| dian, has lest over $4,000 in the thcatrica,
business at Cincinnati, her son says, and
is now in New York trying to secure more
| capital.
John j. Rafael and Miss Linda de Costa
are two new acquisitions to the Southwcll
| English Opera company that make their
first appearance there this week in
| "Nadiy."
Miss Annie Yoamans has fine charac-
ter creation as Lavinia DAILY secretary Of
THE Cook Ladies' Union" in George II.
Broadhursts latest farce, why Smith
| Left Home"
Joseph jefferson produced "The Rivals
| at the Fifth Avenue theater, New York,
| this week In the company are Otis
skinner Wilton Lackaye Miss FfOliott
Paget and Miss Elsie Leslie.
Lola Small, daughter of the Rev. Sam
small, evangelist appeared last week as
Virginia Pryc in HOyts comedy, "A
| Stranger in New York" Miss Small
made her debut in tights.
Five years ago Fanny Davenport wrote
| letter to a friend, in which was this
| almost prophetic sentence: My ambi-
| tion is to retire in 19OO-not remaining long
enough to wear my welcome out"
| May llalloway Fisher, who appeared
| at the Lyceum Wednesday night with
| Frohmans company i'm ION and off" has
| no superior in dclineating the shrcwish
| female character. She has the faculty
| of entirely losing her identity i'm the char
acter she portrays.
The Baroness Wartegg, whom we best
| know as Minnie lIauk, was bitten on the
upper lip few years ago by pet parrot.
| Some tissues were destroyed, and the we
| TINS singing days were thought to be
| ended. She has finally regained her lost
| notes and will soon resume her public
| career.
| Reginald De Koven. the composer. and
| II. c. Hatticld-Taylor, the novelist, are to
take flight into the field of playwriting.
| one of tn air plays is to be a comedy treat
| ing of society life in New York and Wash
| ingtOn and with references to the recent
| war which will give it a timolinoss. There
| will he no musical accompaniment or in
| terpolations. The play has been named
"The Manners of Good Society,""
! 1t is estimated by those who ought
| to know that j. NJ. Barrie's royalties from
THE Little Minister" viii ultimately
amount to $250,00O The piece, in addition
| to playing to between $4,000 and $l2 OO1
| a week in America, has begun its second
season in London at the Haymarkct the
| ater, where the audiences are enormous,
and 1t Is also going in Australia to very
| large houses. Barric's "Thc Professors 5
Love Story" drew an average of some
| thing like $1,000 a week, and Willard only
| paid Sl7j weekly for its use.
| Miss olga NcthcrsOle, who says she
| feels intensely in colors," has been ut
| toring some very interesting remarks on
| the subject. Certain colors have q GER
| tain significance for her and she carries
! her theory into practice on the stage by
wearing whichever color she considers
| expressive of the emotion she has to por-
| tray. Red, fer instance, signifies pas
sionate love, hatred; vengeance; pink cx-
| presses more tender moods; gray suits a
| character "hOvcrng on the unknown OK
| panscs of life" in which Sadness is the
| prevailing note;" a waning passion sug-
| gests yellow.
The "coon" song craze which lust now
has such firm hold on vaudeville artists
| will spend it's force this season unless
| there Is a distinct improvement I'm the
| character of the songs with which theatcr
| goers are tortured, At the GaietY this
week is young man, Tom Nolan by
| name who sings parodies and coon songs
| that were unquestionably constructed by
| himself. No one would sing such drlycl
| IL written by another. Mr.. NOlans songs
| are bad. very bad, but he consoles him
| self with the thought that he Is not the
only one who strings lot OF words to-
| gether, calls them song and then in
| nicts them on n long suffering public.
| There ought to be some remedy for the
| amateur coon song nuisance.
| Miss Eflie Shannon, Herbert kelccy $
| partner i'm "The Moth and the Flame" is
| on record with a preference for playing
| adventures on the stage She recently
said to an interviewer: 81 think we make
a mistake, with all our splendid realism
on the American stage, IN our idea of an
| adventures. She is always a bold wo-
man who wears a red dress. Now, real
adventures never looks like that at all.
| She is more apt to be delicate and inno-
| cent looking, We know that It is 50
! now, and l am sure 1t has always been
so. Once a newspaper man told me-and
| newspaper men know everything, you
know-that the wickedest woman he ever
| met with in his experience was Il little
blonde with a baby face and the babiest
Of blue eyes. No one would invite the ad-
| ventures we put on the stage into a
| dra wing rom She cnnldnlt hnnni,,n a