The times., 1898-06-12

Henry Guy Carleton is to deliver the
comedy he is writing for Smyth & Rice
| early i'll August
The Lenox Lyceum, New York. has been
reopened by Rudolph Aronson, late mama
ger of the Bijou Theater.
Stuart Robson will open Wallack's The
ater next season IN a comedy written for
him by Augustus Thomas.
Fanny Addison Pitt. who has been very
| i'll. is recovering her health at her coun-
try home at Port Chester. N. Y.
Viola Allen will make her stellar debut
at the Lyric. New York. on October 3, as
Glory, in Hall Gaines Christian.
Jacob Lifts Shenandoah" has been do
ing an enormous business all over the
country, and will continue next season.
| D. Appleton & Company will publish
Richard Mansfield's poems. THE Eagles
| Song" and THE Charge of Dargai Gap"
John Albaugh, jr., has taken up his
| Summer residence at Long Branch. His
| Baltimore season has been most pros
| porous.
James A. Herne will make the initial
| production of his new play, THE Rev
eiend Griffith Davenport. early in De-
| Cember.
Francis Wilson and "Erminie'' drew
SO, 900 to the Casino during the first two
weeks of their engagement. How's that
| for high?
The long litigation over the Casino
property ended last Wednesday when
Henry B. Sire. proprietor of the Bijou.
| purchased the lease.
Roland Reed will next year present
| plays written for him by Mrs. Madeline
Lucette Ryley and Lottie Blair Parker,
author of Way Down East
Walter Perkins, who was responsible
for the success of My Friend From In
| dia," will be fitted out with a new comedy
| by II. A. Du Souchet shortly.
After the run of The Medicine Man.
! Sir Henry Irwin will produce a new play
| being written for him by Victorien Sar-
dou. II will be entitled 'Robespierre.
Jolly Josie a song by Maurice Nc
Loughlin and Max Witt. is making a hit
| In New York. 1t is a beautiful bit OF
work. bright in music and clever in its
wording.
May Buckley has gone West for the
Summer. She will play special engage
ment OF two weeks al San Francisco's
Aicazar and will return East in the
| Autumn.
Edna Aug, we'll and favorably known
! here, sprained her foot last week and
was obliged to leave the leading role in
| The Cash Girl 10 an understudy for
| few days.
| and will spend her well-earned vacation
| in Switzerland returning to America in
the Autumn to appear in David Belasco's 5
| new play.
Two more New York chorus girls have
been left fortunes. This tale begins TO
lack originality. All the good press agents
must have been worn out by their work
with the Lambs
The play on which Bronson Howard
| nd I'll
| not be finished until next Autumn. This
may be another case of Ito many cooks
| spoil the BROTH
Charles Hoyt is in England. Had he
| remained home a bit longer he might
| have had the satisfaction of proving
some of the theories he expressed in "A
| Milk White Flag
Arthur X. DEACON will appear next sea-
| son in a comedy, entitled Jap Van
| Damn" MIR. DEACON viii probably be
arrested for profanity as soon as he
strikes Philadelphia. go ''-@----'t ~ -
| An old play bill unearthed last week
| tells of farewell concert TO be given
| by Patti on February 2S -thirty-five
years ago. The singer certainly took time
! enough to say goodbye.
| Marshall P Wilder will remain in
| America this summer for the first time
in fifteen years. Next winter will, there
! fore. bring no more personal recoilections
| of the Prince of Wales.
The degree of doctor OF letters is TO be
conferred upon Sir Henry Irving by Cam
| bridge University. There are many. matt
nee girls idols in this country who have
fairly won The same title.
Margaret Dibdin. whose adopted home
| is Washington. is at present leading
woman at the Garden Theater Denver.
Col Miss Dibdin is a clever woman, and
has been very successful.
Ernest I.amson, clever and talented
actor has abandoned his plan to make
] Spring tour in his rural play. Mouse
/ Trap Tobe." and viii spend a short vaca-
| tion at his home in Chicago.
Gertrude Quinlan and William Stewart.
late of the local Castle Square Opera
Company, are making conspicuous hits in
| drama and have shown their extreme
| versatility to great advantage.
John Keefe, the famous monologue com
edian. has closed his season with Warde
| and Vokes and been engaged for a
character part in Frank Nason's produc-
| ton Of "A New England Home"
The liberty accorded Thomas @. Sea-
| brooke during his soiourn in Ludlow
! Street jail encourages one to remember
| that bad conduct often IS rewarded by the
presentation of a free meal ticket.
Henrietta Crosman," declares an ad-
vertisement "is resting at her home in
| Montciair. n. j.. and may be addressed
there in regard to engagements" Well
! she may be-and then, again, she may
not. Who can tell?
Maude Adamss long season in 1.-THE
Little Minister" will end this week The
run at the Garrick will close tomorrow
| night and the last performance will be
| given a the Empire on Tuesday, when
| souvenirs Will be forthcoming.
Lizzie b. Raymond reports herself fan
| cy free. First Miss Raymond was TO
marry a nobleman, then a millionaire.
next song-and-dance man. and now
no one at all. Truly Miss Raymond has
| had the kindness to break the news by
degrees.
The present rule in theatrical mathe-
| rlatics seems TO be on a basis of three
poor stars make one good show Last
| season it was Lillian Russell, Della Fox
| viii be Frederick Warde, Louis James and
Mime. Rhfa.
Says the Mirror: "waite's Comic Opera
| Company has been so wonderfully sue
| cessful at the Utica Opera House that the
| mana cement has persuaded Mr.. Waite to
continue indefinitely" Under which con-
ditions it is to be supposed that Mr.
| Waite was not difficult to persuade.
The receipts OF the Lambs Club min
| strcl tour are said to have been S61 900,
| and the net profits about S3T, ,0oO How an
| organization without a salary list could
| have spent $4,000 in a week is not ex-
| planned but then il is wholly the bust
ness of the club.
| George Holland has been engaged as
| stage manager of the new stock com
| many which n ba tah licha oayt Sao