The times., 1898-07-31
BRIEFLY TOLD.

Pauline Hall is summering in Michigan,
where the big apples come from"
Aodjeska's season will begin on Au-
gust 90 and she will produce two new
plays shortly after that date.
The Ballet Girl will go on the road
next season. 1t might be judicious to
ask right here whether she will ride or
walk.
w. J. LeMoyne will not be with the
Kelcey- Shannon Company next season.
his part being assumed by Joseph E.
Whiting.
Arthur Maitland. last seen in this city
with Wilton Lackaye. Is with Robert
Mantell as juvenile for his brief vaude-
vile tour.
What Happened to Jones' has made
a big hit in London: which should do
much to change the prevalent idea OF
British humor in this country.
Chauncey Olcott's season will open at
! SfGVtcker's Chicago. on September T.
! The star will go to New York in January
| for a run of his new play at the Four
teenth Street Theater.
Adolph Sonnenthal, the greatest Of con-
| temporary German actors will appear
| this fall at the Irving Place Theater, New
| York. A brief tour of this country, Mil
| waukee and Hoboken will probably follow.
!
mediocrity, Is going to star in piece
entitled where's Matilda?" There may
| be plenty of creditors later in the year
who will want TO know Where's Clara?"
Marie Wainwright will next season give
| occasional performances of East Lynne"
besides her regular Offering of Shall We
Forgive Her ''All ye matinee girls who
| have tears TO shed prepare 10 shed them
| now
Annie Irish has been engaged for the
Empire Theater Stock Company and will
replace Viola Allen in that aggregation.
Miss Irish has been seen here as leading
lady for W. II. Crane and other noted
people.
Hoyt's Stranger in New York. was
an unutterable failure In London. At
which the critic of The Times would like
to borrow GabriePs horn for moment
for the purpose of exclaiming. Il told
you so.'
Robert Taber will not return to America
this season. He is still under contract
with Sir Henry Irving, who has loaned
him to Forbes Robertson for his produc-
ton of Macbeth Mr.. Taber will be
seen as Macduff.
new military play, The Victoria
Cross" will be among September's Of
ferings. That makes just forty-three war
dramas that are going out next season.
Why did we ever invent this trouble
with Spain, anyway?
Lillian Russell will sail for Germany on
Wednesday to appear at the winter gar
den in Berlin. 1t is rumored that me-
chanics will begin enlarging the stage
there at once, and the theater should be
all ready for the appearance of Miss Rus
sell by the date of her arrival.
John Jack and F. F. Macfay have re-
turned to New York from Omaha,
whittier they were sent by the Actors
Society in an effort to make the laboring
man believe that the professional is good
enough to associate with him. AS yet
it is not known whether the succeeded
or not.
Georgia Caine, late prima donna In
From Paris" will be with the Rogers
Brothers next season. How have the
mighty falleni Georgia must have lost
some OF the roundness of her dainty
calves-that is the only talent burlesque
star can part with.
The New York branch of the Castle
Square Opera Company will open its
session on September u at the American
! Theater. Grand opera will be given the
greater part of the time. Faust" Car
men," I'll Trovatore," "Boccaccio, -
Aida" 'Lohengrin," Romeo and Ju-
liet" and La Traviata'' being featured.
A new melodrama is to be entitled
alone in Greater New York" Now one
may prepare to hear all the old sensa-
: tional names with the greater added for
copyright purposes. There viii probably
! be 1.-THE Sidewalks of Greater New
: York" "A Stranger in Greater New
q York and '1The Shadows of Greater
!, CITY,
: Paul Kester whose play, "Wha,
. Dreams May Come" served as an eye
n opener last season for Madame Janau-
schek, has been engaged to revise lar
r. Maclaren's Beside the Bonnie Briel
" Bush" which had IT'S first production al
k the Lafayette Square Opera House and
4 in which ]. II. Stoddart will star next
n season. Local critics made several sug.
e gestions regarding the piece at that time
n and it is said that the alterations are be-
e ing made in strict conformity to these
I notes.
d Jerome A. Eddy, the brilliant editor OF
e Eddy's Press .Squib, will return from his
g vacation shortly and resume publication
n of his paper, which was discontinued fol
d the summer. He will also resume his
s entertaining Nancy Sykes letters, five OF
which have appeared in The Times.
Yankee Doodle Dandy the new Ca
g sino review. was successfully produced
e last Monday with cast which included
L all the celebrated professionals who are
o not in Europe. notably Thomas @. Sea-
r brooke Walter Jones, Richard Carrie, Eu-
s gene O'Rourke, Louis Wesley, Lee Har-
y rison. Madge Lessfng, Gertrude Zella,
e Margaret Mcdonald and Edna Wallace
t Hopper. One act of the comedy takes
n place on Pennsylvania Avenue in Wash
ington and has a "eoon" chowder party
d introduced for the sake of realism