The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-25
FOOTLIGHT FANCIEs.

FOoTLIGHT FANCIEs.
''Cyrano de Bargerac" was a theatrical
feature In fourteen American cities the
week before last.
Sam Bernard will be featured In the
coming tour OF THE Dangerous Maid"
companv.
| Joseph jefferson has gone home to his
| planta ion In louisiana. He VIII not APP
| pear again until April.
| Jetas Aldrich is to return to, the stage.
He is 10 play strong part in the new
| pfay Her Atonemtnt."
| TIE new play which Henry Miller will
present in New York is the English sue
| cess. Brother Officers"
Young Tom Jefferson's RIP Van Wrinkle
| is excaslng favorable comment everywhere
the company appears.
| Clara Morris and Marie Jansen were tho
Joint features OF vaudeville bill presented
| In Gotham last week.
| Quite a number of American theatrical
| companies are arranging their TOURS to take
| in Cuba and Porto Rico.
| 'Phroso," another of the Anthony Hope
| plays. has proved u failure IN Boston. The
critics are making fun of 1t.
| Robert Owning has In view new com
| ody which rejocss in the beautiful name OF
THE Butterfly and the Grub"
| lit pays to write plays. May irwin Is
| said to have paid Glen McDonough $4,000
| nor her preeent play. Kate Kip, Buyer"
| Gilbert Parker's novel This Battle Of
| the Strong" is being put into stage form
| by the author. assisted By Loni1n critic.
Lemadtres play. 1.-The older Sister" with
the famous Tina di Lorenzo in the cast
Was recently hlsead off the stage al Milan.
Much interest is manifested N Ada Re
| bans appearance as 'Mme. Sans Gene"
The play is now Ia rehearsal at Days.
Charles CouEhlin announces his intenticn
| to appear in THO Three Guardsmen.' lie
- writing his own version of the play.
Ellile Bald Las returned to the bicycle
tack. E's starring eflort on the sage
| in "A 1iwig of LAUREL came in grief last
week.
| Lslli lehman is at the head OF Ger
| man organization which aims TO do away
VITA Uie custom of killing birds for hat
ornaments.
| There Is some talk OF revival OF "Jupi-
| ter" the comic opera in which Digby Bell
vas featured s-ine five cr six years since.
The new Mascagnl Japanese opera, Girls"
Is said 10 be the best thing the composer
has produced since THE Cavalleria Rusd-
cana"
| Marguerite Lemon viii be the prima
dnna OF the company that is TO produce
| 1lhree DIagoons.
| Louis do Rougemont. whose wonderful
| yarns have won for hun the tide OF The
| h.udtan Munoh@usen." may SHORTLY appear
On the Llndon stage
| Eita Proctor OTIS has made a big hit
as the adventures in Sporting Life" 1t
| Is said she will be starred next season UNI
Ter the management of Jacob Lift.
A new play called THE White Rabbits"
1 tru
last week. The Waite Rabbits are two
howfng swells who enlist as privales and
20 to the war
Henry Leon Bm!le Lavedau, the French
wrster and tAutltur of the play Catherine,
in which Annie Russell has recently scored
IL hit. has been elected a member OF the
French academy.
Tin6 race quesbino is causing trouble in
Canada, as 1t is in so many other places.
The exclusion of "A ooored man from a
Montreal theater has resulted in tie man
ager being sued for damages.
During enc Of the battle scenes in the
pt1ductien of 'Cyrano de Be. serac" at
ST. LOUIS hast week. IA wad fpcm one OF
the guns fired by a supe struck snd wound
ed a lazy in the audience.
Eugene W. Preebrey, the author of "a
Virginia Courtship' and Worth Mil
hon. has gone TO Europe. Previous to
sailing he said: II want 10 escape before
they put me in prison for writing "Worta
Million"
Genevieye Ward, a once famous actress
on this side OF the Atlantic, WAC is little
heard OF nowadays. has jollel the Bensol
Shakespearean company in Great Britain.
She Is being featured in a production OF
"Coriolanus."
james A. Hearne's new play. THE Rev.
Griffith Davenport" viii, in some re-
Al ha In C,-r, do,
Bergerac," Two hundred people viii be
employed in the production. of whom
seventy win have speaking parts.
The famous east wind must affect the
colorlng OF things when they get over to
England. Red Roses the cur ain raiser
now in use at the Duke OF Works theater.
whs called white Roses" in America. 1t
is by Lobtie Blair Parker.
The latest theatrical innovation. yande-
Vile cars in which performances Will be
given, will be first tried on the I.ehlgh
Valley and Nickel Plate railroads. Ths
first car Will be attached 10 the Black
Diannord express on April l. 1899
Hall Game has certainly left bad repu-
tatton in this country. Chicago paFer
speaks of him ''as an explolier OF his own
play and press agent OF the cheapest and
most noxlous kind in that he INSULTS the
dignitles of ;lhe stage"
Henry Hamilton. who arranged the new
version OF "The Three Musketeers." called |
now THE Kings Musketeers," which Mr.. |
Il. II, Southerntis producing. also arranged
the drama tlzation OF Carmen" for Olga |
Nehersole.
Chicago presents the spectacle OF two |
different ''S'yrano de Herseracs" at one ,nd !
the same time. II costs So to see Richard |
Mansfield and only 20 cents Il, see Henry |
Lee. Doubtless, from Mr., Lees point OF |
view, comparisons are odlous."
BETTER THAN RICHES.
Little girl at lives next door