The times., 1898-08-14
BRIEFLY TOLD.

Nance O'Neil will open the Chicago
Academy of Music.
Dallas Tyler will be with William Gil
lette during the coming season.
Cora Tanner and Isabelle Evesson will
appear next season with Devils Island"
Olga Nethersole is having made a dra-
matization of Kipling's Light That Fail
| ed
Dan Days starring tour in THE Belle
of New York will begin on September
u, in Brooklyn.
Ned Wayburn, late rag-time pianist for
| May Irwin, will be with Matthews and
Bulger next season.
Harrison Grey Fiske, the able and ag-
gressive editor of the Dramitic Mirror,
is taking his vacation in the Adirondacks.
The Liliputians will start their regular
American tour next month, presenting an
extravaganza to be entitled Bob and
Rob"
Edward Z. Rice's latest purchase is a
comic opera, entitled ITO To TIA Tu.' We
would advise Sufferers against trying
to pronounce that.
The clever Clerise Sisters, presenting a
delightfully."- refined and genteel act, have
been engaged to appear next-season in
"a Spring Chicken"
Thomas E.. Shea, by all odds the best
actor on the melOdramatic stage, Is
spending his summer in fishing and
yachting at his home on the coast of
Maine.
Francis Wilson's new opera, THE Lit
tie Corporal" which will be produced on
September 19, at the Broadway Theater,
gives promise of being about as bad as
they make 'em.
The Matinee Girl" in last weeks Mir
ror coupled the name of John Drew with
that of James j. Corbett and those of
"other beauty actors" Which shows that
class has at last been found that will
suit Mr.. Drew.
1.-The Heart of the Klondike" is to
open in Boston and Down in Dixie" be-
gins its season in Charleston, Which
proves that Davis and Keogh know some
thing of geography and the fitness of
things anyway.
Charles Hoyt has rewritten "A Milk
White Flag" and modified his attacks
upon the citizen-soldier This would not
have been necessary had Mr.. Hoyt made
some of the New York regiments the
text of his satire.
Stuart Robson's new play, with which
he will open the season at Wallack's
Theater, is to be entitled THE Meddler.''
1t may be suggested that in this name
Mr. Robson is getting back at the New
York critics who have been attacking
him bitterly of late.
"a Runaway Girl' will be the next of
the Girl pieces to be given at Days.
Richard Mansfield had a son born to
him last week. Which probably means
that he will not stop raising the wind
and beginning raising an heir.
Charles Coghlan's latest writing is said
to be a dramatization of Dickens touch
ing story, "A Tale of Two Cities" In
case this is true, Mr.. Coghlan will prob
ably play Sydney Carton. and, while this
character seems a bit too delicate for
him, he may do well in it.
The Civil War and other incidents of
little Importance will find sharp rival
in a pair of comedians who advertise
themselves in the Dramatic Mirror as
heading 'the show that made the South
famous" which is even trifie worse
than the beer that had the same effect
on Milwaukee. 5-s
The repertoire of the James-Kidder-
Warde combination, which will be seen
during the coming season at the New Ma
tional. will include "a School for Scan
dal," "Othello," Macbeth Julius Cae-
sar.'' '"The Marble Heart" and 'gThe La
dy of Lyons" The three stars will be
seen in each and all OF the plays pre-
sented.
1t is announced that Jacob Lifts new
offering, Sporting Life will have cost
him 10000 before the raising of the cur
tain, and that in one act over 800 people
will take part Evidently the fact that
there are not ten stages in the country
that will hold $50 men and women at
time, has not disconnected NJ. Lifts
agent in the slightest degree.
Eugene Sanger, formerly of the Lyceum
Theater, and E. H. Sothern's companies,
as well as one of the numerous Charley's
Aunts, has made a strong hit In vaude-
vile. His act is regarded as one of the
most original which a deserter from the
dramatic stage has yet brought into the
continuous houses. In spite of his Sue
cess. Mr.. Sanger insists that his new
work Is a diversion and temporary