The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-17
Personal Paragraphs Con-
corning Stage FavOrites.
PLAYS AND PLAYERS
Stage Items Of the Gossip Of
the Green ROOm--What They
are Doing.

Nellie Farren is 40 years old.
America has 80 stock companies.
Mexico has women bull fighters.
Nordica's husband is Hungarian.
''The Magic. Kiss" will be given il
London.
Corinne produced "The Little Trooper
last week.
Cissy Fitzgerald's real name is Mar,
Kate Ripping.
A Rochester Judge fined Rhea $25'
for contempt of court.
"The Gay Matine. Grip was a Kansas
City attraction last week.
Lewis Morrison will impersonate
Voltaire in Frederick the Great"
Hoyt's "a Day and Night will b
produced at New Haven on April Is.
The author of "One Summers Day."
John Drew's play, is but 70 years q
age.
1t is reported that the theatres il,
Havana are doing as well as il nothing
had happened.
"No Cross, No Crown will be given
its first American production by Hopkins
Chicago Stock Company.
J. M. Hill, formerly Margaret Mather's
manager, has, it is said made 81, 600, 0OC
in the Klondike.
A stock company for the klondike is
being organized in New York. Sam
of Posen' is also to be acted there.
New London entertainments: "The
Skirt Dancer" "Battle of the Sexes, :"
"a. B. c., or Flossie the Frivolous.
"The Pullman Conductor" is the
title under which Charles Frohman will
produce the adaptation of Bisson's latest
farce.
Mansfield will produce "The First
Violin" in Boston, April IS. Lettuce
Fairfax will enact the role OF the
heroine.
Alice Lavige, the actress, who was
suddenly stricken blind, will receive near
ly $40, 600 as result of the benefit ar
ranged for her by Rcjane.
"The Little Minister" the piece in
which Maude Adams has been playing
to immense audiences in New York since
duced in Berlin.
1t is whispered, says Hillary Bell,
that Effie Shannon was forced out Of
the Lycenm by Georgia Cayvan, who, it
is said, was compelled to resign by the
hostility of Bessie Tyree.
Reformed burglars, pugilists, drink
concoctors, and names that have been
stained by scandal, have been too fire.
quently placed on the bills to the shame
and degradation of the stage.-Chicago
nter-Ocean.
News of the slightest change i'm the
Of Willard is cabled to his
wife. The first one sent cost $35, not.
withstanding it was written III cipher.
Up to the present time we have spent,
says his manager, more than 500 in
cablegrams.
"My plan at Wallack's," says Manager
Perley, "would be to organize dramatic
stock company which would play there
half the season, and the other half OF the
time would be devoted to the Bostonians
and the Alice Nilsson Opera Company"
In "Love Finds the Way" produced in
New York last week, Mrs. Fiske as
sumed the role of wealthy young
whose life had become embittered
because of all accident which had
brought upon her what seems like in
durable lameness.
"The Swashbuckler," which Louis
\. Parker has written for f. s. Willard,
g a farcical comedy with its scenes laid
Turing the time of the Seven Years war
n Alsace. The hero, who is ne'er-do-
we'll, becomes soldier of fortune after
lis uncle has disinherited him.
A theatrical manager once applied to
Milton Aborn for points about an aspir-
ng young player who had applied to
lin for an engagement. "Does he know
bluntly inquired the seeker
Or information. "know anything" ey-
laimed Aborn: "my dear boy, he doesn't
ven suspect anything"
More than half Monday nights audi
nee in their heart of hearts wonld
ather 60 and hear "Lost. Strayed or
tolen," or listen to the Lulu Song"
rom "A Boy Wanted" This royal
ongstress Melba is surprising fine, but
Ter natural and technical greatness ap-
eaIs to Matthew Arnold's '"Remnant"
Post.
Lillian Russell, who is to sing in
'erlin in August, and be paid $500
'eek and expenses, says: Several comic
peras by German composers will be SUBJ
lifted to me when l reach the other side.
find one which will suit, will pro-
uce it in Berlin, reserving the Ameri-
an rights for spring novelty in Amer
a next season.
Julia Arthur is married, SO her sud- ,
en- retirement from the actual scene of
leatrical splendors may perhaps be due ]
, more than one cause. Her husband, =,
[r. Cheney, is son of Benjamin p.
heeney, ST., who is the possessor of a ,
ast fortune. His father is president of =
le American Express Company, and q !
rector of several Boston banks. They
ere married in September last.-N. Y. !
elegraph. Y
Professor Schenk's theory has been
at last, and not by Paul Pot
r or Sydney Rosenfield. It is used in .
one-act German play which has its 4
enes laid in an imaginary country. !
r. Schenk through the operation OF his -
cory is able to settle the difficulties y
at have arisen through the struggles OF n
re play is called "The Chained Stork." A
Poor Edward Harrigan. They say N
at every dog has its day, and it seems :,
ually true that every manager has his. II
AFRICAN. from being one of the idols of A