The sun., 1898-01-30
SOME PLAYS AND PLAYERS
stage Items of the SeasOn---EO EOssip Of
the GreenrOom.--What They
Are Doing.

Lottie Collins will appear in a Ne,
York vaudeville theatre this week.
Forty years ago Ellen Terry pave,
Puck in "a Midsummer Nights Dream.
In VAnnunzio's 'IM Vile Morte,
Bernhardt impersonates the blind hero
inc.
Augustin DAILY is rehcarsing Wychcr
ley's wickedest comedy, "The Countr,
Wife"
Anna Held produced last week
farce comedy called 1.-The Gay De
cciver."
! Helen Dauray's third husband is sale
to be Lieutenant Thomas, Of Philadel
phia.
William Terriss was Il fatalist HI
often said II know 1 shall be killet
some day"
A French opera company that ha!
been playing in Costa Rica will short y
be seen in New Orleans.
Aubrey Boucicault and Paul Arthur
are in the cast of "1relawney OF Yale ,
produced in London last week.
Won Prittiwtz Palm is designing the
illusions for Lillian Burkhart's fairy
play, "The Lady of the Rowan Tree"
Rome is not ripe for D'Annunzlo's
plays. The Spring Mornings Dream
was hlssei recently at the Ieatro Vale,
though Duse was acting.
In New York, on February s, a
testimonial performance of die Meis.
tersinger' will be given to Herr fischer
in honor of the fortieth anniversary OF
his appearance on the stage.
A benefit for Dan DAILY in New York
last Tuesday yielded 5000. A gallery
seat was sold for $40. They say DAILY,
who fell from wire to the stage in Bos-
ton recently, may never recover.
Ida Mule has secured the rights to
a number Of Lotta's plays, and will star
in them next season. Richard Carroll
and Miss Mule appeared in Boston on
Monday last in the "Normandy Wed
ding Papa Goo Goo'D.
Mascagni intends to set to music one
of the celebrated Goldini's plays, which
1llica,t the librettist Of Iris" has already
dramatized for him. In this the char
acters will be Pantaloon, Harlequin,
Florindo Columbine, Rosaura, etc.
At Auburn, Ind, the Mackey Theatri.
cal Company was fined $40 and costs for
distributing improper literature, by
Judge koby. Their attorneys replevined
the fine and costs, and the company
signed a written agreement to leave the
State within "a hours.
"An honest young woman can succeed
on the stage" said Fanny Rice. "AIl
the real woman stars are honest women.
They have won their places by hard
work and not by favor. Stars by
favor rise suddenly-and fall as sud-
denly when the supporting manager
goes"
81 began liie," said Sir Henry Irving,
''as poor boy. | was denied even tie
advantages Of a common school educa-
tion. | entered upon my theatrical ca
rec" when not more than II years of age,
and the struggle to gain even the means
of the poorest living was not the easiest
The Carl Rosa Opera Company is
shortly to give in operate form Sir
Arthur Sulliyan's cantata, "The Martyr
of Antioch,' the libreito of which W, s.
Gilbert wrote out of Dean Mlmans
poem. A sacred opera will be a nov
city in England, where only last year
Saint Sien's Samson and Delia'' was
prohibited.
Mclba appeared as Aida in New York
N Monday last The World SAYS: 1T
is evident that the lesson Of Brunnhilde |
was lost on Melba. Else she would have
known that nature and art have both
set limits to the sphere within which she !
nay win deserved fame. Ambition is
but it must be directed with
wisdom. There was genuine pathos in
he sound Of MeIba's voice, formed
o liarsln"ss and coarseness on Monday
'vening, the patlos OF an artists sui
ice"
At for years Of age Dusc, like Adc-
aide Riatori, was on the stage, but at
I, when her mother died, she had not !,
uili>irnt money to buy a black dress.
md was obliged to be satisfied with
rape band on her sleeves She was
,"rn in 1889, daring q journey the
nmIrr was taking with her husband to
venice. Y" convey the infant to church
or lalt!tn she was put in crystal
,aSE", and the procession started.
'vn'ird hv the priest The Austrian
oidj"rs ;hcn 'cupying Venctia, think
nG II was Il procession with the relics
1 some saint, presented arms, where
pom her father cxclam d: "What. an
rmcd force rendering homage to my
hid She will haze 4 gIorons future.'
Ter father and grandfather were
.mcdians.
The pieces which are the greatest
lccccsSess in New York nowadave.'
ays Lrandcr Richardson, treat of
'Xlal deprayi'y y and general crseeduees
| a broader vein, according to the nc~e-
aper writers. than has been prevalent
eretofore. The Telephone Girl, The
onlncrers' and finally The Tree of
,no"'cdCe,' a'e singuIarlv outspoken.
nj even iervld in their presentation of
lings which We have been accustomed
) keep under cover The hero OF 'The
rec OF knowledge has had a liason
It'll he scarlet woman years before the
'ginning "f the story. He discovers
lat she has in the interval become the
lie of his dearest friend, and as the
lay progresses he finds that she 10 on
,e point Of dishonoring the comrads he
,vps M n brpt bor hv oIoo;,,r ,.;%l A., ! .