The sun., 1898-04-10
WITH mask IND WIG
Personal Paragraphs Con-
corning Stage Favorites.
PLAYS AND PLAYERS
Stage Items CT the Season---Gossip o
the Green ROOm---What Ihey
are Doing.
Nat Goodwin is in Texas.


"Quo Vadis' is being dramatized by
Brandon Hurst.
Mrs. Potter and Kyrle Bellew are play
ing in Scotland.
"Robinson Crusoe's Island'' is Lud-
wig Fulda's latest comedy.
Phoebe Coyne will replace Jennie Win
ston in Monte Carlo"
The Corinne Opera Company will open
its tour at Syracuse next week.
Wilton Lackey will produce "Charles
O'M,lley" in Washington next month.
AL W. Martin is engaging No. 2
"Uncle Toms Cabin company for next
season.
Josef Hoffman's inventions include
skates that fold, a bicycle and all auto
mobile.
African lions and bengal tigers will
fight bulls in the City of Mexico OH Sun
day, April 10.
Il pity the man and woman who
marry when the woman clings to the
stage" says Rose Coghlan.
"Yvolna,' play by Miss Coyne
Fletcher, of Washington, will be acted
by Miss Olga Netkersole next season.
Mark Twain will prepare several plays
for performance in this country, includ-
ing "Bartel Turaser' and "In Purga-
tory
Patti will sing with festival chorus
of some 5000 and an orchestra of 500 at
concert in the London Crystal Palace
June %.
"Die Micstersinger'' was recently sang
at st. Petersburg and Edouard DeReszke
was the wanderer. 1t was given with
out cuts and lasted five hours.
81 brought back with me about fifteen
plays" said Aubrey Boucicault, ''and it
is possible that may launch produc-
ton or two on my own account"
Calve is engaged to sing in New York
next season with the Grau Opera Com
panv, but she SAYS that in case of war
she will not be expected to fulfill her
contract.
Sir Arthur Sullivan's new opera is
called "The Beauty Stone" The piece
is described as a combination of roman
tic play and musical drama The book
is by Pinero and Carr.
The chief incident of ''The Bclringer, -
new play by Sutton Nane, occurs a
church belfry, where the murderer, by
reason of his trade. is compelled to toll
the funeral knell OF his victim.
"The Lady Slavey' is to be revived at
the New York Casino, and the cast will
include Walter Jones, Richard CarIe,
Marie DressIer, Edna Wallace Hopper
and Thomas g. Seabrooke.
"Open the theatres and base ball parks
Sundays and every other day." says Rev.
DR.. Roberts, of Kansas City. you
can't force man to 60 to church, but
you may force him to 60 to worse places. "
Miss Marguerite Merrington has
named the play in which Mrs. Fiske will
appear at New York this week Love
Will Find the Way" As curtain
raiser for the new piece Mrs. Oscar Bcr-
inger's "A Bit OF Old Chelsea" will be
performed.
Mrs. John Wood, who will return to
this country next season to act with
Joseph Jefferson "The Rivals" has lived
in London SO many years that her Amer
ican career is forgotten and it is difficult
to believe that she was not we'll received
when she made her London debut in
1866.
"No, there are no legitimate sopranos
in light opera nowadays,' said Jessie
Bartlett Davis. 'rhe girls in comic
opera are too lazy. They take two or
three lessons, know a graceful step when
they come on the stage and that is all.
The Bostonians have been looking for a
Marie Stone for the past five Years and
we cannot find her.
Harrison Gray Fiske, editor Of the
New York Dramatic Mirror, who was re-.
Gently arrested for criminal libel on the
complaint OF the theatrical trust, won a
complete and sweeping victory in the
courts. 1t is generally admitted that
Mr.. Fske will also win in the civil suit
now pending Criticism cannot be con.
trolled as easily as theatres. s.--Cncinnat
Times-Star
1t is a singular fact, says Ieandel
Richardson, that when any play is pre-.
sentcnted upon the New York stage
which is denounced as immoral its
biggest audiences are composed princi-
paiiy of vomeo. When their husbands
and fathers take it upon themselves to
prescribe certain works it isn't at all
surprising that they seek information at
first hand and ''on the quiet
In spite of Duses request, the family
has refused again to allow the perfoi.
nance of the "Road to Thebes' with
the explanation that shortly before his
death Dumas withdrew his promise to
let it be acted on the ground that he
was still uncertain as to the final solution
of the intrigue. The play is said to be
written more than any Of Dumas dramas
under the influence OF Ibsen.
Plans are being made for the lorna.
ton of stock company in New York
City with novel feature of travelling stars.
Branch companies are to be organized in
other cities, making sort of circuit over
which the stars will travel. Thus, in.
stead OF shipping an entire company
from city to city, the star, male or
female will travel in solitary state:anG
wetlcct on the money saved in railway
fares.
1t has become quite the proper capel
nowadays for dramatists or writer's OF
pieces that pass muster as plays, though
they are scarcely worth being dignitied
with that title, to first study the little
pecularties and characteristics of the
scintillating star of whom they are
grinding out the frothy matter, and ther
start to work at building the piece around
that person or his other eccentricities -
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