The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-01-30


had. tt includes the well-known actor
Joseph Haworth. who is himself a star
and whose performance of the Old Major
in "Magda," is said TO be brilliant and
impressive. and whose Macbeth has been
highly praised In addition TO him are
John Malone WadswOrth Harris. J. NJ
Ward. Lester LOnergan, j. Nj. kenrick,
George Sylvester. Miss Anna Proctor
Miss Grace Fisher. Miss Anna DAILY, Miss
Maud Northam, Mrs. u. T. Sargent ana
others
Theatrical Notes.
Patti has 100000. l3Ts
Mrs. W. J. Florence is Ill. M
Joseph Jefferson is q millionaire.
EIita Proctor Otis will star in Oliver
Twist"
Next season Edna May will be seen Ia
THE Convent Girl"
Pauline Hall will be seen in Erminie W
at Philadelphia
Frederick Warde Will probably 80 into
vaudeville in the near future.
Lottie Collins will appear I'm a. New
York vaudeville theatre this week.
Forty years ago Ellen Terry played
Puck in - Midsummer Nights Dream. 20
IN D'Annunzio's La VIE Morte, ~
Bernhardt impersonates the blind heroine.
Augustine DAILY is rehearsing Wycher-
ley's wickcdest comedy "The Country
Wife"
Anna Held produced last week farce
comedy called They Gay Deceiyor."
William ferris was q fatalist lie often
said II know shall be killed some day"
a French opera company that has been
playing in Costa Rica VIII shortly be
seen in New Orleans.
Aubrey Boucicault and Paul Arthur are
IN the cast Of "Trelawney OF Yale" pro-
duccd in London last week.
Won Prttiwitz Palm is q signing the
illusions for Lillian Burkhart's fairy play,
The Lady of the Rowan Tree"
Rome is not ripe for D'Annunzio's plays
The Spring Mornings Dream" was
Kissed recently at the Teatro Vale,
though Duse was acting.
In New York on February Sth a testi-
mOEial performance of Die Meistersng-
er" VIII be given TO Herr fischer in honor
OF the fortieth anniversary Of his ap-
pearance on the stage.
a benefit for Dan Daily IN New York
last Tuesday yielded $500. \ gallery seat
was sold for $40. They say DAILY. who
fell from a wire 10 the stage in Boston
recently. may never recover.
Mascagni intends to set to music one
OF the celebrated Goldlni's plays. which
lIca, the librettist OF Iris" has already
dramatized for him. In this the charac-
tiers will be Pantaloon, Harlequin, Flor
indo Columbine Rosaura. etc.
A. Auburn, Ind. the Macay Theatrical
Company was fined so and costs for dis
tributing improper literature, by Judge
Roby Their attorneys replevined the
fine and costs. and the company signed
inf e.. ha "a 70
within twenty-four hours.
An honest young woman can succeed
on the stage" said Fanny Rice. IAN
the real woman stars are honest women.
They have won their places by hard work
and not by favor. STAYS by favor rise
suddonly-and fan as suddenly when the
supporting manager goes"
II began life" said Sir Henry Irving.
las q poor boy. 1 was denied even the
advantages o. q common school edu-
cation. l entered upon my theatrical ca
reer when not more than seventeen years
OF age. and the struggle TO gain even the
means OF the poorest living was not the
easiest Imaginable"
The Carl Rosa opera Company is short
~ 10 give an operate form. Sir Arthur
Sullivans oantata, The Martyr Of An
tioch," the libretto OF which w s. Gil
bert wrote out OF Dean Milman's poem.
A sacred opera will be a novelty in Eng
land where only last year Saint-Saen's
Samson and Della" was prohibited.
Melba appeared as Aida in New York
on 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 10 the sphere within which
she may win deserved fame. Ambition is
Iaudable. but it must be directed with
wisdom. There was genuine pathos in
the sound OF Melba's voice, formed 10
harshness and coarseness on Monday
evening. the pathos OF an artists suicide
AT four years OF age. Duse like AIDE
laide Ristori, was on the stage but a.
when her mother died, she had
not sufficient money 10 buy q
black dress ana was obliged 10
be satisfied with a GRAPE band on
her sleeves. She was born IN
1853, during a journey the mother was tax
ing with her husband 10 Venice. To
convey the infant TO church for baptism
she was put in a crystal basket. and the
procession started, headed by the priest.
The Austrian soldiers then occupying
Venetia. thinking it was . procession with
the relies of some saint presented arms.
whereupon her father exclaimed: What.
an armed force rendering homage to my
child. Sne VIII have a glorious futurer
Her father and grandfather were COM
edians.
THE pieces which are the greatest sue
cesses in New York nowadays" says
Leander Richardson. treat Of sexual
cepravity and general cussedness in a
broader vein. according TO the newspap-
er writer than has been prevalent hereto
fore. The Telephone Girl The Conquer
ors' and finally The Tree of knowledge,
are singularly outspoken, and even fer
yid in their presentation Of things which
we have been accustomed to keep under
cover. The hero of The Tree of Knowl-
edge has had q liaison with the scarlet
woman years beore the beginning OF the
story. He discovers that she has In the
interval become the wife of his dearest
friend. and as the play progresses he
nnds that she is on the point of dishonor-
ing the comrade he loves as a brother. by
clipping with the man-0f-the-world. He
nnaIly becomes so wrought up that he
ellis his former mistress he viii kill her
r she attempts TO leave the apartment.
AZ this Juncture the husband enters and
he wife tells him that his friend has at
ompted 10 assault her hastily, adding
hat when she repulsed him he had en-
10 murder her. The husband
stands by his wife. and the friend goes
way discredited. Afterward. when the
,oung gentleman OF the house has lullled
himself 10 sleep with an opiate the wo- |
nan runs away with her lover"
The actors advice 10 the would-be ac- |
ress In Mr.. Coghlan's Dumas play. The |
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