The times., 1898-05-29
BRIEFLY TOLD.
uses Paris season begins shortly.

| Duse's Paris season begins shortly.
| Julia Marlowe has gone to Europe.
| After her engagement at the Berlin
What Happened to Jones' is to be
| produced in London
! Twenty-eight companies have closed
/ in the last two weeks.
/ A dramatic exchange suggests that De
/ Wolf HOpper's divorce makes him a grass
/ Hopper.
I The Conquerors" has proved a COM
plete failure in London. So much for Brit
ish decency.
Duncan 3. Harrison has been made
/ lieutenant colonel and viii leave for the
/ front at once
! Falmore ''the instrumental man. a ge-
MUS in his line. viii be with Weber &
/ Fields next season
! The English version OF ''Cyrano de Ber-
! geras." for the London Lyceum, Will be-
made by Sydney Grundy.
! EIvia Croix Seabrooke. late Of the Castle
/ Square Opera Company, is with the Cum
mings' Company, in Toronto.
4 Marie Wainwright viii appear in Shall
/ We Forgive Herr next season, with
new play as postscript later on
Marie Tempest is TO have the leading
role in the new musical comedy TO be pre-
sented a. Days Theatsr. London
Boxes of ice cream viii be distributed
on the opening night Of coming New
York production Well, what next?
Maclyn Arbuckle late OF the National
Theater Stock Company. has been ensag-
ed 10 play a leading role IN Sporting
Life"
Lottie Cilson is returning from a very
successful season in Germany and VIII
be seen at Proctor's. in New York, on
May 90.
NeIIa Bergen. last seen here with The
Bride Elect" has been engaged for Sou
sa's spectacle. The TrOoping of the
Colors''
''The Fragmented Maine Skaters Proud
| Spain" is the title Of a play copyrighted
last week. Think Of that name on a
| three sheet!
Charles Coghlan will produce his new
/ play about January / II is 10 be a 70
! mantle drama with scenes in Paris about
| the year 1928.
| Sir Henry Irving has produced the
much-talked-of Medicine Man in Lon
/ don. where it has been merciIessly scored
/ by the press.
| George H. O'Connor. Of Carroll Insti-
/ tute. did not appear with the Columbia
! Stock Company last week. as stated by
( the local papers.
"a Female Drummer is the title OK
| Charles z. Blaneys new play Mr. Blan-
I ey must be hopeful that she VIII beat ev-
! erything in sight
/ Jacob Lifts experimental production OF
/ Shenandoah" has been so eminentIy
I successful that he will continue it on the
road next season
/ Lizzie B. Raymond is to be married
/ not TO a millionaire. as Incorrectly stat
ed. but 10 a rag-time dancer named
/ George Montgomery.
/ Wooden Leg" is the title Of a new song
that is now being heard in New York.
Comment is unnecessary.
There are so many war plays being ex-
plotted now that the metropolitan bill
| boards must look very like the heads OF
| a sensational newspaper.
Annie Yeamans. Anna Belmont and
Kathryn Csterman have been engaged to
appear in George Broadhurst' new farce,
why Smith Left Home"
| Thomas E. Shea gave DIR Jel<yu and
/ NIr. Hyde its first New York perform
ance. with himself in the double role last
/ week, and scored heavily.
| Flynn and Sheridan. champion produc-
| ers of cheap burlesque, have parted COM
/ pany. After all some big hunks of luck
/ do occasionally fall 10 the public
! Frederic Bond made a big hit in New
York the other night with Willard HcT-
/ combs Her Last Rehearsal" with which
/ he will shortly appear in vaudeville.
/ The rights for Miss Francis CT Yale in
I Hungary have been disposed of. America
/ never seemed to be Hungary for Miss
| Francis of Yale" All hands around.
| An interesting picture in last weeks
Mirror shows a great crowd watching the
/ Barnum and Bailey parade going down
( Portland Street, in Manchester, England
| Alberta Gallatin is to again present her
I wonderful imDers0natiOn of Rosalind in
'As You Like It." this Summer. opening
! early in June at Cape May or Atlantic
| City.
Kyrle Bellew produces a new play by
/ Mrs T. P. O'Connor tomorrow night in
/ Dublin From the name of the authoress
the piece should have plenty of atmos-
| phere
! The average seating capacity Of each
! of New Yorks twelve largest theaters is
only l 1,I2S. considerably less than that OF
! any house in Washington with the ex-
! ception of the Bijou
| Winter Garden Lillian Russell will ap-
pear fifteen times in St Petersburg and
| FIVE times in Moscow. IL is said that she
will receive 5000 week and expenses
Fairy tales-fairy tales"
| Ada Lewis, Eddie Girard and Adele
| Ritchie will appear in a new review at
| Roster and Balls 1t is to be hoped
| that this will mark the end of Miss
Ritchies public toilet making.
Burr Mcintosh has deferred his starring
| tour in his own play and will appear next
! September In Lottie Blair Parker's new
| drama. "A War Correspondent" No lack
! of point to this Burr. after all.
| A New York paper reports that Hilda
| Thomas is singing character songs in
vaudeville, making frequent changes OF
! costume in full view of the audience
This must be another CharmiOn act.
John Webster, who was reported 70 be
dying of Brights disease, writes from his
| country home that he is as yet nowhere
| near the corpse stage. He simply is