The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-02-13
THEY STUDY TO PLEASE.
sHELxsr VIEWS IN THE World OF
hMUsEMEyTs.
An q retained Minister VIII Make HIS De-
but In Vaudeville This Winter-Bis
Benefit Performance.

sol Smith Russell IS forty-eight year
old.
The Vaidis Sisters arc IN Mexico.
Rhea's real name is Hortense Loret.
Daniel and Charles Frohman are bache
lors.
Mark Twain has written a comedy en-
titled us lie Dcad?"
The Queen OF Italy recently gave o
private audience 60 Dusc.
w. n. Crane will probably produce "a
Virgfnia Courtship' IN London
Beerbohm Trees next production In
London is 10 be MY Lady Virtue
Miss Grace Henderson may star next
season under the management OF Charles
J. Young.
Annie Ward Tiffany will appear in the
vaudeville theatres in the Duchess Of
Dublin"
Irving will be seen in "Cryano de Ber-
Rerao a play in which Coquelin made
hit in Paris.
.sThe Ragged Earl" IS the title Of the
new comedy written for Andrew Mack
by Ernest Lacy
Emil Fischer. Of the Damrosch Com
pany. has been on stage forty yeyars. lie
has sung lGl roles
In ST. Louis last week Margaret Math-
e. produced Leah" Trhe Honeymoon"
Romeo and Juliet" ard "Cymbeline."
on February 18th I'm Philadelphia Her
bert Kelley and Efie Shannan will be
seen in "The Moth and the Flame.
new play by CLYDE Fitch.
The Primrose < West Minstrels will he
sent TO England this spring for a pro-
fractcd engagement In london, 10 be
followed by q provincial tour
The dramatization OF Ian Maclaren's
beside the Bonnie Briar-Bush' will
gave its first presentation al McNickers
Theatre. Chicago. on Faster Monday.
Grau may produce IN New York next
eeason Mancinelrs Hero and Leander"
and "Sappho." Jean DC Reszke will be
heard as Siegfricd in "Goetterdaemmer-
une. g"
Wilton Iackaye Is a member OF the
Philadelphia Park Theatre Stock Com
pany. lie played Sir Francis Levison in
EAST Lynne last week. Rose Eytinge'
Mckee Rankin and Nance ONeill are
also members Of this company.
DeWolf Hopper announced last week
that he would engage Miss Percy Has
well now with William ~. Crane In -
Virginia Courtship" TO replace his wife,
Edna Wallace Hopper. as the prima don
SOusa ana Klcn's new opera, The
Charlatan." early in the summer.
The gross receipts Of the London AL
hambra Music Hall FOR the year 1891 were
S4o6. $50, an increase OF $53.39i over those
OF the previous twelve months. The di-
vidend for the year amounts TO l6 per
cent. in addition TO $l3.3s0 carried for
ward 90 the next account.
On the recent anniversary of the death
IN. H.. f.Hr oil Ap0a
can soubrette. in sydney. Australia, her
grave was literally decorated with flow
ers by some of her former associates, as
well as By a number Of friends she had
made during her tour of the Antipodes.
Rev James II. W. Harris. fully or
dained minister of the High Episcopal
Church. late pastor of the Church of
the Holy Redeemer, San Francisco. will
mako his debut i'm vaudeville at one Of
the Proctor houses I'm New York during
the last week Of February appearing in
a one-act buresque by Charles Ross. of
Ross & Fenton. entitled Anthony and
Cleopatra"
/. f. Proctor has secured a genuine
treasure I'm J. Austin Fynes who is to
be general manager Of Proctor's three
theatres-the two vaudeville houses in
New York and the Leland Opera House
in Albany Mr.. Fynes was formerly a
newspaper man. and in 1893 became
manager of Keith's Union Square Thea
trc. lynos was first 10 introduce legiu-
mato actors and complete short plays
in-o vaudeville. and so to render 1t feast
bic for artists TO take such employment
without loss of professional standing.
The hour demands a man. The cry for
the great American drama is generations |
old, and more urgent than ever. the
stage trembles i'm the rapids Of chaos. |
How.ng melOdrama, improbable farce, |
decrepit comedy, grotcsque tragedy, stag |
nant burlesque. feeble comic opera and |
the reeking problem play hold high carni- !
val and dip into the puhlic's pocket, re- /
gardless Of the laws Of compensation. |
Actors and managers sacrifice TO the fates /
daily. critics plead or scold or sneer, and |
yet the great play does not appear.-Chi- !
cago Dispatch.
The big benefit performance in aid OF |
Nelly Farren will take place at the Drury /
Lane Theatre. London. March l7th. The
Prince of Wales g. a subscriber 10 this |
fund. two other persons have paid 600 |
n piece for boxes. and one hundred stalls |
have been sold at SIS each. A subscrip- |
ton list has been started by George Ed |
wards with Si.0N and several other large l
amounts have been added 20 the list. }.
L. Toole the famous London comedian. |
has paid 800 for a gallery seat. IL would
surprise no one II the benefit should turn
nut winner TO the extent of $4,000 or
~ W0
While the Heege home was filed with
Borrowing friends Thursday. February 80,
he new opera the writing Of which SEEM
sd 10 embOdv Gus HecgeS very exists
.nce during the closing years Of his life. |
received ita first rehearsal az the Lyceum
Theatre. Cleveland. The piece. which has
not been named. Is m three acts. Tho
irsi takes place at Lecsand. Sweden, in !
the summer: the second in a lumber |
amp in Wisconsin. on Christmas eve fol-
owing. and the third on the shore OF lhd
axe near Marquette. Mich. The Glove
and World says: There is q march in 10
With which nothing that SOusa has ever
written can compare.
AZ keith's Theatre. Philadelphia, on
'obruary nth. Lillian Burkhart will pro-
luce an entirely new and original fairy |
,iay entitled THE Lady of the Rowan
Tree" Hallowe on idyl. by Grant Ste
gart. The idea was suggested TO Mr..
stewart By the Lady Of Avenal in Sir
Walter SCOTS novel. THE Monastery"
Mysterious light effects and effective mE-
lc are being arranged for the production.
diss Burkhart. who has been kept con-
family busy since her return from Eu- |
ope early In September. is now booked |
- 70 the middle OF July She deserves
Ter success as she is "A conscient io.xs |
.rtisi and is. in addition 70 this a wide |
wake business woman.
Francis Wilson the Wcil-knOWn conic |