The times., 1899-02-19

for damages. Now the authoress is. at
tempting 20 have her producer arrested
for contempt of court And when all has
been said and done, That Man is about
as poor a piece of dramatic property as
one could find in long days run.
"Bimbo Of Bombay" farce written by
Edgar Smith for the purpose of exploiting
a magician, was revived last night
in Bridgeport, with Jaques Kruger in
the principal part. If master OF the black
art could not make the piece pay what
may be expected of Mr.. Kruger?
Jake" Rosenthal, whose ability as an
exploiter is bounded only by the money he
cannot spend, is posting three sheets in
Gotham bearing pictures of the city's
prominent critics above the line, Wonder
What They'll Say of ]. J. Rospnthal's Ex-
traordinary Farce, Browns in Town. ''
Margaret Anglin. who has been acting
as Richard Mansfelds leading woman in
'Cyrano de Bergerac,' has retired from
that cast and Kathrine Grey is to take her
place Miss Grey is wonderfully clever
woman and her work in the principal fem
mime role of "Cyrano" should be notably
good.
The particularly indecorOus pictures OF
Anna Held that so long occupied local
show windows were posted in Toledo the
them taken down at once. Evident
ly the yoluptuous Anna and her extraor-
binary art are not understood in Toledo as
they should be.
Richard Mansfield is playing to enor-
nous receipts all over the country. During
the portion of his season devoted to road
dates he has broken the record of every
house in which he has appeared. Mr.
Mansfield may be counted upon to change
Washington's big business mark when he
comes to the Columbia next month.
Merri Osborne who left the cast of The
Turtle in this city, is reputed TO be trying
TO chose between two evils-matrimony
and London. Rumor does not mention Miss
0sborne's new name in case she selects the
former alternative, but if she takes the lat
ter it will probably be to assume Phyllis
Rankin's role in The Belle of New York" "
John r. Rogers has begun suit against
Chauncey Olcott for money alleged to be
due him for bringing the Irish comedian
to America and getting him on the stage.
Ii there are any theatregoers on the jury
before which the case is tried Mr.. Rogers
will be lucky if he is not convicted of con-
spiracy before proceedings have been stop
ped.
Wilton Lackaye and James O'Neil will
produce The Three Musketeers'' on
March : at Montreal, and are to come into
New York just about week before E. II.
Sothern stages his version of the piece
at the Knickerbocker Evidently Gotham
is to be bothered with just such a merry
war as London has got over And Paul
Gilmore is out of town, too.
One of the most promising OF the people
in town last week was Herbert Fortier
of Julia Arthurs company, who was seen
as ! in, &C = Il IN,
two important roles in "A Lady of Quail
ity." Mr.. Fortier is that rara avis-an
intellectual actor-and his work showed
signs OF care and understanding study
Much may be expected of him in the near
future.
The souvenirs which the brothers Froh-
man have been getting out this season are
not only handsome. but tasty. When the
Empire Theatre celebrated its seventh an
niversary Charles forwarded to each OF
his newspaper friends gold plated candle
stick and yesterday Daniel marked the
hundredth performance of 'Trelawney OF
the Wells by giving away we'll bound
copies Of the play.
Brady and Ziegfeld have bought the
American rights TO a French comedy. en-
titled a Court Scandal" The principal
character in this piece is Richelieu, and
the part will be played here in September
by Aubrey Boucicault, one of the adapters
Despite the management under which the
Offering viii be exploited and despite its
name. the plot of "A Court Scandal" is
really fit for publication.
Charles E. Blaney has been persistently
claiming that he has an arrangement with
Mrs. Fayne Moore by which that alleged
criminal is to star under his management
| after her release from prison. This an
nouncement Mrs. Moore has denied. Mr.
Blaney should be bit more careful about
the manner in which he handles the truth
some day he will let it drop and injure
( it so that he will never be able TO use ii
again.
Among the player folk showed -in-town
| last week were George Guilbert. Al Stern
J Mary Marble, John Dunno W. II. Thomp-
/ son, John Marble, Harry Levermann. John
Kernel, and Robert Downing. The people
showed out were Kittie Mitchell. John
| Drew, Happy" Ward Harry Vokes. Lucy
! DAILY. Margaret DAILY Vokes, and OKabe's
Japs. And the pity of it was that the
storm god does not follow the example OF
! belligerent nations and effect occasional
| exchanges of prisoners
The Last Chapter was first done in
] Baltimore, and a pamphlet of criticisms
! printed in the papers of the Monumental
]
/ the Broadhurst brothers. Most of the re-
! views ere insufficient. puerile. and non
/ committal Now the question arises since
/ the Lyceum Theatre Stock Company gave
a fair sample of Baltimore theatrcals and
this book a few specimens of Baltimore
criticisms-which is TO be blamed for the
existence of the other?
The Washington correspondent Of the
New York Telegraph" spsaks of the de
/ mise OF IIOyt's Dog in the Manger.' anl
relates that the critics roasted the piece
! numerically in the morning Iapers. and
as q result II has been impossible TO gel
more than handful of people into tn,
house at any performance" II the CORE
spondeIt of the Telegraph" will take
another look at the journals Of the day fol
lowing Mr.. Hoyts opening here he wi;
find that The Times was the on'y issue il
which the farce was treated honestly. Bu
then there's nothing unusual about that,
Mary Helen Howe sang at two musi
, Gales in New York the week before last
one taking place at the home of Mime
Muriocell and the other at the resideno
of Mr. Savage. At each she sang a sol,
and a couple of concerted numbers, bein.
rewarded with emphatic encores. so tina
her appearances were both dsc.d5 idly sue
cessful Miss Howe sang in Gotham Fri
Gay evening ana then came on to WASH
ington Saturday afternoon, reaching tn
city late at night, in a binding snow
storm. after being eleven hours on tn
road. She came here to keep an engage
ment to sing at Mr. Haley's Columbi;
Theatre concert. At this affair she me
with decided success. receiving severa
hearty rounds of applause after her pro
gramme number, a cavatina from III TROY
atore."