The times., 1899-11-12
BRIEFLY TOLD.

"My Sen Ben was a hit in Montreal.
Harry A. March spent last week in Ohio.
Richard Mansfield is to revive "Yorick's
Love"
Frank Perley spent a part Of last week
in Washington.
James A Herne's Sag Harbor" is an
undOubted success.
Ogla Nethersole seems to have made
hit with "Sappho-"
The Choir Invisible is said to have
come to grief in Chicago
"Mr. Pepper, From Salt Lake" is the
title for a new farce. Next?
Florence Ricketts,. a local girl, was in
town last week with The Rounders."
Bert Riddle will be business manager of
luckett & Dryers In Paradise Com
pany.
Once more an anxious public is told that
Alice Nielsen is going to appear in Lon
don-perhaps.
Claiming Pollocks name no longer ap-
pears at the head OF the theatrical news
printed in the Critic"
George Favor and Edith Sinclair are
about to star in Otis Harlan's collosscl fail
ure. My Innocent Boy"
Joseph Haworth has been signed for the
title role in Fred Whitneys forthcoming
production of Quo Vadts.
c. B. Craig who is with the My Son
Ben" Company, has been playing 'Rube"
parts almost since making his professional
debut.
James Young VIII continue his starring
tour, using Lord Byron for a vehicle.
The part should be an ideal one for Mr..
Young.
Gertrude Elliott, The Girl" Nat Good
win Left Behind" him, has made a hit
in "A Royal Family, at the Court Thes-
ire, London.
a heavy portiere has been hung across
the lobby OF the Grand. where it viii act
as protection against the blowing of ye
wintry Winds
Harold Holmes and Flora Nelson, local
people, have given up the stage and viii
take to the business OF drawing-rcom en-
tertainment in this city.
Chris and the Wonderful Lamp viii
follow the Rogers Brothers at Hammer
: STEMS Victoria in February. But Chris
IS too weak to follow far
( It is reported that next season Dan Daily
viii star under the management of George
Lcderer in whose The Rounders'' com
( pany he is now appearing.
( Dorothy Usner announces that she viii
/ quit theaTicals and take up a religious
I life Does anyone know the name of Miss
Usner's present press agent?
Wilbur ~ Bates, who resigned from the
/ Liebler combination because of its attack
! on the New York critics. has been signed
as the advance man for Ben Hur."
I a new play by Lizzie Nichols is entitled
when Love Shall Conquer Death; or
/ Everybody Square" How is that for step
from the sublime to the ridiculous?
William Elton. the one brilliant spot
discovered by A Little Ray Of SUNSHINE 80
/ has been engaged for the principal role in
David BeIasco's Naughty Anthony
Maude Courtney, who sings the old
songs. NJ the Grand Opera House and
elsewhere, is going into the legitimate, and
VIII be seen here in Naughty Anthony"
Josie De Witt. washington girl who
was last seen here with By the Sad Sea
Waves has been divorced from her hus-
band William West OF San Francisco.
Grant Allen. the novelist. is dead Mr.
Allen never had anything to do with the
stage. Which is why his demise is re-
! corded sorrowfully on this dramatic page.
Pictures of Georgia WelIes, one while
of the Columbia and now with the Murray
( Hill Stock Company. adorn pages OF last
weeks Mirror and Of this months
/ tMunsey"
Ii Nat Goodwin cannot make the Azssri-
! can public accept Clyde Fitchs The
Cowboy and the Lady" he will substitute
for it piece bought in England and en-
titled Pals
The Gay Debuante." hitherto a popu-
1 larpriced attraction is to be reintroduced
this month by a cast which includes Walter
Jones, Norma WhalIey, Mayme Gehrue,
and Helene Macdonald.
Ridge Waller, treasurer OF Herman )
Theatre, has begun the publication OF a
periodical to be called The Chorus Girl %
The paper Will act as a sort of agency be-
tween the young women and possible en-
ployers.
Last weeks Mirror" contained CORE
spondence from over 400 American towns
and cities, besides letters from London.
Paris. Berlin, Rome. Sydney, johannes
burg, and Kingston. Jamaica. Talk about
enterprise!
Manager Burke of the GrEnd. spent Last
| week in New York. where he VIII remain
until he has personally inspected every
act booked for his house this season.
Manager Chase was in Ohio from Monday
up to Friday.
Sixteen girls, who call themselves Les
Bellies" Zouaves, and who put up" a dr |
that is said to be similar to that of the
"streators," are being seen In a
New York vaudeville house This is novCl-
ty with a vengeance.
II IS reported that an English syndicate
with about 500 tons capital-a ton is 1000
pounds-wil back George Lederer, exploit
er of The Belle Of New York" in the
management of theatres in London, Paris.
and Long Acre Square.
Henry Z. Dixey will be seen as David
Garrick in Stuart Robson's production OF
Oliver Goldsmith" Mr.. Robsons origi-
nal intention was to present Augustus
Thomas comedy only in the far West, but
from the cast being engaged, it is evident
that the East has not been forsworn en-
tirely.
There are two stars whose present Nea
York SUCCESSES will keep them out of Wash.
ington uS1il much later than was originally
intended. One of these is Mrs. Flske who
has absorbed the time originally held for
Three Little Lambs" at the Fifth Avenue
and will continue with Becky Sharp" In
definitely: the other is Henry Miller, wha
has moved from the Herald Square to the