Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-26

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f. S. Willard is to return to the stage next
year.
Jessie Bartlett Davis will not sing this
season.
The Children Of the Ghetto will migrate
to London at the end of this week.
Quo Vadis" will be produced at Nc
Nicker's theater, Chicago, on December IL.
Alice Nielsen in The Singing Girl began
week.
Nine. Helena Modjeska may revive king
John during her New York engagement
this season.
The Little Corporal. Francis Wilson'S
comic opera success of last season, will be
produced IN Vienna in December.
Announcement has been made of the mar
riage of Florence ziegfeld, jr.. and Anna
Held in Paris, France. two years ago.
"Zorah" was shelved after its Brooklyn
Jewish play to announce an end this season.
Laurence Irving. who translated Robes
pierre" from the original of Sardou for his
distinguished father, is now making his
first visit to America.
Sherlock Holiness William Gillette's new
pilay now running at the Garriek theater IN
fashioned Bowery type.
TIL success of Arizona" has been such
ina the management has received sarnes.
the play has been seen.
Two oaken chests, said to have been the
property. of William Shakespeare are, to be
sold in London. They We're among the eff
fects in Shakespeare's house, Stratford-on-
AAvopp' purchased by the late c, S. Butler
work on her autobiography until she
finishes her American tour. That begins In
January. An American publisher is re.
to publish the book.
A copyright performance of Clyde Fl,ch's
version Of "Sapho.' now bong played by
IKE f Belle of New waS Y6 siks" co og mTWp at the he
Shaftesbury theater, London, recently.
Edna May read the title part.
Rudyard Kipling's poem The Absent
Minded Beggar' is being recited nightly at
the Palace music hall, London. by Mrs.
Beerbohm Tree, who contributes the salary
paid her to the Soldiers fund From the
management she receives floO per week,
and this is greatly added to by the coins
thrown to her by enthusiastic listeners.
Henry Irving has always had a singular
attachment for French characters on the
stage. Twenty-six years ago he appeared
as Cardinal Richelieu, Louis NJ followed
and then Napoleon in Mime; Sans-Gene.
Now he is appearing as Robespierre, the
in~corruptible, and he has In preparation a
play dealing with the time of Charles TX.
The next great production with which
Sir Henry Irving will concern himself at
the Lyceum on his return from America IN
April says the Westminster Gazette. will
be a romantic and historical drama, dealing
with the time of Charles TX of France: 1t
Is a very thrilling period of French history
and on the spectacular side the play will
deal largely with the massacre Of the
Huguenots on the evening of st. Bartholo-
new (August "a, IT'D
William Bramwell, leading man of El-
| genie Blair's company, now playing on the
Pacific coast, has this season scored a sue
cession of successes as Rene in "Divor-
| cons and Sir John Oxon in "A Lady of
Quality" Mr.. Bramwells experience as
an attorney and his subsequent training
on the stage developed in him the qualities
that are now making for his success as a
scholarly actor. The dramatic writers In
| all of the cities in which he has appeared
sneak of him as n coming man OF the
American stage. Mr.. is an old
Omaha boy.