The record-union., 1899-03-26

/ Mr.. PinerO'S next comedy, Ine cray
Lord Quex," has been read to the COM
pany of the London Globe Theater, and
is now in rehearsal. There are eighteen
characters in the cast, four male ana
fourteen female The natural infer
ence is that there are good reasons for
his Lordship's gayety.
The recent performance in London of
Ben Jonson's 1.-The Alcliemist" by the
Elizabethan Stage Society appears to
have been one of the most satisfactory
achievements in the history of the or
| g,anization.
| F. r. Benson will again provide the
Shakespeare memorial performances at
Stratford- this year, and has
chosen for a special revival the second
part of Henry VI" He promises,
moreover, the production of Hamlet"
| in it's entirety, according to the quarto
edition of 1904. This will mean per-
Torrance lasting over the entire day
the first half being given at matinee,
and ending with the play scene in the
middle of the third act, and the second
part filling up the whole evening.
The revival of Sweet Lavender" in
+, Terry's Theater, London, has proved a
great hit. Mr. Terry's impersonation
| ever
DR.. Conan Doyle's domestic comedy,
''The Brothers," will be produced in
Aberdeen in April.
| Chas Hawtrey's managerial plans in
London include the production of new
four act play by Herman Merivale, a
comedy by R. c. Carton. and revival
! of THE School for Scandal in which
+, he, of course, viii be the Charles.
| 1t is announced that the new play
which Henry Arthur Jones has written
for Mr. Tree and Her Majesty's Thea
| ter in London is to be called "Carnac
Sahib," and is to be produced in April.
! The hero is colonel in the British In
dian army, and the tale is of the love
of two men for one woman. An IN
dian potentate is also mixed up in the
| plot. Mrs. James Brown Potter will
be the enchantress, and the rivals Will
be impersonated by Mr.. Tree and MI.
Waller. There is said to be an abund-
ance of striking incident connected with
frontier expeditions, although no actual
fighting is done upon the stage. OPP
portunities for rich scenic display are,
of course plentiful.
| The London DAILY Mali is response
| bic for the following assertions: we
have become so continental that the
| .claque' on a London first night is
recognized thing. Applause is bought
and sold as a commercial commodity
so many pitites. so many galleryites, at
! so much a head. But even worse re-
mains behind Paid applause is bad
enough. but paid kissing is thousand
I times worse. 1t is to be bought as
matter of course. So much money, so
| many men, such-and-e a quantity
4 of kissing. There are three or four
| headquarters where the goods are pur-
| chased over the counter, so to speak.
| OF course, the buyer does not buy di-
rect; there are sometimes as many as
| three Intermediates. A goes to B,
and to c., before the matter is prop
! erly arranged with D, the head of the
gang. 1t sounds incredible, but it is
fact This sore must be cut out bod
! lily, or it will tester and rot the whole
body. Who employs these men, and
why?"
Some interesting facts appear in the
prospectus of the company which has
assumed charge of the London Lyceum
| Theater The accountants who have
audited the books of the theater report
/ he ~
ance, during the runs of the last eight
plays, produced under the direction of
Sir Henry Irving, which included
..Becket," Faust King Arthur"
"Cymbeline." Richard Ill" Madame
sans-Gene, "Peter the Great" and
The Medicine Man. amounted to over
f270, or $3.50 The rates, taxes, and
insurance of the theater for the last
year amounted to f1,376. or less than a
weeks receipts. The new company
the profits of all Sir Henry's American,
colonial and provincial tours.
|
Speaking of the production of 1.-THE
Only Way" Freeman Wills version Of
a Tale of Two Cities at the London
Lyceum, the London Academy" says:
There is prettiness in the making
episodes between Darnay and Lucie
| Nanette in the quaint old garden in
| Soho; there are force and turbulence
in the incident of ST. Evermondes trial
and condemnation by the revolutionary
tribunal in Paris; there is infinite
pathos in the final tableau, revealing
Sydney Carton upon the scaffold in the
act of laying down his life for the
woman he loves. If these things do not
exactly constitute a good play, they
make, at any rate, an excellent enter
tainment. against which the sole re-
proach that can be brought is that it
is a trife too sad and sombre for ordi-
nary tastes. The production, mean
While, reflects every credit in so far as
the mere question of mounting is con-
cerned upon the theater at which it is
presented. Sir Henry Irving himself
could hardly have given us a more
beautiful series of stage pictures
New York Tribune: Miss Florence
Rockwell. who is now playing leading
| lady in Charles Klein's Hon. John
| Grisby." has never from the time of
her first engagement. some four years
ago. taken any part in a play but that
of leading lady She is the youngest
actress who has ever played Juliet with
a professional company, and the only
one to have played the part when a
girl of Juliet's age, 16. From earliest
childhood she delighted to recite and
to entertain When 3 years of age,
her father once took her with him to
the Merchants Exchange, where the