The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-12
PLAYS AND PLAYERS.

Otis Skinner will star this season in
'The Liars" beginning September 49,
This season Minnie Radcliffe will be
leading lady with Sol Smith Russell.
j. II. Stoddart is to play DIR. Manette
in "The Only Way" with Henry Miller.
Charles Klein is writing a melodrama
of English life to be called "The Lombard
Street Mystery"
An actress has arisen who claims to be
cousin of the wife of Maitre Labor,
of Dreyfus case fame
jeff de Angels will continue trying to
make fortune smile through the efforts of
1.-THE Jolly Musketeer."
Belle Archer has purchased play, en-
titled ~" 1t is not announced when it
will have its initial performance
Bernhardt does not know English. She
has always declared that she would not
learn it for fear 1t would spoil her
French.
Clara Lavne, comedlenne. and William
Blaisdell, the comedian, will star in the
musical comedy, Strange Adventures of
Miss Brown"
Clement Scott, the critic, calls "The
Degenerates," Mrs. Langtry's new play
'pOt-bOiler." Still, pot-boiing suggests
something warm.
The Jessie Bartlett Davis Opera COM
pany will include William Philip, william
Brodcrick, William Pruettc and Harry
Brown. Several operas will be sung
weekly.
A new play on the Dreyfus case. maxi
ing the unfortunate hero guilty, in Lon
don made the spectators so indignant
that the performance was broken up by
a riot In Paris and Berlin it was pro-
hibited.
One of the company and the stage man
ager had been having some trouble. I'm
| too busy now" he said. but when | get
oil Uyha
you do was his reply. "Tll sue you"
John B. Rogers has his new star, Dor
othy Morton, in London. The latest re-
port is that she will play Smith and De-
kovens once-pOpular comic opera, "The
Fencing Master" in the English capital.
Elizabeth Campbell Winter wife of the
| poet and critic, William Winter, has
written a play for Charles Coghlan. She
! has also made a new version of DIR. Mos
enthars Deborah" C'Leah the For
| Saken.")
Maybe because of her diminutive size
she is not much In the public eye, but
Mrs. Tom Thumb is still living and en-
| gagged in theatrical work, last season
touring through the Western states at
| the head of her own company.
| Fred Miller, composer Of the score Of
ship Alloy" and author of "Davy
Jones'" is at worl, on two new farcical
| operettas, which will be produced by the
Boston Seronaders during the coming
| season.
Henry Irving and Ellen Terry will ar
| rive in New York toward the end of Oc-
tober and will make their rc-cntranco at
| the KniCkerboCker theatre, presenting
"RObespierre." Later Miss Terry will act
In Calmour's play Of THE Amber
! Heart"
| William II. Crane in Peter Stuyves-
| ant, Governor" will impersonate the
| Dutch ruler of New York, who, as read
| ers of early Gotham history will remcm-
| Der, stumped around Manhattan Island
| OH a wooden leg.
| Richard Mansfield will alternate CyranO
| de Bergerac with new play by Emil
| MOreau, Co-author of Nine. Sans Gene.
| called "Jeffreys," relating incidents in
| the life of the cruel Chief Justice Of
| James lis reign. Coquelin will play the
part in France, and Irving in England,
| Under the Russian laws. upon appica-
| tion of any person, the Minister of the
Interior may separate any child or chill
| dren under age, of Hebrew parents, from
| those parents, compel their baptism, and
| force them to be brought up I'm tho
| Christian religion. This is the fundamen-
tai idea in Edwin Arden's new Jewish
| play, "Zorah."
| In miss Hobbs" Annie Russelrs new
| comedy by Jerome X. Jerome, she APP
pears as a man-hating young woman, who
| is instrumental in separating, tcmporar-
| lily, a young married couple and a pair
| of bctrothcd lovers, but is ovcltaken in
| time by Cupid and succumbs to his wilCs
One scene passes in the cabin of yacht
supposed to be drifting I'm a fog, the
| only occupants being the aforesaid man
| hater and the man destined to subduo
| her.