The times., 1899-08-13
BRIEFLY TOLD.

Ada Rehan is going a-starring.
Fannie Rice is to have new play next
year.
Dorothy Morton has fled petition in
bankruptcy.
Lily Langtry may soon undertake tour
OF this country.
'The Choir Invisible has been drama
tized and will be staged this winter.
George Tyler, of the Liebler Com
pany. has just returned from Europe.
1t is reported in San Francisco that Jane
! Coombs is to be seen at the California
| Theatre.
Amelia Summeryille has gone into vaude-
vile. 1t is to be hoped that she will re-
main there.
Frank Weston viii play the part of Hora-
ito Drake in the Efie EIlsler production of
THE Christian"
Hamilton Revelle is to work opposite
Olga Nethersole in Clyde Fitch's adapta-
/ ton of ''Sapho."
The August number of 'McClure's Maga-
zine'' contains cleyerly written article on
the late Augustin Daily.
'The Purple Lady" will be seen on the
road this season. THE Purple Lady is
not related TO the scarlet woman"
Cyril Scott. last seen here with "a Run
away Girl. has been engaged for the cast
of "A Stranger in a Strange Land"
| Cissie Lotus is spending her vacation
with May Irwin, and is said to have gained
several pounds. Miss Irwin must be catch
| ing.
Whiting Allen, well known in local news
/ pir will in nc
business manager for AT Gay Coney
Island"
Amy Leslie, Chicago's woman critic, is
at work on book in which she is to de-
scribe the travels of Alexander and Ade-
laide Hermann.
Josephine Gassman, the clever coon
song warbler, has been married, and may
now turn to account her penchant for
singing lullabys.
Yellow dogs and dry goods boxes con-
tinsing cheap, there viii be several Uncle
| Toms Cabin" organizations en- tour during
the present year.
| Sheridan Blc.k has been engaged to
play leads with Richard Mansfield, and will
probably continue in that capacity so long
as his work remains inferior.
| William CourtIeigh, erstwhile of Dan
LyC6uHl Is an
excellent impression in Boston, where he
is being seen with the Castle Square Stock
C. P. Nikral, The Times correspondent
| in Gotham, was TO have returned TO Wash
! ington this week, but has postponed his
departure from New York for another fort
night.
| One of this seasons presentations will
be entitled Jonah and the Whale" 1t is
not stated whether the offering is TO take
| the form of farce, marine drama, or
theological lecture.
Max Figman, who, when last heard of,
was trying unsuccessfully to be funny in
| "A Misfit Marriage" will be with the
company which is shortly to present
"zorah'' in Chicago.
Mrs. E. L. Vaynich. who wrote THE
Gadhy," as well as the dramatization of it,
| that is to be done by Stuart Robson, has
arrived in New York and viii superintend
rehearsals of the piece.
w j. Ferguson, whose last years ex-
| perience in THE Turtle might be sup
posed to fit him for almost anything, has
been secured to assume the leading role in
The Girl from Maxim s..
Orrin Johnson, the one capable member
| of the organization seen here last spring
! in Her Atonement," will be leading man
of Maude Adams company this season,
succeeding Robert Edeson, who has retired
from the stage.
| Bettina Girard, incurable morphine fend
and irreclaimable drunkard, was sent last
week to Blackwell's Island. Poor Bettina
| Girard, whose story is the saddest of ia
milar stories and whose only enemy has
| been herselfl
! John C. Slavin, the diminutive German
| comedian, has been engaged for the sup
port of Alice Nielsen. which probably
Slavin's superior in every way, will re-
main with THE Rounders.''
Negotiations for the gold statue of Maude
Adams to be exhibited at the Paris Exposi-
tion are said to have come to a temporary
stop owing to a disagreement between the
committee and the Colorado commission
ers over the terms OF the contract.
According to rumor, Walter Jones is
about to be married. But since this same
rumor has had Mr.. Jones welded before to
everyone in the market except May Irwin
and "The Black Patti" the comedians
friends need not be alarmed at the state
ment.
Nine. Salvlni is advertising for sale her
late husbands production of Hamlet"
At last reports, Paul Gilmour had bought
this lot, but the advertisement mentioned
leaves room for hope that we are to be
spared the ordeal of seeing Mr.. Gilmour as
the Dane.
Herbert Gresham late Of Augustin Days
forces. will be May Irwin's new leading
man. Almost all that is required of Miss
Twins leading men is that they shall be
able to remain in the background, and this.
! service, with Ada Rehan, should have
taught Mr.. Gresham to do.
John Oliver Hobbies has written a new
three-act poetical DRAMA entitled "osmond
and Ursyne." The English rights to this
piece are controlled by George Alexander
Franklin H. Sargent has secured the play
for .America and will give ii a premiere in
November at the New York Lyceum.