The times., 1899-06-04
LIE WOLF HOPPER TO
We'd NELLA BERGEN
Bridal Debut With "El Capt.
tan" in Dear Old London.
Revival of Matrimonial Story Sue
ceeds Divorce Proceedings.
Between Matinee and Midnight
Other Doines in Gotham Town.

New York, June 3.-The days of first pro-
ductions are things of the past and the
dramatic editors and writers are scratch
ing around in their desks to find some
unused manuscripts to fill up their va
cant columns. Practically. there is moth
ing going here in public way. and so the
profession drops back again to the discus
sion Of personal matters. One disgrurtled
| and dyspeptic actor once announced that
during the interim between spring and fall
| the sole topics OF the performers were
grease paint and divorce suits, combined
| with a liberal amount of next seasons en-
gagements. This Is not far from right. 1t
is little too young for the last topic. the
first has been pretty well threshed since
the manufacturers have Issued no new
kinds of the essential. but the second sub
1eet. like the poor. is always with US.
| 1t was hardly incorrect TO say there were
| no new productions, but there are revivals
| The reviying divorce story concerns that
| popular comic opera comedian, De Wolf
! Hopper. 1t is a good deal of difficulty to
| say whether this story is made out OF the
| whole cloth by the exceedingly enterpris-
| ing press agent Of the altitudinous come
| dias, or really has basis of truth OF
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marry as soon as the marital VOWS of each
are melted in the judicial forge. You see.
| Miss Bergen-you know every woman in
| the profession is known as Miss until they
| have nine grandchildren-was originally
| married to a man named Bergen, her cog
nomen previously having been Roiden or
| some such photographic offence. There
was no keeping her OF the operaJic stage.
as she took just the proper course to get
on 1t.
| Always possessed of a strong voice. her
power and culture were strengthened by 4
| course in one of the Boston ccaservatories.
Marrying young Bergen, CT Meriden. Conn,
he soon found her to be a good deal like
| the abbreyiation OF his States name. There
is mighty little peace for a man out OF the
business to have a wife in it. he soon
found cut. Popularity publicity leads in
| variably to personal frapeedness- The al
| lurements OF the concert stage led her to
accept an engagement with your man Sousa
and so she drifted into opera. Hopper ad-
mired her voice and then his appreciation
extended to her other personal charms. The
jealousy this affection caused is known to
all women and to no few men. Little Ed
ma Wallace e-Hopper-who has no more in
| tellect than the statutes permit-was nat
urally sore on both Nella and De Wolf.
Now she is in Europe having a good time
while her liege lord and her statuesque
ia divorce served to separate Nella from her
geographically domiciled early discovery
and similar friendly settlement has
been effected between Hopper and Edna
there is naught to refrain them from do
ing what they wish in matrimonial way.
This will be De VOLTS third leap in the
dark and the dubious adage about the
series of three will not prevent him from
seeking the theological connection.
Whether the third will be lucky or un-
lucky will later be proven.
Nichols. the young man who has been
announced as the hacker OF Mime. Pill
MORN is getting into water of all kinds
of depth and temperature. The man pos
sesses a deal of tact, though, and when the
French actress consented to have him tied
to her apron strings. she thought he was
wealthy. Maybe he was, but no one has
yet seen it. My Cousin has been doing
mighty satisfactory business at Wal
lacks, but the receipts have either gone to
the house or rest snugly in the pocket OF
Mr.. Nichols jeans. The performers are shy
| good deal. and when they requested their
overdue stipend the other day the hacker
promised to remit and then put it of for
| another day on account of there being 4
| holiday in the week. As a dallier, Mich
| OILS is 4 success. and really / would not be
surprised TO see him do mighty well some
of these times in the business. When a
man can manage performers as he does it
shows both superior Judgment and aban-
| dant tact.
There will be two melodramatie firms
sending out cheap attractions instead Of
one chief offender next season. This an
nouncement means that the partnership of
| Davis & Keogh has been dissolved. the
senior member of the firm retaining the
| least offensive of the plays and the other
Joining an unknown firm in breaking off
Mondays on the people. Probably such
inferior literary efforts have never been
sent out as those Of Davis & Keogh, yet
they can afford to say ''drat the critics.
as they have made a mint of money. AS
soon as a piece begins to get into the los
ing side, paper and salaries cease to reach
the companies and maybe they walk home
or maybe they have saved enough to ride
| second class Yet ten years from how
these same fellows may be at the head of
their lines of business. A decade ago but
one recognized manager of the present day
was known outside his own bailiwick.
Down in Washington you had the privi-
| lege of seeing Grant Stewart as Tom
Wrench in .aTrelawny Of the WelleS,' and
also saw what he could not do in the way
of playwriting in Mistakes VIII Happen"
Both Stewart and Charley Dickson, who
really devised the plot of the farce, have
unlimited faith in it, having made money
| all through the West and Will put II out
| again next season. probably backed by
Lift as formerly. Until Dickson got to
| Washington he thought he had a great
property in Stewards effort, but the recep-
tion there quite floored him. One sug-
| gestion he availed himself OF and that
was in building up the third act Since
| Morgan joined the Lyceum Company Stew
| art and Dickson have been blue penciling
Mistakes VIII Happen in order to build
up the last act They now think they
| have been successful. The characters
drawn will be also more colOred. which is
| TO say that their eccentricities will be more
| marked.
The West will be the stamping ground
| of the company and where opportunity
permits. Dickson will revive his Incog.H
| in which he made his reputation He is
really worthy OF the success he seeks. hav
| ing been unfortunate in several ways 4
| man OF pre-eminent ability. his drop from
prominence was rapid and his restoration
| correspondRgly slow.
With the growing interest in high-cla5s
vaudeville in the National Capital ii will
be interesting for you 10 learn OF the sue
cess OF Rose Coghlan in her new sketch.
| Between Matinee and Night" AS
indicated in the name. the story tells OF
| the adventures or rather the experiences
OF an actress. She had married out OF ths
profession and when the customary reac
tion came went back on the stage to
earn her living. The star dressing room is
shown to add atmosphere and then the
child OF the actress comes TO visit her.
| followed in a few convenient minutes by
the long and fortunately lost husband. The
little girl wants to go on the stage and
har 10 hack