The times., 1899-08-27
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Felix Morris will stay in vaudeville.
Zelma Rawlson is going to London.

reu4 MOTIFS VIII stay In vaudeville.
Zelma Rawlson is going to London.
May Irwin will revive THE Widow
Jones'"
Leon Hermann viii spend the approach
ing season in Cuba
Rose Coghlan is to be seen in the popu-
lar priced houses this season with "The
White Heather
Marie Studholme, the London beauty
has just been divorced
The Mirror is now publishing four
columns of Dates Ahead"-a reliable in
dication that the season has at last begun
in earnest.
Katherine Grey, who spent her vacation
In the Sandwich Islands, has returned TO
New York and will begin rehearsals with
Richard Mansfield.
Harry Gilfoil. whose Baron Sands was
quite the hit of "A Stranger in New York, -
will head the cast to be seen this year in a
revival of "A Trip to Chinatown"
James O'Neill will alternate THE Mus
keteers" with The Count of Monte Cristo
this season. Early in 1900 he is to be seen
in a new melodrama imported for him
from England.
Until next March, Charles Coghlan will
star in "A Royal Box" which it will be
ItIlGLuDtEGu, Was Ills 1eJI- 20 SutcGSS. N6AI
spring he viii go 10 London with Citizen
Pierre his 1899 failure.
Natural Gas" will be turned on again
this season. II a meter had been attached
to that piece during its entire career the
manager responsible for the payment of the
bill would have become bankrupt.
Howard Gould. who out-Sotherned E. H.
Sothern in THE Prisoner Of Zenda," will
be starred in "A Colonial Girl" Mr.. Gould
is an actor of ability and it is too bad that
he could not secure a better play for this
venture
The Hanlon Brothers are going to pre-
sent a pennant TO the Brooklyn Baseball
Club, which organization having been
nicknamed THE Superbas,'' has been
practically advertising their attraction all
summer.
Jessie Bartlett Davis is to star during
| the coming season. Which will be a sore
disappointment to those who had labored
under the impression that 20 Promise
Me" would join the prima donna in re-
tirement.
According to the figures published in a
recent Mirror" the Primrose & Dock
stader Minstrels have played in the past
five weeks to receipts aggregating s40,
999.75 Which promises much for the season
just begun.
A Dutch musical farce to be seen en-
tour this year bears the title of The
Prince Hal Ha! and the Duke Hayi Hayl"
The man who devised that name .hould
suggest few others for Pullman sleepefx
and then die.
Besides his production of Sydney Car
ton" this year Thomas E. Shea will be
seen in "Richelieu," "Dr. Jekyll and Mr..
Hyde" THE Bells" Slaves OF SIM" and,
in places where it is demanded. The
Man o'-War's Man
'.Biff'' Hall, in the Mirror" mentions
the recent Chicago opening of Hotel
Topsy Turvy" and alludes to the leading
woman of the presenting organization as
pretty Amelia Clover" But then Justice
Hall always would have his little joke.
Marie Burroughs is to assume the role
of Gemma in THE Gadhy when Stuart
Robsons dramatization of that peculiar
novel lis put on in New York. Miss Bur
roughs acted as Mr.. Robson's leading wo-
man during a great part of last season.
James A. Herne, who has been busy
profting by the experience gained with his
Offering of Rev. Griffith Davenport" will
complete his new play shortly, opening
with it early in October at Boston. The
piece has been christened Sag Harbor."
W. s. Penley will not be seen in Ameri-
ca with the organization which is TO pre-
sent A Little Kay OF sunshine. In which
Mr. Penley is wise, for the farce has fewer
chances of success than anything Smyth
and Rice have exploited since the days OF
''The Cuckoo"
]. II. Stoddart, the veteran actor, has
been engaged for the role of Dr. Manette
In Henry Miller's forthcoming production
of The Only Way" Mr. Miller will be
supported by one of the best companies on
the road and should achieve the success
of his career.
De Wolf Hopper's new opera. the music
OF which is by John Phillip Sousa and the
book by Charles Klein and Grant Stewart,
will be entitled General Gamma" It has
not been announced as yet whether the
work VIII be done first in the United
States or in England.
Francis Wilson's next opera is really to
be a version of "Cyrano de Bergerac,"
comicalized by Harry B. Smith and Victor
Herbert. But 1t is doubtful if even Mr..
Wilson can be funnier in the role than
were several Of those individuals who at
tempted it seriously last year.
The New York Telegraph" says that
Alice Nielsen will soon begin rehearsing
THE Dancing Girl" Which would be as
tonishing were one not assured that the
Telegraph" really means THE Singing
Girl" and has got Henry Arthur Jones
mixed up with Herbert and Smith