The times., 1899-07-02
BRIEFLY TOLD.


Mexico" in London.
"a Milk White Flag will be the next
American farce to Join in the London in
vasion.
Alice Shaw and her whistling daughters
have sailed for South Africa to fill an
extended engagement.
Weber & Fields will back Joe Otis
theatrical attempt next year. Joe is a
pretty dubious venture.
Olive Oliver has purchased new play
and will star in 1t next season. She was
with Crane when last here.
Ernest Lamson is making hay at his
home in Prairie View. incidentally work
ing on his comedy and sketches.
Barbara Fritchie. new historic dra-
ma by Clyde Fitch, will share with Col
inette'' in Julia Marlowe's coming tour.
Dorothy Morton has been summoned for
contempt of court and may be fined or
sent to Jail for failing to respond 10
writ.
The Magistrate, is to be revived in
Boston with George ober in the part of
the old man, whose position gives the pay
its title.
OdelI Williams will not go out alone
next year. but will continue to be CO.
featured with Phoebe Davies in Way
Down East
Madame Melba announces that she viii
not come to America next year. The eoun-
try will manage to run along somehow
without her.
Cook Dunbar's operetta. "Cannibal
King" will be given London production
the cast being made up exclusively OF col
ored singers.
William Gillette has returned from Lon
don, where he has been collaborating with
DR.. A. Conan Doyle in dramatizing ''Sher-
lock Holmes"
John Stapleton, who has been convicted
upon his own plea of having written "A
Bachelors Honeymoon is soon to visit
the National Capital.
George Sheldon. seen here in the ser
wants part ina Brace Of Partridges,"
has made the great hit in Conan Doyie's
unsuccessful Halves
Belle Archer is now eschewing the race
track and spends her summer in hunting
and preparing for the coming season with
"a Contented Woman"
More impediments for successful sea-
son. Go-Won- Co Mohawk, the Indian ac-
tress. is to again go out in a new play. the
scene being laid in Mexico.
The Leibler Company Will arrange eight
weeks of rehearsal for their new venture,
1.-The Children Of the Ghetto" Washing
ton is to receive It's premier.
Robert Cotton. who once looked like
coming actor. has been quite ILL., and real
ICES the hopeless struggle for life. and is
going home to England TO die
Lillian Burkhart is to take welI-earned
vacation after long and eminentiy sue
cessful season. Vaudeville needs more
artistes like the dainty Lillian.
This combination Of dramatics with pug
ilism either in Jest or earnest Is decidedly
reprehensible. Gentility and intellect are
the proper environments of the playhouse.
Milton Mobiles new comedietta "a Tailor
Made Suit was done at Keith's Union
Square last week and was well received
1t is too quiet for most vaudeville houses,
however.
Minnie Radcliffe. the former very infe-
rior leading woman for James O'Neil was
married TO Malcolm Williams. a pretty
good young actor, while playing in st.
Louis last week.
The cheap old Baker Opera Company
which has produced some of the very hest
people now working in the East, is again
very low prices.
Maurice Grau has completed arrange
ments by which Sarah Bernhardt will come
to America in the season of 1900-1901. Her
production OF Hamlet" will likely be in
cluded in the repertoire
Adelaide Kellem, seen here two seasons
ago with Cumberland '61," was arrested
on charge of perjury and held without
hof1 lie nf GrNff urrlr
and she will likely be released.
Lee Harrison enters vaudeville this
evening. making his appearance for the
first time in New York. But he will sing
coon songs" and should stick to some
thing more tangible than vaudeville.
The New York dramatic editors are in
dulging in journalistic duel over the re-
mains of Augustin DAILY. For real small
ness the average New Yorker can give
most bacteria several sizes and then win.
THE Idols Eye" is far from being an
operatic antiquity With the same COM
pany recently seen here. it broke all rec
ords of attendance at Manhattan Beach last
Sunday. THE Wizard of the Nile" will
follow.
big" Frank Connolly. interested in
the tour of the late Thomas w. Keene,
has materialized again after an absence
of nearly a year. He was thought to
have been murdered, but it seems he has
been in Cuba.
A New York paper takes two columns to
describe Frank Wilstach's difficulties with
the French language, and never creates a
smile in the full stretch. Only as a space
killer is the Man Behind the Scenes" at
all a success.
Corinne Parker is studying hard for her
next season, having received an excellent
offer from a responsible New York firm
10 do good parts at an excellent salary
Just what company she will appear in is
not yet announced.
George Walker, the tall colored man of
Williams and Walker. was united In mar
riage to Ada Overton last week. 1t was a
very swell event in colored metropolitan
society. Mrs. Walker was the leading SOU
brette in the company last year.
Mrs. W. G. Jones, whose impersonation
OF the nurse in Romeo and Juliet" was
acceptable even to the most critical of
Shakespearean reviewers, has been engaged
TO accompany Maude Adams in her tour
of The Little Minister" hereafter.
Harry Brunette is the latest theatrical
bankrupt, his liabilities being immense
and his assets about the value of a POS
tage stamp. He was formerly manager of
Proctor's theatre and was also connected
with the Third Avenue stock company.
Hoyt's companies have developed nine
of next seasons stars. These are James T.
Powers. Frank Daniels, Thomas Q. Sea-
brooke, George C. Boniface. ir.. George
Ober, Otis Harlan, George Richards. Eu-
gene Garfield. Tim Murphy, and Harry
Connor.
''The Floor Walkers has proved such a
success that Ward & Vokes have decided
to expand il into a three-act farce for use