The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-05-21

latter part of next season, according to
announcements from London, in an
other play by J. NJ Barrie, whose Lit
tie Minister has stood Miss Adams SO
well since her stellar career was
launched.
French audiences sometimes resent
the too realistic plays of their contem-
porary writer's 1.-The Beautiful Nine.
Hessileu'' met this fate. It's heroine is
a widow with two grown sons, and she
maintains a handsome esta blishment to
which her admirers contribute. One
of her sons suspects this, although the
other is ignorant of the truth. The lat
ter becomes engaged to the daughter
of the man to whom his mother is most
devoted. He learns of his mothers I'M
worthiness through a woman VINO
learned of her life and failed in the at
tempt to blackmail her. In despair the
son shoots himself after he has in vain
entreated his mother to give up her
life and leave France with him The
play failed utterly, because even
French audiences take no pleasure in
the contemplation Of middle aged and
wicked heroines. An italian work in
similar vein recently found little favor
in Florence. It was called 1.-THE Sin,
and told the story of an old man in love
with a young girl whom he had reared
and educated He feels compelled to
tell her ultimately that he killed her
father in a duel. In despair she leaves
his house and the disappointed lover
kills himself.
Some facts about "Cyrano" are:
The play was produced in Paris by
Coquelin, December 2S, 1897.
The play was produced by Richard
Mansfield in New York, October 3,
1898.
Characters in cast, "a.
Cyrano has 621 speeches.
Roxane has 326 speeches.
Cyrano's speeches contain 9,4oG
words
Average number of words in each OF
Cyrano's speeches, 10.
Total spoken words and cues in Cy-
ramos part to be memorized, 1873.
Cyrano's third act is longest-con-
tanning 1900 words.
Speech describing nose, contains 432
words.
The Non, merci" speech contains 4O1
words
Introduction or cadets contains 224
words
The nose speech is the longest in the
play.
Over 100000 copies of the play were
sold before Coquelin had played it fifty
times.
Cyrano De Bergerac was born in 1920.
Cyrano wrote two plays comedy,
lie Pedant Joue," and a tragedy.
"Agrippine.'
Cyrano's history of a trip to the moon
was published in 1856, after his death.
Cyrano De Bergerac died in 1904.
Mr.. Sothern's production of 1.-The
Sunken Bell' will be by far the most
elaborate he has yet attempted, eclips-
ing 1.-The Musketeers1 and "Zenda- .
The play is a translation by Charles
Henry Meltzsr of Gebhart Hauptmann's
Die Versunkane Coke Hauptmann
is not generally regarded as the great
est living dramatist, and although he
does not consider this play his master
piece, it is, perhaps, the only one adapt
able to American tastes and under
standings Mr.. Sothern has commits
stoned NJ. Alme Lachaune of the Paris
Conservative to write the incidental
music The plot is founded on an old
familiar fairy tale.
In Trenton. N. J., the new farcical
comedy by Willie Collier was given its
first performance, with the author in
the title part. The story exploits a
lively series of events in the househo'd
of a wealthy gentleman who has a
spinster sister whom he would like to
get rid of. and a pretty daughter, whose
heart is won by Mr.. Smooth. Author
ship IS a new field fer Mr.. Collier, but
with his experience on the stage Mr..
Smooth" should promote the career Ct
one of the first comedians before the
public The scenes of the farce are
located in a mansion in New York and
in the Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga.
1t is reported that after a union that
has extended over the past ten years
with the most profitable results, as all
will readily recall, funny little Alfred
Klein, who has been De Wolf Hopper's
foil during these years, is to retire from
the Hopper Company. In fact, Mr..
Klein himself has made this announce
ment. a successful comic opera union
the like of this one can hardly be re-
called, and all friends of both the long
and short comedian Will be sorry 70
hear that they will no longer continue
their series of delightful contrasts.
Miss Twins supporting company-or
her playmates. as she calls them, in
, cludes Mr.. Sparks and Mr. Martinetti
and many others who have been asso-
ciated with her for the past few sea-
sons. Like most people, Miss Irwin can
see nothing in nature as beautiful as a
pretty woman. a sentiment that has
guided in selecting the ladies for the
subordinate roles. They will be gowned,
as Miss Twins ladies always are be-
comingly, and in keeping with the
latest suggestions from the world of
fashion.
George r. Edeson, the veteran actor
and stage manager, who died in Phi
adelphia recently, was for more than
forty years a prominent factor in Amer
lean theatricals. He was born in New
York in the early '30s. and, after work.
ing fer some time as a clerk in a book
store. went on the stage with Frank
Rivers company, an organization which
included Joseph Wheslock vnd Mrs. Nc
or &c