The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-03-19

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OF London" II records conversation
and thus helps In the development. of the
plot.
| Meiba is engaged by Grau for the London
| operate season.
| II Is understood that John Dew will
produce at least three PLAYS next season.
| Old Dan Rice is in England writing cir
Gus stories for a well known magazine.
Now comes the statement that Richard
Mansfield Is absorbed in making an oper-
attic version of Cyrano.
Sarah Bernhardt win also try Romeo IL
| the public likes her Hamlet. She will az
least try the latter in her coming Amer
lean tour.
,The Dagger aud the Cross" one OF
Joseph Hatton's recent novels, is being
dramatised for Robert Martell for pro-
duction this year.
! IN .'As You Like 1t" julia Arthur adorns
| Rosalind with blonde hair. which is said
| 70 set of her own dark beauty in a re-
markable manner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall have accepted
| new plsy,"Th Poverty OF Riches" by Err
nest Hendric and Metcalfe Wood, which
| they may present next season.
| NJ Rostand need not concern himself
playwright so long as the royalties from
| "Cyrano de Bergerac" continue TO ay-
erage $1,000 per week
| The New York Journal computes that
| the theatcr- goers of the United States
have spent S2o,o00.0oU on amusements this
season. and that the sum Will reach $2J,-
100000 before the season is ended.
| Again has Miss Dressler slipped on the
stage, fallen and injured herself One of
he ivaNo ina N
understudy had to be procured for Miss
Dressler's part This young lady has a
knack for breaking parts of her anatomy.
The dramatic gentleman on one oil tue
Texas papers. after felicitating the other
members OF the Susie ker~in Opera COM
pa1y. speaks thus glowingiy of e. A.
Clark MIR. Clark appeared in the tiflo
role. and to say he executed his part ex-
presses ii mildly
some New York Views.
New York, March 15.-"In Gay Paree,'
which was to have been produced at the
Casino Monday night has been postponed
until next week. The piece was tried in
New Haven last Saturday, and made a
first rate impression on the townspeople,
but Manager Lederer thought 1t should
have more rehearsals. hence the postpone
nent Several newspaper men, and yours
truly saw the performance. The hits we're
made by May Ten Brock In songs and
john Z. Henshaw, who was seen as a de-
ceptive young Partisan.
The fight of the "Musketeers" is on,
but up TO date there are no casualties to
report. The Sidney Grumpy version OF
The Three Guardsmen" was made known
at the Broadway theater Monday night. and
James ONeili is up to Sothern. In Lon
don the more or less acrimonious debate
over the Hamilton and the Grundy versions
OF this play attracted wide attention, and
filled two theaters at every performance.
The seat Of war is now centered in New
York, with a fair prospect that the same
tactics used in the English metropolis
will be employed here. The Leebler COM
pany have literally burned money in their
production of this musty and moth eaten
old play, and have secured a notable cast.
OF course every one knows that James
o'Neill is an accomplished actor and 1t
goes without saying that he gives hne
impersonation Of the staggering D'Artag-
nan. Excellent work is also done by
Blanche Bates as Mladi; Judith Rerodc
as Anne OF Austria; Margaret Anglln as
Constance and Wilton Lackaye as Athos
The cast also Includes Adelaide Mould, the
young daughter OF Marion Manola; Ed
| mund Collier, s. Miller Kent jacques
Kruger, Francis Carlyle and Hallet
Thompson.
Mrs. Fisk has made change OF bill at
the Fifth Avenue. and this week is APP
pearing In Love Finds a Way" aud "a
Bit of Old Chelsea in which she was so
successful here last season. No single
/ play in Mrs. Fiske's repertory so notably
| illustrates her genius as does this artistic
and entertaining double bill. The little
gypsy is drawing large audiences ana re-
| serves 10, for she is credit to the Ameri-
can stage, both AS an actress aud az wo-
man.
Chauncey Olcott is in the last two weeks
of his remarkably successful engagement at
the Fourteenth Street thester where he
gives the final performance of "a Romance
| of Athione' Saturday evening. March %.
Report for Duty" which follows 0lcott
| is war play, which OF course includes "A
battle scene. This scene Is said to be made
| realistic by means of electricity. Shells
are thrown, trees dismantled. houses de-
molishead and a signal tower destroyed
while the roar of cannon and musketry Is
| heard.
! The rather sbillful advance advertising
Of the naughtiness OF That Man. now on
| at the Biiou theater, has not been made
good. THAT Man will be followed on
Easter Monday by The Purple Lady" a
comedy, or something or other. by Sydney
| Resented Maude Harrison will be the
lady. assisted by Bijou Fernandez and
others more or less known to fame.
| r. ID. MacLean. Odette Tyler and Charles
B. Hanford begin a three weeks engage
nent at the Herald Square theater April
! 3, opening in "othello," with Mr.. MacLean
in the title part, Miss Tyler as Desdamona
| and MIR. Hanford as Ia2o. Later they VIII
| present Julius Caesar" Romeo and
| Juliet" and The Merchant of Venice "
| The continued attractions are cat the
| White Horse Tavern, at Wallack's; lie
Fiji" at the Manhattan: by the Sad Sea
Waves" at the Herald Square; THE Last
Chapter al the Garden Because She
| Loved Him So" at the Madison Square
| Her Atenement" at the Academy, "zaza"
at be Garrick Lord and Lady Algy." at
| the Empire; "A Reign OF Error" at the
Victoria; THE Great Ruby" at Daly's and
| sotbern in THE Kings Musketeer' at the
| Knickerbocke7.
! George Lederer and his shipload OF
| British beauties arrived from London
| last Saturday. They are likely lot aud
| will be seen for the first time here at the
New York formerly the Olympia, on
April 5.
! r. A. Barnet was in town last week and
| il is rumored that his extravaganza
Prince Pro Tenn which ran for many
months in Boston several wears ago will