The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-03
Gossip of
The Stage

Richard Golden may star next season
in an opera written for him.
Robert Edeson, formerly Maude Adams
leading man, has gone into vaudeville.
Ada Rehan is to tour the English pro-
vinces with her Shakespearean repertoire.
Stuart Robson has. engaged Florence
Rockwell for his production of "Oliver
Goldsmith" early in December.
1t is said that Mrs. Brown-Potter pro
poses to play Cinderella in a serious dra-
matte version of the old fairy tale.
The color question is worrying theatre
cal managers in Washington, particularly
as it takes the form of damage suits.
Marian Longfellow, grand neice of the
poet Longfellow, has gone on the stage in
Boston to play part in Three Little
Lambs. y
Nahan FRANKIE the well known violin
member of Manager Conreid's German
company.
Bernhardt. in Milan, presented her
Hamlet" to a tremendous audience that
walked out of the theatre before the play
was half finished.
Grace George has resigned from the
part, she decided it did not suit her. She
will be seen later in another play. --....
Mrs Langtry has done a very -.shrewd
thing. She designed a rainy day skirt.
had it made up by Worth of khailla CLOTH
and recited, clothed therein, Kipling's war
poem.
Chicago has raised the question of Civ
ing theatres distinctive and appropriate
names. One suggestion is that theatres
be given names significant of the profess
sion and of its best traditions.
Mr.. Clement Scott and Mr. William
Archer, the distinguished English critics,
are having wordy war over the Ameri-
can matinee girl, who, blissfulfy ignoring
both, continues the even tenor of her way
Madeline Lucette Ryley, author of IAN
American Citizen" by birth an English
woman has settled down permanently in
London. Mrs. Ryley, during her stage
days. lived in the country for ten years.
Gertrude Elliott, who has made such a
pronounced hit in London, is living with
Mrs. Ryley, .....1... ,....
The elder Charles Matthews was so life
like in his imitation of the great orator,
John Philpot Curran, that after the lat
ter's, death his widow, who accidentally
overheard the actor repeating his old
trick shrieked with horror at what she
believed to be the well remembered voice
of the departed
An exchange says that Julia Arthar's
declaration that she would ring down the
curtain as quickly in Oshkosh as she
would in New York, if the performance
was disturbed, has raised great hopes in
the latter town. and its citizens will see,
If she comes to Oshkosh, that she is
/ treated with all possible respect
Sir, Henry Irving is a ready and fluent
speaker on all occasions, never. at a loss
for ideas and the aptest words to express
them. All his speeches for public occas-
ions, however, are carefully prepared be-
forehand, in order to guard against
possible fit of nervousness, perhaps, to
which the most experienced actors and
public speakers are subject
Maude odell, who is playing Miladi with
James O'Neill is a very devout Catholic,
and deeply interested in ecclesiastical
architecture, on which question she is
quite an authority. She supervised the
erection of one church in her home, Beau
fort s. G., and has contributed to the in
sertion of a large number of stained glass
windows in churches throughout the
country.
Following are some of the people ana
plays booked to appear al the Worcester
theatre in the near future: Julia Marlowe
kellar. "Yon Yonson," Chauncy Ollcott,
LOUIS MORRISON Joqh Prev "Trip to
toire, Uncle Joshua, "A Hot Old Time"
Way Down. East" christmas week.,
Wilbur Kirwins Opera company at pop
ular prices.
Stuart Robson has with him this year