The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-08
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DRAMATIC NOTES.

Yvette Guilbert has been engaged to
sing at the Empire, London, for 10
nights in May, at $500 night
Catherine Campbell. the actress who
was arrested at a st. Louis hotel on a
charge of stealing small articles from
the house, has been discharged because
1t was shown that she was deranged
by mental strain of studying and re-
hearsing role every week, while at the
same time playing another. She has
Teen sent TO a sanitarium. Worcester
people who saw Nine. Sans Gene"
will recall Miss Campbell as Kathryn
Kidder's leading support.
Victory BGteman, another prominent
actress and member of a stock com
pany whose members are compelled to
undergo the same mental strain as that
endured by Miss Campbell, also broke
down mentally a few weeks ago, and
was carried to a Sanitarium, where she
is rapidly recovering. Miss Bateman' S
trouble was found to be due to over
Indulgence in drugs and stimulants, to
enable her to carry on her work. The
experience of these two prominent ac-
tresses has given the opponents of the
growing stock company system a
strong base for their arguments.
The Bostonians' new opera, "Ulys-
SEES" is a dire failure, and in it's law
ish production, they are said to have
sunk Lauch of the money made on THE
Serenade.'
Mrs Leslie Carter and David Belas-
co have scored another hit with "Zaza,"
which Rejare played in Paris. The
first production was given in Washing
ton before a distinguished audience.
Mrs. Carter received six curtain calls
at the end Of the first act, and Belas-
co. the adapter, was called on for a
speech. ''Zaza' tells the story of a
child of the streets who, becoming an
actress. develops the strength and the
will to rise above circumstances and to
sacrifice herself to preserve the sane
tity of the home of the man she loves.
Charles H. Hoyt's new play, "A Dog
in the Manager" will have its initial
production at the Boston Theatre,
March 20. with Joe Coyne and William
Devere in the leading parts. Coyne,
by the way, has been playing the
Stranger in the Pacific slope "Strang-
er in New York" company, and Is pro-
nounced by those have seen all three
to be funnier than either Harry Conor
or Otis Harlan.
Harry Conor will go to Australia in
May, heading a company which is to
present "A Rag Baby" "a Stranger in
New York" "a Day and Night" and
"A Trip to Chinatown" under the di-
rection of Hoyt and Mckee.
New York theatres this week: Da-
Iy's, Nine Sans Gene" Knickerbock-
err, N c. Goodwin; Herald Square, Del
la Fox; Academy Sporting Life" ;
Bijou, May Irwin; Broadway, THE
Sorrows of Satan; Lyceum, "Trelaw-
ney of the Wells"; American, "Lohen-
grim; Fourteenth Street, Chauncey Oh
colt Wallack's, Olga Nethersole; Fifth
Avenue, "A Runaway Girl; Casino
Lillian Russell in La Belle Helene;
Empire, 'Phoso"; Madison Square, ION
and OFF,; Garden "The Christian" ;
Garrick, Mrs Leslie Carter in "Zaza";
Manhattan THE Turtle
Boston theatres this week: Hollis,
John Drew in 1.-The Liars; Park, "A
Dangerous Maid; Boston, THE Old
Homestead" Castle Square, TOO
Much Johnson; Grand Opera House,
New England Opera Company; Tre-
mont. Mrs. Fiske; Museum, Annie Rus
sell in Catherine"