The times., 1899-06-11
BRIEFLY TOLD


Sam Mckee is very Ill with appendicitis
He will hardly recover.
Francis Wilson'S ''Erminie'' is doing
| great business in Boston.
Mr.. and Mrs. Giles Shine are in the city
visiting numerous relatives.
Lew Morrison soon opens in Frisco with
a great production OF Hamlet
J. E. Dodson will be featured in "Be-
cause She Loved Him So hereafter.
sousa's Band drew the largest house in
the history of Her Majesty's Theatre at
| Montreal.
Marie Jansen and Camille D'ArvilIe are
rivals for public applause in Chicago
| vaudeville.
The King of the Opium Ring" will be
seen in London. Now we are getting even
for Humanity"
Ed Heron and Claude GiIiingwater are
together again in vaudeville sketch, "A
Friend of the Family
THE Dramatic News copied the criti-
| cism OF THE Dancing Giri'' from The
| Evening Times last week
Eiinor Falk is reported engaged to
James Herman. formerly one OF the ele-
plants in Dfxey's "Adonis.''
Edward E. Rice has secured backing ts,
the amount Of $4,000 for bis production
OF Little Red Riding HOOD"
odell Williams viii be starred next sea-
son in new pastoral play. lie was CO.
star with Phoebe Davies this year
George Ober sna George Boalfare. r..
| viii be jointly featured tn J. J. Roseu-
thaIs new piece. Dear Old Charley
The Clubs Baby has pleased Chicago.
and viii enjoy a summer run II b
silly sort % farce. and has an excellent
company.
Joseph Arthur Won 500 prize for thu
best advertising rhyme Tor prepared food
Il must have beea better than The salt
% the Earth
The Waite Opera Company Is operating
In RaitimoFc VITA good success. Their
production of the old-tirns operas Is said
TO BE- excellent.
James Dslcher upoa whom Why Jake
Rosenthal unloaded "Br0~n's in Town.
viii lake the piece through the West.
Opening 10 August.
Katherine Grey will not be with Richard
Mansfield next season. from present plans
There are few better leading women work
ing today than Miss Grey.
W p Carlton. son Of W. T. Carlton. has
married Toby Claude. daughter OF Angelina
Claude. Al are members OF the London
Bell OF New York" company.
Frank PerIey IS engaging peopIe for Al
ice Neilsen's new opera The majority OF
the excellent artists seen in The Fortune
Teller will be with Miss Nielsen
Thomas Mcclure will be seen next sea-
son in Dan Collyers part in The Village
Postmaster Tom will have to hustle TO
make good" where Dan was seen
The Liebler Company has engaged Frank
Worthing to play David Brandon and Nine
Cottrelly to impersonate Mrs. Belcovitch
In Israel zangwills Children of the
Ghetto
Mansfield caught his valet right hook
on the jaw the other evening because he
could not find his Cyrano nose. The valet
wanted his master arrested, but couldn't
secure warrant.
Louis James is studying in Long Branch
for the coming season. Mr.. Hanford will
stay in Washington, and Miss Kidder will
spend a portion of her time with her
mother, in Evanston. III.
The Singing Girl is Alice Nielsen's
new opera, with words by Stanislaus
STANCE and music by Victor Herbert Harry
Smith will compose the lyrics with the aid
of his rhyming dictionary.
Mrs Robert Downing eEugenie BlairJ
has returned to the city after successful
season in "A Lady of Quality" and is
resting preparatory to her European trip
Mr.. Downing will also go abroad
Tda Orme, an unsuccessful actress. at
tackled Marcus Mayer with dog whip as
the latter was taking a steamer for Eu-
rope He was not injured to any extent
Professional troubles caused the row.
Charles Dickson and Katherine oster-
man are entering vaudeville with a good
new sketch. Lillian Burkhart. who in pri-
vate life is Mrs. Dickson. is also playing
in New York after 4 profitable season in
other cities
When Sam Bernard announced to the
audience at the performance Of The Man
in the Moon" that Baby Clark had been
found at last. there followed demonstra-
tion which lasted for ten minues. the ac-
tors and actresses joining in the uproar-
William Faversham and James X. Hack
ett will go abroad upon the completion Of
their engagement in Romeo and Juliet"
while Miss Adams will raise chickens and
celery on her little farm on Long Island.
Which will be the better rested for next
season.
Josie Dewitt has aroused the New York
finds his only objection in the fact that
the ''ehappies" in the first row are favor
ties of the versatile Washingtonian- She
was last seen here with Beside the Sad
Sea Waves"
Edgar Davenport. last seen here in THE
Last Chapter will be Horatio Drake in
Viola Aliens THE Christian" Company
next season. Harold Russell last seen with
Stuart Robson, will be Lord Robert Bre.
Miss Aliens share of this season receipts
will be close to $4,000.
A. L. Wilbur. who breaks off cheap opera
on the people of the Ohio, Pennsylvania.
and Indiana towns. has bought a theatre
in Toledo for S56, 200. which proves that TIE
t. t. t" business is pretty profitable
The house will be the thirteenth under the
management of E D. Stair
Mary Marble. when tied up here in the
blizzard last February. decided to retire
from the stage. Now she has decided to
star again under the management OF Dunno
6. Riley. Miss Marble is one of the most
clever soubrettes in the profession. and her
retirement would be a real loss.
Fred Berger and family will spend the
summer with Sol Smith Russell and his
family at Edgartown, Mass. The two made
a snug fortune the past season, despite the
fact that their first play was far from a
success. The Hon. John Grigsby' will
likely be Mr.. RusseIl's chief reliance next
year.
The FrawIeys will have as opposition in
Milwaukee the Tannhauser-H Hatch Stock
Company, which puts on such plays as
Alexander SaIvini's The Three Musket-
eers' ''Aristocracy," etc Many summer