The times., 1899-06-25
BRIEFLY TOLD.


rupt without a single asset.
The Lambs washed their thirst last
week. Wool is now at low rate.
Virginia Earle is forsaking blondine and
her hair is becoming dark again.
"'Robespierre" was duly copyrighted at
the Library OF Congress this week.
Burt Haverly is soon to marry again. He
was one of the very best Welland StroHgs
ever seen.
The Doctors Wife" by Lawrence Hen
ley and Harry Wandell will be produced
next season.
Louie Freear had trouble with Lederer
and quit THE Man in the Moon,' return
ing TO England.
Isador Rush actually held the lines of
runaway team and is now hailed as a hero
inc. Lucky child.
After being fumigated, The Turtle" was
allowed to be presented in that moral San
Francisco theatre.
Lotta, the old-ttme soubrette, recently
sold large apartment house in the me-
tropolis for 100000.
Milton Mobiles will try new sketch, "a
Tailor Made Suit" All hope it will not be
another "Old Coat
shall we Forgive Her will go out
again with Katherin Rober in Marie VAIN
wright's original part.
Ida Conquest and Annie Russell have
been visiting with Frances Hodgson Bur
nett, at Kent, England.
Primrose and Dockstader's Ministries will
do summer engagement at Manhattan
Beach, beginning on July 5.
Harry LeClair, well known as a protean
artist. has been engaged for Gus Hills
over the Fence" Company.
m Arnariran Citfzarsr dad ha
unsuccessful Cowboy and the Lady at
the Duke of York's Theatre.
Other papers are slyly laughing at the
pretensions of Alberta Gallatin and the
Vaccinations OF her press agent
Theodore Hamilton and Minnie Rad
cliffe have had enough of stock work in
Denver and have returned home.
SantenelIi is still listed as playing in
Washington Indemnity. He evidently has
the Mirror" under his influence.
The Brinkley Opera Company is about
bent in Savannah. 1t is only a question
OF few hours until It is broke"
"A Temperance Town will go out again
next year with Richards and Garfield.
This Hoytean satire has made very little
money.
The exodus from New York to London
was never so great as this summer. Each
outgoing steamer carried a lot of pro-
fessIonals.
The Heather Field" sort of an Irish
Ibsen mosaic, was presented in London re-
Gently. II is by Edward Martyr, the Dub
lin prose-poet.
Seymour Hicks, the Englishman who
steals all American actors business, and
so pleases London, is coming over after
new originality.
q t-'''A Hazard of New Fortunes" by Will
liam Dean Howells will be dramatized and
presented next year. It is said to be very
strong play.
II is said Gus Levick, husband of Ada
Levick, recently with the Frawley Com
pany, will play Napoleon in Julia Arthur's
More Than Queen
James Perley, father of Frank Perley,
died recently a. his home in this city. The
mother of Alma Strong also passed away
within the fortnight.
Sir Henry Irving has definitely decided
to come over early in the autumn
'Robespierre'' viii be his chief reliance
opening on November l.
very fair portrait OF Mary Van Buren
appears in last weeks Dramatic News -
She did not do leading business. as stated,
however. save in ''Trilby."
Gertrude Elliott has won the lions share
o. praise in London with Goodwin's COM
pany. Such a result caused trouble in the
family here few years back.
Thurlow Bergen and Clara Beatrice Far
quehr were married at Newton, Mass, re-
Gently. Mr. Bergen will likely be with
Nat Goodwin again next year.
Those interesting dwarfs, the Speck
Brothers. have signed again with Gus Hill
for one OF his organizations. making their
afth year under the same management.
Here is fall indeed Herbert Fortier,
who has been doing good parts with Julia
Arthur, viii be with Darkest Russia"
hereafter. assuming leading male business.
The remains of Johann Strauss. the
waltz king, are now in a receiving vault
In Vienna. They will finally rest in a
grave between those OF Brahms and Schu-
bert.
William Winter is submitting a series
of articles to the Dramatic Mirror
which will be read with exceedingly great
interest by every student of the drama and
stage.
The chorus girls in The Man in the
Noon" refused 70 remove their diamonds
according to order. and several of them
were discharged, the others finally ac-
quiescing.
Londoners are voting on THE smartest
Lady of Today and several OF the Alneri-
can actresses are being voted for. From
viewing the contestants, this honor LOOKS
like irony.
John Leonard will be seen in a rev
farce. THE Jolly Rovers." He will not
have Barney Gilmore with him as foil
and his appearance will be unique without
his partner.
Edwin Ardens new play will be called
'Zorah." II Will soon be presented. It
deals with Jewish life, and will first see
the calcium in Chicago. That is a terri
bic handicap.
Dogwagiac, Mich. will witness the pre-
rnier of Dear Old Charley" Jake Rosen-
thai selected this village, Leander Richard
son says, because OF the significance Of the
first syllable.
The Sporting Duchess" with a cast
headed by Emily Rigl as the adventures
will be an attraction for the popular priced
houses next season. Agnes Proctor will
be the Duchess.
Forbes Robertson says Nine. Bernhard
Is the greatest Hamlet the world mas ever
seen, despite the fact that he himself once
essayed the role Of the melancholy Dane
with great acclaim.
Camille DeAryille has made a genuine
success in vaudeville, and may remain In
shy OF some Of her former opposites she
will be a drawing card.
Giles Shine has decided that life outside
the theatre is not worth much after all
and occupied a box at "Aristocracy'' the
other evening. He Will spend a portion OF
the summer at least in Washington.
The divorce proceedings between Jack
Mason and Marion Manola have been dis
continued, and there is talk of a recon-
ciiiation. The twain parted in this city
while playing vaudeville dates two seasons