The times., 1899-02-19
BRIEFLY TOLD.

Edward Harrigan has gone into vaude-
VILE.
Thomas E. Shea viii be seen here next
week.
Chicot. The Telegraph" critic, was in
Washington recently.
Otis Harlan will open the Garriek Thea
tire next season in My Innocent Boy
Robert Taber. the husband of Julia Mar
lowe. is very i'll in London hospital.
A No. Turtle" Company is to be sent
on the road. And still the good work goes
on.
Willard Holcomb the local critic and
playwright. is confined to his home with
the grip.
Il is rumored that Rudyard Kipling has
been engaged to write play for H. Beer
bohm Tree.
Alice Atherton. the clever actress who
made The Laughing Song" famous, died
some days ago in New York.
Maude Adams is said to have taken
si3GeO away from Washington. Mark the
lis said" part Of the sentence.
Fritz in a Madhouse' is being rewritten
and viii be sent en- tour shortly with J. X.
Emmett and Lottie ellison as its stars.
Sam T Jack is to build new temple of
art and anatomy in Chicago Evidently
there is still money in leg shows" what
ever else has failed
Charles Hoyt has been sent to st. Angus
tine Fla. in the hope that the salubTious
climate there will do him some good Mr..
Hoyt is really in very bad Way.
There will be two My Friend From In
dia' companies on the road next season.
Apparently Smyth d Rice have found that
"a friend in need is a friend indeed.
Henry Miller is to produce The Liars"
in the West. Mr.. Miller is capital actor
and his rendering OF Henry Arthur Jones
drama will undoubtedly be a notable one
A second Castle Square Opera Company
is being organized by Henry ". Savage
for the StudebaEer Theatre in Chicago.
The combination will begin its season there
on April ,.
Thomas E. Luce has written a comedy
which will be produced next year with
Maggie Cline and Kittie Mitchell in the
cast. Maggie Cline and Kittie Mitchell
think Of it,
Mile Pillar NORM. most famous for her
work in Orange Blossoms" but remem-
bered here for her Characterization Of the
dancer in That Man" is going to star
next season.
Augustin DAILY has bought the rights TO
a new Chinese play, entitled San Toy.
The piece is by Edward Morton, and both
May Buckley and Marie Tempest will be
seen in the production.
Nat-Mr y. Goodwin will produce
Clyde Fitchs The Cowboy and the Lady
shortly with Burr Mcintosh in his sup
port. If successful the play will be held
over for use next season.
David Belasco has stopped work on the
drama which he was writing for Mrs.
Leslie Carter, the success of ''Zaza'' max
ing il improbable that the vehicle will be
wanted for some time to come.
The New York critics are finding oppor-
tunities for distorting the name of Mile.
Fif' into the words ''fe fie." that argue
well as proof that mental telepathy ex-
lists, or for Florenz Ziegfeld's press agent.
The Danish Sisters made hit with An
drew Macks song, THE Princess of AiuI-
berry Bend last week at the Bijou. Tn,
ballad is pretty and the girls are clever
so that the success OF neither was surpris-
ing.
Helen Bertram the comic opera prima
donna, and widow Of E. J. Henley. is neGO-
tiating with D'Oyley Carte with a view to
assuming the principal role in the English
production of Sir Arthur Sullivan,s newest
work.
Fanny Ward is in London. and is about
10 take her own show on the road She
promises 10 wear $500, 600 worth OF dia-
mOnds and few other things in one act OF
her vehicle, and will be likely to create a
sensation.
Ellen Terry is going it alone" through
the English provinces while Sir Henry
Irving is i'll. Her repertoire consists OF
''Othello." The Merchant OF Venice, .
The Lady of Lyons OLIVIA, plot and
Passion" and Madame Sans Gene"
4 new device. called the cinemetophone
has been brought to this country and Of
fered for sale to George Lederer. The con
irivance is the invention of N. Tayey, who
was responsible for the cinematograph anC
combines the essentials OF the biograp,
and the phonograph.
Some time ago Nine. Vavanti Chartres
euthorsss of That Man" secured an in
junction preventing Manageress Paine
from producing the effort while IL remain
ed in the form to which that enterprisini
lady had changed it. The matter wa.
fought in the courts and finally the injunc
tion was allowed to stand as II had been
Then Mrs. Palmer sued Mime. Chartres fo