The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-05
ABOUT PLAYS AND PLAYERS.

May Irwin has been 80 successful
with Kate Kip" that she will use it
next season. 1t is the first of her plays
that has lasted more than one year.
All Paris theatres, except the new
opera Comique, are full of fleas accord
ing to Francisque Carcey, the dramatic
critic, who ought to know. He suggests
that managers drive sheep into the
auditorium before the performances tc
attract the pests, a method that is said
TO nave some success in Spanish hotels
Lawrence Irving is said to be imita-
tive of his father, Sir Henry, in playing
the chief part in THE Crystal Globe. -
a new London melodrama Of the howl
ing type. The character is a mesmerist.
SO demonstratiyely weird and figuring
IN scenes so very sensational that re-
viewers poke fun at it. However. The
younger Irving is described as a clever
actor
At a recent performance of "Romeo
and Juliet in New York, Nine. Eames.
owing to the carelessness of the scene
setter, came very near being seriously
injured, 1t was during the balcony scene
and everything was going on delight
ruby Nine. Eames had never looked a
iloVeller juliet or sung more charming
W M. de Reszke had never been a
handsomer or more manly Romeo. And
Wnen ne appealed to Juliet, she leaned
over and lmpulsively made a movement
as tnough TO come nearer to him. when
the balcony rail gave way, and the
daughter OF the Capulets and part of
her ancestral hall came near being pre-
Gipltated into the arms of the waiting
romeo M. de Reszke was quite canal
to the occasion. He ceased his love
making, grabbed the balcony and forced
IL BACK into place, saving Nine. flames
from rail- to the stage. 1t was all over
In moment, and as Juliet drew hacls
with a start and exclamation. she and
Romeo resumed the score, and the scene
went on to its close.
Hoyt's new play, "a Dog in tba
Manager" which, by the way. is coming
here next week, has had it's first public
presentation, and may be considered
success. The scene is laid at a. sum
mer hotel, and the heroine Is a Young
widow of patent medicine proprietor.
who is to forfeit all her former hus-
bands fortune If she marries again.
How she finally gets n new spouse and
yet keeps her inheritance, forms the
motive of the play, which is the near
est thing to legitimate comedy Hoyt
has done since "a Texas steer"
Deaths shining marks in the pro-
fession were Adolphe D'Ennely, the
author of 1.-THE Two Orphans in Paris
aged 81, and William Davidge, the well
known character comedian.
William Gillette has nearly complet-
ed his dramatization of the Sherlock
Holmes stories, and the play probably
will be produced in The autumn. Mr.
Gillette is said to have devised new
characteristics for the astute Holmes.
beside introducing a 1--we interest lack
ing in the stories
Julia Marlowe is about Co produce a
new play. "Colinette,' adapted from
the French by Henry Guy Carleton.
George Richards and Eugene Can
field filed a petition in bankruptcy last
week, placing their liabilities at $685.,
while their assets consisted of four SIS
lots In New Jersey and life insurance
policies of $4,000.
Smith and DeKoven's newest opera.
THE Three Dragons" has been pro-
duced in New York. The old story,
Clever enough, but not equal to Robin