The times., 1899-08-06
BRIEFLY TOLD.

| Rose Coghlan has filed petition IN
| bankruptcy.
Alfred Klein is to be seen in The Girl
| From Maxim's."
Jessie Bartlett Davis will not appear
with the Bostonians this year.
Frederic Warde will revive Henry Guy
Carleton's '"The Lions Mouth"
| H. Beerbohm Tree is to enact the title
role in The Count of Monte Cristc.'
Nine. Patti is still farewelling and may
be heard shortly in the United States.
Alberta Gallatin is going into vaudeville.
And Washington had thought SO we'll of
hert
The coming season threatens to be not
| without infictions. Katherine Germaine
is to star.
Frank Tannehill, sr., we'll remembered
by palmy day theatregoers, is dying in
New York.
Paderewsky is to tour this country next
winter Which accounts for the widely cir
culated fairy tale concerning his marriage.
Margaret Anglin, the original Roxane in
Richard Mansheld's production of "Cyrano
de Bergerac' is to be seen in The Only
Way"
Israel ZangwilI has reached New York
and will be in Washington fo9 the first
production of his Children Of the Ghetto"
another opportunity of testing her divinity
during the season Of 190o-'01. She Will
include Hamlet" in her repertoire.
John L. Sullivan, actor pugilist, has pur
chased saloon in Gotham from which he
will henceforth distribute punches and
less belligerent liquors to all comers.
Ada Lewis, the celebrated tough girl
of Edward Harrigan May Irwin Rogers
Brothers fame, has been married to John
Parr. the handsome tenor of "A Reign of
Error
Willie Edouin, who has been connected
with the ill-fated Great Caesar is to
follow De Wolf Hopper at the Lyric The
atre in Owen Hall and Leslie Stuart's
''Floradora-"
Besides 'The Sunken Bell" which is
about to be put in rehearsal. e. H. Soth-
ern's next-season repertoire is to include
Leo Dietrichsteins "All's Fair in Love
and War" which has been tried in Provi-
dence.
Now the public has been informed that
Browns In Town" for the coming sea-
son there can be no difficulty in finding
why Smith Left Home Which state
ment makes up in significance what it
lacks in wit.
At the conclusion of their English run
in ''The Ghetto some months hence Mrs.
James Brown Potter and Kyrle Bellew are
TO revive The Queens Necklace which
they did few years ago at Daly's Theatre
in New York.
The company which is to present 'The
| Tyranny of Tears at the Empire Theatre
and on the road will consist of John Drew,
Isabel Irving, Ida Conquest, Arthur Byron,
Harry Harwood, and Frank e. Lamb. Not
quite as good as the London organization
but almost!
David Belasco has secured the right to
translate a new drama by N. Berton, the
author of "Zaza" Mrs Leslie Carter will
stage the piece here before it is done in
Paris, and Washington is TO have the prem
iere, as it has always had with Mr.. Be-
lasco's works
Artistic Annie Russell is anything but
well and may be obliged to postpone the
beginning of her coming tour Miss Rus
sells Illness prevented her acting this
summer in London, and now there is a
strong probability that Americans will be
similarly deprived.
The James -Kidder- -Hanford triumvirate
announces its intention of staging a re-
viyal of "A Winters Tale next October.
in which il makes a grave mistake. 4
production with suggestive title Of that
sort should be a money-winner at this
period OF the year.
"The Criterion" for July Is contained a
story by A. r. Mulkins, a sister of Kath-
crime Mulkins, who was last seen here in
"A Misft Marriage" The tale was en-
titled THE Masqueraders, and was one
of the cleyerest bits of its sort ever Pub
lished in that form.
Edward Morgan, the first John Storm in
THE Christian will be seen as Charles
Darnay in Henry Miller's production Of
| The Only Way" Mr.. Morgan has been
very i'll, but is recovering and should be
quite ready for the harness by the begin
ming of Mr.. Miller's season.
Dunn & Riley have purchased ''The Lit
tie Host" The only reason that can be
assigned for the act is supplied by the as
sumption that neither member of the firm
can think of any other method of getting
rid OF the money both made last season
on by the Sad Sea Waves"
The Actors Church Alliance Association
is said to have elected Bishop Potter to
membership engaged the services of two
newspaper men, secured a fair amount of
space IN each of the New York weeklies,
and to be otherwise progressing finely
in the direction of its purpose.
Nat c. Goodwins season at the Duke of
Yorks Theatre. London, has closed tenn
| porarily, but will be resumed on Septem-
Der TO continue until October ii. Neces-
sary repairs to Mr.. Frohman's house and
Mr.. Goodwin's constitution are the rea-
sons assigned for the intermission.
Dorothy Usner, ever on the outlook for
| advertising, has contributed to the Peoria
| Journal an account of her visit to London
with why Smith Left Home" If the
stage boasted few more individuals like
Miss Usner professional dramatic writer's
would become drug on the market.
Virginia Earle and James It. Powers
have been engaged by George Lederer for
the coming theatrical year. The team was
probably secured II, compensation for the
loss Of the worid-weary Lillian Russell,
who has left comic opera "for good
probably the good of the cpera-apd joined
the forces of Weber & Fields.
The manager of a Western theatre has
had a track constructed from the nearby
railway depot to his stage door in order
that the scenery of combinations playing
at his house may be loaded and unIoaded
without trouble In advertising for book
ings this director might make suitable
cateh-l of the old proverb Easy come
easy co.
Mary Mannering is to be seen shortly
in Henry Arthur Jones ''The Maneuyres
of Jane which has been running at the
London Haymarket. Miss Mannering
| should be a substitute OF no mean merit
for Winifred Emery. but it will be a diff
cult task for Daniel Frohman to and a
| second Cyril Maude for the opposite role
| in the comedy.
.'Biff" Hall uses the columns OF the
Mirror for telling that 'the young man
who plays Aramis in Manager Hopkins
production of The Three Musketeers' lad
great trouble in sticking to his mustache
one hot night last week. After the thirs,
had swan around his face during two acts