Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-20

this entire week, beginning with a matinee
performance today. The version employed
is called THE Musketeers." 1t Is said to
combine the chief excellences Of several
other adaptations. The young Gascon cava-
lier, whose amours and daredevil adven-
lures constitute the main thread OF the story,
will be impersonated by Mr.. Willis Granger,
Miss Remark will play Milady, the veno-
nous woman spy, whose plottings with Car
dinal Richelieu furnish the requisite villainy
of the piece. Mr.. Enos is to be the cardinal,
MIR. Beresford the king and Miss Berkeley
the queen. MIR. Hatch of the Trocadero
company will be the Athos and the parts of
Porthos and Aramis have been committed to
Messrs. Fulton and Lothian respectively. Mr..
Will Davis has been re-engaged for the low
comedy role of Bonacieux, Mr.. Hal Davis
will be the Buckingham, Mr.. Greene the
Rochefort and Miss Dunn the Constance.
Plays and Players.
Maude Adams is to play Peg Wellington
next.
Camille D'Arvilre is to star in a new
opera.
Harry Gilfoil is to appear for six weeks
at the London Palace.
Stuart Robson has been fifty years In &C
tive service on the stage.
May Irwin has a new play from Glen NC
Donough called "Sister Mary"
1t is stated that 5000 women are en-
ployed on the stage in this country.
Fay Templeton will be with the New
York Theater company next season.
Maxine Elliott is Nat Goodwin's wife. and
a fun partner in his business affairs.
William West began his twenty-eighth
minstrel season last week at Utica, N. Y.
Mary Anderson Navarro is 40 years old.
She was born in Sacramento in July, 1853.
Cigsu Ioft,,s hoe writtop tho r1uair for
all the songs for May Twins new comedy.
Conan Doyle's first play, Halves has
failed promptly and positively at the Lon
don Garrick.
Sarah Bernhard has. besides NJ. Ros-
tand's "Eaglet," a new play by Sardou, en-
titled 1.-THE Witch"
Mrs. Kendall recently celebrated the
thirty-fourth anniversary Of her first ap-
pearance on the stage.
William H. Post has succeeded Alfred
Klein as Pozzo in De Wolf Hopper's London
production of eel Captain"
Rose Melville will begin her starring tour
In isis Hopkins, A Wise Child" at the
Star theatre, Buffalo, on September IL.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Mansfield (Beatrice
Cameron) invited a few friends to be pres
ent at their cottage, New London, Conn,
last Thursday, when occurred the christen-
ing of their only son, who received the
name Of George Gibbs Mansfield.
Captain Dreyfus is to be the hero Of an
opera called The New Martyr" written by
Giovanni Vaccari and composed by Afro
Buia. The work was to have been sung
in Padua, but at the last moment the au-
thorities interfered and prohibited it on po-
liticSl grounds.
Lewis Morrison has reached New York to
make arrangements to take a company or
| players to Japan. 1t is Mr.. Morrison's in
tention to leave here in May with a COM
pany of twenty-five people, scenery, etc,
and play a year in Japan. From there the
company will go to Australia.
The play "a Temperance Town was sug-
gested to Charles H. Hoyt by the imprlson-
ment of a rumseller at Hanover, N. H. Mr..
Hoyt deemed the prosecution persecution,
and his piece was a fierce. though mainly
humorous attack on the prohibitionists. 1t
is now to be performed at Hanover for the
first time, with scenery taken there for the
purpose, and a carload of stu
dents will make an excursion.