The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-23

After a run OF thirty-three weeks
Sherlock Holmes closed its season at
the Garrick theater, New York, last
night. Next season Mr.. Gillette's COM
pany will be much changed, Bruce Nc
Rea and Miss Katherine Florence, who
have had leading parts, both leaving the
organization. Ethel Kni=ht Mollison
will succeed Miss Florence.
Ben Teal, stage director for some Of
the Klaw & Erlanger attractions, has
engaged 100 chorus girls for Foxy
CUTLER" so for THE Roger Brothers
in Central Park and 90 for the new
McNally farce with the August family!
And yet the employment agencies can't
find any kind of girls at all, black, yell
low or white for more than about one
in five of housekeeping employers
Sol Smith Russell is regaining his
health and will return to the stage, but
he is planning for a season limited to
twenty weeks. He will begin in Wash
ington late in October, presenting
dramatization Of novel of which the
title is withheld 1t is said Martha
Richard Mansfield continues to ac-
quire plays. The newest one he is said
to have secured is by Harriet Ford and
Beatrice De Mile, authors of 1.-The
Greatest Thing in the World" Mrs. De
Mile is the widow of the late Mr. Henry
c. De Mile, who collaborated with
David Belasco in many plays.
James K. Hackett and his wife, Mary
woods region near Quebec and will re-
main there until the middle of August
Following the close of the formers sea-
son in THE Pride of JennicO" at the
Criterion theater. New York, comes the
announcement that Mr.. Hackett will
depend solely upon the play next year
Richard Carvel," in which he was to
have appeared, will be produced under
Daniel Frohmans direction, but with
some other player in the title role
Besides THE Greatest Thing in the
World Mrs. Lemoyne has been sup
piled with two other plays for next sea
play the Queen. and "Pippa Passes .
the latter an episode play with
both prologue and epilogue- Pip
pa is a factory girl and she furnishes
the only link between the different cpl
sodes passing through them at critical
moments Of her life. 1t is probable that
Wilton Lackaye will support the actress
| in one or more of the plays, though he
| is announced to star as Jean Vatican IN
1 a dramatization of Les Miserables-
Alfred Klein has been engaged for
/ The House That Jack Built"
William F'aversham is not to appear
| as a star until season after next.
Lottie ellison has been engaged to
support J. K. Emmett in The Outpost %
| a new play to be put on next season. II
! deals with the Boer war.
THE Isle of Champagne" is to be re-
vived in London, with Arthur Roberts
| in Thomas @. Seabrooke's original role.
THE County Fair is to be revived
with Neil Burgess in his original role
/ of Abigail Prue.
Helen Bertram is to be seen in the IL
tie role in the production of Little
| Faust which is to be made in Boston
in July. The piece is a travesty on the
opera.
Madeline Miranda. the wife of Eddie
! Foy. the comedian. has dramatized, with
| the aid of her husband an Italian must
| cal farce, in which Foy is to appear. II
| will be known as "A Night in Town
jefferson De Angels will go a-star-
| ring next season in a musical comedy
! the book Of which is from Charles
| Klein's pen. The composer OF the score
| is not yet announced. Jessie Mackaye
! viii have the Soubrette part in the pro-
duction and will be featured"