The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-02

production. Miss Hathaway was selected for
Mrs. Falconer because her art and person.
ality seemed best fitted to realize this role.
James a. Herne Will this season stand spon-
scr for three plays. having repurchascd
Shore Acres from the Miner estate and
again sending out Hearts OF Oak Mr..
Herne IS now directing rehearsais of these
companies but Will appear himself in his
latest success Sag Harhor' under the
management OF Liebler & Co Sag ilar-
Dor is scheduled to open Hammersteins new
Way New Yrk, early In September.
~
| The Greenwall Theatrical Circuit company
started the season at the American theater in
New York yesterday, with its newly organ
/ lied stock company In "The Great Ruby
/ The list OF the company includes Ralph
stuart. Mary Hampton, T. l.. Snader, Isabelle
Eyess0n. Charlotte Lambert, George Wclles,
| Anna Buckley. Helaino Hadley Josephine
Underwood. May Dehl Dorothy stewart.
Charlotte Ashton Herman sheldon, Dolores
Lettani, Laura Rose, Bernardetta Ashton,
! Frank Z. Camp, Thomas j. Keogh, Frank
Lindon, Emil Collins, Victor NJ. DC silkc,
John Germon. d. S. Doane, L. T.. Wharton,
Wharton. Frank cakes Rose viii be the
stage director and Theo. Bendix- musical
director During the season popular plays
| viii be presented In rapid succession with
new and handsome scenery and accessories.
~
/ blanche walsh's new play by Eugene w.
Presbrey in which she will star the coming
season. will be called "Marcelle" Plans
for her debut have been somewhat changed.
! Her FIRST appearance was to have been made
In Philadelphia September "a, going from
there to Montreal October J. She will now
open in Montreal and follow Ben Hur' at
the Broadway theater In New York. October
| g. when the Wallace drama will so TO the
| Chestnut Street opera house In Philadelphia
for brief run
with a very strong love interest. The
| scenes are laid in France and Quebec iu
tho years from 1869 to li6Q. This production
| will attract special attention because Of Its
| variety OF incidental It's rapidly OF action,
its strongly cOntrasted characters ana mag
nihcence Of scenery, Miss Walsh VIII play
I tho role Of Marcelle de Varney, n Huguenot.
| Hobart BoswOrth was engaged rs her leading
/ man Because Of Illness he has been forced
| 10 resign and the character for which he
was cast, Robert Hardy. an English captain,
will be played by Ernest Hastings. Other
parts in the play and artists who viii Inter
| pref them are.
Cheyalior dc Brssac. secret agent OF Ia
w Pompsdour . , P Rigpgr
Manon. an old Gipsey fortune teller.
i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Miss X. Powers
cheyalisr de Bertrand, yogng flower
OK tho court .,,...,......., NnnTics arthur
Marduiso de bertrand, mother of Raoul
aud Marcelle .......... Mrs. n. NJ. stevens
Hector Baudet, the innkeeper. ......,....,
Jeanne Bapdet. his wife. Miss Emily Baker
Francois Bigot, kings intendant ....,.:.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Algernon Tass'n
, Chevaller de Peau, one Of the grand com
pany .'..,...'.....''.' bertram q; Brown
Sergeant Observation-Disclosures. Fred Harr s
Several members OF the company are known
here, chief among them being MIR. Arthur
Elliot, who has played leading parts in
the Sardou plays with Miss Walsh for tho
past two seasons. He appeared here last
!. winter as kephron, in CLEOPATRA and Ma
i rio in LA Tosea"
Frank Mckee will present the August fam
. lily in John j. McNally's new farce for the
l first time in New Haven, Conn, October 20.
They will be seon in Philadelphia, Baltimore
d and Washington before they make their ap-
: pearanco in New York.
Mary Manneriug begins rehearaals or
= Janice Meredith" September 3, She opens
q her season Mt the Star theater in Buffalo
0 September l, and enters q run at wal
= lacks theater in New York December 49,
4 Before her New York apponrgnce she will
q bo seen In Cincinnati, St. Louis Detroit
: Toledo. indianapolis, Columbus Rochester
:, Syracuse. Albany Baltimore, Washington
s While king John" Will be the leading
o feature of Madame Modiesba's coming tour
:. which will open October Is, the Polish ac-
7 tress will be seen In some OF her familiar
: roles, notably as Lady Macbeth, Camille and
Mary Stuart. The king John revival
promises TO be the greatest production in
- which Modjeska has ever figured Sho has
= placed her management In the hands OF
y Wagenhnls Kemper. and the latter have
II prepared elaborate stagings, costumes, music
II and other incidental features for the revival
l. The great scenes OF this wonderful hlstOrl-
n cal tragedy will be all the moro attractive
l. from the fact that they are almost unknown
z TO the American stage. She will he given a
e. splendid company, headed by r.. d, MacI.oan
and odette Tyler.
IT Gertrude CoEhlan, tho only daughter OF the
n late Charles Coghlan begins her starring
p tour September 20 in Saratoga, NJ Y. She
d will be seen as Becky sharp In her fathers
n adaptation OF Vanity Fair" Guy Bates
a :, Post will he tho Rawdou CrGwlcy; cecil
Kingston. the Marquis OF Steyn; Addison Pitt
FL the George osborne Sarah Madden. the
IS Amelia sedley, and Annie Allison the Miss
,r Crawley' The company will number thirty
= four people.
Vt The cast OF George IT. Droadhurts new
n farce, Tho House that Jack Butt" which
: will have It's first production at the Metro
j.. polltau opera house St Paul, September 1d.
n Is now complete II comprises Thomas A.
n Wise. Mrs. Annie YeamRns, Alfred Klein.
- Charles Cherry Fred w Peters, Herbert
Ayling. lIarr son Armstrong, Gilbert Card
= y. Henton Brandon Douglas Anita u ideer
Grace Dudley and Jennie YeRmaus ed, r.
q SalAtE rs now HeneFhl manager OF ell the
. Broadhurst productions.
- Adcline Mann well-known former so
u cety girl OF Mobile Ala. has signed with
= Broadhurst Brothers "The Man from Next
d co" company. Miss Mann Is the daughter ni
I the late Colonel Mann, who built the Mobile
g and Ohio railroad, and was also connected
/, with the building OF many other Southern
y railroads shortly after the war.
q ~
e Mr.. j. J. Coleman is the business manager
+ lot the American theater In New York
< Angela Russell IS this season the leading
= actress In THE village Postmaster" com
i pany.
On October 1 in Lynohburg Va, Charles
u; Hanford starts his tour In Private John
q Allen
i Sarah Truax is In New York She win
I, probably be seen in an important production
= OF one Of the Broadway thoaters.
y Selma Herman. the young emotional ac-
y tIesk, VINO VIII this season he featured In "a
= Young WIFE is native OF Adrian, Mich,
# This season Fanny Rice will egain be seen
Is " me late kosna Vokes repertory Ia which
I sue had SO much success last seasop. Her
/; tour begins In October
u This season Myron b. Rine's comedians
- arc to appear IN 'My Friend fron, India +"
g May Vokos will be featured In the par OF
n the German girl New songs and other
e spccalties Will be introduced.
: : Miss kathryn Kidder who. with Louis