The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-12
Theatrical Notes.

Ada Rehan has played go roles.
Charles Frohman has been i'll in Lon
don
Andrew Mack is to appear in a new Irish
piece next season entitled THE Rebels"
David Belasco slipped. and fell in Lon
injury.
Marie Wainwright announces that next
season she will play Hamlet in vaude-
When E. H. sothern plays Hamlet
Ophelia and E. J. Morgan the King.
Della Stacey has a summer enga cement
in Chicago She is to play a boy in a new
The Jeannet Glider "Quo Vadis'' has re-
tired and left the field to the STANCE YER
It is said that the representation of Ro-
stands '.L'Aglon' will not be permitted
in Austria
Ada Rehan will close her season in De-
troit May 49, She has made no an
nouncement Of her plans for next season.
Flo Irwin. a sister of May. will star next
season in play entitled Miss kidder-''
written for her by Glen McDonough. Wal
ter Hawley will be leading man.
Mrs. Sarah CoWen LIE Moyne is booked
for her first New York appearance as
star october Z, for a five weeks engage
World
Should present negotiations reach a sue
Gesstnl END Ellta Proctor Gus VIII star ,
IN Australia next season, assuming the
role of Zaza, under the direction of
| David BelaScO.
Preparations for next season are al
ready under way. A printing house in
| New York has orders in connection with
| twenty-five new shows, eighteen of which
are melodramas.
The latest report regarding Viola Allen
| ner. but will spend her vacation at her
| Long Island home
/ ''LAiglOn'' according to report is not
| drawing well as expected in Paris, al
/ though it is paying expenses, and prom
! ises to be a successful venture for Sarah
| The American Beauty's'' reception in
| London has been rather cold by the press.
has received the greatest praise, but the
| other principals are well liked. The play
/ has been partially rewritten since the
| first presentation
! Grace George is to be given another op-
| portunity to star next season by her hus-
| band. William A Brady. Mr.. Brady has
| secured the four-act romantic comedy,
| Her Majesty. and will probably put it
out for a week OF night stands before
the season closes
At the conclusion of the coming Wash
| ington engagement Of Francis Wilson,
| Lulu Chaser will quit the company for
| good, and a new soubrette will work with
the well known comedian next season
| Miss Chaser has been with Mr.. Wilson
since 1892, when she graduated from the
chorus into the leading role. 1t is re-
ported in New York that Miss CHASER will
head a. company of her own
It is announced that Clarence NJ. Bruno
has secured from Melbourne Mcdowell
all the late Fanny DaYenports produc-
lions Of Sardous plays viz: Cleopatra, .
Ia TOSca,' Fedora and ''C1iSmOnda,
| and he will exploit them next season with
Mr. MacDoweil in the characters he has
been identified with for many years. Mr.
Bruno has also procured from Mr. Mac
DoWell .'TheodOra,' which has been done
in America only by Bernhard and Lillian
OlcOtt.
Leibler & Co. deny the report that they
will bring Mrs. Patrick Campbell to this
country next season. A rumor that Ed
gar L. Davenport would star under theiI
management is also denied; This theat-
/ rical firm. which seems to have seriously
invaded the field, will next year continue
! to direct Viola Allen and will have among
its other attractions a production of The
! Choir Invisible" James O. Neill in re-
vival of Monte Cristo." Mrs LIE Moynt
! in The Greatest Thing in the World {
new play by Joseph Arthur called LOS
River James A. Herne. in Sag Harbor.
, | a decentralization of the Van Bibber'' stor.
| les and a dramatization of The Adven
/ lures of Francois.