The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-20

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Berry, former Premier of Victoria, has
joined Nance o.Neifs Company. Miss
EOENeil began a five weeks engagement
at Her 0Iajesty's Theatre, Sydney. April
14tfl. Among the plays she VIII produce
viii be Giacomette's Elizabeth.
Mrs Fisie's season of thirty-four weeks
s inslBeeky Sharp ended in Philadelphia
She played fifteen weeks in New YORK,
ana visited ten other cities. The tour
was enormously successful. the gross
receipts aggrega ting more than S50o,eSo.
Mrs Fiske's next tour wifi begin in
October.
The Passion play is to be performed
this summer. It is acted thrice week
during the summer. as 81 rule on Sundays,
Mondays and Fridays. Oberamn1ergau
is in Bavaria, about two hours south OF
Munich. From Paris the trip takes about
eighteen hours; from Cologne the same
A London dramatic journal says that
..the Duke and Duchess of York have
now an electrophones contamination
between York House, st James Paiace,
and the leading London theatres ana
concert halls, in order that their hoSai
Highnesses may listen to the various
entertainments. including the opera per-
formances at. Covent Garden
From all recent accounts, and nave
met several people who saw it IN Lou
don. the american Beauty" las made
a worse fizzle than had ever been sup
posed there. They speculated upon the
success OF the Belle of New York. and
popularity of Edna May. But London,
like our blessed town, does not stick by
a reisninsr stase-beauty very long. 1t
has now taken up old wrinkIed Mrs.
Leslie Carter, who, in spite of years,
has, for the time being, done up the
24years-old Edna May to death You
would hardly believe that Garter IS the
senior of MoIieska, but the latter started
as a child, while Carter went on the stage
as matured married woman, and IS
now the mother OF a man of twenty-SiN-
the one whom David Belasco referred
TO on the first night of "Zaza" as her
dear little red-headed boy" As a matter
of fact, he is nearly six feet tail. and
very freckled.-Charle Alfred Byrne, in
Brooklyn Citizen.
Eleonora Duse and Sarah Bernhard
| had husbands who were no benefit TO
| them socially or financially. Lillian Rus
| sells three husbands were poor men.
Julia Marlowe seems to have lost rath-
er than gained by her marriage and In
| addition to this disappointment she was
,knee-beaten by her husband, SO she
SAYS. Ada Rehan, once the most ia
nous beauty on the stage, and the most
gifted, never found a husband Georgia
:Iayvan was leading woman at two Oh
our chief theatres, yet she IS d sPiii9tei.
| SO is AIaude Adams, although her sraceS
as LAZY Babbe touched every heart
Viola Allen, remains unmarried, yet she
| IS a beautiful and gifted young woman
| Annie Russell married a stage manager
and, being divorced has continued IN
widows weeds. Mary Mannering mar
ried an actor. Margaret Mather paused
in her triumphant career as juliet 10
| marry a fiddler. Lillian Russell beau
| tv is famous in Two continents. yet ner
| rrst two husbands were musicians ana
| her third is a tenor Anna Held married
| her manager Katherine Florence f''aI-
r;od y character comedian. Isabelle r.
wing John Drew's leading woman. ana
universally admired, not only for her
good looks, but for her talent married .
T, w. Il. Thompson, notable as perform
! or of vflIains.-HilIary Bell, IN ne"
| York Press.