The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-01
near Twelfth. Briggs Drug Company, First
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near Twelfth, BrtSSs Drug t~oHipaNs, e %.
and Bread. and Morris near sixth and
Broad.
Theatrical :Amuscments.
puse IS studying shelly's Beatrice
| Cenc.
Harry conor will head one of the w. a.
Brady productions next season.
| Cora Tanner is to appear in comic opera.
| "Moses'' is the title Of Perosi,s new can
tata.
..Uncle TOMS Cabin is TO Big produced
IL Pari..
Forbes Robersons leading woman next
season will be Gertrude Elliott.
Milton Anoru n1ade his vaudeville debut
a: Kei,h's, Boston, last week
JEFF, T. English VIII use next season
musical comedy by Charles Klein.
David Henderson will next season man
age: a New York theatre.
Bash Hood and Sir Arthur Suliy2n are
writing an Irish opera.
Nance C,Neili is to apear in London
w. A Mcconnell is now a. vaudeville
monoiogis:.
OF Intsia,'' will. be disclosed next season
Los. in Egypt" is to be acted next
Pete Daley will star in Hodge. Podge
/, &. CO..
Mary Hampton is to be a member of
GreenwalG: :; Stock Company next season
| The Eurgomaster." d new musical COM
edy, by Frank Pixley and Gustav Luders
was produced in Chicago last week.
4 grea. niece Of Danton was in the au-
dienco that saw the revival OF Charlotte
| Corday'' al the Francaise.
81: Henry Irving and Ellen Terry VIII
return to the United States a year from
next Fa.l.
Waite. L. Perkins. OF My Friend from
! Indie" fame. is to star in dramatiza-
| ton of jerome. a Poor Man.
Marie Wainwright is. to have a short
| play by Justin McCarty, and in il she VIII
enac: two women, one OF them variety
actress with song.
Dunno, of Dunno & Ryley, was formerly
a typesetter He is now playing the part
OF the Colonel Who Loks Like Napoleon,
a part that he created five years ago.
| A vivid representation OF the burning OF
! Joan OF Arc is being prepared for a drama,
! illumined steam and reflected flame are TO
! make it thrilling to the behoider.
Lions, real and alive, were shown in the
| arsus. ac. of QUO Vadis" as performed at
| Portland, ore Various versions OF the
| novel ars still being used in this cut-rate
| throughout the country
EduarG Strauss and his orchestra were
| q frost hare a few years ago, but there
! ha, been such steady progress in Amerl-
! can appreciation OF music-whether pro
! famous leader next autumn may be more
uccessful-Dramatic Mirror.
II ia said that Sarah Bernhardt IN ner
| tour OF America with coqueirssnext sea
son. Will receive sl,o01 for each perform
anca and a percentage OF the receipts above
| q certain amount In dddltlOn, all Aer eA-
| penses will be paid.
Ben Greet has established an out-of-door
| theatre in the Botanical Gardens, Lon
| don, and is giving Shakespeare's comedies
| in the open air by electric light.
MISUNDERSTANDING Dream" The Com
| edy of Errors" Twelfth Night" Az
! You Like It. and Loves Labor Lost
! are in the repertory.
| Tamagno has been here His voice is
| as grand as ever. It is marvellous, in
fact. Tamagno is an inveterate smoker,
| and his cigar is never out of his mouth
! except when he is singing. But from the
moment he attends the first rehearsal OF
| an opera to the last moment of the last
| performance Of the opera a cigar never
J touches his lips. But. once he is free,
| he takes a cigar and lights 1t hungry-like,
| and thereafter a cigar is always in his
| mouth.-ROme letter in Dramatic Mirror
| No little editorial comment has been
| evoked by e. T. heith's princely gift "a
! theatreJ to z. f. Albee. These fous
| enterprises" says the Boston Journal.
! represent a vast property created out of
l
| of one man, and the loyal and intelligent
! cooperation of many, among whom Mr..
| Albee stands first They give prohta BILE
| employment to hundreds of men and
| women. pleasure to multtudes, and they
| do injury TO none, for they have solved
| the problem of low-priced popular enter
| tainment enriched with theatrical talent
| of every kind, and yet free from immo-
| rality indecency, and even bad taste"
| The fact that theatrical business does
| sometimes pay. and when it does, pays
| immensely, has no better evidence in its
| favor than the great success of the Lie
| bier Company so called. There are only
| and they practically started on q shoe
| string. Two years ago George Tyler
| broke, was looking for somebody to put
up money to do The Christian and he
! went all about New York trying to find
| it. Nobody believed Viola Allen could
| be made a star. and even less than
| nobody thought the book could be made
into play. Yet by pluck. determination
and. finally good luck. he got there. OF
| course, we all know the hit that the piece
| made; and it led to other important
| things The Lieblcr Company branched
| out into various spectacular affairs upon
| the strength of their original success and
| think ony one fell by the way, and that
| was the Children of the Ghetto" but
even this held its own in this country
| after its disaster in London At any
| rate. what with James O:Neill and other
| things for which they put up honest
| money. the 1liebler Company has made
| $50 get from genuine authority over
J $4,000 on the season. That represents
a profit Of very nearly 5000 week: and,
| from the looks of things. their next year
| will be as good. for they put no less than
| twelve companies on the road, among
| others the sainted but diplomatic Viola
| Allen III new play. James O'Ncill in
| "Monte Cristo" at the Academy, A new
| star or two. and any number of Chris
tian'' companies.-Charles Alfred Byrnes
in BROOKLYN Citizen.