New-York tribune., 1900-04-16
THE DRAMA.
STAGE AFFAIRS IN GENERAL.

Miss Ada Rehan has contributed Preface to an
edition of The Tanning of the shrew." just pub
ished in this city, by Messrs. Doubleday Page &
co. One of her remarks is droIl:
Playing Katharine brought me much Satisfaction
but a very bad reputation for temper I have often
oeen amused at seeing the effect that first per-
duced on the employees of the stage They Stunned
Very long run have ofen 'f beaTd soa D1ring [ .he
hated my Petruchio. and that stage life only
paid me.
Miss Mary Sanders, who lately acted Little Neil
and the Marchioness. giving much pleasure TO many
people and showing exceptional talent has accept
ed an engagement with Messrs. LiehIer & Co.
act in Mr. Joseph Arthur's new play Lost River
"a story of life in Indiana, TO be produced
season.
Miss Virginia Calhoun Will begin on April Is. a
tour Of Southern cities. I'm play called Dor
der-side," by Mrs. Riggs of New-York.
Mrs. Langtry will appear. this week, at the Co
luTnbia Theatre. Brooklyn. Her American tour will
close on May 49, and she will sail for England
May %
Otis Skinner has play called Prince Otto"
which he will produce in Chicago on April g.
Miss Blanche Bates will sail for England on May
o. intending pass the abroad.
Frank Worthing has Joined Stuart Robson's com
pany and is acting Edmund Burke in Mr. Thorn
ass play of oliver Goldsmith"
The dull and foul play of "Sapho" has got into
the dime museums" in Chicago and it bids fair
10 pervade the land like epidemic II was OBJ
served by Lord Byron that:
An An corr, corrupted things are buoyed like cOrks,
The French actress Nine Retane speaking about
the .'Sapho" affair. a representative of THE
New-York Herald" said, with equal truth and sar-
casm: The episode has been ridiculous from start
finish. and the dismissal of the case by a Jury
composed of butchers and bakers and what-not is
the funniest part of ALL"
Among the plays of Edmond Rostand author of
'Cyrano de Bergerac.' are LES Romanesques"
La Samaritaine" and La Princesse Lointane"
Sarah Bernhardt acted in La Princesse,' and she
is acting in "L'Aiglon" This eaglet Will be
flown in America by Miss Maude Adams The
comedy of Les Romanesques'' has adapted
in English. by George Fleming Ghe pen-name of
Constance Fletcher under the title of THE Fan
tasticks.
In London Mr.. Tree has seized upon the part OF
Rip Van Winkle. It is twentythree years since
Mr.. Jefferson there. in that character
and fortunately for Mr.. Tree. generation of
playgoers has arisen, to which Mr.. Jefersons in
comparable personation is unknown. Mr. Tree also
intends TO represent Benvenuto Ceilini.
In the course of the representations that TO
begin April 2S. at the Shakespeare Memorial
Theatre. in Stratford-on-Avon commemorative Of
the Shakespeare anniversary. Mr.. John Coleman's
stage version Of 'Pericles' will be performed for
the first time. The original play has not been
acted London since the great days of Samuel
Phelps. at Sadlers Wells. A piece called Marina
based upon it, acted there. at Covent Garden
in I73S. To the American stage "Percles'' is un-
known. Its origin has always been in doubt and
often in controversy. It shows Shakespeares hand,
in passages, but the evidence tends prove
that he not the author of it. The German
actor Possart produced "PericIes, in 1882, at Mu-
mich. An exceedingly interesting and valuable
book, Pericles and Apollonius of Tyre, by Al
bert H. Smyth of Radnor. one of the soundest
scholars in country published in Phia-
delphia 1855.
A drama on the subject Of Tess the D'Jrrber-
villes" made by Mr.. II. A Kennedy. has been pro-
duced at the Comedy Theatre, London. with Mrs
Lewis Waller Tess. and Mr.. Fred Terry as Alec
Trautridge.
theatre in London, has revived the comedy Of The
Passport" by B. c. Stephenson and w. Yardley in
which he plays Christopher Coleman, a city mer-
chant Edward Terry's impersonation of Dick
PhenyI. in Sweet Lavender is of the lasting
triumphs of the actors never TO be forgotten
At theatre in Sharon, Penn. April 10, sapho
and her lover broke down the spiral staircase
possibly by the weight of their pious emotions
and tumbled into cellar. Sapho- escaped injury
but Jean Gaussin seriously injured.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall will sail for England on
May g
Mr.. Percy Winter as stage director of the New
Auditorium Theatre, Kansas City. No, has distin-
guished himself by a remarkably fine scenic pro-
duction of Quo Vadis." This subject has loomed
into prominence ali over the country. and yet it is
only The Sign of the Cross again, and that
a startling novelty.
Mr. Crane produced Rochester last Monday
April g. a play by Messrs. r. and NJ. w Hitchcock
the basis of Edward y. Westcott's novel of
David Harum." The audience large, and the
play favorably received. The parts cast
follows:
John Lenox william Ingersol
80. oises r