The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-14

at 81 Peters in Rome on Christmas Eve.
When Bernhardt and Ccquelin appear N
Sey York in "L'Aig1on' on Nov. .. they
viii play upon the same stage IN puoAc ior
the first time in nineteen years
Mansfield shares with two other men
+bs forenost place on the English speak
ing stage and his associate are now ases--
Edward \. Ditmar. in New 1Orh il1nes-
4 scheme is being evolved IN Boston
which, if successful, Will give the tiielLtL
ratrors a whole evening of one act opeTet-
tas sI1ch as is common in many OF the
German capitals.
The sale of the Dion BouCicauit relics
the other evening Drought small prices
The manuscript of THE Shaughran, fof
example. entirely in the dramatist's hand
writing, brought only So.
The success of the lottery on behalf OF
the French Dramatic Artists Associa-
ton is doubtful An issue of 1,6Ooooo
tickets, at franc each-S552O 0Oo-Was
authorized, but Notwithstanding the bait
of large money prizes, the public are
fighting shy.
London society paper says: Edna
May has taken to wearing her hair in
plaits-the glossiest and smoothest of
plaits. twisted into a shining coronct
above her snowy brow after the manner
of novel heroines from time inln1emorial.
James II. Hackett and his lovely wife,
Mary Mannerng, have determined to
play together in London next summer,
and then return to TINS country and ap-
pear under new manager whose
name, for prudential reasons, is with
held.
Sir Arthur Sullivan has completed his
new operetta. 1t is on an Irish sub
iect, dealing with the rebellion of '9S.
Meanwhile THE Pirates Of Penzance'
is attracting such large audiences at
the Savoy Theatre that there is no need
to hasten the production of the new work
Two tenors have recently given up their
contemplated work as impressarios. Jean
de Reszke is not to undertake the pro-
duction of Tristan und Isolde in Ger
man at the ChateIes in Paris, and Fer
nande de Lucia has already handed over
the Sano Carl in Naples to the direction
of a committee organized for that pur-
pose.
The boycott of the new Majestic Thea
ire in Utica by the labor unions seems
to be having a serious effect. Commit
tees take down the names of patrons, and
if they are merchants the unionists re-
fuses to buy of them. Crowds hang
around the stage entrance and shout
'Seab.' to the actors when they so in.
1t has become certainty of late that
a girl has only to be thin to make Il hit
with the New York public. All the big
successes have been made by the little
girls within the last few seasons. There's
Maude Adams, with throat like fash
ion poster, and Annie Russell, equally
slyph like, and now Miss Conquest who
is like an English wafer-Matinee Girl
in Dramatic Mirror.
The Trades Assembly and Building
Trades Council have concluded to build
another theatre in Utica At first it
was intended to raise the money neces-
sary by subscription, but a proposition
has since been made by George E. Car
ter. Jr, of New York to construct
play house in Utica to run in opposition
to the Majestic, and this is now under
considera tion.-Dramatic Mirror
It looks very much as though all the
leading English playwrights will black
ball Miss Evelyn Willard, Charles Frroh-
mans eN-leading woman, because CT her
refusal to appear in THE Lackeys' Car
nlval, in view of the dialogue allotted
to her R. c. Carton, Cecil Raleigh. A.
w. Pinero and Henry Arthur, the last OF
whom wrote the lines Miss Willard dis
likes, have clauses in all their contracts
with managers wherein it IS stipulated
that they shall have a voice in casting
their characters, and that under TO CIR
cumstnces shall words be added to or
subtracted from one of their plays