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NOTES or THE STAGE.

NOTES OF THE STAGE.
! Edna May will appear In a now muslca
comedy. THE Golden Cup"
st. Louis is also soon to have a Mel
Gwynne play, the Imperial Stock com
pany having one in preparation.
Grace Livingston Furniss' play ROB
ert of Sicily suggested by Longfellow
poem, is being rehearsed by Joseph Ha
worth and company.
Henry Miller will begin his tour In
Richard Savage" an English play b,
Madaline Lucette Ryley, at Washington
January /.
The New York papers have unanimous
ly said nice things about Maud Adams
latest essay, the role of Napoleon's III.
starred son. in Rostands l'Aiglon. which
Sarah Bernhard has been playing IN
Paris.
Having been enjoined from presenting
the Becky Sharp play, pirated from the
one in which Mrs Fiske is appearing, the
managers of Gertrude Coghan have sent
her on the road in ]. II. Nevins' "Vanity
Fair"
Phoebe. Davies. so long identified with
way Down East" as its sweet and
sympathetic heroine will be seen next
spring under William A. Brady's direc-
ton In a new romance OF the American
revolution.
erosion Clarke, who has been rehears-
ing in philadelphia during the past two
weeks In "The Only Way" will open his
season in that play in Brooklyn on Mon
day evening. November 5.
Miss Henrietta Crossman is not going
to stand pat on her success in Mistress
Nell" AT the Savoy theater, New York.
into which she moves this week. Miss
Crossman will give special matinee per-
formances Of GAS You Like It. "Much
Ado About Nothing and possibly Mime.
Sans-G Gene"
The managers of Olga NethersoIe an
nounce that she will take "Sapho" on a
tour TO the coast this season. Her re-
pertoire Will include "Magda;''
Victor Herbert rs at work on the score
of new opera which Alice Nelson will
produce next season. Her manager, Mr..
Perley, announces in addition that Miss
Nelson is looking for suitable theater
in Gotham which will be her onliest own
TO do with as she wills. Another case of
time and its changes Think of big
theater named Alice Nelson and remem-
Der how short time it was when we
didn't even know the little lady.
A report from the City of Mexico is to
the effect that an American stock com
pany is to be established there soon, as
the American colony has grown to such
that it is thought such an
enterprise can be made a financial sue
cess.
James l.. Ford pays the following tri-
butte to Peter F. Daley; HE has the
power to jolly into immediate good tenn
per the most morose and detected audi
ence that ever sat through David Har-
um." Which is good for Daley, but how
about David?
z. H. Sothern and his manager, Daniel
Frohman. have decided to use Hamlet
solely for the actors tour this season. 1t
Will be the only piece in his repertoire
that Mr.. Sothern will use.
Sir Arthur Sullivan was dying accord
ing to the European rumor foundry. but
i turns out that the famous composer
was only suffering from a bad cold.
Cyril Scott, the American comedian who
went to London with "The Casino Girl.
and made big hit, has returned to this
country to play a principal part IN
'Floradora" when 1t is brought out in
he East.
The venerable Mr. Winter. in reviewing
ames o'Neill's handsome revival OF
Monte Cristo'' in New York. said n
made him feel young again, for which
he actor ought to be grateful.
The Washington critics say that "roxev
luiller," the new opera presented there
asst week by Jerome Sykes, promises 10
levelop that for which we have patiently
waited these several years-a fitting sue
essor to Robin HOOD
Harold Russell, who scored hits as Lord
Robert Ure In THE Christian" and as the
'rince of Wales in The Royal Box" has
een engaged for the role of DangIars ia
Monte Cristo." Mr.. Russell recently
Imported Blanche Walsh in Narcotic"
I the Broadway theater.
Mrs Minnie Tittell Bruno. the new
eading woman in Melbourne MacDowell's
reductions of Fanny Davenport's old /,
ardou successes, seems to have made
ood." The Boston papers received her
lost cordially. a
william A. Brady is one OF the shrewd- !
st managers in the theatrical business.
Then the manuscript OF way Down
asst" was handed 10 him he at once
aw the possibilities OF the play, and told
Is associates 1t would make 800 900 far
i'm. He has had the play now three
ears and every one Of those years WAY
own East has cleared the amount I
rady named.
Marie Tempest now playing Nell
wynn in London. is negotiating for the
nglish rights 10 Her Majesty the |,
play that has brought Grace !
gorge into such sudden New York sur-
,ss. When Her Majesty" was ner-
rmed in London for copyright purposes !
: Mrs. Carriers "zaza" company las, ,
ay. the Lord Chamberlain objected ~ G
Ia title, fearing offense to royalty. ana
was called "fioDoria." I
There Is an ingenious idea AT the bor.
m az Realism the new one-act com-
" by Mrs. Madeleine Lucette RyIev. !
st produced in London. The HUSBAND |,
the heroine. female dramatist. nro-
ounces scene in one OF her plays ride