The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-18
BRIEFLY TOLD.
,dna Aug is a London success.

Edna Aug is London success.
Kittie Mitchell is said to be dying.
| The New York Press calls Papa 5
| Wife" ''ciean show
| Katherine Mnlkins of IA Granger in a
Strange Land" is i'll n Boston.
| "Zaza.'' ION and on" and sherlock
Holmes" will be shown in Australia
Marie George. who was seen here recent
" in THE Rounders' . may be divorced.
Walter Jones has been married to Norma
Whalley. And that's what happened to
Jones.
| 1t is said that at the end OF the present
season Julia Arthur will retire from the
stage.
| George Tyler. virtual head of the firm OF
Liebler & Co., spent last week in Wash
| ington.
Roland Reed has undergone another
operation. and has improved chances for
recovery.
Assistant Treasurer Herbert, tf the
Grand. was called away from tom last
week by the sudden death OF a sIstslr.
Mrs. Leslie Carter and her company. will
sail for England on April 16 for the pur-
pose of presenting "Zaza" in London.
Madame Reiare has made hit in Paris
with piece entitled lie Begun which
title, freely translated, means THE
Leech.'
Robert Hilliard has returned to vaude-
Vile for the season. Suggestion to Mana
er Chase-Mr. billiards The Littlest
Girl is a charming trile.
May Robson. of the Empire Stock Com
| pany. has been loaned" to Weber &
| Fields for their travesty on "Sappho,"
| which Will be called "Sapolio.'
will be remembered for his work with the
Carroll Institute Club. has signed to go on
the road with Titus and Evans.
Paul Wilstach formerly dramatic critic
of The Times. spent last week in WASH
ington. drawing on his Imagination and
his vocabulary for the benefit Of Richard
Mansfield.
David Belaseo will collaborate with Yth-
guam Ynohtna, of the Imperial Japanese
Company. in his dramatization of John
Luther Young's Oriental story, Madame
Butterfly"
A party of Sioux Indians has caused
quite a sensation in Paris by an exhibition
OF aquatic feats. Probably. the display is
as much novelty to the Indians as il is to
the Frenehmen.
think if the present style of play con-
tinues to broaden and branch out, that the
love scenes. like the murders. will have to
be done off the stage.-"The Matinee Girl
in the Dramatic Mirror.
Beatrice De Mile and H.'rriet Ford, au-
thors of THE Greatest Thing in this
World witnessed the performance Of
their play from bcx last Monday light
at the Columbia Theatre.
The New York Telegraph" goes into
some detail concerning the doings of
4 -tr-
ing dainty Marguerite Cline" and petite
Marie Dressler" now are in order.
Or. A. Conan Doyle will Join the Brit
ish Army in South Africa as field sur
geon. II is needless to add that d.. DOVE
is author OF the stories from which VIII
liam Gillette took Sherlock Holmes"
The east OF Nam 'zelle 'Awkins.'' which
shortly is to be produced in Boston. will
include Etienne Girardot. George C. Boni-
face. William Armstrong. Richard Carrie.
Snitz Edwards. Charles Dandy, Paula Ed
wards. Marguerite Sylvia, and others.
The dramatic club of the Linthicum In
stitute will give an entertainment in this
city on next Friday night. The proceeds
are to go to worthy charity. and it is to
be hoped that the performance will be well
attended.
Probably inspired by the vigorous pro-
tests Of the press. Nat C. Goodwin has 60
ergetically denied the report that he s15
Maxine Elliott are to star separately
hereafter Miss Elliott is too valuable
member OF Mr.. Goodwin's organization to
be quietly dispensed with.
A Denver journal sagely remarks:
From all accounts De Wolf Hopper has
been as unsuccessful in making his Angli-
cized version of The Christian go in Lon
don as ne was in most OF the cities In
America" Which goes to show that let
ting sporting editors write dramatic news
is false economy.
The F. Marion Crawford novel which
Lorimer Stoddard will adapt for Viola
Allen is to be entitled In the Palace of
the King instead of In Old Madrid.
Miss Allen has an option on three other
plays. any one of which she may produce
in case Mr. Stoddard's work proves another
'Dr. Claudus."
Two bulldogs belonging to Nat C. Good
win began lighting in his dressing room at
the Knickerbocker Theatre recently and.
among other things. chewed up a mana
script of The Cowboy and the Lady"
They who have seen the piece will under
stand that. If the MAY does not 90 10 the
beasts brains recovery is not beyond the
range of possibility.
An "amphibious'' burlesque is being pre-
scented In a flooded arena at a London place
Of amusement The piece is dubbed eddy
Ostend or, The Absent Minded Million
aire," and is said to have many merits
One OF these probably lies in the fact that
the author must have been able to intro
duce his ballots without approaching the
line Of the improbable.
Sugere Mikami. member Of the Impe-
rial Japanese Dramatic Company. died OF
spinal meningitis the other day in B0s-
ton-a stranger in a strange land. KS
rorted by an undertaken and a native SER
want. his body was taken to the cemetery
and there, ia the midst OF a binding SNOW
storm, was buried. Only tbn servant re-
manned after the grave hal been filled.
and h. squatted bareheadei to pray over
he master concerning whose acting the
soeiety Of the Hub had not quite finished
raving.