The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-28

in St Louis where the week S gross Cart
ing was s1O,O0O despite the fact inat Il
drew Tess than one-tifth that sum "iieH
first played at the same theatre yea
ago. 4 play that possesses vitality 10 t.s
most valuable of theatrical proper l.e9.
"Way Down East" is not a pasSin5 . az,
hut =. svnlpa thetic rustic idyl that VIII
and,,re for many seasons to come, like
tic predecessors ..,rhe O,d Homestead/
and Shore Acres
Theatrical AmuscmcEts.
Verdi is a Senator.
Dutch DAILY is in London.
Rostand is a consumptive.
A. NJ Palmer was book-keepei'
Naude Adams mother Is an actress.
1<e,cey and Shannon may do Romeo
and Juliet .,,4
sothern will do 'Much Ado About
Nothing" next week.
The tenth season of the chicago VI
chestra was opened last week.
Mr.. Mansfield and Mr.. Drew are SIM
plv victims of the Irving stride.
James a. Eerne will go to London next
spring to act in "Shore Acres.
At Paris the themes for opera bouffe
are being taken from Bible stories.
Mark Twain is to write play in COLA
boration with Sydney Resented.
Enslands Lord Chamberlain has IN
terdicted the production OF losen.s
Ghosts
The author of ''Lady Windermere's
Fam now signs his writings SEBASTIAN
Melnotte.
MIR. Robert Fitzsimmons will make his
first appearance in the title role OF ne
Honest BLACKSMITH on October 18th
Jules Massenet's LIE Cid was sung IN
Paris for the one hundredth time the
other day. 1t is said. that these per
formances have brought SiooVv9 10 the
treasury of the opera.
In New York Henrietta Crosman, be-
ginning this week, will give special natl
nee performances of "Much Ado About
Nothing, "As You Like 1t, and posi-
bly, MADAME Sans Gene
PLAYWRIGHT Darcy has finished a roman
tic drama OF American life. Several
famous historical personages are INTRO
duced. and the various scenes give op-
nortunities for the Introduction OF car
acters and a locale which nave SO 1ar
been little used on the stage. Anotne'
new work deals with life IN the Madoie
West. in a State which IS as YET I'M
trodden ground for a play of this kind
Two years ago Oscar Hammersteln
had not two dollars: to-day he owns the
l
| come of $1,000 a week; an interest in the
Victoria, which pays him half as much,
{ and he has bought for S3o9.Coo the site
| on which, within q twelye-month. ne VIII
! erect a s7GoOO0 playhouse. He arrived in
! America without q dollar. metaphorlcat-
! " speaking. He made three millions.
| He lost everything. He is once more on
! the way to Notwithstanding Ell,
| in New York Press.
! Ada Rehan is living in her own house
| on West Ninety-third Street, and can be
! seen taking her constitutional these morn
I ings on quiet West-1cnd Avenue She
| looks SO much older than she did when
] she temporarily left the stage as to be
| almost unacceptable. Her hair is
! now quite gray and she walks with gait
| utterly without elasticity-almost an
| old woman's walk Should she make a
! success in the sprightly character OF Nell
| Gwyn, in which she is to return to the
A.: boards, it will be most wonderful
triumph Of mind over matter-New York
| Telegraph.
/ 1t was only few years ago that a lit
/ tie timid, thin-faced slip of girl, with
no attractiveness Of face and figure to
| speak of, and with no particular distinc-
! ton of manner played the part of
I New England schoolgirl in HoYts "A
| Midnight Bell before her first New York
| audience. Her name was down toward
| the bottom of the printed cast, when IN
| itself was not matter of much impor-
| lance, for there was probably not hand
| full of people in the audience who took
! the trouble to look it up. None would
have believed then that before ten years
had passed, a shivering line OF people
! would stand for thirty-six hours IN the
| rain to get first-choice seats for this lit
| tie girls first appearance in a great char
| acter created by Sarah Bernhardt, the
| worlds most famous actress.-New York
| World
Verdi has only one hatred. and that is
| for the piano His own is locked up
| for the greater part OF the year, and once
when at watering place the hotel pro-
prietor put a splendid piano in his room.
! thinking to please him thereby. he locked
the piano and then took out the key, took
a walk and threw the key down a preci-
/ pice, to make sure it would not be found
again during his stay. And yet no
/ man is or ever was fonder of music than
| Verdi, and no man has ever worked more
than he, nor SO late in life as he. Why,
it is only few years ago that ne Drought
| out Othello and Falstaff. two mas5sr-
pieces of a masters mind. There was
a time when he would sit from fourteen
to sixteen hours a his piano. and now
he hates the sight of it, althoush MS mead
i still sings with ever new melooies' ne says,
I but he has no longer strength enough to
write them down. He came OF peasant
parents, field laborers in fact, out seems
to have been born with music on his
s brain