The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-03

| least 1--WE years to establish national
| theater. That is less than a tenth OF Mr..
/ Caruegie's annual income. An ideal COM
! pany would be Julia Marlowe, leading wo-
! man; +. II. Sothern. romantic comedian;
| John Drew first old and middle-aged man;
| Maude Adams. ingenue; Richard Mans
! field, character actor; Herbert Keeley,
villain; Nat Goodwin, low comedian; w.
! ]. Ferguson, character servant. These
actors can be had, but it would coss
| money to employ them. David Belasco
! could be the stage manager; Pinero, Ros-
| tand, Belasco and Gillette, the dramatists
| attached to the house. The receipts OF
| such an undertaking would be large. but
not liberal enough to support 1t. and Mr..
Carnegie must be prepared TO spend half
a million before his artistic investment
pays a dividend"
! out Of the incident Of Chauncey Depew
being caught on a New York street car
without the needed wherewithal to pay
| his fare an Industrious press agent has
spun story that is worth reproduction.
| According to this new light Senator De-
pew, after much persuasion, said to
the conductor. who had threatened to
throw him off:
Perhaps, sir, II you knew was
! Chauncey Depew you would accept my
! glasses as pledge ana allow me 90 ride
| down town"
Not on your nfe," scathingly replied
/ the conductor. You couldn't ride free
on this car if you were Chauncey Oh
colt"
The Sotherns have found that starring
| in the same company doesn't pay, so
| they are going to try IL alone. Charles
| Frohman has always held that TO have
! husband and wife as leading people in
the same show is serious error. Miss
| Harmed, In transferring her allegiance
| from Dan to Charles, evidently agrees
with the latters theory. Her first play
! is Maurice Thompson's Alice of Old
| Vincennes,' which Edward Z. Rose has
| dramatized.
Helen Dauvray, who has been In retire
ment for some time, will return to the
stage this week through the medium
Of vaudeville that haven for so many
ex-stars like herself. Miss Dauvray also
week, with liabilities of $7,SOs, and no
assets.
They are telling a story along Broadway
with names which are not open to posi-
tive Identification. According to 1t a
group of wealthy Londoners met for din
ner in a hotel in that city, and a visit
to theater was proposed. No two agreed
on the place, and finally one suggested:
Let's take the ferry and go over to New
York. Wen get something new there"
The laugh died away in a serious con-
sderation of the scheme. Finally i've
agreed to It, and they left London the
following morning. They put up at the
Fifth Avenue on Thursday. went to a
show that night and Friday, and on Sat-
urday morning were headed for home
again.
Arrangements for Nat Goodwins tour
in THE Merchant of Venice" have been
completed. Mr.. Goodwin will open early
In May and make a hurried trip through
the country, playing one night in the
prominent cities along his route.
No sooner has the Belasco-Potter pro-
duction of Under Two Flags proved a
success than there is a rush Of revivals
in that direction, and the past week has
witnessed the announcement of two or
three other dramatizationS of Ouida' s
once famous novel.
After a run of nearly 100 performances
in New York. Miss Mary Mannering in
"Jaunice Meredith" closed her metrop-
Outdn engagement last week. her sue
cess was instantaneous and only the
inability to alter the bookings of Wal
lacks Theater compelled her retirement
at the present date.
Charles Klein has completed the play
In which Dave Warfield is to be intro
duced as a star by David Belasco 1t
is of a semi-serious nature and will
present Warfeld in n Hebrew character
s.a to- oh 4.
the stage in recent years.
Pete Daley, IL is reported, will star IN
a farce next season written for him by
Augustus Thomas, and If her marriage
to William jefferson does not interfere
Christie Macdonald will have an i'm
portant role in the same.
Recent Paris papers publish interesting
statistics of the operations of the Grand
Opera during the year 1900. Twenty-one
operas were sung, with a total number
of 22S performances. Fourteen compos-
ers were represented. Gounod heads the
list with Faust go times) and Romeo
and Juliet" Q9 tines. Then follow in
order: Wagner, Die Walkuere" Q5),
''Tannhaeuser'' G2), "Meistersinger' %
and "Lohengrin" CS) ;Meyerbeer, "Hugue-
nots" 600 and Prophet" 40; Saint
saens-"samson and Deliah" 90: Mas
senet-"Le Cid'' Q0; "Salambo"
Q2) and "Sigurd" 81; Paladithe-"Patrie'
I'D; Rossini-"william Tell 90: Berlios
prise de Troie" %; Verdi-"Aida" (9
and "Rigoletto' (3); Joncieres-"Lance-
lot du Lac" 00; Mehul-"Joseph en-
Egypte'' 90; Ambrose Thomas-"ham-
| let" o. and Duvernoy-"Helle" ca.
The total receipts for these 22s operat-
&c performances were 1909, 626 francs (SS01.-
$500. The Government subsidy and the
receipts from the several opera balls
added enough to make the income a
round FIVE million francs, Isl, OOo, O0O). And
yet the profit was nominal II is only in
New York that grand opera is CONNER
cially successful
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