Evening star., 1901-02-02

meiodrama, Is cheduled for an engagement
al the Academy during the week of Febru-
ary II. The production Is an unusually
heavy one, carrying five complete acts and
neceSsitates cast of over forty people.
The company carries tribe of Zulus from
Africa. and half a dozen Malay girls from
the philippine Islands. These people do
speciality.
Aside.
Thirty pantomimes were produced in Lon
don this season.
''Jolly'' John Nash is III In California and
said to be in want.
NJ. B. Curtis. the old "Saml Of Poscn."
has gone into vaudeville.
Captain Marshalls 1.-THE Second In Com
mand' has been q success in London.
Mrs. Ryiey. the playwright. will probably
write Willie Golfers play for next season.
Gertrude Coghlan resumed her stellar tour
In Vanity Fair" at Brooklyn last Mon
day.
Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry open
their tour of this country next season about
September 10.
Queen Victoria's death and the conse-
quent long period of mourning entailed
heavy losses to the London play houses.
Mrs Fiskes San Francisco engagement
in Becky Sharpe has been of the phe-
nomenaI order.
THE Jungle Play" will be the title of
Rudyard kipling's dramatization of his
Jungle Stories"
Jessie Bartlett Davis has an option on a
one-act operetta of the French period 1G7U
IN which she may star next season.
Grace Cameron of the Foxy Quiller''
company will star next season In an op-
era by De Koven and Smith.
George Leslie has secured "Chums'' from
Charles Frohman and will shortly begin a
tour of the vaudeville houses with 1t.
Oriin Kyle and Christine Langford, who
play the two leading roles in Lost In the
Desert" were married In New York last
Sunday
"a Message From Mars" which has been
running in London for two years. will be
brought to this country next season by
Charles Hawtry and his company.
Petite Edna Aug, who was last seen In
this city with the Girl From Up There"
has resigned from that company and gone
into vaudeville.
Grace Filkins has sufficiently recovered
from her severe attack of the grip as to
| iejoin the Otis Skinner company In Louis
vile tonight.
he August IdfTlly OF JuPSlerS, VINO last
appeared here in Star and Carter and
were recently with Pete Daley opened In
vaudeville at Cleveland last Monday.
Plnero's latest play. soon to be produced
in London by Arthur Boucher. If success
full, should be a money coiner as there are
only seven people In the cast.
Jennie Hawley Of the Hodge, Podge &
Co." Company. who left that company at
the close of the Wednesday night perform
ance, has been replaced by Della Nevins.
Maude Adams picked ~ a cool $4,000
in Boston last week. 1t was the biggest
week of her experience as a star and one
OF the largest in the history of this country
John Hare. Irene Vanburgh and the Lon
don Globe Theater Company VIII soon ap-
pear in this city in Pinero's The Gay Lord
Quex." which ran for nearly two years in
London.
The libel suit against Harrison Grey
F>iske. editor Of the Mirror, which was
brought by the theatrical syndicate several
years back, has been dropped by the lat
ter.
Minnie Palmer's MY Sweetheart" has
been purchased by Mamie Gilroy. and after
date she will tour the country in the prin-
cipal role.
Willie Collier and Margaret Howard have
attracted a great deal of favorable atten-
ton by the little dance which they intro
duced In the Lafayette performance Of I'm
Mizzoura."
frankie Bailey of the Hodge. Podge &
Co." Company, who sustained fall during
the Thursday afternoon performance at
the Columbia Theater. is still nursing
bruised arm.
Madge Lessing has been off the London
stage for a week. Last Sunday. at Eer
home. she tripped and fell down an entire
flight Of stairs. and result she has
been in the hands of the doctors.
There is a possibility that Charles Han
ford will be In the star cast of Nat Good
wins presentation of The Merchant OF
Venice" and that his elaborate scenery for
the play will be used.
Corse Payton played Hazel Kirke'' in
his Brooklyn theater last Saturday before
1000 school children. They came in on
complimentaries the performance starting
in the morning at 1890.
Nina Harrington returned to the stage
last Sunday night presenting sketch.
with the assistance of Henry Bergman.
called "a Case of Divorce" The playlet
and actors were well received.
In connection with the Prince of Wales
ascension to the English throne 1t is of in
terest that MARY Tudor" being played by
Julia Marlowe in when Knighthood Was
In Flower" was the aunt of King Edward
vi.
D. L. Don who made a big hit In 1.-THE
Belle Of New York" the polite lunatic.
will play Sam Bernard's old part In the
London production of 1.-The Belle of Bo-
hemia.'' Dave Lewis viii take Dick Ber-
nard's place.
Frank Perley. manager of the Alice Neil-
son Opera Company. has secured the Eng
lish rights for ''The Serenade." The For
tune Teller and THE Singing Girl" and
will take his entire company to London
next April to present the same.
William Winter Jefferson. son OF Mr..
Joseph Jefferson Is visiting Washington for
q short time on his way to New York, from
which place he will return to Palm Beach,
Fla where he has been the greater portion
of the season with his father.
A substantial benefit was given In Boston
last Tuesday for the widow and children Of
the late Frank David. nice sum being
realised. A feature of the performance was
the rendition of Mr.. David's last compo-
sition. THE Sign OF the Cross."
A. intimated In q paragraph last wesk.
Dan DAILY will play q chief role for the
remainder of the season In ssThe Gtrl, From