The Washington times., 1901-08-18

| vantage to everybody connected with the
| burlcSque business while the audiences
| that patronize this type of performance
| Will find the entertainments of a much
| better grade than heretofore.
Minnie Palmer is playing in My Sweet
| heart" through the British provinces. She
was one of the numerous actresses who
| undertook to duplicate the vogue of Lot
| ia when the latter was at the height Of
| her fame, and. assisted by her audacious
| and venturesome husband, John r.
| Rogers. was very successful. Her popu-
| larity soon declined in this country, but
she went to London. where she had al
| ready made very successful profession
al visit. and found no trouble in drawing
| crowds for several years afterward. She
was pretty, but not clever young wo-
| man in the early days of My Sweet
| heart and owed her popularity less to
| talent than 10 the bizarre met ods of ad-
| NertisnE rcsorted to by Rogers. whose
| Yours, mcrrtly.' invariably preixed to
| ms name. was one OF the trademarks of
| the entertainment. The play. itself. was
| quite as bad rs any of the numerous very
bad ones used by l.otta, herself
| Two years ago. Minnie Palmer return
| cd here, and made an appeal through n
/ short play in the vaudeville houses, but
I she had been forgotten by the older
thoatresoers. and was not liked by the
| YOUNGER ones. Rogers. also. returned to
| this country several years ago. but found
| no field for the methods he formerly had
| employed with so much success. lie re-
| Gently went back TO England. where he
| Is now engaged in the task of making
provincial star out of Corinne. who was
formerly regarded with favor by some
theatregoers in her capacity as a 'juve-
nile prodigy" She did several things in
differently, and nothing well. and never
succeeded IN getting a foothold i'll the
best theatres.
| 1t is a matter of common belief among
those who observe closely the economics
| and manifestations of theatricals that ev-
| cry possible effort has been made to rush
| "A Royal Rival into view in New York
| City tomorrow night in order to forestaIl
| Don Caesars Return" Both plays are
| different versions-by Gerald Du Maurier
and Victor Mapes. respectively-of the ia
miliar romance concerning Don Caesar de
Bazan and Mariana. William Faver-
sham is to become star in "A Royal Ri
wall" the Don Caesar Of the Mapes play
| is to be James X. Hackett.
A year ago, no conflict of the kind
would have been possible. for both actors
were in the employ of virtually the same
| management Hackett il seems, had been
| promised the dramatization of Richard
Carvel." which, when no suitable new
| play of foreign make was forthcoming for
! John Drew, was given to the latter &C
tor, Hackett being toured again in The
Pride of Jennico.' Logically enough, MIR.
Hackett considered himself better fitted
for the stage realization of CarYel than
was Drew; but the former had a success
full medium in The Pride OF Jennco.
and was compelled by the. MANAGEMENT
! to continue in it. He rebelled and refused
| to renew his contract with the manage
ment that had, In less than three years,
manufactured him into a prosperous star.
| Had his rebellion been based on arts
| tic grounds, a measure of sympathy
would have gone out to him: but Rich
ard Carvel," impossible as il may seem,
was quite as bad a play as The Pride
of Jennico." and therefore Mr.. Hackett
had no real cause to complain. In his
production of the Mapes play he Will
emerge as an actor-manager; and he
doesn't seem to fear the result OF the at
tempt to get "A Royal Rival on the
stage before Don Caesars Return.
Hobart ChatfeId Chatfieid-Taylor. who
bears Chicago reputation as diet
tante in literature and art, re-
Gently wrote a play called THE
Idle Born" in collaboration with Reg
inaId De Koven. the composer. Just
what means he adopted to get it staged is
not known; but any manager who may
have read and declined it can regard him
self as sufficiently rebuked for his lack
of appreciation.
band of wandering players recently
acted, in small Maine town, a drama
called In Society." and Mr.. Chatield-
Taylor is quoted as declaring that the
play was nothing more or less than
pla giarism of The Idle-Born.'
George AIDES comic opera will have a
happy title, at least-''The Sultan of
Suu''-which possesses the merits of both
ALTERATION and applicability to recent
events of general interest AIDES style of
humor, as exemDIified in his Fables
From Slang" is not the kind that carries
effectively from the stage to the audience
side of the footlights. Moreover, few of
the men who win success as newspaper
humorists find fortune in the theatre.
The late Edgar Wilson (BiID Nye
was an exemplar. From the standpoint
of sheer prosperity. he was, without
doubt, the most successful man who ever
wrote fun for the American press. Yet,
both of his plays, The Cabin which 4.
@ Seabrooke starred-and "A Stag Party
which Nye wrote in collaboration with
Paul NJ. Potter-were absolute failures.
Jerome X. JerOme's fun, irresistible on
paper. even seems strained when spoken
on the stage. Burnand, OF Punch,
writes plays; but his humor never OBJ
tanned a laugh, from American audiences,
at least.
The late Charles II. Hoyt was a news
paper funmaker before he tried playwrit
ing. and wrote short aragraphs of in
tended hcmor for Boston paper. At the
time of his death last autumn the paper
reprinted some of his early contributions
to its columns and vapid and unfunny
enough they proved to be. So Hoyt can
net be cited an eXemplar of man who
WAS deservedly successful in both call
ings
Among the entertainers who will ap-
pear at Kernans Lyceum Theatre this
week with Ciark's New Royals will be
Joe Fields, OF the team of Fields and
Wooley- Fields Is one of the best-known
German dialect comedians in the bur
lesque business and was in his younger
days partner Of Joe Weber, of Weber 8,
Fields. lie is brother of Lou Fields, OF
the same team. He put his brother in the
show business. and often. when in a talk
alive frame OF mind. tells how they Sjrug-
gl.d in their younger days and were glad
so per week. Weber * Fields among
the most popular comedians in New York
and Joe Fields with his partner. Mark
Wooley. comma nds one Of the highest
salaries paid to any comedian In the bur
lesque business
The musical farce Foxy Grandpa"
which had its first presentation recently
by Joseph Hart and Carrie DeMar. under
the management Of William A. Brady. |
has scored a pronounced success, CON !
trary to the opinion of many to whom I,
the idea of dramatizing these pictures |
seemed a hazardous venture.
For some time the career OF this old |
gentleman has been illustrated in a New |
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