Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-07-27
IN GAY NEW YORK.
Scenes and Inciicnts of Everyday
Lie in the Paris of America. "

Ernest eros is painting tho scenery
for Frank McKee's special production
of Janice Meredith" in which Amy Ric.
ard will play the name part.
Louis Mann and Clara Lipman are now
in Paris They met Paul Potter in Lon
don, who read TO them the new comedy
III which they will be seen under the Iii
rc2ti0n Of Rich n Harris the coming sea-
son.
Many persons visited the greenhouses
of Miss Helen Miller Gould at Irvngton
to see the night-blooming cereus. which
was in full blossom. Miss Gould was
present, and enjoyed the blooming Of the
plant with the visitors.
Published statements that George G..
Boldt of the Waldorf Astoria and Z. II.
Whitaker Of the Hotel New Neither
lands, are to build mammoth hotels in
London have no foundation. In fact,
MIR. Whitaker had the idea under con-
sdeTation, but abandoned II.
For the first summer in the memory of
the oldest inhabitant there has been no
gambling at Long Branch this year Ev-
cry one of the half-dozen or so club
houses is b0lted and barred, and the
grass is growing knee-deep where fewer
SRih'AiS udNt DttI ittuSlbitltu 10 DibOill.
Duveen, the London art dealer. who
bought the Hoppner picture Of Lady Au-
gusta Manners for the record price Of
$1,000, now says that his commission
was from the proprietor of one of the
biggest millinery and dressmakiug stores
in New York. He declines to give the
name, however.
o,,l NTv+ T.. =:
ing floor III a hotel for the season. have
departed utterly from the traditional or
der Of things at Newport. The cOttagerS
there have always been averse 10 hotels
and hotel life, and many a good man
and woman were looked upon with sus-
picion because they put up at a hotel.
Wcrimcn are engaged night and day
digging and blasting a big pit, 40 feet
long, 20 feet WIDE and ~ feet deep un-
der the stage of Jacob Lifts Broadway
theater for the crystal palace scene in
the Drury Lane production Of The
Sleeping Beauty and the Beast" which
opens the regular season at that house
November !.
klaw x Changer have engaged Harry
lillfon, who retired from the part Of
Prince de- BumSky in The Strollers" one
night recently, for an important role in
their coming production Of Harry u.
Smiths new musical comedy, THE Lib.
erty Belies.' which will b. seen in New
! orl for the first time at the Madison
Square theater, September 30.
In all prpblhil the new hurles3ue at
Weber ~ Fields will be called "Ioighty.
Toighty.' RehoarSals will begin on AM
gust \ and the opening will take place on
the first Thursday in September Lillian
Russell, Fay Femplat1n and De WOLF
Hopper VIII all return 10 the company
and sam Bernard, after a three-ycurs'
absence, VIII return ~ the fold.
Mary Mannering has never YET been
seen on the stag" i'm male garb When
het nov play, "trau-tark,' is presented
she will have an opportunity to appear a,
a young military officer in Inc incident
where the Princess Netiye aids Grenfall
L0rry. the American, to escape from
the Graustark Jail 10 the monastery On
the mountain overlooking the city.
The first Cuban watermcl0ns IF the
season have arrived in the market and
are on sale at the establishments Of the
rare fruiterers. Cuban wntermelons are
Pecuiar-looklng things. They are not
green, like the melons we are accus.
toned 20, but are a bright red They are
not eaten in their original state. but are
I1leu, ana are SAID 10 De great dainty.
Mrs. Edna Wallace Hopper. the charm
ing little actress, who was called to San
Francisco by the serious illness aud sub
sequent death Of her mother. Mrs. Duus-
muir, has returned to New York aud re-
sumed her old part in the production Of
"Fl0r0dora." The Rialto Is still guessing
as to whether Mrs. Hopper came home
miilionairess. Mrs. Hopper, wise little
woman that she is, says not a word.
Maurice Barrymore. the former promi-
nent actor, is as much forgotten even
among theatrical people, rs though he
never existed A group " actors were
standing on Broadway the other Jay and
his name was mentioned He had
dropped completely out Of their lives. As
q matter Of fact. Barrymore is Ia a pri-
yatc retreat in New Jersey. slowly but
surely yielding to disease, without any