The Washington times., 1901-06-30
BRIEFLY TOLD.

I
/ Stuart, the male Patti. is appearing in
| Russia.
''Are You a Mason closed its season
| last night in Chicago.
The Murray-Lane Opera Company has
| disbande& at Rochester.
Amy Ricard will head the No. ia
| nice Meredith company next season.
/ George Probert has replaced Joseph Hol-
land in the cast of THE Brixton Burgla
| ry'' at the Herald Square Theatre, New
| York.
Tolstoys novel, "The Resurrection" is
being made into a play by Pierre Cor
nellie and Jacques Landau.
| Minnie Tracey, a former favorite of tins
Metropolitan Opera, is singing in Paris.
The students of Wellesley College gave
| an outdoor performance of The VIM
| ter's Tale June 10.
Eleanor Merron's new play. "In Love .
| was shown for the first time last Monday
! night in Philadelphia and scored a sue
| cess. Miss Merron appeared in the lead
| ing role.
The Boston Theatre. Boston. will oper
| its season August 81 with the Liebler
! production of The Christian" with Ed
! ward }. Morgan as the star and Elsie
| Leslie in the role of Glory Quayle.
Edwin Milton Royle has written a new
| play called Loves Victory" in which
! the author and his wife, Selena Fetter-
Royle, will return to the regular houses
as co-stars.
] JOnn DunSmOfe, VINO nlaue MS profess
sional debut two years ago as the bassS:
I Of the Bostonians, has been engaged to
support Marguerite Sylvia in THE Prin-
| cess Chic"
Ninety and Nine" new play by Ram
say Morris, has been secured by Frank
Mckee, who will produce 1t next season.
Creston Clarke and Adelaide Prince are
preparing an elaborate production of The
Merchant of Venice" for next season.
Hamlet" and "Don Caesar de BaZan
will be included in their repertoire.
Lulu CHASER has signed for next season
with +. G. Whitney. She viii be seen in
new musical piece by Stanilaus Stanse
and Julian Edwards.
The news of the death of Fanny Morant,
at one tirIe, popular actress in this
country, has just reached America from
Brighton, England:
miss Simplicity" the r. A.. Barnet
! ful trial production some weeks ago, has
been secured by Frank Daniels for next
season
Francis ]. o'NaiiI, advance agent for
Henrietta Crossman last season, has ac-
cepted a position on the staff of the Phil
adelphia North American
Eugene Cowles. the former basso Of
the Alice Nielsen Company. arrived in
New York from London last "Wednesday
A feature of THE Explorers, the new
! musical comedy, which will be produced
for the first time tonight at the Dearborn
| Theatre, Chicago, will be a song en-
titled Cupid Might Have Been a Little
Coon, which viii be sung by chorus
of twenty colored women.
Daniel Frohman is spending a few
weeks at the Lakes of Killarney, ireland.
Mrs. Langtry has reIinquished the man
agement of the Imperial Theatre, London.
the scene of her dismal failure. "A Royal
Necklace" Herbert Waring succeeds her.
Katherine Osterman will forsake vaude-
vile next season and become a regular
star.
New plays are beginning to crop up
| thick and fast The latest is farce COM
edy called why Miss Wood Wouldn't"
Ralph Johnstone. whose marvellous
| feats on the wheel have interested vaude-
VILE patrons. will leave the stage and
| open u clothing establishment in New
York
Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines. :
with Ethel barrymore, had it's two hum
dredth performance last night at the
I Garrick Theatre. New York.
a dramatic version of Charles Reade'' s
novel. Peg Wellington, was recently
copyrighted at the Congressional Library
by Eugenia Blair. t4
adelaide Cdshman Morgan has secured
a decree of divorce from her husband,
Edward J. Morgan. the well-known ac-
Eric Hope is negotiating for the Amer
lean rights to new musical comedy,
| called ..The Golden Chord.
Zelma Rawlston will become a star.
JdIltS f1OEdH Is dt HbIh pii a INTERCOLLEGIATE
for her. 1t will be called The Great Sac
rifice."
Eleanor Falk has been engaged to sup
port the Russell Brothers in their new
play.
Maude FeaIy has been specially engag-
ed to play Babbie in a production of '1The
Little Minister" TO be given by the Bel
lows stock Company of Denver.
Lucienne Brevai has returned to Paris
and will appear at the Opera Comique in
. ff,. r1lea of Nu=e met nov Yer
"Griselidis.
"A Runaway Girl will be sent out
again next season with Arthur Dunn in
the role of F'Iipper, the jockey. which he
played successfully last year. Clara Belle
Jerome will continue in the Iart of Alice,
the maid.
Sarah Bernhardt has acquired the
rights to a new play entitled 'Bagdad,
by Lucie Delarne- Madrus.
A Japanese one-act play by Victor
Mapes, called "A Flower of Yeddo." will
be given at Keiths next week with a
special cast, including n. l. Jelenke. Net
tie Bourne. Edith Fassett, and Grace Glib
bons
Malcolm Williams. who appeared last
year as the first husband in ''Unleayened
Bread" and who is now leading man of
the Albee Stock Company. Providence, r.
l., has signed for an important role in
THE Altar of Friendship" Madeline Lu-
cette Ryleys play, in which Jacob Lift
will present John Mason as star.
E. f. Rice will be associated for IA time
next year with David Henderson in the
production of extravaganza at the Column
bia Theatre, Boston.
William Fayersham. in "a Royal
Rival. will be among the earliest attrae-
tions in New York next season. He viii
open at the Criterion Theatre August g.
benjamin Howard has been engaged to
succeed Robert T. Haines as leading man
with Viola Allen in In the Palace of the
King"
The Giffen Stock Company in Richmond
of which Grayce Scott is the ingenue
continues ia the glory of success. Last
performances to the receipts of about
s, 500
1.-The Forest Lovers. with Bertha
Galland as the star. will have its first
production at the Lyceum Theatre. New
York, September 8. The play is in five
acts.
Leo Ditrichstein's new play, THE Last
Appeal" will be seen for the first time
next fall al the Grand Opera House, Chi
man with Viola Allen and Mary Manner
ing, has been engaged for the leading role,
and others in the cast will be George g.
Boniface, sr., Anne Sutherland, John
Glendenning, Eleanor Carey and Alexis
Law Gesicko.
rip Van Winkle'' formed the bill pre-
sented by the Hopkins stock company,
Memphis, last week.
Lovers Lane" continues to draw
crowds to McVicker's Theatre, Chicago.
Georgia Cayvan the former favorite of
Daniel Frohman's Lyceum company. is
said to be dying at a sanitarium near
New York She is a physical and mental
wreck and is almost blind.
Gus Hill will have two companies of