Evening star., 1901-09-07

be rendered by the orchestra prior TO the
rising of the curtain, which Will be at the
usual hOur-21o at the daily matlheeS anu
S:f5 in the evening.
Forest Robinson has returned to his old
manager. Charles Frohman, and VIII play
the leading role in the Sky Farm this |
season. Katherine Florence Williams will
be the leading lady.
Lorrimer Stoddard the young American
playwright, who died at Sag Harbor last
Saturday. left an estate valued at sSo.Ooo,
together with his several acted plays and
three yet to be staged.
NJ Nicolini, a stepson of Adelina Patti,
will sing in concerts in London the coming
winter. He has a pleasant tenor voice, ana
is said to resemble his late father in ap-
pearance.
A cablegram from Australia says that
Wilson Barrett has created a sensation
with his own play, Man and His Maker,
the principal theater in Melbourne being
packed nightly to see the performance.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward has dramatized
her novel Eleanor" and there is hope
that a certain very gifted English actress
may create the part of Lucy when the
drama is submitted to the public.
CfnuuevaIu the celebrated French Jug
sler will probably visit this country the
coming season, and his first engagement
will carry him over the Keith circuit OF
The gradual disappearance of the comic
singer from the English music halls mas
created considerable newspaper comment
in London, and much correspondence re-
lating to the matter is being published.
A cablegram from London, received IN
New York last Tuesday. said that A. w.
Pinero's latest play, which goes to panlei
Frohman, is to be called Iris. Hlida
SpOng will play the title role
Benjamin Howard and Jennie Eustace
will be the two new members OF Viola Al
lens company. Miss Eustace's splendid
work with Henry Miller last season at
tracted attention all over the country.
Another play from the pen of Joseph
Arthur will probably be produced this sea-
son. 1t is romance. with the scenes laid
in Florida. Mr.. Arthur is just completing
it. and he has decided to call the piece
''Kis- -sm-mee.
The management of "The Last Appear
will run a special train exclusively for
dramatic critics from New York to Phila-
delpha when that piece is given it's first
presentation in the latter city on the 18th
instant.
F. S Wizards tour of this country the
coming season will be a long one, as he
appears in Portland, Me. and also San
Francisco. He will appear in his old roper
toire with the exception of a new play, yet
unnamed.
The first performance of 1.-The Gay Mr..
Goldstein" was given at New Haven last
Saturday night and substantial success
was scored The trio of stars in the piece,
Mary Hampton. Thomas ]. Keogh and
George BOniface, scored individual hits.
When Mrs Langtry returns to her Lon |
don theater the Imperial. she will produce |
q comedy by T.. F. Benson, who wrote the |
novel "DOdO." A four-act play by Cecil |
Raleigh will follow the Benson piece. sgd |
ney Grundy is also preparing play for
Mrs. Langtry.
The overcrowding of London theaters is
to be regulated by law hereafter on the
same plan that which pertains to steam
boats in English waters Each house will
he licensed to hold SO many persons, and
prosecutions will be brought if the legal
number is exceeded.
Washington, after all. will not be de-
prived of its privilege of sitting in judg-
ment upon Mrs. Leslie Carter's new play
Rehearsals will begin on The Du Barry
in New York city October 1. and the |
initial performance will be given on the |
stage of the New National Theater on the |
night Of November %.
Charles Frohman has secured a new
musical comedy entitled My Best Girl.
written by Seymour Hicks, with lyrics by
William Slaughter, composer of the music
in Alice in Wonderland" The manage
Inent of the Prince of Wales Theater. Lon
don. who have the English rights, will
present the comedy at that house during
the season, producing it after the engage |
ment of Marie Tempest
Miss Amelia Bingham's first appearance
in this city in The Climbers" will be the |
theatrical novelty of the season. This |
comedy of modern society by Clyde Fitch |
ran for 300 nights at the Bijou Theater, |
New York. 1t tells the story of the daugh- |
ter of a fashionable woman. who, unaided
by her shallow mother and frivolous Sis
ters, struggles courageonsly. although un-
happily welded to live up to high ideals
This role will be played by the actress
manager
Managers Wagenhals and Kemper are
firm believers in the virtues of pictorial
poster work as a medium of advertising,
matter what class of attraction is con-
templated. They have obtained splendid
array of the most impressive designs for
the Modjeska-James tour in Henry VIII.
which are claimed to be the finest speci-
mems of lithOgraphy issued in long while.
They are certain to be In great demand
from the poster collectors throughout the
country.
Eugene Garfield will be remarked to his
former wife Hattie Richmond, tomorrow a
week in New York. Miss Richmond was
divorced from Garfield In 1887 and subse
quently married man by the name of Nc
Keen who died about a year ago. Garfield
and Miss Richmond were married about
tventy-one years ago when Charles Hoyt
was launching his first successes. The
couple met in New York for the first time
i'll five years last Monday, and happy re-
union followed.
There are several important attractions
announced to open next Monday, Septem-
Der .. as follows: Louis Mann and Cara
1pman in The Red KloOf'' in Providence,
T.. II. Sothern at the Garden Theater in
Richard Lovelace:' William Gillette In
London at the Lyceum Theater in "Sher
lock Holiness THE Liberty Bellies" in
Philadelphia at the Chestnut Street Thea
ter; The Pentent at the Park Theater,
Boston: Joseph Wheelock in a new YER
sion of Ten Nights in Barroom' at the
Boston Grand Opera House.
The company that is to be seen In THE
Chaperons' Will be known as Frank l..
Periey's Comedians" Manager Perley has
ordered all his printing to have that line at
the top Of the sheet. To a friend In New
York Mr.. Perley explains that his object Is
two-fOld. In the first place, his main de-
sire is that the company playing The
Chaperons" will not be confused in any
way with the Nelson Opera Company.
with which his name has been connected
from the first. After that he wanted
distinctly new and distinguishing name for