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| ing the past summer in the Transvaal
The scenery was painted by JOSEF Physiac
and has also been reprovised from photo
graphs taken u,, on the spot There Will he
| matinees on Thursday and Saturday ar
! the regular scale OF prices viii prevail
AOIDE
The House That Jack Built" closes ITS
season,tonight.
Augustus Pitou. c. B. Jefferson and Jo-
seph Arthur all own orange groves in
! Florida.
Douglass Jeffreys Wood. son OF Manager
. Goodtriend OF Charles Frohman's bu-i-
| ness staff. has been engaged by David y
.,S .asco Tor the Leslie Garter company an
1t is now expected that ."rhe Way of The
I tire season.
Clara Bloodsood is booked for a starring
! tour next season under the direction ~
Charles Frohman.
| well-known London author is adapting
| the odyssey Of Homer into a drama ua-
| de. the title of Ulysses"
Henrietta Crosman is thinking seriously
/ of letting London see how she can play
'Rosalind" next season.
! In The Forest Lovers" there are llo
music cues" A fair average for nom
| musical plays would be, say, forty or fifty.
Walker whitesaide is now playing the
principal role in Robert OF Sicily" On
/ tour. and will probably take the piece inJc
New York about the first OF the year.
"The Runaway Girl" now touring the
south, has closed down for week on ac-
count of the death of the father OF Arthur
DUNN principal comedian OF the play.
Isabel Irving has replaced Jessie Bate
man as the leading lady in "A Messenger
| from Mars" the latter lady returning to
England on account OF Illness In her family.
Kyrle Bellew kills so many people in "A
! Gentleman OF France that Il has been
suggested that the production needs a
coroner more than II does a stage manager.
| Nina Harrington has secured her release
| from the Kings Carnival company and
! has signed with the Sire Brothers for thei'
forthcoming musical production In New
York.
Florence Jane Tree OF London. a niece of
Beerbohm Tree, the English actor-manager.
was married In Boston last week to Prof.
otto Frederick Heineman of the city of
| culture
A. Toxon Worm, a Chicago Journalist,
kas signed with the Liebler company to do
advance work. and will probably go ahead
of Mrs Patrick Campbell when she tours
| this country.
Augustus Thomas Is making good head
way with his adaptation of Richard Harl-
| ing Davis Soldiers OF Fortune" and Rob-
ert Edeson will have the leading role when
1 IL is first presented
Lawrence Hanley is in a Salt Lake hos
pital suffering from nervous prostration
ana on the verge of typhoid fever. He was
1 TO Join the James ONeill company on it's
! trip to Honolulu.
king Dodo.' the opera which ran all
summer in Chicago created something OF
sensation in st. Paul and Minneapolis
the week S receipts for both cities reach
/ ing the round sum Of $4,000.
Molle Swartz. retired German actress
| living in Cleveland. went insane when she
received the news that her daughter. Bon
ME Lotta had perished in the theater fire
at Hurley, Wis. last week.
Amelia Mora" an operate comedy by
| the late Gus Hege. "Ole Oleson" will be
| sent on the road next month, Clarence
! Feeming being the manager and Arthur
Donaldson will play the principal part.
Emily Wakeman who has been appear
ing in Lovers Lane" has been engaged 10
| create part in The Judge and the Maid"
which is being written by Clyde Fitch for
| Annie Russell.
| Rhoda Cameron of The Forest Lovers
| last appeared in Washington as the prin-
cess in Mrs. Craigie's John Oliver HobbsD
play, The Ambassador" given by Daniel
| F'rohman's Company.
After completing the play, "A Queen of
| Society,"" for Mrs. Langtry, Cecil Raleigh
had it returned to him as not being up to
the standard. law suit may follow the
! rejection of the piece.
Bijou Fernandez. who has been I'll for
some time. has been forced to retire for
the time being from the cast of THE Climb
ers." Her part of Miss Godesby is being
taken by Florence Lloyd.
The friends of the late John w Kelly
.the Rolling Mill Man." will shortly hold
a benefit in Philadelphia to raise funds
with which to purchase a monument to
mark the popular monologists grave.
Lille Decima Moore. an English prima
donna, who was married during a tour OF
the United States in 1894 to Cecil Walker
Leigh, has obtained a divorce from him on
the ground of cruelty and unfaithfulness.
successful, and after playing Philadelphia
the past week goes to Chicago for re
peat engagement of six weeks. Mr. Skim
ner opens in New York the first of the
year.
Failing to secure an engagement Ida Bur-
rows committed suicide i'm New York last
Tuesday night. Miss Burrows hailed from
Wheeling W. Va, and her last engage
ment was with stock company at Port
land, Me-
Geo. Alexander has secured ''If I Were
King" Justin McCarthy's new play, for a
London production. Mr. Alexander will
have the leading part depicting Villon,
Swinburns 'our sad, bad, glad, mad
brother
"Petticoats and Bayonets' closed its sea-
son at Elmira, n. Y. last Saturday night
and the members of the company returned
to New York. Arthur Byron, formerly
leading man with John Drew, was the star
of the piece.
The success of Lulu CHASER In Dolly
Warden mas impressed the New York man
ayers. and Mr.. Whitney has secured an
opening at the Herald Square Theater to
commence the latter part Of January. The
opera will be put on for run.
The stage censors of Paris have prohib-
tied the production of Antoine's Review"