Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20
STAGE NOTES.

MISS Mildred lowing, auCnOr OF the
dramatization of Lorna Doone, to be
produced this week in Chicago, is now
there. Her home is at Melrose, Mass,
where she lives in a colonial resi-
dence, The Hermitage, much visited
by writer's and players. Lorna DoOne
is far from being a first effort on Miss
Dowling's part. Through a young wo-
man, she has been writing for the
stage for several years. She is best
known as a colaborer with the late
H. G. DeMille and with David Belasco.
She prepared herself for a career as
an actress, but never appeared upon
the stage in professional capacity
preferring to turn her efforts toward
dramatic compositions. She gradual
ed from a school of oratory in Boston
and also from a school of acting in
New York. She rewrote The Main
Line for Mr. DeMille, and he is said to
have paid her $500. AS private secre-
tary for the same author, she colabor
ated with him On The Lost Paradise
Dangerfeld, g, was her first original
play. 1t was first acted in Cam
bridge. Mass, she herself taking the
leading feminine part and Harry
Woodruff appearing in the title role.
Annie Russell, both in this country
and in London.
The preposterous questions asked
box office men have been turned fire.
quently into Jokes by the comic pa
pers. R. L. Giffen, who is running a
stock company at Richmond, Va, has
stored in his mind a number of genu-
inc interrogations put through the
treasurer's window at the Academy
of Music in that city at moments when
Mr. Giffen has been within earshot.
Most of them have emanated from
would-be theater-goers hailing from
small towns. One man, who had in
quired what the prices were, was told
that they were Is cents downstairs
and so cents upstairs. Thereupon he
asked (Which gives the better show?"
During the opening week an ungainly
individual sided to the gate in search
of information as to the name of the
attraction Charity BALI he was
briefly told. To this he answered,
For what benefit?" A few days af-
terward a bride and bridegroom bear
ing unmistakable marks of truly-rural-
ism wound up a series of leading ques-
lions with the query as to the hour the
performance would conclude. When
they learned it was shortly after
eleven o'clock they put their heads to-
gether and then asserted they guessed
they wouldn't step in, as they were
afraid their hotel would be locked by
that time.
Miss Ethel Barrymore is now the
only woman star at New York thea
ter. Last week she was kept from
that prominence by Miss Julia Mar
lowe, who was giving When Knight
hood Was in Flower. Miss Barry
more's comedy, Captain Jinks, in nine
teen weeks has been given 1853 per-
formances, and Miss Mariowe's ro-
mantle play, with one performance
less a week, has been shown 157 times
in twenty-five weeks. No time has
been set for the ending of Miss Barry |
more's stay at the Garrick theater. |
Aside from her stage work the year |
has been a heavy one for Miss Barry |
more, for she has now to support her |
father, brilliant but unhappy Maurice |
Barrymore, and her youngest brother,
John, who hopes to be an artist. Miss |
Barrymore is the niece of John Drew,
and her talents are in part heritage |
from her mother, the late Georgia |
Drew Barrymore. She made her first |
appearance on the stage in 1896 as a
of John Drew's company. A
part of her training was gained under
Sir Henry Irving.
Children play a CONSPICUOUS part in |
the new Clyde Fitch play, Lovers
Lane, now at McVicker's, Chicago.
The second act shows district school
and when the curtain rises half a
hundred little onesare frolicing about,
for it is recess time. Some are skip
ping rope, some playing marbles,
some having a game of ring-around
Lhe-rosy; others are playing hide-and-
seek. The minister comes to visit
the school and Immediately he is sur
by the children and implored
TO play London bridge with them
Previous to this two boys have had a
fight in good honest fashion and the
teacher and girls have united in their
efforts to Quell the battle Just as the