The times., 1901-06-16
BRIEFLY TOLD.

| Lorna Doone" will have it's first pro-
duction tonight at the Grand Opera
/ House. Chicago.
/ Edward Emery VIII. play Lord Robert
! IRE with The Christian in support Of
/ Edward j. Morgan.
David BelascO has engaged Brandon
| lyman for The Auetioneer.' in which
/ David Warfield viii appear next season
/ as a star.
The Bostonians viii have a new opera
| entitled Maid Marian" Albert Parr.
who sang the tenor roles last season. has
/ been re-engaged and will have the role
I of Robin Hood in the new piece
A passion play was recently given at
I Chilliwacke. B. C, by band of 800
Siwash Indians under the direction of
/ Catholic missionaries.
J. J. Rosenthal will send THE Tele-
! phone Girl out next season, featuring
Irving Brooks as Hans Nix
Daisy Besley will replace Channez
( Olney in The Brtxton Burglary
Rose Coghlan and E j. Morgan will
| play star engagements with the Bellows
| stock company in Denver this summer.
Two new musical comedies by George
V. Hobart will be among next season 5
! productions They are The Daughters
| Dangerous for which Reginald DekOven
is writing the music, and The Happy
Honeymoon, the score of which will be
furnished by Gustav Luders.
Last Tuesday there was a baseball
game in Chicago between the principals
Z OF KING DOIO ana ne CdSlilO
1t will be followed by another game We'd
nesday between the victorious nine and
one recruited from the cast OF Brady $
Uncle Toms Cabin" The receipts Tor
! both events will be donated to the Actors
Fund.
/ The following people have been engaged
TO support James X. Hackett next sea
! son: Florence Kahn. w. J. LeMoyne, VIII
! ton Lackaye, Arthur Elliott, Charles
| Kent. Sydney Price. Clement Kirby, The
odore Hamilton Thomas A. Hall, Edward
ponnelly. Hale Hamilton, George lie Soir,
and William Lamb.
Mrs. Carter will play la Du Barry
in London after her American season.
She viii also revive 'Zaza" in the Eng
lish capital.
Eugene Cowles has resigned from the
Alice Nielsen company. now IN England
A disa greemcnt between the basSo and
star is given as the reason OF his retire
ment.
.'zaza." The Gay Lord Quex." An
American Citizen and Miss Hobbs
will be sent on tour through Australia by
George Edwardes. the London manager.
The time has arrived for the yearly an
nouncement of Julia ArthurS permanent
retirement from the stage. Every sum
mer Miss Arthur's press agent gives out
this startling news in giaring headlines
and the public is kept in fever Of sus-
pcnse lest it should really happen. This
time Miss Arthur states positively that
she Will retire unless indulgent house
/ managers will rent her their theatres out
right. that she may star in classic drama
J for the ediiCation anu education OF the
poor and needy.
/. Louis Nethersole brother and manager
OF Olga Nethersole, was married May
80 to Sadie Martinot who has been star
ring under his direction in "Sapho." Ncxt
sea son Miss MaTtinot VIII continue under
her husbands s management in new play
entitled The Marriage Game.
Mrs. Langtry's Marie Antoinette'
play has proved dismal failure. and the
star has been forced to bring her season
TO q close.
Charles Frohman will place Irene Van
brugh at the head Of his London stock
company Miss Nanbrugh's future hus-
/ band. Dion Boucicault, Will be installed
as stage manager.
1t is rumored that Edna May will re
main in England and that George Ed
wardes and Charles Frohman Will present
her in a new musical comedy called 'lhe
Three Little Maids" .
Nat Goodwin and Maxine Elliott sailed
for London last week and VIII not return
until the fall of 1903. While in England
they Will present When We Were
Twenty-one," Of which Mr.. Goodwin
owns the English rights, and new play
They will summer at their estate. Jack
wood Shooters Hill. Kent, and VIII nave
as their guests Gertrude Elliott and her
husband Forbes Robertson
Eta Butler, who has been a vaudeville
star and later scored quite a success in
The Prima Donna states that next
season she will star In a new comic opera
! now being written for her by Harry B.
Smith.
Howard Hall IS at work on play for
Nina Morris in which she will star under
the management Of Charles Il. Blaney.
Grace George will have the support Of
several distinguished actors when shG re
turns to the stage at the Repubilc inca
ire New York in November. Several
new plays have been secured for her. In
Guiding one by clyde Fitch whose 10y
ers' Lane" is making an Independent FOR
tune for William A Brady
The box Office returns indicate that
nearly l5uGD people Will see Nililam A
! Brady's big revival of Uncle Tom cab
in during its three weeks Al ChlcdSo
mammoth Auditorium.
Way Down East will begin its fourth
Chicago run August II, at McNic ickcr s.,
where II drew $TI 900 in seven weeks last
season.
Lovers Lane" by clyde Fitch, which
( William \. Brady has put on so success
! fully for q summer run at McN lckef 5,
Chicago after i've months IN New I nfk,
is Il thorouShgoinE outdoor play. us hrSt
act. a cleTgymaus study, SHOWS through
a big bay window a fine bit OF outside
peace and calm. The second act depicts
the village store the district school. ana
tree-shadI street. The third and
fourth acts show the orchard OF the par
sonagc with the lane which gives name
to the playa well shaded walk from the
minister's house to his church one
scene shows the apple orchard. with real
trees weighted by ripening iruit' the