Evening star., 1902-01-04
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a millionaire. but his wealth only foots np
$1,000.
Anthony Hope has written a play fun OF
satire on royalty and their distribution OF
honors. II viii have an early presentation
tn London
Frank Bryan and Pat Reilly. proprietors
of Reilly Woods Buriesquers. ara going
TO put a genuine melodrama on the road
next season
Mcintyre and Heath. the vaudeville team
best known for their Georgia Minstrels
sketch. have been together as stage part
ners since 1874.
My Best Girl" a musical comedy by
Seymour Hicks. the English player-m&n-
ager. is to have its first presentation In
London next month.
Charles E. Power. business manager OF
Minnie Maddern Fiske since ls9a. died N
stroke of apoplexy.
Madame Melba, when she left Australia
years ago, sang before an audience that
represented only 81 or 81 She has never
sung in her native land since.
Mrs. Carter in ~Du Barry" has been such
great success in New York that ticket
Spectators are reported 10 be getting as
high as $40 for the best seats.
The Castle Square Opera Company began
this week in Chicago an engagement OF
twenty weeks, the first ten OF which viii
be given over to grand opera.
Sadie Martinez has not been the success
expected in this country. and may make a
tour of Germany in the German version OF
'Sapho' and The Marriage Came
New York has over sixty theaters IN
operation, yet there are men still alive
there who can remember when the town s
amusement wants were supplied by two.
Mary Mannering played "Frou Frou"
and Camille" at special matinees in San
Francisco during the past week and
scored big successes in both characters.
E. D. Stair. who heads the syndicate con-
trolling the Academy of Music and twenty
other theaters admits in an interview that
he Will clear $3o00Jo on the present season.
Mrs Anne Adams Glidden. the mother OF
Maude Adams, recently obtained divorce
from her husband on the grounds OF bru-
taiity and non-support. at Evanston. Wyo.
Advices from Honolulu are to the effect
that Captain Strong and May Yohe are in
straitened circumstances and that both
viii go on the stage to recoup their losses.
Anna and Margaret Robinson made their
first stage appearance In Shenandoah"
at Bowery theater, New York, several
years ago and their advance has been
rapid
The amusement Alexanders are always
Weber and Fields are thinking of taking
their vaudeville company TO Mexico next
spring.
many Irish vaudeville sketches. died in a
New York hospital last week as a result OF
a fractured skull received in falling from a
street car.
Arthur Forrest has retired from the Dam
iel Frohman Stock Company and Eugene
Ormonde has been given the part assigned
to him in the forthcoming production OF
'Frocks and Frills.''
Della Fox will make her first try at
straight comedy in a few weeks, appearing
in a piece called La Petite Mademois-
ellie" by an unknown author. There are
but ten speaking parts.
David Belasco was presented with a mas
sive loving cup by the Du Barry Company
just the new year broke over the New
York theater. Speeches and refreshments
followed the presentation.
Sydney Ayres, leading man of Philadel-
phia stock company, will be starred by the
Shipman Bros. in Heart and Sword"
Walker Whiteside is the author of the piece
and played in it last winter.
According to several of the leading man.
ayers of the country there IS no longer any
great anxiety to secure plays from books.
Only few of those built on this plan have
been substantial successes.
Clric b. Collins did so well in Boston IN
the part of Squire Bartlett in a travesty
ION Way Down East" that William A.
Brady engaged him for that part in the
original production of that play.
Haddon Chambers has Cancelled his trip
to this country and will go to Egypt in
stead. The postponement of the presenta-
tion of THE Honorable Herbert in New
York caused the change OF plans.
More American plays We're brought out
by Charles Frohman this season than ever
before and the great manager acknowI-
edges that his earnings are considerably
in excess of all his previous records.
The following plays were recently copy
righted: When the Sun Goes Down. ="
Sins of the Father" Daughters of the
Anarchist THE Woman Who Does Not
Come and Celestial, a Birthday Present" T"
signor Sanzogno. whose prize of slo.0oG
offered for the best opera by an Italian.
Rusticana," has recently offered SIM
liar prize for the best ore-act opera In any
language.
Boston the Goth of this month playing
Under Two Flags" Eugene Ormonde will
be her leading man. Mr.. Ormonde resigns
from "Frocks and Frills' to accept this
engagement.
Charles Frohman has Cancelled the out
of-town dates of Charles Hawtry In "A
Message from Mars and he will remain
In New York all the season. Mr.. Hawtry
has been a big success and he will make
a tour next year
When "The Climbers resumes it's road
tour January 81 Cora Tanner will have
Amelia Bingham's role. Werner Charges
will have the old mans part. Miss Bing-
ham opens in New York in Lady Marga-
ret on that date.
The New York Lyceum Theater is to be
demolished in the spring to make way for
office buildings. With the passing OF the
Lyceum New York will lose one of the
most steadily prosperous and profitable
playhouses of its entire list.