Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-21
Plays and Players.

1t Is common gossip In New York that
Frank Daniels and Kirke La Shelle will
part company after this season.
Edward Milton Royle and Selma Fetter
Royie are doing. great busines In the
northwest with their revival of Friends
Robert Mantell will try a season in Aus
tralia, leaving for that country next sum-
mer. Martin Harley. who has been man
aging Mr.. Mantell for seven years, will re-
main in this country.
Jennie Yeamans has decided not to as
sumo the title role in. Sally in Our Alley"
until the piece takes the road. In the mean
while Miss Reina Davies, n former show
girl, is playing the part in New York.
Joe Welch, well known locally as an i'm
~personatOr of the Yiddish sChnOrrer, has
elaborated his vaudeville sketch into a
three-act play, which was produced with
some success In New York last week.
Don't worry about the supply of comic
operas. Five at least are being prepared
for next season and the list is not yet
closed up. The danger seems TO be that
the comedians will not equal the demand.
Nancy Brown is the title Of the musical
comedy being written by Frederick Rankin
who is to star under the management Of
Daniel V. Arthur. 1t was named after the
song.
Marie Dressler, who is slowly recovering
from a severe attack of typhoid fever, is
to have a monster benefit in New York,
Charley Ross Of Ross & FsntSn has
scription list with 500 for two seats.
George Evans. well known on the vaude-
Vile stage as the Honey Boy" will be
started out as a star in the musical comedy
called I'm the Good Old Summer Time
about. the first of the year. Sullivan, Har-
ris and Woods will finance the venture.
for the production of The Girl and the
after New Years. Mr.. ,Delcher has Sc
cured all the Annie Russell accessories and
scenery for Miss Grantly.
Just to show that the Belasco theater and
the Belasco plays are not popular IN New
seats for Blanch Bates in the Darling Of
the Gods" are sold up to February l. At
this point the sale was stopped.
Hanlon's "Superba" has been revived and
is making something like its old-time furore
in the east. Recently the Hanlons pub
lished a card in the dramatic papers, call
ing attention to the fact that they are no
longer connected in any way with lie
Voyage En- Suisse
James ]. Brady, prince Of good fellows
and the peer Of any press agent has sey-
LANCER productions and will go to Europe
for the R~inglings. Mr.. Brady's Omaha
friends were looking forward to a visit
from him next week.
Hiram, the merry sultan of Sulu, has
made quite as complete a conquest or cul-
where we know the cocktail better. Ali
the papers OF Beantown are engaged In a
competition as to which can say the incest
things aDout George AIDES satire.
A wealthy woman Of London, who read
in the papers that Sarah Bernhard was
born in Germany, wrote TO the great
actress and received the following reply:
Madam, you have been deceived by scan
dal mongering papers. l was born in Paris,
in the Rue st. Honore. My mother, Julie
Bernhard, was Dutch, and my father a
F~renchman."
Chicago has had a fairly strenuous week
in the line of the thought play. Duse
has been at one house with her collection
Of D'Annunzio's morbid poems, while Vtr-
ginia Harmed has unfolded the woes of
Arthur Wing Pinero's unhealthy Iris at
another. Fortunately for Chicago, Richard
earle and May de Sousa have been max
ing fun in one theater and there has been
a minstrel show at a fourth, so the people
OF the Windy City have not been entirely
deprived of amusement.
Omaha people who saw the Sothern per-
Torrance will cheerfully indorse this from
the Minneapolis Times: Now and again
there comes upon the stage a man who. re-
minds the oldsters OF what was required
twenty years ago from actors who essayed
legitimate roles. Mr.. George Wilson, who
i-mpeFsonates Louis Xl in a current attrac-
the school OF q generation ago whom the
youngsters, as well as the oldsters, can
we'll afford TO applaud. When Mr.. Wilson
learned to act, Hamlet's advice to the play
ers meant something TO the successors OF
those to whom II was addressed originally.
I Mr.. Wilton never seems to think OF the
effect upon the audience of his acting, but
evidently thinks a good deal OF his enbodi-
ment into the part OF the superstltlous'
crafty. powerful. yet fearsOme king. It is
much to be regretted that there are rot
more actors Of Mr.. Wilson's caliber upon
any way In dispraise OF the excellence of
stars or support who have not had the
benefit OF old-time traditions, of old-time
training"