Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-09

Brooklyn is to have a Jewish theater.
Boston may have a permanent home for
English opera.
Valerie Bergere is to star in a play called
Laurence Irving will bay Valentine in
his fathers. revival of Faust" at the
opening of the London season.
When Henry VIII is played at STRAIT
ford in April Ellen Terry viii appear as
Queen Katherine.
Bernhard and Rejane are both OF the
opinion that a permanent French theateI
would pay In New York.
e. H. Sothern, according to report, will
appear next season In Hamlet" and IF ]
Were King"
woman's role in THE Diplomat" with VIII
liam Collier.
Mrs. Clara Bloodgood will head her own
| company, but not as a star, next season,
in a new society drama by Clyde Fitch.
A new comedy by Martha Morton Is being
rehearsed by William Collier. The play has
been named The Diplomat"
The ~Forepaugh-Sells Bros circus will
begin the season of 1902 at Madison Square
Garden, New York, April 1.
1t has almost become a settled fact that
Fay Templeton. will leave Weber & Fields
at the end of this season and go out as a
star in a musical comedy next fall.
Bronson Howard, who has been Ill al
week, greatly improved, and It is probable
that he will return to America In the
spring.
III Hopper HDpedTdnCo III MI.
Pickwick" next season will be under the
management of E. r. Reynolds, who will
also present Jefferson De Angels in a new
comic opera
Augustus Thomas has signed a contract
by the terms of which he agrees to furnish
a new play each season for hve years for
the use of Charles Frohman. The first
play Of the series will be a farcical comedy.
Liebler & Co. lave announced that WILL
liam Norris win star under their manage
ment next season In a decentralization OF
Henry NJ. Blossoms Checkers"
Olga Nethersole may, according to re-
port, make a tour in the United States
Shipman Bros. Negotiations are now in
progress.
The debut as a concert singer of Alice
singer In the United States. was recently
made In London at the Queens hall and
was decidedly successful.
Alexander Dumas is writing a play for
Kathryn Kidder, which will be produced
next season. During Miss Kidder's visit
to Europe last hummer she was the guest
dence In the suburbs of Paris.
Yvette Guiibert,s novel. La vedette.'
Just published in Paris, draws a vivid pic.
singers. their trials, hardships and tempta-
lions: An English translation Of the book
IL promised.
Word received recently from Mr.. Hall
Game indicates HIS visit to this country in
the spring to confer with Miss Viola Allen
prior to Miss Aliens departure for Europe
The date OF his coming Is not yet definitely
fixed
the comic opera line from which somethinE
should be heard-Wil M. Cressy, the WELL
known vaudeville sketch writer, and Max
opera. Amelia Nora"
Richard Mansfield and Otis Skinner will
become rivals next season by acting the
same part. Ivan the Terrible" Mr.. Mans
Held will use a dramatization of a novel
by. Count Leo. Tolstoi. while Mr.. Skinner
Will have a play taken from Alexis Toll
stois prince Serebraeny." by Edgar
Hoyer, a Danish dramatist, and trans
lated into English by A. Token Worm.
Edwtn Booth, who died In 1893, probably
made more money than any other PLAYER
Of his time. His share in the three years
the Booth-Barrett combination existed
days he gave away and lost cash right and
left, particularly as a manager, and, for ali
that, at his death he left a fortune of over
100000. Yet they say the public only want