Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-20
Plays md PIaYera

/ Chauncey Olcott has decided to spend
his summer vacation in Europe.
May Irwin Is making her farewell tour
of America in "The Widow Jones'"
John oliver Hobbies has written a new
comedy entitled The Flute of Pan"
Frances Burkhardt, at one time prima
donna of Frank Daniels company, recently
died in Boston.
Thomas seabrooke has signed a contract
with BENJAMIN Harris to play his old part
in ''The Rounders.'
Walter E. Perkins will soon produce a
dramatization of Mary E. wilkins novel,
jerome, a Poor Man."
A report comes from New York that Olga
Nethersole is to produce "Sapho' at the
Adelphi theater in London.
Reports from Cape Town. South Africa,
say that Nance ONell has met with great
success there in La Tosca" and
A drama that may soon be produced is
built upon incidents in the life of Caroline
of Brunswick, wife of George Nv of Eng
land.
Lambs club in New York will be the
permanent home in that city of Henrietta
Crosman.
Mrs. Richard Mansfield sailed for Europe
last week, in company with Mr.. and Mrs.
A. NJ. Palmer. Mr.. Mansfield will go abroad
at the end of his season.
Bronson Howard is now able to be out Of
doors a few hours each day. although his
condition still causes anxiety. He is shortly
to go to Palermo from Nice.
Gilbert Parker has sold the American
FTohman. The latter intends to star VIII
liam Faversham in the piece.
Anna Held has practically decided to play
a summer engagement in Chicago, and in
September to sail for Paris. She will prob
ably remain abroad all of next season.
May Irwin, who is one Of the richest
women in the acting business, recently
wrote a magazine article with the head
ing: "A Stage Career Not Profitable"
David Belasco is to sail for Europe next
month, and, II is reported, he will meet
a noted foreign playwright with a view
year.
antics OF small, select and specially en-
gagged ballets made up of professional
dancers.
Mrs. Patrick Campbelps tour Of this
country will probably net her a cool $4,000.
Many OF the critics have not been kind to
her, but the financial harvest is drawing
her back to the United States next season.
Chicago is to have two new theaters In
about another year. Both OF them are 10
Dearborn, and to cost 100000, while the
present management of the Dearborn is to
construct another theater near the present
site of that playhouse.
Bertha Creighton will make a starring
tour next season under the management OF
Jeitles & Co. The name of the play in
which she will appear has not yet been
made public. Miss Creighton was for some
time the leading woman OF the Woodward
stock company and played with them dur
ing their Omaha engagement.
II the L~ondoners fail to take to ben
Hur' Che reports say the piece was Kissed
and the critics scored II badly there will
be a small fortune lost on the undertaking.
OF all pieces selected for the English stage,
the dramatization of General Wallace's
masterpiece looked to nave the best chance
for success. But there Is no guessing the
London play patrons.
The custom of adopting stage names
seems to be less commonly followed now
than It used to be. A writer in a Brooklyn
paper points out that in the olden DAYS
not one in a hundred stage performers
appeared before the public under his own
name. OF the three "Billys" of minstrelsy
whose deaths were recorded recently, Billy
Emerson, Billy Rice and Billy West, Emer-
sons real name was William Redmond,
Rice's William Pearl and Vests John MUIR
ply.