Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-29

EN- will undertake a southern tour next
season. with his wife. Rose Stahl. in the
title role, formerly played by Mary Man
That Omaha did not fare so very badly
last season Is evidenced by the fact that
New York is just very much taken up with
ing its first run In Chicago. In this re-
gard Omaha kept pretty well up with the
big ones.
The latest word regarding the Sarah
Bernhardt-Maude Adams Romeo and
Juliet sensation is that the production will
be made in October. with Bernhardt as
the Romeo and Miss Adams as Juliet. The
stars will speak French; the rest of the
company English.
Judge Bum, at St Paul. decided the suit
for the Sardou plays In favor Of Melbourne
Mcdowell. and ordered that Clarence NJ.
Bruno and partners make an accounting
McDowells plea was that he was drunk
when he made the sale to Bruno.
A comedy by Pierre Weber. lately brought
published by the Dramatic Mirror, about
the worst that has been played at the
\ N irl 1ro theateT, which T5 has had TIL" The
of female Jekyll and Hyde, a respectable
matron in her home village and in Paris
the mistress OF a roue.
The story has been ahoat that Florence
Davis, a granddaughter of Jefferson Davis
and an actress new TO the profession, would
be Otis SINNERS leading woman next sea-
son. Joseph Buckley. Mr.. SINNERS man
ager, says that he had never heard Of Miss
Davis and that Nanette Comstock would
have the leading female role in "LaZarre.'
Announcement is made to the effect that
Messrs. Wpgenhals and Kemper have Just
signed contracts for a period OF three years
ance under heI new management will be in
a new play from the pen of Stanislaus
STANCE. author of QUO Vadis' and other
founded on Flaubert's famous book, "Sa-
lammbo.' The dramatic severity OF tho
theme, with its barbaric splendors, natu-
rally grIUnngfG a EnnnfannlgT setting In
which direction Managers Wagenhals and
Kemper have an established reputation.
The librettos of W. s. Gilbert are to have
ready written some of the prefaces. In
the preface to Patience he says that
Bunthorne was originally intended as a
satire upon the traditional English .curate
and the opera was almost completed when
the author began to feel shaky as to the
merciiess a criticism Of the cloth, Finally
he decided 1t would not do. The curate
good to be wasted. The aesthetic craze
was just reaching full swing. Mr.. Gilbert
slashed his li6retto' ousted the SGUH ra ate
handed Patience over to the public and
the critics.
Maeterlinck's new drama, ."Monna
not get a hearing in London in the regu-
lar order because of the censor's objections
ately overcame the obstacle presented by
the liccnser's objections. says, the New
York Sun. They organized the London
Maeterlinck society, hired a hall and sub
scribed for the seats in advance, thereby
placing themselves outside the licenser's
authority. TIL Times gives the play a col
umn notice. 1t also prints a letter Of pro
test against the censor's action, which Il
signed by George Meredith, Thomas Hardy
Maurice Hewlett, Mrs. Craigie and others
Mrs. Pat Campbell has found in 'Monns
Vauna" the kind of material to which she
likes to devote her art and compel remun'
erative attention. The plot is in a genera
way similar to that of 'Nadjesda," which
Maurice Barrymore wrote for Helena Mod
jeska, and other pieces involving q
woman's sacrifice of herself for the SAX,
of some beloved person or cause. In this
case, however, the affair does not lead t.
the heroine's degradation. The general o.
an army besieging an Italian town offers e
send food to the starving inhabitants Il
their governor will let his wife spend ont
night In the enemy's tent. She goes with
out her husbands knowledge to comply
with the demand But the general recog
nizes in her the sweetheart of his you'll
and therefore treats her politely. The sub
sequent action depends on the jealous hus
bands disbelief in his wife's loyalty Il
him