Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-07
PLAYS md Players.

Mrs. Fiske in MARY of Magdala" con-
tinues to draw we'll at the Manhattan in
New York.
Eleanor Robson has made a hit in
Audrey" but the New York press is in
clined to poke fun at the play itself.
Viola Allen is still struggling TO make the
Han Caine play. The Eternal CITY, n go.
but the papers refuse to look on 1t as a
thing to reverence.
Mrs. Carter will make a short tour In
west as Omaha. She viii have a new play
York.
Grace Cameron is singing at her old
home In Cedar Rapids, Ia, and the people
over there are making a to do over the
fact that she Is a Hawkeye girl. One
Geds ag Rapids paper gives her age at mot
Virginia Harmed closed her season in
Iris at the Criterion in New York last
night, and will make a short tour before
the holidays. Julia Marlowe opens at the
Criterion tomorrow night in "Th Cava-
story.
Nat Goodwin and Maxine Elliott were
play, The Altar of Friendship" Mrs.
Ryley, has given In this better evidence OF
vided the Goodwins with better parts than
they have had for years.
Blanche Bates opened her New York
season at the Belasco in THE Darling of
the Gods on Wednesday night. The piece
is a sort of japanese problem play, the
matter being viewed rather from an Anglo
Saxon notion of honor than the accepted
decidedly spectacular affair. too, and gives
Miss Bates an excellent chance.
Louis Mann has closed his season in
",Hoch der Consul" and is said to be under
the doctors care for throat trouble. Which
reminds one that Julia Marlowe collapsed"
a few weeks ago when I Fiamenta"
think that Eugenia Hayden was in luck
when she discovered that she couldn't get
Annie Oakley has been making a hit
among the tall and uncut in the east
with her play, The Western Girl" She
introduces, OF course, her craftsmanship,
the dramatic editor of The Bee, she says:
mo more circus nr wild west for Annie"
Her Nebraska friends will be glad to know
work.
Helen GRAVITY had the time Of her life
at Burlington, Ia, on Thanksgiving. She
suffered the humiliation of not being al
lowed to finish her performance. The Bur-
lington Gazette tells of the AFFAIR thus:
Miss Helen GRAVITY, with her company,
who appeared last evening in Her Lord
and Master at the Grand opera house, We're
the recipients OF boots and Kisses from
the gallery throughout the performance and
the insults reached a climax in the middle
of the last act, at which time the curtain
was rung down and an announcement made
that Miss Grant, was unable to continue
under the noisy conditions which prevailed.
The company was not up 10 the average,
ana the BdlleiNs leIl 10 manage llSelI IN
the absence of the regular police officer,
who was Ill, took advantage of the situa-
tion and became an unruly lot, hooting,
kissing and yelling until those I'm the ball
cony and on the first floor were at times
as visibly affected as those on the stage.
The whole affair was a disappointment 10
those who visited the theater anticipating
a pleasant evening"
. The extraordinary vitality shown by Sarah
B%ernhardt, a woman far past the meridian
OF life, eNcitts the surprise of all who know
her. Her attack upon her audience in Rer-
lin was conducted with all the ardor and
audacity OF a young "cOnquertng woman.
That she met with a chilly reception from
the critics was to have been expected, for,
apart from her political views. her style
of acting and the plays she presented are
Old-fashioned to Berlin audiences, accus-
toned 10 the novelties OF Hauptmann,
Sudermann and the rest. And, then, Duse.
with hep repressed, anti-theatric methods
has given the Germans something more 70
their liking. IL was I'm the ultra-classic
alone that Sarah really pleased In "Phedre. -
AS an example of her tirelessness II Is
recorded that last year while at Rouen,
France, on Saturday night she played.