Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-16
Plays and

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sixty-four stock companies throughout
the country propose to keep going through
the warm weather.
Kathryn Kidder will revive The Country
Girl" opening in April. George H. Bren-
nan Will manage the tour.
Minnie ,Ttttell Bruno. has resumed her
vocal studies, with the intention, It is said,
OF going on the operate stage.
Charles Leonard Fletcher, a monologIst,
has quit the vaudeville stage and opened a
school OF acting in Kansas City.
Selma Herman of the Hopkins Chicago
next SEASON. snt Il d 3 "ForE 81 a nsT RR tay
get"
Joseph Hart and Melville Baker are COL
c5seT%En5atrSyn S Ci Sh q T r. xisI ia farce SIo called The
season.
At the Tooth performance Of Maid
Marian" Wednesday evening at the Garden
theeter the orchestra was led by Reginald
De Koven.
Sadie Martinez. the actress and wife of
Louis Nethersole, has sold her household
abroad to live.
Lawrence Hanley is reported to be dying
Of consumption in st. Mary's hospital, San
some weeks past.
A theate. in Jackson. Miss. has been
given a title by popular vote. The honor
be known by her name.
Louis C. Behman of the theatrical firm
Of Hyde q Behman. died in Brooklyn last
"NNAs LNN ACAN a lOlt1hC VI e1rOOUsOVV IndQG
in the theatrical business.
Ticket speculation in New York has re-
ceived a hard blow Last week the courts
there decided that the theaters had a right
walks.
Rigo. the ~violinist who eloped with the
Olympia in Paris. wher the princess goes
to every performance and sits through her
lovers turn.
Sir Henry Irving likes old friends about
| him. Besides his manager. Rram 2t0kar
and Ellen Terry, his stage manager, acting
manager and treasurer have been with him
nearly twenty-five years.
Out in San Francisco recently the gallery
did not like an act and when II went OF de-
manded that it be brought back to be
not let the show proceed.
Grant Stewart, a member of Daniel Froh-
mans Stock. company, has been engaged
next Ieason in XII. Pickwick." Mr. Stew
art will have the part OF Jingle.
Ada kehsn sailed for London last
rest. II she can md a play to suit her
abroad Miss Rehan may resume starring
In this country next season.
The Clyde Fitch play in which Ethel
Barrymore will appear next season is not
an original work. IL Is said. but an adap-
tation Of Petite Foncti9naire.", This
might be said of the average Fitch play.
Marie Tempest and Becky Sharp" are to
be soon withdrawn from the Prince OF
Wales theater in London in order TO give
NhoN - - ~ hCNAS4 . AlICI uGl
vacation Miss Tempest is to go on tour.
IN joseph Ss@ y 4; Booth s16 S a 1 ? q physician
John Wilkes Booth, died In the big city
last week OF heart disease. He leaves q
widow. who was a Miss Mitchell Of Char.
lottesvtlle, Va.
Lillian Russell will go under the manage,
ment OF David Belasco. thus giving him
attractions to follow one another al hi,
New York theater.
Blanche Ward. well known in theatrica
circles for some years, died in New Yorl
engagements with May Irwin, Frank Dan
iels, Lillian Russell. and her last appear
ance was In THE Three Little Lambs"
Martha Morton's dramatization Of .'Trutl
Tellers" is soon to be produced in Wash
, ington. says the Dramatic Mirror. Tn,
, three principal characters In the play ar,
children and the story is somewhat SINH
roy" A0ro faun'ie
|. Mathews and Bulger. has been In extremeI
bad health of late and has been ordere'
to Mount Clemens to recuperate. For som
dates with his wife, Norma whaiiey. owe
; the western circuits.
4 Edward J.. Morgan has paid his divorce
wife, Adelaide Cushman. 5000 In settle
ment OF all claims for ailmony and upo
the promise that she won't bother him an
. more. Mrs. Morgan has been following he
e husband into different heaters and froI
r the front seats making faces at him.
Dan Daily. the foremost comedian in hi
particular class In this country, will b
y seen as the star OF the George ". Ledere
e company, which comprises seventy-ay
prominent comedians and singers, in al
big New York musical comedy success en-
y titled The New Workers." at the Nations
theater, Monday. March 10.
One afternoon recently In Boston, wheI
May Irwin and Ellen Terry were PLAYING
8 the latter. who likes the rotund singer I
coon sOngs very much. invited her back
a the scenes. In a spirit OF banter the fowl
May dared the English actress 70 70 on III
y next scene as a new member OF the choru
Miss Terry did T.. however. and was n,
recognized by any OF the audience.
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