The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-23

The Spooner Dramatic Company
closed its engagement last night with
"A Lawyers Wedding" Tomorrow
night the Harris Parkinson Stock Com
many will open a weeks engagement:
Monday Night-"LOst in Egypt,
tuesday Night-.Tn the Name of
the Gar
wednesday Matinee "Hazel
Kirke."
wednesday Night-"The Bonds
man.
Thursday Night-''The Secret En-
cmy.'
Friday Night-"John Martins
Secret
saturday Matinee-"Peck's Bad
Boy"
saturday Night-'why Jones Left
Home"
The Harris Parkinson Company num-
bers sixteen people, including little
Dixie, the child artist. Tomorrow
night ladies will be admitted free if
accompanied by a person holding a
soc ticket.
Mai. Irwin will be seen in Savannah
Friday. April 4, in THE Widow Jones'"
Robert Downing had a lively expe-
1ience in Salem, o., the other night.
one of his supes had "imbibed" too
freely and his mutterings stopped 1.-The
Gladiator in the second act. Mr..
Downing put the supe out and the lad
swore out a warrant for the star, and
the officer entered the auditorium and
attempted to arrest him. but was pre-
vented from doing so by the protest of
the audience.
New York has three Hebrew thea
tiers in successful operation, and now
Brooklyn is to have one.
Charles Frohman asserts that there
are not enough stars, and that there
are too many theaters.
George Monroe, the fat comedian,
will appear next season with a new,
play. The Doings of Mrs. Dooley."
Grace George is the possessor of one
of the finest dramatic libraries in
America.
Clara Morris is reported to be writ
ing a novel to be called "A Pasteboard
Crown
Ella Wheeler Wilcox has appeared
as a stage writer in Her First Divorce
Case"
When Maxine Elliott goes it alone
as a star next season it is said her
tour will be directed by that shrewd
business pilot, Charles Dillingham;, who
of late has devoted most of his time
to the business details of Julia Mar
loves tour. klaw and Erlanger will
have silent partnership interest in
the venture. Mr.. Dillingham; while in
Europe will look around for a suita-
bic play in which Miss Elliott can
make her debut as a single star.
Isabel Evesson has not yet got the
$1,000 decreed to her in her suit against
Anna Held and her manager. The case
has been appealed to the Supreme
Court.
A Western man has stated that in
her first ten years on the stage Della
Fox got ninety-eight miles of press
notices, which she has pasted in books.
The English gossips have been so
busy of late marrying lively little Efie
Fay off to title that it was only nat
ural Sir Thomas Liptons name would
not escape the list. A sensational
cablegram announced last week that
Sir Thomas had succumbed to Elites
charms and wanted to marry the little
American.
Ethel Barrymore recently expressed
herself as having no tremendous am
pltlon and merely wants to be a good
actress She says she has no leaning
toward Shakespeare and especially
Juliet" One is either too young of
100 old for that part" says Ethel.
P. D. Mclean and his wife, Odette
Tyler, have closed their tour in the
south, and have gone to their country
nome in Virginia. Mr. Mclean says
mat he is done with Shakespeare for
eVermore and that he will have a new
play of modern workmanship for next
season.
The Sultan of Sulu," libretto by
George AIDE, was produced for the first
lme IN Chicago last. Tuesday night by
company including George Beane,
INdr g,iet Mckinney, Gertrude Quinian
ana Blanche Chapman.
James X. Hackett's father was the
Idte James Fl. Hackett, famous in the
role of Falstaff. The father did not
Wlsh the son to take the stage, but
intended him for the bar. In college
me young man was prominent in anna
teur theatricals, and his success deter
mined him to abandon the law. That
Wds nine years ago, and to-day he is
among the leading romantic actors in
america and has been starring for four
gears. He is his own manager, select
ing his own plays and directing his
tours. His principal representations
nave been Rassendyl in both THE
PRISONER of Zenda' and Rupert of
hentzau." Basil in 1.-The Pride of Jen-
hlco, Don Caesar in Don Caesars Re
turn, and the new role, Stephen Brice,
III The Crisis" His Mercutio to Maude
ADAMS Juliet was brilliant interpre-
tdtlon. He has aspirations to Shakes
pearean roles and will probably under
take others when he grows a little
Older Mr.. Hackett is a graduate of
the college of the City of New York,
Is typical young American gentleman,
noIds membership in some of the lead
ing clubs in New York, Boston, Phila-
delphia and elsewhere, is daring
norseman and is fond of hunting.
shooting, in fact, is almost a hobby
win him, as he devotes what time he
can spare to that sport. His wife,
Mary Mannering, herself star is one
.! americas most charming come
dlennes, and their home life in the va
cation sea son ic said N he ideally