Evening star., 1902-02-01
AMUSEMEN
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wynaham,s leading 1adtp in London mex,
season, will come to this country In the fall
of '93. and appear in an original play by
Stephen Phillips thsautffPF Of "Herod" {
Laura Burt, who has Been Ill In a New
York hospital for many weeks, will be
given benefit next Thursday night. all the
prominent performers In the metropolitan
district having volunteered their services
John Isham. well Known some years back
as the manager Of creole troupes is In q
private sanitarium at Whitestone, L. l.,
suffering from brain trouble. which viii
likely prove fatal within the next month
Charley Evans played the principal COM
edy role Of MY Antoinette" for about a
week and then dropped out. Billy Van has
since taken UP the running and Nellie
O'Neill will also try to make the piece
go.
Pauline Hall thought she was assured of
the principal role in one Of the "Floradora'
companies, soon to be,organized when she
discovered that her vaudeville contracts
were binding for the remainder Of the sea-
SON.
Harry B. Smith has lately come into the
field with the announcement that he IL
writing comic opera around the "Pick-
wick Papers Of Dickens, and that Jerome
Sykes will have the principal character
therein. rs
"The Chaperons" is booked for an extern
sive western tour, and opened to big busi-
ness In st. Paul last Monday night This
piece would have remained east for the rest
Of the season, but good dates could not be
secured.
THE Road to RUM" with Terry McGoy-
ern will open September l at Pittsb1,rs
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season. as he believes his victory over
Young Corbett" next summer is an as
sured thing.
The estate of the late Charles H. Hoyt
has been settled, and 1t runs up to some
thing like $1OS000. This would indicate
that If Hoyt made the world smile 1t gave
him in return reason for doing a little
laughing himself.
Beerbohm Tree withdrew THE Last Of
the Dandies,' from Her MaJesty's Theater
in London last Saturday, and the house
has been closed since that time. Mr.. Tree
IS preparing for the production Of Stephen
Phillips Ulysses"
Frederick Berger, manager of the La
fayette Square Theater Stock Company.
has secured all the rights for THE Sign OF
the Cross" commencing next season, and
Will present the piece in cities not yet yis-
tied by the Nero drama
Walker Whiteslde has shelved Robert Of
Sicily" along with the Shipmau brothers
and has gone under the management Of
Ed. Snyder. He is now appearing in his
old repertoire Of Shakespearean plays fea-
turing THE Merchant of Venice
Mrs Pat Campbell, who is at present
playing an engagement In New York, is re-
ported to have won $1,000 at bridge whist
one evening during the past week. Mrs.
Campbell enjoys the reputation of being one
"a ri lowe pct hri1 1Cpd rlo iv, r
Johnstone Bennett, will make her first
venture into matrimonY in the spring.
Vile sketch she is ihterpreting, is to be the
happy man. Mr.. williams has been mar
ried four times. analssthlss makes his fifth
Anthony Hopes .PilktHgton's Peerage'
had its first presenfafiofl' In London iest
Tuesday night. The story Of the piece
deals with wealthy tradesman who wants
with a few alterations the piece win prove
THE Sleeping Beatty and the Beast" will
go out on the road next season, but will
only visit three or four Of the larger cities
for long runs The scenery is too cumber-
some and the company too large to be
moved around the country indiscriminately
with profit.
Emile Hewsel. the. weIl-known German
comedian, has been engaged for the under
study or the Rogers Brothers Gus Rogers
was recently taken i'll in Chicago and the
theater had to be closed. as there was no
one to take his place, hence the Hewsel
engagement.
When William Faversham concludes his
engagement at the Harlem Theater, New
YORK. Julia Opp and he will have parted
company and Isabelle Irving takes the
leading roles. Miss Opp returns to London
Were King"
Irene Bentley, George W. Lederer and
Harry B. Smith have been in close consul
tation OF late and it Is reported in New
York that the latter will write an original
comic opera for the former to star in and
tnat the second named will look after the
business end of the venture
The new company playing "Florodora" in
New new YORK Is reported to be better liked
othy Morton, Virginia Earle, Thomas o.
seabrooke, Albert Hart and Sydney Barra-
ciougn having prominent parts. the musical
piece should be unusually entertaining.
Robert Hilliard notified his friends in New
y 1ork recently that he has permanently re-
Sred pis from the stage. Mr.. Hilliard made
day aas iase 1 appearance Pc on the stage last Sun
Littlest Girl" He win open brokerage
office on Wall street. -
Nancy Price, a young actress, has been
engaged to take the part of Calypso in
- Ulysses" which Mrs James Brown Pot
ter relinquished after an argument with the
author OF the piece, Stephen Phillips.
ulysses" will be produced in London TO-
night at Her Majesty's ;Theater. .-
Edna Wallace Hopper will probably
shlne as star in musical comedy for the
next several years uder the management
OF Charles Frohman Mr.. Frohman has
zone SO well with Edna May that he has
declded to present Miss Hopper in the same
elaborate manner next season. The play
Is being written. but has not yet been
:, Maurice Bernhardt, son Of the divine
sarah, mas written and produced melo-
dramatic comedy, in which the heroine kills
i.ea.ly every one with whom she comes in
contact. and is practically the only sur
vlVor OF the action. Young Bernhardt has
oeen accused OF foisting mild bit Of satire
upon the public against the adherents of
the s"ashbuckler drama.
AT the Telephone is the name Of a new
pay that mas been recently put on in Paris.
~ Is IN TWO acts, the first depicting the wife