The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-01
DRAMATIC GOSSIP.

During the past week two noted
comedians have died, one Alf Whelan,
who had been playing Tweedlepunch
In "Florodora," and Thomas Evans,
who was earlier in the present season
with Alice Fischer in Mrs. Jack
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. Is to have a sec
ond opera company out next season. 1t
will be headed by George Castleman,
the Dresden tenor, and Miss Grace Van
Studdiford. The piece will be by Reg
inald de Koven and Charles Klein, and
of somewhat better quality than the
average comic opera.
Miss Maude Adams will not act this
year, but will open her season next
year at the KuickerDocker theater,
New York. Edgar Selwyn has been
engaged as her leading man.
Miss Marie Tempest will open at the
Hudson theater, New York, in Novem-
Der, with her full London company, in
Guiding Mr.. Gilbert Hare, in 1.-The Mar
rlage of Kitty"
The destruction of the famous old
Lyceum theater, in London which was
ordered by the municipal authorities,
has awakened so many memories of
that famous house that Sir Henry r.
wing has been prevailed upon to write
history of it. The famous PLAYER
is now at work on the book, which will
be published both in this country and
In England as soon as 1t is completed.
On March three companies appear
ing in Way Down East will reach
the five thousandth representation of
that famous play in this country Man
ayers Brady and Grismer are getting
up pretty souvenirs to commemorate
the event.
E. s. Willard brought out his new
play, THE Optimist," in Philadelphia
last week and is credited with a pro-
ton from the French play, La Chate-
lame and deals with the life of An
DIRE Jossan, who falls in love with an
unhappily married woman. The work.
ing out of the plot and the suggested
marriage of the two lovers in the end
is said to be cleverly handled and one
that MI. Willard will find worthy
successor of THE Cardinal"
The efforts of George Clark, the vet
eran actor of the legitimate drama, to
establish an American academy of dra-
matte art for which $4,000 900 is re-
qu1red, met with considerable success
last Thursday night, when at a meet
ing al the Hotel Bellevue, PHILADELPHIA.
$250,000 was subscribed toward the
fund, provided the proposed institution
be located in Philadelphia. Only nine
persons were at the meeting besides
Mr.. Clark and seven of them are prom
1nent in Philadelphia financial and
business circles
p. A. B. Widener, the traction mag
nate, started the subscription list with
100000. John NJ. Mack expressed his
willingness to give 100000, and Clar-
ence Wolf, of Wolf Bros. & Co. agreed
to raise $4,000.
The proposed academy has for its
object the publication of the English
language and the muraI, literary and
dramatic uplifting of the American
stage. The conduct of its affairs will
be along lines similar to those which
have gained fame for the Coincide
Francois in Paris.
Marie CahilFs success in Nancy
Brown" has been so pronounced that
this early in the game there is talk of
taxing the show over to London when
he summer season sets in.
The New Majestic theater under the
control of Stair & Wilbur, was opened
In Boston last week, the premier at.
traction being "The Storks," which ran
all last summer at the Dearborn thea
ter, Chicago. The new theater is said
TO be the handsomest structure of the
kind in New England
Mr.. Heinrich Conried, manager of the
irving Place theater, New York, has
been appointed to succeed Maurice
Grau as manager of the metropolitan,
opera house. Applications were re-
ceived from would-be Metropolitan i'm
pressarlos from all quarters, from Chi
cago to New Orleans and Boston to
San Francisco, but the battle for the
prize finally narrowed itself down to
Mr. Heinrich Conried, MI. George II.