Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-01

are commonly referred TO as the trust. 90
As a matter Of fact. there Is no trust
among the firms who have millions Invested
IN theaters and plays
Actor Jones. who so nearly lost his life
!n the fire which burned the Pike opera
house at Cincinnati. has In his experience
the basis for a melodrama that will beat
any. Of the present list by several city
"a Chinese HONEYMOON" which has
nearly reached the record Of an unbroken
years run in New York. will be taken on
az the Casino In the spring and shipped
direct to Chicago. where taey are to re-
main Tor the summer at the Illinois theater.
,bAAn annie RpssslIs PreSen! tng9gemsnt at
Ine Harrlck, New YORK. Is said TO be the
theater. In Mice and Men Miss Russell
has a piece that suits her well, and the
public like II as well as the star.
All G. Wheelan. who had the part Of
Tweedlepunch In "Flolodora,' and who was
YER. popular In Omaha, died in San An
Is. He had left the company several weeks
before and sough the Texas town in hope
o. relief. but the disease had progressed too
on Monday Robert McWade will drop
out Of the cast of The Earl of Pawtucket"
and be supplanted by Charles Hallock.
McWade will not leaye Kirke La Shelle's
management. but will Immediately begin
Blossoms Checkers"
The destruction of the famous old Lyceum
theater in. London. which was ordered by
the municipal authorities, has awakened so
many memories Of that house that Sir
Henry irving has been prevailed upon to
write a history of IL. The player Is now at
work on the book, which will be published
both in this country and England as soon
as II Is completed.
Romeo and Juliet will certainly get a
run during the spring season. L. H. Soth-
ern adheres to his intention, announced
when In Omaha, of producing the piece and
making q star part out of Romeo. Cecilia
LOTUS Will be. his Juliet. 1t is now an
nolnced that Mary Mannering also intends
% klNe the InNlDT mart a trial aud that
Louis Mann and Clara Lippmar will 20 on
the road in the Shakespearean love tragedy.
someone said last fall that the time of
the musical comedy is nearly at an end.
here Is a list OF the musical comedies, now
paying in New York, taken from the ad-
morning: Majestic. Wizard of o." Biiou.
Nancy Brown Criterion, THE Jewel OF
Asia. Knickerbocker, Mr.. Biuebeard?;"'
sultan of Sulu;' Days, The Billionaire:
herald Square, MIR. Pickwick;" Casino. "A
slipper GrsSSd moon Eidd bfr2Sdw9y, silver
York, I'm Dahomey." "
A pretty little romance of the vaudeviue
stage developed in st. Paul, when Mignon-
ette hokin, the danseuse with the Orpheum
road show, was secretly married to Charles
GaIetti; who has a monkey act with the
OF me little dancer when she was playing
az the Palac in London two years ago.
When she came to this country he found
orpheum show and i fnSsSfa Win 6peb 5a9
up negotiations that ended in his act being
signed Tor the attraction. Since then he
mas pressed his suit and the couple. after
several failures, managed to evade Miss
hoklns mother and were quietly welded.
Sullivan, Harris & Woods are booking
jim Bludso' for a solid tour through the
larger cities of forty weeks. beginnlrS in
September. They say they are investing
$1,000 in printing. besides $4,000 paid to
not include Author I. y. Morris rights,
Boloesy Kiralfy began last weeks re-
a feature of the Barnum & Bailey circus
me coming season. The circus opens at
the Madison Square Garden in the spring.
II Will be the first appearance in America
IN several years and will doubtless be the
circus event of the approaching tent show
I'm surprised at the hit my feet seem
70 have made in Mice and Men, " said
annie Russell. II hardly expected they
they would be talked about. n was hardly
Ialr TO c~riticise my feet, as some writer's
did. for they're the only feet have. and
they. therefore, can't possibly be expected
TO profit by criticism. Bat, in Justice 10
them, l should like to say, in confidence. Of
course that they've been modelled from my
glrI-1rlend sculptors, and, II | do say II.
We're pronounced rather artistic. This is
the first time in my stage career that nv
notice. 1t was decidedly embarrassing at
the startu and I'm glad the first plunge is
over: You may imagine how 1 felt at the
ousiy wiggled my toes and the audience
broke into a laugh l felt an almost ire
sistiole impulse to scamper on the stage.
want to deny all use of paint and powder
makeup, for my feet. Some one has de-
clared that / tidy my feet. 'T1sn't So
them" "' l SUI
The Atlantic cables have been writing
ana SIZZLING at a great rate ever since
Charles Frohman arrived in London. The
very first day he was in the British me
tropoIs he bought two or three MIA VS. in
me most casual manner imaginable. Inside
LoIty-elght hours he had arranged for the
OF a new theater for his own use
nad entered into contracts with George
Edwardes for a series OF musical prodic-
tons In London and for the American
rights In all the Edwardes pieces. mast
and future. and had tied up three
vel known European authors for the first
upon their writings during the NEXT
years. The English people. who are
to doing things upon slow.
and half-somnolent methods
must view with the utmost amazement the
proceedings OF Americas fore
most theatrical manager. On second
-hought;. Mr.. Frohman ought to be called
hngland,s foremost manager too, for he
controls more London theaters and
more travelling provincial companies thar
any other maj In Great Britain.