The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-29
DRAMATIC GOSSIP.
Miss Margaret Anglin will be starred By
CHARLES Frohman next season.

MISS margaret Anglin VIII be starred by
Henrietta Crosman is now On her way
west playing her success. 1.-The Sword
The musical comedy to succeed "a
Chinese Honeymoon" when it ends it's
long run in New York will likely be
called The Runaways." The work was
done by Raymond Hubben and Addison
Burkhardt, western young men who are
1t has been pointed out as an odd fact
that the many musical comedies brought
out IN New York this season every one
has been success, while on the other
hand over half of the spoken dramas
have turned out failures.
One of the last and possibly the great
est production to be made this season by
George l FaWGett: the Baltimore actor
HasWell. Frank Gilmore and others Of Mr..
Fawcett's forces in the principal parts.
Henrietta Crosman will open her next
season at Fiske's Manhattan theater,
which bids fair to become the producing
house: of Independents. Miss Grosman's
big piece next year will be her sumptuous
production of AS You Like It."
Miss. Mile Price. who was a beauty
sensation in the old days of the Roster
and Bal Music hall in New York, an
nounces that she will return to the stage
next season. Miss Price has had two
comes back to the boards thoroughly
equipped for action. says the Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The lately deceased Nym CrinlkIe said
many sagacious things in the course of
his long career as a critic. Two Of the
deathless ones recur to US. He describes
Miss Clara Morris as 1.-The best bad ac-
treSS We have" She said the phrase
haunted her
Yes. let US love Langtry," he re-
marked genially of that lady, sit is so
much easier than to criticise or com
mend her"
Otis Skinner will play his Boston en-
gagement this spring in the new Majestic
theater. following the musical comedy,
1.-The, Storks," that opened the house and
Majestic is not listed in the houses book
ed by the big syndicate, the Skinner en-
gagement has raised an inquiry as to
whether he also is going to break into
the independent ranks.
Miss Lillian Russell has signed an
other contract that binds her to the Web
er and Fields forces for five more years
and after that it is said she will retire
Miss Russell, under her new contract
will draw a salary of 81, 200 a week, and
does not like in the Weber and Fields
pieces and interpolate such musical num-
bers as she thinks suitable for her own
uSe.v
Julia Marlowe is probably by all odds
the most successful female star before the
American public this season. Her profits
will run between sos, 900 and 500, 000-a
most remarkable showing, in view of the
fact that her first production of the year
was unsuccessful and that through over
work in connection Herewith she was
obliged to remain idle for several weeks
before she had sufficiently recovered to
resume her stage duties.
The New York Sum- editorially discuss
ing the dramatiZed novel craze observes:
&i'Still, We believe that the man who can
dramatic a first night audience will
make. a fortune or else go to jail for
criminal libel
Williams and Walker are playing Tn
Dahomey" to packed houses at the New
York. The success of this negro COM
pany is most remarkable. and society
folk in great numbers are present every
evening. George w. Lederer Is now ne
gotiating with the black comedians to
give them a season in London this sum-
mer. That town is well nigh coon
crazy" and Williams and Walker
ought under ordinary circumstances to
take 1t by storm.
We note that poor Hamlet is having
his troubles these stirring times, says
the Cincinnati Enquirer. Recently in
Washington q students commission had
him on trial for his sanity and decided