The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-10

version at the stratford- on-Avon festi-
val this year.
According to the Eastern papers David
BelascO has taken under his guidance an
other prospective star in Miss Elizabeth
Flournoy, which is the stage name Of
Elizabeth Johnson, the daughter of Mayor
Tom L. Johnson, of Cleveland.
Nellie Bergen Hopper. the wife of the
comedian De Wolf Hopper. who has been
living in retirement for several seasons
will return to the stage this spring to
take up the prima donna role in wang"
which Hopper IS to revive upon an elabo-
rate scale.
Cecilia Lotus is soon to retire as f. H
Sothern's leading lady, to take vacation
in Europe, where she will study her role
in the Zangwill comedy, The Serio- Comic
Governess." in which Manager Daniel
Frohman is to present Miss Lotus as a
star next season.
There Is little. if any. chance, it is
said, that Ada Rehan and Otis Skinner
will be seen together after their present
tour. SINNERS managers have already
contracted for. an independent tour in
new play from the French Of Jean Richie
pin, while Miss Rehan contemplates a
long rest al her charming country seat in
Cumberland, England
Nance O'Neil completed last Friday the
twelfth week of her stay in Boston. and
started then on a tour Of the principal
towns in the New England circuit. The
Hub has found her an actress exactly to
its liking, and crowded houses have been
the rule ever since she went there after
her Improbable and unsatisfactory en-
gagement in Chicago:
The following from a Chicago paper is
a terrible blow to our home pride:
Miss TTixie Friganza is to have an i'm
portant part in The Shotgun. This viva
q &c a IA of
Inasmuch as Cincinnati has long claimed
TriXie as its own there is bound to be
weeping and wailing down in the old
Nineteenth ward this joyous Easter morn.
TriXie, Trixie. how could you permit your
press agent to so humble our pride?''-
Cincinnati Enquirer. az p
Lyman b Glover who for many years
was dramatic critic of the Record Herald,
of ChScago. and who two seasons ago I'M
dertOOk the management Of Richard
Mansfield. has severed his connection with.
the eccentric actor, and it is said will de-
vote some time to rest before resuming
his critical or managerial labors. Ben
Stevens. whose experience as manager
has been long and varied, has now under
taken the handling of Mr.. Mansfield and
his tours. u
Julia Marlowe played a return engage
ment in st. Louis last week and scored
pronounced popular success with her re
vival of When Knighthood Was in
Flower" and found hearty approval for
the artistic worth of her Parthenia in
"Ingomar." Tyrone Power whose Judas
in Mr.. Fishes Mary of Magdala." and
Clyssus in the Stephen Phillips beautiful
play, are remembered with especial pleas
ure, is Miss Marlowes leading man.
In the East it is common gossip that
William. Randolph Hearst, the wealthy
newspaper publisher. is behind the new
movement to build a chain of ten thea
tiers in the principal cities of the country
in which 1t is supposed the independent
that the new theaters will be operated in
dependent of all syndcates or managerial
combines, but viii be open to all attrac-
lions that suit the managers in control Of
these houses.
The joint tour of Julia Marlowe and E.
ii. Sothern next -season-will begin in Sep
the plays in which the two stars will APP