The Saint Paul globe., 1904-03-06

Herbert is said to have been commits
stoned to compose work for her use, and
according to present plans. she will head
her own company next fall.
A travelling manager once approached
Alf Hayman.
How much do you think played to on
Saturday night?' said he
Half" answered Hayman.
The travelling manager inquired what
Mr. Hayman meant by "haff.
Half of what you are going to tell me,
replied the syndicater.
"The Tenderfoot," that picturesque com
&c opera by Richard Carle, which scored
q hit here earlier in the season, seems to
have caught good and strong In New
York last week. where it opened for an
indefinite stay. The opening nights of the
engagement have seen the theater well
filled and the piece has been received with
every indication of approval 1t looks as
if the prejudice against these Western af-
fairs is beginning to wear out in Gotham
Harry Jackson the assistant stage man.
ager of York State Folks" that played at
the Walnut last week. has completed a
play entitled What Women Will Do"
which will be sent on tour next season, un-
der the mana cement of the Holden Broth
ers. The play is founded upon Dickens
David Copperfield," and at a recent trial
performance was received with unusual
enthusiasm. MIR. Jackson will play the role
of Micawber while his wife. Kate jack
son, will be seen at Rosa. A big pro
duction of the play will be made. The
present intention is to book the tour over
the popular price circuit.
The threatened war between the Bur-
leSque Managers association and the
travelling managers who control the ma
jority OF the attractions that play in thelr
houses was settled at the meeting OF the
two interests in Washington last Week 1t
Vn.ir1r INN NGT
thea ters which will be added to the big
burlesque circuit the house managers have
been able now to present the traVellns
managers with an unbrolien route of forty
weeks over their extensive circuit, and by
booking them continuously through the
wheel system which has proved success
as far as the burleSque business is con-
cerned they have been able to get around
all complaints of the show managers. and
everything is now settled amlcabiy as FAR
as the immediate future is concerned.
Owing to the fact that the municipal au-
thorities have compelled them to abandon
the galleries in most of the Chicago thea
ters the Windy City managers have ma
terially raised the scale Of prices for the
other sections of their houses, and In a
measure have been able to equallZe the
loss from this alteration of conditions.
For instance, the vaudeville theaters there
under the management of Kohl and CAS-
tie that were recently reopened have all
raised their prices from 30 cents to 81 and
75 cents for the choice seats. Reports from
Chicago say that under the new scale
the vaudeville theaters are doing better
than some of the other houses.
It looks as if Bernhardt had not found a
great money maker in Sardous LA Sor-
ciere' for she is already preparing it's
successor. which will be put on in the
spring. 1t is called ''Varennes, /" and is
by Henri Lavedan. 1t is historic drama,
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half hours. 1t deals with the attempted
fight of Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI,
and the royal family when their coach
was stopped at Varennes.
Previous TO the matinee performance Of
"Ranson's Folly" at the Hudson theater.
New York, the other day, its star, Rob-
ert Edeson, was entertaining in his dress
ing room a friend who was accompanied
by his son, a sturdy lad some eight years
old.
The young hopeful was watching in
tently the process of makeup while Ede-
son chatted with his father. Observing
the interested gaze of the boy, Edeson
remarked, Are you thinking you would
like to be an actor?"
do you have to take all that trouble
with yourself every day?"
Yes, some times twice day.
''I guess I'd rather be policeman"
Alas for a good yarn unravelled! Kate
ClaXbon did not play in Baltimore the
Monday night after the big fire. So the
supsrstitious ones in the tneatricaI inca 1G; pro @
phaflS was given all the same at Chase $
theater, with Miss Percy Haswell and
George R. Fawcett's stock company. This
old play may be a fire bird, as they say
in German, yet it is also a box office
favorite It was played in Baltimore to
thee capacity of the house.-New York
Sun.
Nance O'Neill. who has scored such a
big hit in Boston, where she has been
playing special matinee engagements for
thes-paSt several weeks, has not only
achieved success there, but has secured a
competent manager for her future tours.
After her present engagements Miss
O'Neill will be managed by John B.
Schoeffel the Boston theatrical magnate,
who will have a number of handsome
productions made for the plays in her
extensive repertoire in which she has won
the greatest praise.
Justice Truax. in the New York su-
preme court last week, refused to grant
William Favershams application for a
reduction in the amount of almony he is
compelled to pay his first wife by order of
the court that divorced them. Mrs. Fa-
VerSham No. l draws $4,000 per annum
from the earnings of the handsome actor.
FaYerSham has taken unto himself an
other wife. his leading lady. Miss Julie
opp, and he says supporting two women
at the same time is too heavy a drain on
his finances The court, however, refused
10 grant any relief.
Henry F. Dixey has offered the only
logical excuse for the failure of ]. M.
Barrie's Little Mary" in this country
that has yet crept into public print. Lit
tie Mary" has been one of the unqualified
hits. of the London season. and Charles
Frohman counted on it to make big
hit in this country. 1t lasted just three
weeks at the Empire theater in New York,
and after a brief road trial was finally
4a1-, ,SNcf f1R0a
recently asked if he could explain why
Little Mary had failed SO sadly in
America. The reply was:
That's easy to answer. 1t was an
English comedy, written by Scotchman,
played by Americans before an audience
that had other limitations"