Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-07

pert swimmer and can ride or drive
as well as the most famous followers
of the turf. Her home is designed
more for luxurious ease and coZy COM
fort than for artistic effect and her
domestic menage is organized to offer
the greatest hospitality rather than to
be slave to fashions DEGREES.
Miss Helen Lackaye has been en-
gagged by Charles =. Elliott. manager
of Melbourne Mcdowell. as leading
lady for the balance Of the summer
season and all of next season. She is
the sister of Wilton and James Lack
aye. and has been on the stage but
short while. She is al fine looking
woman. of proportions suited to the
leading lady parts of such plays as Mr..
MacDowell will produce. She has
never played any of the Sardou women,
but Mr.. Mcdowell has confidence IN
her ability to do so and will give her
the advantage of his experience with
eminent stage women who have played
with him hitherto, including Fanny
Davenport and Blanche Bates. She be-
gan her stage work three years ago
with Amelia blHSH nam.
Claiming Pollock's dramatization of
Miss Miriam Nichelson's novel, "In the
Bishops Carriage" had its first pro-
duction at Hartford. The play differs
in many important respects from the
book Latimer becomes the hero In the
adaptation and the piece ends with the
suggestion that he is about to marry
Nance OIden. Obemiller, the theatrical
manager. who occupied this place IN
the thief's affections in the story, be-
comes only the friend and partisan OF
Latimer in the play. Mr.. Pollock has
taken the scene of action from Phila-
delphia to New York. The drama has
been divided into four acts. The pre-
senting company will include Miss JUL
la Deane Edmund Breese, Edgar Sci
wyn, Miss Eva Vincent and others.
David Belasco has added Edna Wal
lace Hopper to his list of stars for
next season. She will appear first IN
an "all-star" revival of The Heart OF
Maryland" and afterwards be placed
at the head of her own company IN
new play. Mrs. Hopper has been play
ing In vaudeville recently, and appear
ed last season In "a Country Mouse"
She has played under Mr.. Belascos
management before, appearing in his
first production Of 1.-THE Girl Left
Behind Me-" Mr.. Belasco's list Of stars
for the coming season includes also
Mrs. Leslie Carter, David Warfield,
Blanche Bates, Robert billiard, Bertha
Galland and Brandon lyman.
Reginald De koven's twenty-fifth
opera "Happyland" is now in rehear-
sal and will be seen in the Lyric, New
York, in October. He will have one or
two other new musical plays on by
next spring, and several of those which
have been numbered among the not
able successes of the last two decades
will tour the country. OF them all
robin Hood" shows the greatest vi
tally, for, altho 1t is fourteen years
since this opera was first staged, 1t Is
still a favorite. This is evidenced by
the fact that nearly 1000 copies of the
score sold during the first six months
Of this year. the more noteworthy from
the fact that robin Hood" was not
on tour at all last season.
Sir Henry 1rvings plans. according
to the latest London rumor, have been
entirely changed. His tour in the
country, which was to have started at
H.