Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-13

Gossip from stHEeland.
The Hanlons will have a new attraction
this year, having revived 'Fantasna,"
which they announce has been booked for
this city during the season.
Fay Davis, Clara Bloodgood. Louis Mas
sen, and Robert Lorraine have been en-
gaged already to act in Bernard shaw's
superman" at the Hudson theatre. II
the remainder OF the cast is equally good
it ought to prove a strong one.
The shuberts have purchased the stage
The Secret Orchard" Claiming Pollock
will make the dramatization. The piece
Will t be presented TN In b DeSSem n, With
The new Belasco play for Blanche Bates
will be laid in the far west. and parts OF
Bret Harte and Joaquin Miller will be liber-
ally used In It's make up. Robert Hilliard
will be just plain ordinary leading man.
bier.
Miss Clio Graves play for Miss Lena
Ashwell is concerned with events in Paris
during the reign Of Louis XIV-about 1860
The heroine is not either Louise de La
VALERIE or Henriette dOrleans. King Louis
Is to be prominent figure. The one scene
Of the three acts is a salon in Versailles.
John Luther Long and Edward Childs
Carpenter have elaborated in producing
The Dragon Fly" a romantic drama in
which Minnie Seligman and William Bram-
well will act together next season. The
first production will be in Philadelphia
After trial on the road the piece will be
brought TO New York.
Miss Lillian Richardson. whose stage
name is Queena Stewart. will leave this
week to Join Babes In Toyland" for the
fall presentation. Miss Richardson Joined
the chorus when the company was in
Omaha last season and was soon advanced
to part, singing the role of Bobby
Shaftoe when the season ended.
Miss Annie Hughes is engaged upon
play for Miss Ellen Terry. in which that
popular actress viii appear as Mary. Queen
Of SCOTS, in her younger DAYS Miss
Hughes tells a fanciful story Of fictitious
Darnley. with whom Mary enters into a
marriage OF convenience"
Joseph Brooks is TO send out Home
Folks with the production utilized during
its runs in New York and Chicago on a tour
OF the country. Home Folks" is a pastoral
S[omedy-dralma by C. I. Darcy, the well
engagement of company including Edwin
Arden, Archie Boyd, Mary Ryan and
seventy-two others.
Wilton Lackaye opened his third season
as star in Duluth, Mimi. on Friday,
August IL. He will appear this year In
The Pit the dramatized version of Frank
great revival Of "Trilby'' and in ibsen's
pillars Of Society" Mr.. Lackaye is on his
city shortly He will produce a new play
In New York next February, Jean Val
Jean" his own. dramatization Of Victor
Hugo's masterpiece, les Miserabes."
in the company which is to interpret Hall
Gaines play The Prodigal Son" Among
them are J. r. DOdson, Edward Morgan,
Aubrey BoucicaNt, Ben Webster w. II.
Thompson, Charlotte Walker, Drina
Wolfe, Marie wainwright and Ida Water
man. The scenery is to be particularly
elaborate. Three Of the sets wifi illustrate
Icelandic features. a fourth will represent
the Casino al Monte Carlo Evidently. the
spectacular pretensions of the piece will be
considerable.
Managers WaFenhals and Kemper an
nounce that Blanche Walsh will play a
limited enga gement in New York at the
Madison Square theatre commencing Mon
day, August q She will again be seen in
Clyde Fitch's play THE Woman in the
Case" in which she closed a brilliant run
of four months at the Herald Square thea
tire last season. At the close Of her second
engagement with this play in New York
she will go direct to Cincinnati and from
thence to st. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha,
Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia.
Charles Frohman will shortly produce
the following American plays: "Clarice,"
by William Gillette; Augustus Thomas
comedy for John Drew; "Wolfville," by
Clyde Fitch and Willis Steele; THE Ameri-
can Lord" by George H Broadhurst and
c. T. Darcy; "Mizpah," by Ella Wheeler
Wilcox and Luscombe Searle; ION the Love
Path" by c. NJ. S. Mcclellan; Just Out of
College" by George AIDE; 'Old Gorgan Ora
ham," by Paul NJ. Potter and George
Horace Lorimer; a new society comedy by
Augustus Thomas.