Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-04
Gree1roOm GOSSIP

GreenroOm Gossip
May Irwin says that she did receive
a flattering offer for sixty lectures on
household subjects, but has declined itI
because she intends to continue her
theatrical career. She will, however,
continue to write books on domestic
subjects
Hlaw I& Erlanger have signed a con-
tract with George NJ. Cohan whereby
they will control his plays for the next
five years.
"Parsifal" which was such Il furore
last year at $40 a seat, scarcely mus
ters corporals guard this season
! when presented at the Metropolitan,
says a New York paper. Stacks of dead
head tickets are freely distributed for
every performance but even upon a
free admission basis the public doesn't
respond with any degree of enthusiasm.
"Parsifal' was fad and nothing more,
So the Bernhardt tent tour his been
exploded. Through the demand of
Richard Mansfield it turns out that
Bernhardt has never been refused
time in the big theaters for the very
good reason that her tour was booked
in halls and special houses outside of
the syndicatt. The idea that she was
to play in tents through Texas seems
to have grown out of this and made
interesting reading. Incidentally 1t was
but another illustration of the undignl-
| fed manner in which the Bernhardt
tour has been publicly exploited this
season.
Nine. Fremstad, the famous prima
donna, is certain that she has solved the
servant question. She has Il valet, who
she declares, is an expert in Womans
clothes, whose taste is perfect and who
is an artist in the combination OF col
ors. The singer declared recently: Il
wouldn't think of going back to maids
again. He never appears with head
ache when | am particularly rushed,
and when ! am nervous his placidity
is almost soothing. He is not forever
thinking of his best young man, and
Ecan always depend upon him. He has
mastered the art of serving and saves
me an enormous amount of bother and
worry"
James j. Corbett. in the Shaw play,
"Cashel Bryon's Profession" despite
the unfavorabe reception of the play
in New York by the critics, has be-
gun to show healthy signs of picking
up in favor. On this account the brief
enga cement booked at Days theater
there has been extended to the Majes-
tic theater, where Corbett will be seen
in further performances of this Pc
culiar play by the brilliant Irish satir-
list.
Otis Skinner has closed his tour in
"HiS Grace De GrammOnt" and is
headed for New York, where he will
soon take up rehearsals of the new
play. The Duel" which is to bel
brought out in the east by him in the
immediate future.
The ACQUISITION by the Messrs. Shu-
bert of the co-stars, E. H. Sothern ana
Miss Julia MarlOWe, has resulted in the
announcement that the new independ-
emf theater which is to be built in
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be named the Il. II. Sothern theater,
and that the new house of amusement
| in Cincinnati now in course of erection
! is to be known as the Julia Marlowe
theater. Mr. Sothern and Miss Mar
lowe will begin their season under in
dependent management next september
at the Lyric theater New York, and
will be seen in Chicago at the Garrick
I theater early in the autumn.
The forthcoming production of "TheI
Prince of India" will represent the
largest outlay of effort and research
and consequently of money-ever
made upon a single theatrical venture.
Before the curtain rises for the first
performance the producers will have
spent approximately $150,00O.
Beerbohm Tree has again been in
vited by the Germans to visit that
country in a series of Shakespearan
reviVals, but on account of his APP
preaching production of Nero" he
has been compelled to decline the in
vitation at this time. The new poetic
tragedy by stephen Phillips is being
prepared on ali elaborate scale, and
will be one of Mr.. Trees greatest un-
dertakings.
May Irwin, it is said, has received
flattering offer from a lyceum
bureau to join the ranks of platform
speakers and lecture on high art in
cookery domestic science or some
kindred topic. Miss Irwin has made
household science her hobby.