Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-04
Gossip from staEeIand.

Reports from Paris speak in high praise
OF the Carmen as sung at the opera
Comique by Marguerite Sylvia, the Auleri-
Augustus Thomas comedy. 1.-THE other
Girl" Is to be revived, probably In Chi
cage, within short time, Thomas W.
Ross Is mentioned for the part OF Kid
Sarvie, originated by Lionel Barrymore.
Arnold DAILY has changed his mind about
going Into bankruptcy, following a con-
sultation with the Shuberts 1t looks as II
he will also give up his idea of gong into
vaudeville, but will be good instead and
continue under his former director.
The twenty-nfth anniversary Of Tony
Pastors occupancy. of the theater that
bears his name in New York, occurred last
Wednesday and was appropriately OBJ
better known than Tony Pastors,
At the Aston theater In New York every
lady who buys ticket Tor q performance
enters into contract to remove her hat
when she assumes her place. 1t Is so
printer on the ticket, and in this way the
management gets around the high-bonnet
nuisance,
FRITZ Schefr was born in Vienna: Frank
Daniels in Boston; Fred Stone in Topeka,
Kan David MONTGOMERY In Denver, Colo;
k k2Ps R dHrSnf In Cheshire Ds,5 EnSnd
Edwardes in Brooklyn. N. Y, and Mrs.
Leslie Carter In Lexington. KY.
Miss Ada Reeve the English comedienne,
vaudeville beginning about Christmas
time. The ofter Is a record one for
vaudeville artist, the terms beAg better
ment, which Melted her, 1t Is said. 100 Tor
eight weeks.
The joint starring tour Of william II.
Crane and Ellis Jeffreys in the comedy,
''She StoOPs to Conquer began last week
The cast Is q notable one, and besides The
two stars includes George Giddans, Mrs.
garet Dale Fred Thorne, Herbert Sheath
and Clarence HAndyside.
Mrs. Fiske seems to have secured one Of
the finest comedies OF her entire career
in The New York Idea" Both the play
and Its splendid presentation by the star
and her finely balanced company are ao-
ing Chicago Mrs Fiske will appear In
Kansas City, st. Louis and Pittsburg be-
fore bringing the piece to New York,
The fight of Edward A. Brad6n, the New
York manager. throwing a goodly number
OF creditors into action and several the
atrical companies cut OF employment, has
pearaDos in the dramatizati0n of Marie
Corellls "BarGbbas" high and dry. Sew
eral other managers are locking into the
an option en- It,
AS buys, seventeen years ago, In Denver,
Frederick Stone and David Montgomery
hSmbra, an obscure Variety ball, their first
weeks work netting them, Jointly, $l2 or
q dollar per day each. Now. In THE Red
Mill the new BlSssom-Herbert musical
comedy, scoring sensationally at the
Knickerbocker theater, New York, report
credits the pair with receiving about a
dollar a minute for every sixty seconds
the curtain Is I'D.
All the hattering stories from abroad that
preceded Madam Butterfly" do little more
than approach the verdict OF eastern music
critics on the fascinating masterpiece.
Puccinis own press agent, II he had one,
would hardly have the temerity to issue
the gorgeous praise that is being handed
to evey one concerned with the introduce
tion Of the opera In America "AadaH
Butterfly" appears 70 be the oBSratic SON
sation that was predicted by all who en-
toyed the work In London. Boston will see
and hear the opera for two weeks. and then
It goes to New York for long run.