Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-12
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Gossip from staEeIand.
1t Is stated that Charlotte Walker win be
under the management OF David Belasco
next year.
Irma Gramatics, one Of the foremost Of
present-day Italian actresses, is seriously
ill In a Sanitarium in Bologna, where she
will remain for a year.
Sudermsnn's newest play, 'Das Blumen
boot 1.-The Flower BoatD, was played In
New York for the first time last week. IL
met with Indifferent success. In the Eu-
ropean theaters It's reception was similar.
The one-act sketch, "Marse Covington,"
WIlIten Dy George ace. ana Mhlch mas Deen
Connolly, is to be elaborated into a three
act comedy drama, in which form II is to
appear next season
Miss Edna Eessett, who sang a small
role In the Mile. Modiste" company and
was understudy TO Nine. FIRTH Scheff, Is
Frank Daniels prima donna in The
Tatooed Man" Miss Fassett scored an I'M
usual success when she took Nine. Scheff's
role when the prima donna was Obliged to
retire through illness.
Fascinating Flora Is the title chosen for
the new spring and summer comedy 20 be
presented at the New York Casino In suc-
esssion to Louis Mann IA rhe White
w. Herbert, with music by Gustav Kerker,
will be tried" at New Haven for the first
the title role and the cast will Include
Louis Harrison, James e Sullivan, Fred
ertck Bond. Ada Lewis and Ella Snyder.
Guy Standing Is to assume the principal
role In q dramatization OF Gilbert Parkers
novel 1.-THE Right-of-Way," which Klaw Il
Erlanger will produce next season, Origi-
nally Kyrle Bellew was intended for the
part, and some months ago It was stated
that Theodore Roberts had been selected.
George Howard, who was IN the principal
role In THE Daughters Of Men," has sue
ceeded Jack Standing as leading man with
Mrs Carter who Is making western tour
In revivals Of 'Du Barry" and "Zaza-"
cess in the straight comedy The Butter
fly" which will induce her to remain in
that sphere next season. She will appear in
a new play, which Is being written for
her by George Broadhurst and George V.
Hobart. 1t is claimed that the subject OF
the play will create mild sensation Sew
eral of the characters will be readily recog-
nized as prototypes Of men and women well
known in New York especially of the
sheepshead Bay and Gravesend racing
meets.
Echoes of the Mansfield Emma Dunn
controversy are heard in the recent resig-
nation Of Jennie Eustace from Arnold
Days company and James Keene from In
the Bishops Carriage' organization. Miss
Bustace claims that Mr.. Daily handled her
so roughly that her arms were black and
blue. Mr.. Keene is no longer Jessie Bus
ley's leading man because the actress
claims that he knocked her down. Both
DAILY and Keene deny the allegations made
against them.
An interesting announcement of the week
to the effect that Marguerite Clarke the
petite and talented light opera singer who
has been with De Wolf Hopper for the last
several seasons, has been selected by the
Shuberts to play the principal role in their
London production of THE Road to Yes
terday." The play will open at the Waldorf
theater at the conclusion Of the Sothern-
Marlowe engagement there. That Miss
Clarke's talent and popularity assured her
for eventual stardom was generally con-
ceded, but her transfer to the legitimate
stage comes somewhat as a surprise.
London's dramatic critics have taken
kindly to Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage
Patch" which was given there for the hrst
time last week. With one accord the re-
viewers treat the piece. not as a play, but
as a picture of life, and, though none Of
them is able to say OF his own knowledge
that 1t is true. they all seem convinced that
Just such persons as appear in It really
exist. Even A. b. Walkley, the brilliant
critic of the Times, says: ''If there are no
such people, and no such manners, we
feel that thereOought to be-" The work OF
Mrs. Madge Carr Cook has been highly
commended on all sides, and the American
success of the piece bids fair 20 be dupli-
Gated in London.