The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-01-03

of Faust" which comes to the opera
house Jan. s.
As BELTS such an accomplished art
list. her manager. Mr.. William r. Ger
man. has surrounded her with a com.
Dany of unusual excellence, and has
invested the beautiful play with scenic
effects of such rare beauty and novelty
that the good old play will hardly be
recognized in its new and brilliant
form.
Blanche Bates Plans Fox Hunt.
Blanche Bates expects TO stir UP
some excitement on her farm at Os-
shining on the Hudson before she
moves TO her apartments in the city
for the winter. The charming Be
lasco star Of The Fighting Hope has
planned an entertainment which will
be as novel as exciting. Recently
number of Miss Bates's finest chick
ems. with pedigrees as long as your
arm. have been missing from their
roOSts. Investigation has proved that
the thief is a fox. Therefore. to mete
out justice to the guilty one, and
either capture Mr.. Reynard or drive
him off the farm. Miss Bates has ar
ranged a hunt for one day during the
first week of the New Year II so
happens that at that time three Be
lasco stars will be in the city, each
one of whom claims some distinction
as an eQuestrienne. Miss Bates has
owned and ridden horses in the west
since her childhood; Miss Charlotte
Walker, who is appearing this week in
''The Warrens of Virginia" at the
Academy of Music has done likewise;
! while Miss Frances Starr. who is re-
hearsing in The Easiest Way at the
Belasco theatre. spent the greater
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These three ladies will be among the
| leading members OF the cast of which
] Mr.. Fox will be the star. Nor will
| there be any need to bSrTow horses
or hounds for the occasion, as Miss
| Bates's stables contain half a dozen
1 rhoroughbreds. several of which have
| taken ribbons at the garden, while her
/ kennels house bloOded dogs to the
number of sixteen This viii be no
preaTTanged aniSe seed race, as the
dogs will be put on the scent at the
| chicken coop and the competitors for
| the brush will follow wherever Mr.
Fox" leads. 1t is expected that the
hunt will be productive not only Of
| considerable excitement, but number
/ less nature-fakir stories. Many of
! Miss Bates's friends have already
( been notified of the hunt and may be
seen in the saddle in Central Park
| most any day, but they will find a
/ slight difference in boulevard travelling
/ and in following the Belasco star once
/ she starts on a CrOSs-c0Untrg gallOp-
Wilton Lackaye in "The Battle"
II Messrs. Liebler and Company have
II secured the services of an excellent
/ company to support Wilton Lackaye
/ in his new play, The Battle" which
begins its New York run the night o.
L December 21st, at the Savoy theatre.
\ H B. Warner will again be seen in
h the role that he created when the play
Il was frs produced on the road, and
/ E. NJ. Holland will be seen as the hon
est old socialist, Gentle. a new lead
4 ing lady has been engaged in the per-
/ son of Katherine Grey, while a femi-
/ nine role of scarcely secondary inn
h poTfance has been assigned to Elsie
! Ferguson the y0uRg actress who re-
Il Gently scored SO heavily as leading
lady in pierre of the Plains" Gerald
i Grifan and Charles Able, two very
Efficient character actors. complete
L the cast. IN the meantime, Mr.. War
neF's position as leading man with
1 the Eleanor RoasGn Company viii be
Elled by William Courtkeigh.
Wilton Lackaye, who, before decid-
ing to take the stage. first studied for
the priesthood and then tackled law,
4 at one time tried the newspaper game
becoming city editor OF a small paper
in Richmond, Va. At one time he had
occasion to Feb1ke a young reporter
for stFaying too far from actual fact,
and to give the young man cast iron
instructions to say nothing that he
did not personally know to be abso-
lutely true. As a result. the follow
ing copy came in on the young mans
next assignment
1T is Tumered that Mrs. Smith, who
claims to reside on South Chestnut
Il street, gave what she called d dinner
L party to q number eff her alleged
L friends. Mrs. Smith asserts that the
affair was a success. She also went
on record as saying that in a progress
i've euchre that followed the sO-callea
dinner, Mrs. Brown. who claimed to be
the wife of Postmaster Brown, won
first prize.
Say reporter to LacBaye, and you
. are not unlikely to hear of a dinner,
at which the guest of honor, a we'll
known clergyman was absent, Lack
aye was called upon to say grace, and
after seme Pretestation, responded
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