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Show tftUTH Greenroom' Gossip. enMr. H. V. Esmond is said to be five-act a tragedy. gaged upon Augustus Thomas is writing Frank Worthing is play, and ate the principal part. Grandma is said to be the the play chosen for Mrs. G. a new to title of H. Gil- berts farewell tour next season. Madame Patti will clear nearly half a million dollars on her tour enough to keep her to an evergreen old age. Nora Dunblane has won praise from the press in the large cities for her performances as Ruth in The Worst Woman in London. Capt Basil Hoods forthcoming play, Love in a Cottage, is a light comedy in four acts, of which the scene is laid chiefly in Ireland. Edmond Rostand has almost completed a play for Coquelin which :1s promised at the Gaiety in Paris about Feb. 1. Title and nature of play are . Youth's Ambition. during last season's road tour of "The Little Princess Millie James became greatly Interested in one of the players in her support. He was a young fellow engaged to impersonate one of the Lascar servants. He was good looking, earnest and reliable, but most mysterious in his habits. His principal assistance to the company was In making the transformation scene in the second act. He had no lines to speak, but it 'is so important that the scene should be changed quickly and properly that application was made by the managers to a dramatic school for a young man who would be reliable as the Lascar, and who could understudy some of the other parts. He was never seen in the daytime except when the company was traveling. At night, except for the few minutes he was on the' stage; he stayed in his dressing-rooreading. All efforts to make hii sociable were rebuffed until Miss James got his confidence. She found that he had made up his mind to be a physician and was studying to that end. In the daylight hours he makes cigars in his rooms, which he disposed-ofor a fund which he hopes will enable him to enter Yale Medical ' college next (3 French Tutor's Odd Ad. Clyde Fitch, the playwright, collects in scrapbooks specimens of the errors foreigners making in dealing with strange tongues. One of Mr. Fitchs scrapbooks is devoted to French-Eng-lis- h the sort of English that Frenchmen sometimes use. An addition was made to this volume the other day. It was a French tutors advertisement clipped from a London newspaper, and it ran: A young Paris man shall desire to show his tongue to classes of English gentlemen. Address; etc. o -- Greatest Mountain Railway. The greatest of all mountain railways is that which ascends Mt. Ijowe, in southern California, to an altitude of 6,000 feet at a 48 per cent grade. o Tuberculosis Deaths. secrets. Deaths from consumption are dividWilliam Owen has fully recovered ed by ago, as follows: Under forty-five- , to sixty, 29 per 59 per cent; forty-fivfrom his recent illness and has rehis 12 company. During his abcent; above sixty, per cent joined sence his understudy, Harry L. Hays, has been filling his place. Mary Anderson (Mrs. de Navarro) appeared in London Dec. 30, and gave an entertainment ' for the 4,000 children of the Whitechapel district. Miss fall. . Anderson sang. o Viola "Alien is delighted with the Never. new play that Marion Crawford has It is, Mr. about finished for her Never cultivate second or third-rat- e Crawford says, a play of modern folk, except for artistic purposes. times. The heroine is a Glory Quail Meet them, if you must; leave them when you can. You need expect' nothpart William Collier and Messrs. Weber ing from them that they can conscien& Fields have parted company. The tiously withhold, for they are after comedian has not' been the success your goods, while keeping a strict and ' that his managers expected he would jealous watch upon their own. All be, owing, mainly, to dramatic veh- you can get from them is material, icles not adapted to his. peculiar 'style. never any spiritual, Intellectual, wise, Mr. Forbes Robertson will, on his sane. or moral or helpful messages. : o return from America, produce a new Coal. Welch Buys play by Miss Margaret Young, enThe Russian government contracts titled The Edge of the Storm. Miss tons of Welsh coal to .Young is one of the writers for the yearly for 50,000 at Port Arthur before stage who have had some practical ex be delivered m . ( e Cause of the Trouble. We aro indebted to the press bureau of the Savage forces for this suggestion of cause for the recent international complications. Possibly one of Henry W.s young men is re" sponsible for the Tall-Typ- e press Imbroglio. Runs the squib: It is surely more than a mere cohas-beeincidence more than-whacalled Savage luck that just as the comic new Blossom-Robyopera, has been The Yankee Consul, launched with marked success the government should send a fleet of warships to Puerto Plata in Santo Domingo, where the scenes of the opera are located. Puerta Plata hadn't boon heard of in years until The was .produced by Yankee Consul Henry W. Savage. But here is whore the startling coincidence comes in. It was no sooner announced that George Ade and Gustav Luders had about completed The Sho-Guu comic opera with scenes located in Corea, for Mr. Savago than Russia and Japan rushed their finest warships to Corea and began to wrangle for its possession. Panama-Colombia- t n n, o f : -- : July L perience of acting. Jean Sibelius; the most noted among the composers of Finland, is about to finish a violin concerto, which he' Intends to dedicate' to Willy Burmester, who will, of course,' be the first to play the novelty in Scandinavia, as well as all over Germany in the course of the present season. ; - Theatre Bon Ton DAILY r230 AND 730. ft n A Moonlight Dress, One of the most charming flights fashion has taken is in the form of a This most, wonmoonlight dress. be can achieved with effect derful layers of filmy chiffon gauze, and shpor Ell9onng I ihopiv 11 ' in th-shades: silver, white moonlight blue, gray and other pale shades. There have been sunset gowns in purple, rose, red gold.1 mauve cream and turquoise blue, and autumn gowns Ini the richness of color that season suggests, also winter ' costumes all white and cold and sparkling, hut upvp hofore a moonlight offpet with all its poetic fancy. Experts have proved how beautiful it can bo in blending these requisite shades and e materials.- - o Removing Paint From Glass. Paint may' be removed from glass by using a mixture composted of three parts of caustic potash and one part urislaked lime. Apply this to the glass, letting'lt remain for some time, and It will remove either paint or tar. o ANIMALS DELIGHT IN COMBAT. ' Spirit Strong In All the Lower Orders. The recent fight between a couple of the royal bucks in Windsor Great Park is an item in the annual chapter of battles between the lower orders. The combative Instinct in animals is as .ineradicable as in man. Turn to whatever species one. may, he finds the rule the same. A couple of rival hares will fight until one is killed ; whales seize one another by. the mouth and struggle . for mastery until the It is pracjaws become distorted.tically impossible to find a .mature male beaver unscarred by battle; lho seal carries evidences of his wars Indian which would delight a Red The festiver frisky squirrel brave. is a bloodthirsty litllo rascal and with terrible his adamant jaws inflicts wounds upon his enemy. Deep in the bowels of the earth sanguinary warfare is waged by the male mole upon his own sex. One has seen an oid sock pigeon, sultan of a cote in which were many pairs, take upon hlmssf iho extinction of a lu3ty sparrow, and. Fighting Career of Miss Marie Cahill. the saving graice was born in of Nancy Brown, Brooklyn, N. Y. Shortly after her baby carriage days she went on the stage in a little Brooklyn theater where Harley Merry, a scenic artist, was conducting a stock company. Her first appearance as a member of Merrys company was in a small role in Kathleen Mavourneen. The title role was played by Miss Nellie Lingard, grandniece of the historian and essayist. Miss Cahill and Miss Lingard became fast friends then, and the latter is now a play reader for Daniel V. Arthur, Miss Car hills' manager. Charles Hoyts A Tin Soldier was the first musical play in which Miss Cahill took a part. She played the role of Patsy. In this piece her work consisted mostly of dancing. She gradually climbed to and y is the foremost woman exponent of the broad yet thoroughly legitimate school of low comedy ll founded by Miss May Irwin. Miss is artistically speaking, own sister to N. C. Goodwin, their methods often being startingly similar. Miss 'Marie Cahill, sou-bret- te pre-eminenc- e, to-da- Ca-hi- FOR. WEEK BEGINNING MONDAY. JANUARY 25 LOUISE AND FRANK BEVERLY, Character Sketch DOUGLAS & FLETCHER, . Song and Dance Artists . Coon Shouters HYLAND & GRANT, HOLDEN & WALDEN, . . A Comedy Musical Team KINADROME ; PRICES. 10cf 20c and 30c SACRED CONCERT Sunday evening COMMENCING AT 7i30. TENNESSON & ROBINSON DOUGLAS & FLETCHER LOUISE AND FRANK BEVERLEY MUSICAL FOUR . CHARLES LEONARD GEORGE ISHAM . J j . MASTER TREZlSE GAYNOR & WILSON KINADROME ...... - in the course of a few rdnutes. kill the Intruder. Not a bit f ore te;ur is that smug hypocrite, t..o cooing Gazette. dove, London St. James |