Show I r The Clever Retort Courteous I They say tay sa that during one performance cf ct The Tha School for tor Scandal Miss Grace George who played Lady and Miss Rose Coghlan who appeared as Mrs Candour were passing the time of ot the tiLe day with that precarious amiability S sometimes characterizes the tile in intercourse tr ourse between bf tween ladles ladies of ot the theatre Miss MAss Coghlan was once upon a time fa famous famous mets as an Interpreter of ot the leading role cf ct comedy and was experienc experiencing ing a not Inexplicable feeling of at petulance at the triumphant attitude of her younger successor So she said acidly Well Yell I 1 Ima ma may bo be b cast for tor Mrs Candour now but buttor for tor all that I shall go down in history as the greatest Lady Teazie of the century And George purred softly with the thet full t ll consciousness of ot her Innocence Which century T Th 1 S that it the keen cruelty of spontaneous rejoinder Mr Ir Lacka es sisters of the stage ar more than he As evi eI evident dent o w call attention to Mrs rs Louise Cless r Hale Hali who writes fully as well as acts ats and with Miss Dorothy Doi nelly crossed the Atlantic last sum summer m mr mer r for the purpose of ot study and tin Fn route Mrs Ial Ia al ed th nil of a handsome boat whose attentions she evaded until one ona sunny Bunny morning he encountered her In en cc n contemplation of the summer sea as she loaned leanel l over ovar the rail He ap approached approached approached and in propitiatory propitiator tones In Inquired Inquired inquired What may I ask makes you so happy today And Miss Dorothy from her deck hair saw sa Mrs Hale look up at him with a smile and say Be Because Because Because cause I dont know you YO The advance sale eale for Maude Adams In What hat Every Woman Knows at the Hollis Street theatre In Boston was waa the largest ever recorded at that theatre At Atthe Atthe Atthe the time of at her opening January 31 the tho sale amounted to over Oer Before this the record at the Hollis was held by Rich Richard Richard Richard ard Mansfield who was a Bostonian A discussion has arisen in the middle west where both of ot Charles traveling Thief companies are now playing as to whether this great Bern Bernstein Bernstein Bernstein stein play Is essentially a womans play or not It is unquestionably a wo womans womans womans mans play but where Is the tho womans play pia which is not preeminently a mans play also Laura Nelson Hall has been engaged by Henry B Harris for a strong part In Sydney play Children of ot Destiny which will have havo Its in New York on February 21 to |