Show DEAMTIC GOSSIP < i b JL Things Theatrical Tliroughout the Country Lawrence Barrett goes to California Califor-nia this summer Theodore Thomas and his big orchestra will not go to San Francisco I Fran-cisco under Lockes management Gustave Frohman is figuring on taking a company of Chinese actois east from San Francisco next season Esmeralda still holds the boards at the Madison Square and plays to good houses There will be no change of bill there till fall at any rate Jr F Hagan has been reengaged to play Dunstan Kirke in one of the Madison Square traveling companies com-panies next season In view of the dull prospects for the summer San Francisco managers mana-gers are discussing the advisability of reducing the prices of admission to seventyfive cents for a dress circle seat Two of the Madison Square Theatre companies will play Hazel Kirke during the entire summer one on the Pacific > > Slope and the other in the east and Canada It is now said that balvini will not come to this country the coming season Mr Ambers has received a letter saying that Mr Chizzola has been unable to make arrangements arrange-ments with him Steele iMackaye author of Hazel Kirke has indefinitely abandoned the project of building a new theatre in New York and will devote himself him-self to railroad inventions The Professjr will close its season sea-son at the Windsor Theatre New York It will then have been played 362 times It will reopen I September 25th at Baltimore with a reorganized company Edwin Booths daughter is lying very sick at the Hotel Brunswick New York City of pneumonia It may cause a change in the date of Booths departure to England His intention was to leave on the 31st of May He may not now leave until June 7th The rehearsals of the Living Age are progressing very satisfactorily satisfac-torily at the Union Square and there is a strong likelihood of the play being a success The scenery will be very elaborate and striking Marston has been engaged upon it along a-long time Alice Dunning Lingard has just closed a very successful comedy engagement en-gagement in New York and has gone abroad for the summer She is to return in September and resume re-sume her professional duties Alice has now concluded that comedy is her forte By September Madison Square will have five new plays ready for mounting each of them specially ordered by the management from some acknowedged dramatic author From these five one will then be selected for immediate production and the others will be put away to wait some of them no doubt for years Mr Will Comley of the Gomley Barton management is sorely beset with difficulties of a most distress ing character of late Besides the suit for damages brought by Catharine Cath-arine Lewis for alleged breach of contract he is harraased with a suitor suit-or divorce instituted by his wife who charges him with adultery and names the woman The contract was signed last Thursday for the production of Gilbert Gil-bert and Sullivans new opera founded on The Princess Its first performance will take place at the Standard Theatre New York on October 1st with Doyley Cartes company Mr Gilbert is personally to direct the rehearsals there and Mr Sullivan is to conduct the first night The rights to the opera will be sold entire for other cities with the agreement that Mr Sullivan will conduct on the first night in each place Mr Stetson has already secured the opera for New England There has been considerable gossip the past week over the mysterious departure of Tom Casselli on the same steamer with Emilie Melville as he had been prolific in his assertions as-sertions that he had no intention of going to Australia just at present lie secured passage at the last moment mo-ment under the name of Shapscoat and went on board disguised as an elderly gent It is said that Mr Derby Emilys husband recently grew suspicious of Cassellis untiring tiring devotion to the fair p1 madonna ma-donna and the two gents quarreled Emily took issue with her husband and is reported to have left him Casselli though Quite young is said to have a wife inEngland Miss Clara Louise Kellogg now lets ifc become known that she will not get married but will star another season or get up English opera or do something to make money and get a fresh batch of fulsome ful-some laudations of the American prima donna The marriage advertisement ad-vertisement was worked ail nauseam during the past season Every provincial pro-vincial newspaper teemed with the occount of the forthcoming event They seemed to think it was a circumstance that ought to shake America to its centre In that thought Miss Clara Louise agreed with them She is said to have been overwhelmed with congratulatory congra-tulatory letters For some reason the marriage arrangement fell through just as her season closed And then just as her new arrangements arrange-ments were made for next season the report of her virgin resolve not to marry is circulated Congratulatory Congratul-atory letters of another order are now overwhelming her Next to the Bernhardt hysterics and the Clara Morris hemorrage the matrimony ad is the best yet > t < r J f |