Show THEATRICAL NOTES I It is said that Joseph M Arthur drew a royalty of 1100 from his plays during Thanksgiving week Sims Reeves has been offered 600000 for fifty concerts in Australia I Now that Joseph Jefferson has completed the publication ol his memoir it is said that W J Florence will write his The new American farcical opera Ship Ahoy which was recently produced for the first time at Philadelphia is said to be well done The book is by II Grattan Donnelly and the music by Fred Miller Maurice Barrymore has dropped from tarring in Reckless Temple to playing leading man in the more or less disreputable disrepu-table Clumcnceau Case because or the failure of tho former piece There seems to be no doubt of the thorough thor-ough success of Mrs Leslie Carter tl hotly Chicago divorcee on tho stage Great ho-tly to 1 the surprise of the critics Mrs Carter can < act |