Show Footllcht Flashes Herbert Kelcey is quite ill with bronchitis bron-chitis Richard Mansfield is going to build new theatre in New York I c t i At the Broadway theatre Paul Jones is drawing good business Steele Mack ye has gone off by himself for three months to write a play Doctor Bill is running at Frenchs New Garden theatre New York Belascot and De Milles Men and Women is an unqualified success Our own Whituey thinks Maister of Voodbarrow Southerns now play better than Chumley Thu gross receipts of Crystal Slipper wit not reach seven thousand dollars but wil be very near it All the Comforts of Home Gillettes new piece is described by the critics as amusing and bright but not brilliant The sum realized by the sale of Richard Mansfields collection of antiquities and curios last week is given out as 1991250 In Syracuse N Y last week the Rentz Santley company gave h performance for the benefit of the sufferers at the Leland hotel fire Sol Smith Russell seems to have dropped The Tale of u Coat permanently for he is giving his whole attention to A Poor Relation Jo Haworth Is playing the part of Captain Cap-tain Bradley in the neat little curtain aiser A Man of the World done hereby here-by Maurice Barrymore The latest fraud in New York a female I fakir who advertises that she can remove wrinkles and all the ballet girls in town are said to be basieging her This is by far the most successful season in every respect that Roland Reed has ever known His new comedy Lend Me Your Vife is a tremendous success Lithe Lillian Russell as she is now called has nscored au immense success in Poor Jonathan The dramatic papers call her the greatest comic opera favorite I in America John L Sullivan actor celebrated his thirtysecond birthday last Friday by plying ply-ing a special matinee at the Haymarket Chicago Rosina Yokes and many of the members of Lawrence Barretts company attended Miss Rose Eytinge has opened a school of stage training in New York and should find plenty of pupils She is not alone an fnd able actress but she knows the technicalities techni-calities of the stage very thoroughly from first to last A huge spectacle Claudius Nero is on at the Niblos with eight live lions on the stage roaming at wilta wire netting being let down between the audience and the stage The New York Hfrald says Barnum is not in it and should retire ATr Wnirf c Tvintn niiinntnwn shunned u u U vJ in Frisco Rich 1 as lie is in apologetic expressions says one of the critics Hoyt must feel that any apology he might offer for A Trip to Chinatown would be worse than useless Cheap flimsy trashy are among the adjectives used to describe it The Salt Lake contingent who tarry in New York were invited to the Players club the other evening and just missed seeing Grover Cleveland Booth Jefferson Florence Kendall and General Sherman all of whom arc members and had been dining at the club and listening to Cleveland Cleve-land tell Junny stories John L Sullivan says he dont want to appear egotistical but he hopes some day to be as great an actor as Booth orMcCul I lough He doesnt study as none of the I great actors did he says and he dont I think he has started out too late for theres Sarah Bernhardt over thirty before she amounted to anything Sardous Cleopatra which has just made a phenomenal hit in Paris with Sarah Sa-rah lieruhardt in the central character will have its first American representation at the hands of Fanny Davenport at the Fifth Avenue theater on December 22 Mme Bernhardt herself will not be seen in it until March in this country Last week at the Grand opera house in Cincinnati Mr Stuart Robson produced anew a-new comedy by A D Gordon entitled Is Marriage a Failure Mr Robson has recently re-cently added to his repertory She Stoops to Conquer which he presents at mati ness only with A Little More or Less Lord Fauntleroy as a double bill Shenandoahs two weeks Boston at the Globe theatre proved enormously successful suc-cessful American plays are having a boom just now Daniel Frohmans Lyceum company in The Charity Ball played at the Hollis Street theatre last week to upward of 11000 the largest weeks business ever done in the theatre at the prices Amelia Glover is quoted as saying that to attain success in skirt dancing the dancer must not have the slighest suspicion suspi-cion of embonpoint She must above al things possess not only the quality of being able to kick artistically but must also use a smile a bit of gesticulation an undefinable something such as French danseuses dan-seuses use in their art Many women that are not skirt dancers possess the quality ol being able to kick artistically But kicking is a luxury which only the successful suc-cessful actress can indulge in The rank and file cannot afford i |