Show Stage Gossip The Passing Show received its first production at the New York Casino May 12 Eleanor Mayo is singing in the Princess Prin-cess Bonnie in Philadelphia with great success I Chauncey Olcott is drawing well with Mavourneen at the Fourteenth Street i theatre New York l Roland Reed will not close his pres eivtseason until June He is doing a fine business in the west LDttas old play Pawn Ticket No 210 will be taken on the road next season by Amy Lee James J Corbett has accepted 3000 for eight boxing exhibitions the No veau Cirque In Paris Joseph Jefferson has closed his season and gone with his family to his summer home at Buzzards Bay Harry Emery and his melodrama The World still manage to catch a big share of the public patronage Edwin Milton Royle has finished anew a-new play which he will produce next season in connection with Friends Isidore Rush is acknowledged to be one of the beauties of the American stage and possesses exceptionally fine taste in dress exceptonaly Camille DArville Is scoring a hit in Ion Arnolds latest song La Separa con which has been put in the comic opera Venus M l Curtis is booming I Saml of Posen ISSh gd le I in good shape and has employed em-ployed Charles Alfred Byrne to rewrite I the last act of the play rewrie I Eddie For will star net season in a I M spectacular farce comedy entitled Of i i l the Earth of which Mr Foy and John D Gilbert are the authors j Bronson Howards I I Howads first play was called Fantine and was produced in i 1562 The only play he ever wrote j that was an absolute failure was entitled en-titled Met by Chance It was pro duced in New York in HIT I Albert Bruning who is playing a f prominent character part in Charleys Uncle was Edwin Booths leading man during his engagement in Berlin Germany This is Mr Brunings first appearance in farce comedy Hopkins TransOceanic star specialty company Is headed this way and Salt Lake will b regaled with high class specialty in the sweet by and by Hop kins companies are always good and he always presents some novelties I Is announced that Robert Mantell has signed a five years contract with Augustus Pitou according to which he I will star under Mr Pltous str management ment beginning next September He r intends to appear in a repertory next season I Edward J Ratcliffe will end his con tract with the Lyceum theatre stock company at the close of the present season having accepted the place of leading man for the revival of Shenandoah Shen-andoah to begin about the last week in August Jactfb Litt and Thomas H Davis have dissolved partnership Litt tak ing the plays that are now running Among them are In Old Kentucky The Ensign and Yon Yonson The name of Lilt and Davis has been attached at-tached to many a play In the past The Skating Rink a farce comedy In which N C Goodwin made a great success several years ago is to be presented pre-sented In New York May 21 The piece has been rewritten and is thoroughly thor-oughly up to date Flora Finlayson who formerly alternated with Jessie Bartlett Davis in the contralto roles with the Bostonians is a leading mem ber of the company The Princess Bonnie ha taken Philadelphia by storm At the close of a very bad theatrical season this opera has come in for a fifty night run and drawn crowded houses every night One can now buy Princess Bonnie cigars I hats shoes perfumes and can drink cool refreshing Princess Bonnie soda water A Philadelphia firm is shortly to put on the market a Dreaming of Love toilet soap that being the title of one of the most popular songs in the opera and photographs of Eleanore Mayo the beautiful young soprano can be seen everywhere Eddie Foy and David Henderson have parted company There was bad blood between Henderson and Foy and af fairs growing worse Henderson fired Foy Fey has a contract until Septem ber 1 with Henderson and says he will enforce i J will be remembered that two years ago when Foy attempted to leave the company Henderson went into court and compelled Foy to keep his contract Foy is going to star next season and is also reported as writing a new play Henderson is working away on his big production of his new extravaganza Alladdin Jr |