Show I Gossip of the Theatres naL nUE1 HE DARK TIllS WEEK s Personal I to ins and Gossip About Well HvnoiTii Actors Rail Actresses Etc t r Thcilbeatre will be darkthis week 1oth = injj being promised until tho engagement of liicbard Mansfield on Monday and Tuesday He will appear in Beau flruin moll and Prince Karl11 I Theatrical fSosslp W T Carieton will take out an opera cOOJpauy next season b Vrtliur Beresford a distinguished English Eng-lish baritone is inOhicago iln Emma Albani has received a superb diamond decoration from the sultan < Madan ne Mofljeska will spend the coin inn sum ncr on her ranch in Southern California i George Q vould veil expend 530000 in re cmbelHshin V andalternyj the New York Grand Opera house In Athens Ga no operatic or other tierorman ceis permitted which womea appear in abbre viated skirls I Estclle Clayto u has written a play for Lojta which tb at popular actress proposes I pro-poses to produce ucrt reason Edgar Selden is a t work on a new Irish comedy which will > Ie produced next sea I Eon It has not yet ieen named Minnie Palmeris inking of becoming a star again next year > n jier old and only very great success 11V Sweetheart Henry E Dixcy will probably star next season in a new versioc of Ins old play which will be called Adonis the I Second I London has fortythree theatres and 189 music halls with a seating capacity of 250000 giving employment to 12000 persons Cyril Tyler the wonderful boysoprano I will soon go to England where he will sing only at private entertainments and residences Ada Dyas came over from London the other day on the Campania She played successfully with Irving in his production of Lear at the Lyceum The ballet girls of Londun have formed n union and they annonyce that they mean to enforce their rights by resort to regular trades union tactics Edward Dvansreline Rices latest extravaganza 1402 is booming along merrily at Palmers New York theatre where it Is booked fora ran Most of the English critics declare that many of the epigrams in Oscar Wildes new play hA Woman of No Importance Impor-tance are Irightfully strained The boasts ot sluggers and tho pomp of coffer b And all the Ustio art ourxuoughts engage Await alike the inevitable hour The path of bruising leads but to the stage The Uivals will be given in the i United States and England next season I by a company composed of Mrs John i e Drew McKee ankm Mr and Mrs Sidney Sid-ney Drew and other well known actors Miss Fannie Stenhouse a wellknown > contralto is in Chicago and will be heard shortly in a special role on the popular pop-ular concert stage The young lady as the daughter of Mrs T B N Stenhouse Frederick Wardes manager describes tim nrmrf rriin and amiable actor as a piscatorial U r sportsman P Other men I are just plain fishermen 3ilr Varde has summer hut at White Lakc Sulh j van cou NIO j Mr Alexander Salyini and his manager Mr TV M Wilkinson rill sail for Europe j Eu-rope early in June Mr Salvinis next season < opetiG ia September when he will present a new play entitled The Son of l ¼ rthos H Samuel P Cox was reported so ill at tho Bostwyck hotel TVilflamsburg that I his life was despaired of Efforts will be made to remove him to Weisbaden Ky whero the invalid thinks his recovery will be certain Joseph Jefferson whom the Cincinnati t papers reported not long ago as dying is xa perI ct health and will mate another tour in Rip Van Winkle Among other ailments claimed for Jefferson was cancer He Tehemently denies this affliction af-fliction I The summer cast of AH Baba will remain re-main practically unchanged everyone of o the old favorites being retained including includ-ing Louise Biasing Ida Matte Frankie oi Ilaymond Ada Deaves Bessie Lynch Keihe Lynch Edwin Foy Henry Norman Nor-man Joseph Doner Jack Guihnette and the rest Mile Rhea has sailed for Europe She Intends to spend a part of her holiday abroad scanning authorities in Paris for points in regard ± o the scenery and costume tume of The Queen of Sheba The > > jniscu scene however will bo provided from tho studios and costume rooms of Kew York Mille Rhea believing in the I superiority domestic products Stuart Kobson has alwas been noted for I his persistency When a boy he stuck to Robert Toombs M C until the latter secured 11im position as a page in Congress Con-gress When a young man he was an eyesore to the Baltimore theatre managers I man-agers until they were forced to take him 1 on as a utility man in their stock company i k com-pany and during his partnership with 1 Crane he is said to have had his own way L in everything through his persistency Miss Ellen Terry finds that answering requests for her autograph takes up so much of her time that she has determined to try to turn that time to profit for somebody She has hit upon the idea of establishing an autograph bed at a hospital and so in reply to many pretty letters she receives from ladies the signature signa-ture is sent and with it a request for afew pence toward the autograph bed Miss Terry last week had the pleasure of sending send-ing 20 as a first installment to a hospital h in the neighborhood of her residence at Earls Court London The title of Charles H Hoyts newest f play is The Milk White Flag Nobody knows what the title means excepting possibly Mr Hoyt This piece will be produced in Boston at the Museum and will be seen in New York early in 1905 after the run of A Temperance Town which is to succeed A Trip to Chinatown China-town when that piece has run its preposterous pre-posterous run Present indications are that the Trip will last for a couple of years yet Its popularity at the Madison r Square theatre does not wane Information comes from London that P 4 Miss Lottie Collins is having well known > London dramatist prepare for her a sketch in which she will show her versatility as an actress as well as her cleverness as a vocalist She will sing a character song I l with eight strongly contrasting verses j only one of which will be devoted Tarara U which classic she will hereafter a here-after ding only as an encore Miss Collins 1 Col-lins is under contract with the Boston Howard Athenreum Star Specialty company com-pany for an American tour beginning in jew York the latter part of August and extending to the Pacific coast and return May Robsons artificial leg will get her into the same trouble some night that the French onearmed tenor Dunrez got into with his artificial arm One night in the second act of Traviata at the Grand opera in Paris Duprez in giving lila final adieu to Yioletta threw his false arm upward with more force than it r could stand and the consequence was that it became dislocated One of the springs broke and the spectators were amazed to see the limb going around like l at win mill If Mays leg would cut up such a trick it would require all the fire exits to empty the house in lime for the panic that would certainly ensue Sarah Bernhardt has been making a sensation at Athens After her per iormance in La Dame aux Camillas the king of Grreece3 who was in the audience au-dience sent for her and personally 4 thanked her Mme Bernhardt JJ saYR a sympathetic correspondent had intended in-tended after this performance visiting r the Acropolis by moonlight but being fatigued she postponed her visit till the z following day Then dressed in black and carrying a large basket of white flowers fille repaired to her husbands tomb After crossing herself and kneeling la prayer for some Wa < = a minutes resting her head meanwhile mean-while on the marble she reverently laid the flowers on M Dansalas grave and as Bhe went away it ws observed that hbr eyes were suffused with tears The lalo M Damalas two brothers went to iaeet theactress as she landed iron the steamer in Athens and the populace turned out to give her a grand reception Her visit has been altogether a personal as wclLas an artistic triumph I < The news that Miss Marie Wainwright is to retire from the stage at the close of I the present season has been received with feelings of dissatisfaction by habitues of the theatre that are most complimentary to that actress In reply to a question concerning the reasons that led her to determine de-termine upon taking this step Miss Wainwright said Yes I am going to I leave the stage and for several reasons I have had my ambitions and th y have been gratified in a greater degree than I could have reasonably hoped for I wanted to play a leading part in Shake speareian comedy and for two seasons I did so Then I wished to see what Icould do in romantic drama and the success of Amy Bobsart has been all that I could I have asked My ambition has thus been gratified and I do iiotwish it ever to be said of me that I lagged superfluous But the main reason formy determination to abandon my chosen profession is of a domestic do-mestic nature My two daughters are at an age when they require motherscare audi intend to give it to them I cannot do this and remain on the stage so I have determined to give up the latter My last performance will be given at Detroit De-troit in June |