Show Of Plays and the Players I 1 IEVENTS OF THE WEEK The Latest Production of Bronson Howard L ITrolimaiis Americans Abroad the Next Attraction Einroa Vaders Pronounced Sane Footlisht Glemiiicrlngs t The dramatic eventof the week was the presentation of Aristocracy by the r Froman company at the theatre Bronson Howards reputation as a playwright has I been tally established in this comedy The Bankers Daughter Sheunan 1 doah The Henrietta and other popular plays have placed him in the I front rank and Aristocracy while not like any of them is entitled to a paten pate-n the Jist or genuine American pliys by I i an American author and an American company It accomplishes fully the purpose designed de-signed in its production if that is as vc suppose to disgust Ameripan people with European aristocrats and also with their snobbish imitators on this side the Atlantic The weaknesses vices follies and crimes of the titled people with whom so many American folks desire alliance al-liance or at any rate association in society so-ciety are held up to view and to scorn The picture is a little to dark if anything any-thing Ko doubt there are such polished and satanic princely villans as HALDEN 3 WALD and such merceniry and rival I f marpuisoa as Normandale also Dukes as foolish and Frenchy as DB VlGNTVo LATE But these wonld have been made none the less despicable by the contrast Given as in real society fay the presence of one or two representatives of the grand old families in which honor integrity and virtue have been perpetual with the title The aristocracy of the old world is not all of the stripe depicted in this play However each of the characters presented is clearly defined a distinct conception and a natural inaividualization There are incidents in the play and several scenes which if not sensational are sufficiently exciting and suggestive of a climax which strain attention to its utmost limit and make the audience almost al-most breathless in anticipation The company is balanced and there are bits of character acting which exhibit great talent and aeserve unstinted applause ap-plause The manner in which the play is put upon the stage is unexceptionable and it is likely to have a long run and is capable of many reproductions although it does not quite reach the hight of some other of Bronson Howards charming productions The next great attraction at the theatre I f is Daniel Frohmans Kew York company iu ti repertoire which will take five nights i to present The opening play will be i Americans Abroad written lor this i company by Victorien Sardou and the i other plays in the repertoire will be The Grey Mare Charity Ball The I AVife White Roses and Old Heads I and Young Hearts Tuesday Aug 8 will be the opening night and sale of seats will begin on Saturday Satur-day next The company includes among others Georgie Cay van Effie Shannon Mrs Charles Walcot Thomas Vhiffen Madge Carr Bessie Brice Miss Leland Little Anette Herbert Kelcey W J LeMoyno Fritz Williams Eugene Or mande Charles Robinson Augustus Cook Ed J Badcliff Charles W King p Charles Walcot and others > otcs at the Profession Mrs Potter has written to a friend in Boston that she and Mr Bellew are corning corn-ing to this country next season after all Mile Rhea decided to have the important import-ant scenery of The Queen of Sheba painted in France under th3 supervision of the author Adrien Barbusse and the designer M David The new melodrama in which Charles Townsend will star next season is entitled en-titled The Midnight Hour and is said to be a wonderfully accurate picture of modern life in New York Augustus Thomas Nat C Goodwin and his company are busy rehearsing the new play In Mizzoura which Mr Good win will produce for the first time on Hooleys stage Chicago Monday August Aug-ust 7th Miss Edith Rice who was seen in the title role of Fantasma last season has been engaged by Manager David Hender Bon for his American Extravaganza company com-pany now playing at the Chicago opara house Adelina Patti will sail for New York on Oct 28 She will sing at Carnegie Music hall on Nov 9 She says it is to be her farewell tour of America There seems to be something reminiscent about that promise Can it have been uttered before be-fore foreWalker Walker Whiteside has bought from M Herrmann the well known costumer the valuable wardrobe and properties bought by Mr Herrmann at private sale from the Lawrence Barrett estate This purchase includes the splendid tapestry curtains used by Mr Booth in his production produc-tion of Hamlet Camille DArville will not sing with the Bostonians next season as is still hoped by the management of that organization or-ganization She will not sing under the I management of Rudolph Aronson as has been intimated by the daily papers She will be under the management of E E I Rice Contracts to that effect have been i signed One music hall in Londonthe Tivoli runs to whistlers It has three and nil are AmericansMrs Shaw Mr Stratton Strat-ton and Tom Browne says the J3irror Complaints have been maie of late that too many English vaudeville performers were imported to this country But in view of this reciprocity they seem to be 1llt med Vilhelm Herold the Danish tenor who made such a succ as Faust at the Royal theatre COT d n last season is in Chicago for pur se of singing with theScandip 10 sow esatthefair He was born z Horn holm wentyeight years ago and is strong b idsome athletic ath-letic fellow who fat ms equ to any of the heavy tenor roles Patti Rosa who is at present enjoying the mountain air of Colorado will open her season early in September at the Hay market Theater Chicago The artist engaged to upport her include John D Gilbert who it is saia will be paidone of the largest salaries ever paid to a comedian come-dian under like engagement Lottie Williams who made much of the ineenue part of Genie in Ole Olson twill t-will be starred next season in a play that Charles E Callahan is now writing for her under the management of Ed R Salter and backed by Chicago capital Miss Williams is a resident oiChicago Sgad is but 16 years old The Bostonians have accepted for production pro-duction next season a comic opera with a libretto by Clay M Green president of the Lambs Clab and with music bv Mr Thorne of Boston Its title is The Maid of Plymouth They have on hand also a light opera whose principal character is a gladiator The part will < be unnsr bv W Hi MscDonald William H Morton the TVPllknown manager Was stricken in New York with incipient paresis and taken to Blooming dale asylum His manic took the form of an imagining that he bad unlimited wealth Dr Thomas P Cleland his physician says that his chances for recovery re-covery are fairs he has a strong physique phy-sique Lob Fuller sails lor New York today o fill a seven weeks engagement in Ainer icaJonr of which will be In New York J jbability she will appear at the CSSlnO If the necessary legal arrange oJ r t o ° ments can be made She will have as her I associates Alice Shaw the whistler and Sylvia Gray and Fred Story of the London Lon-don Gaiety company The date set for their appearance is August 14 The National Alliance of Stage Employees Em-ployees that organized last week iixed upon the wages paid in New York as tile standard to be demanded by stage employees em-ployees of traveling companies This scale is Carpenters 35 a week helpers 25 property men 30 assistants t20 electricians 525 flymen 525 and extra men 20 It is now said that Reginald De Kbven the composer has taken the Prince of Wales theatre in London for a term beginning be-ginning Oct 5 and will there produce The Fencing Master with Marie Tempest in the leading role Mr Hill who is understood to control the prima donnas time with a contract signed before I be-fore shs sailed for Europe where she now ir is in Chicago I Emma Vaders who was removed from Atlantic city to the insane department of the Philadelphia hospital was last Tuesday Tues-day pronounced sane by the chief resident physician and the staff of the hospital She was thought to be insane when taken I therebut the physicians say she is sufi suf-i fering from the results ol hysteria occasioned occa-sioned by overstudy It is said that alter n weeks rest she may be able to leave the hqspital I The announcement is made from London Lon-don that in line with the improvements I now going on in theheart of the metropo I lis the famous old theatre of Drury Lanes I j s to be taken down together with a large II umber of buildings in the same neigh borhOOd and the space thus ob tamed devoted to the enlargement of I Covent Garden Market and to the construction truction of modern buildings that will pRy better rental than the old rookeries bat now occupy tub part of London For a year past Della Foxs voice has been failing and she recently consulted a throat specialist who told her that she would lose all power to sing unless she took a vacation Miss Fox delayed the I vacation and an operation became neces I ary She retired from the De Wolf Hopper company on July 15 Last Wednesday I Wed-nesday Drs Crosby and Richards operated oper-ated on her throat for granulation and stiffening of the vocal cords The opera tion was very painful but the actress bore it with fortitude JJaoulKoczalski callea The New Mo art is said to be the most wonderful of the child musicians He is drawing crowds to St James Hall London He is a Pole aged 8 strong and sturdy and though he practices very little plays some of the most difficult pieces of Beethoven Beeth-oven Liszt Chopin and Rnbenstein and is himself the composer of more than fifty works fifteen of which have already been published At the age of 3 thu child was in the hands of a professor at Warsaw and before he was 5 years old he was touring in Russia Roumania Spain Turkey Germany and Italy Benjamin F Bailey a sailmaker of New London Conn attached Richard Mansfields yacht Her Royal Highness which was lying off the Pequot L iuse and put a keeper on board last Wednes day claiming that Mr Mansfield owed him for the sails with which the vessel was fitted Mr Mansfield contended that the builder of the yacht ought to have paid for tho sails but on Tuesday he decided to discharge the claim and the yacht was released from custody It is said that Mr Mansfield intends to visit Europe after the cruise of the New York yacht club next month The amphitheatre in Pains enclosure at West Brighton Coney island caught fire last Friday week in some way un knownalthough one theory is that it was from a cigaretteand being of wood was quickly destroyed The loosely constructed con-structed buildings in its neighborhood were in great danger of burning but were saved by lively work Pains loss is estimated at from 20000 to 25000 The building cost 10000 and the other loss is on scenery and costumes stored in structure It is not probable that the amphitheatre will be rebuilt this season Cap Clark who figured the Great Metropolis a few years ago and who is now lifeguard at Atlantio city rescued James W Patterson a mdmber of the Hustler company from death in the breakers recently On a wager made with Charles A Davis Patterson who is an expert swimmer attempted to swim around the end of the long iron pier He was caught in a dangerous current which sweeps into Absecon Inlet at this point After an exhausting fight to escape from the mad rush of the surf he was dashed I against a pillar but he was able to cling to it until Clark fought his way through the breakers and threw a life preserver to him when the swimmer was pulled ashore by the lifeguard Drawing an audience in the olden days of theatres and theatregoers was a serious se-rious business and one on which the manager man-ager concentrated all his intellect for then as now his bread and the pay of the company depended on his success in this direction In the early days of Drnry Lane plays were announced in London through the medium of the bellman who went all day to and fro advertising the stage attraction of the hour In the evening the orchestra or brass instruments instru-ments performed on the pavement in front of the house while on the balcony above the members of the company fully dressed for their parts paraded in view of the gaping public and so important was this part of the performance regarded by the managers that a player who absented I ab-sented himself from the balcony show was fined as prompthkas though he had missed a part of att Carlotta an aeronaut who has for years made balloon ascensions and parachute descents ascended at Crystal beach on Lake Erie over the Canadian shore with her constant companion of the air her dog Columbia under her arm When the balloon had attained a height of SOO feel Carlotta endeavored to loosen her parachute para-chute but it would not work The wind veered and the balloon sailed over tho lake About three miles from shore it began to descend When fifty feet above the water Carlotta threw her dog out and then she jumped herself A tug was sent out when it was seen that the bul loon was drifting over the lake but it did not reach the aeronaut until she had been in thewater nearly half an hour Carlotta Car-lotta was kept afloat by a life preserver The balloon sank and no trace of the dog could be found Marie Decca a singer who traveled with Sousas Band has sued her husband I and former manager Francns Leon I Christman in Harrisburg Pa to recover re-cover her residence there Villa Decca I which she says was bought with her earnings earn-ings but fraudulently held by her husband hus-band who had the deed to the property 1 made in his name without her knowledge Mme Decca says she met her husband I first at Chautauqua in August 1891 while she was tilling an engagement i there that he called upon her as a journalist jour-nalist to interview her that the acquaintance I ac-quaintance continued until their marriage mar-riage in January 1S92 that he had become I be-come her manager in September 1892 and was to receive for his services only his personal expenses becauseOf his inexperience in-experience and that ho has refused to give an accounting of his stewardship Christman denies all her allegations and prominent lawyers are engaged on both sides Norman W Scott jr and company will take out An Irishmans Love this season The pieceis described as a melodramatic melo-dramatic comedy Arthur Voegtlin has painted a carload of special scenery forth for-th pro nction The company numbers eighteen and it will be headed by the versatile young Irish comedian James B Donovan who is a sweet singer and a lively dancer In his support are H H Horton Dan E Lacy Henrietta Scott and Fanny Nuvinod In the course of the play a number of novel specialties will be introduced The music for these has been composed by Percy Gaunt of the Madison Square theatre It is prom ised that everything connected with the production will be first class It will have real boats floating on real water The tank used will Ue sixty beet lone and twenty feet wide The California quar Q I1 z > < i l 7 i O < C < c tette has been engaged The season of An Irishmanslfoe will open on or about Aug 20 The marriage of Dslia Stacey and Thomas Howard Burchell is announced to take placo at the residence of the I brides mother Mrs May H Stacey No 37 Rnntin ton avenue Baltimore Md next Monday Miss Stacey has recently appeared with the Straight Tip company com-pany She was born in a military camp In Arizona her father beingColonel May Stacey of the United States army and her mother a daughter of Judge Banks of Hollidaysburg Pa Miss Stacey was educated in the east Her father died about ten years ago She decided upon the stage as a profession and made her debut at Dockstaders theatre on June 28 1887 in an indifferent play called Tom Craigs Wife taking the leading part Then she went to the Casino for two years and afterward with James T Powers Mr Burchell is manager for an umbrella manufacturing establishment and is a member of the Catholic club where he resides Miss Stacey will retire from the stage A correspondent of the Boston Post saya4 I have a habit of dropping into a certain suburban telephone office somewhere some-where around 1 or 2 oclock in the morning morn-ing a time when night telephone operators opera-tors have little business to attend to Asa As-a means of whiling away the dull hours the boys frequently have a sort of telephonic tele-phonic concert B y a general manipulation manipula-tion of the plugs and switches on half the boards within a radius of 300 miles the audience and performers are ready and the first selection Is perhaps by some melodious individual away up in the mountains of New Hampshire Then Providence or Hartford will favor the listeners and finally a chorus is sung by everybody on the Ilne from provincial Portland to metropolitan New York from simple Gloucester to aristocratic Springfield The invention of the telephone tele-phone Is now a rather trite subject But notwithstanding the familiarity with the instrument occasioned by its general use the complete annihilation of distance dis-tance upon such occasions as the one cited is apt very apttu cause one to marvel even at this late day at this wonderful result of genius |