Show AT A GLANCE Janauchek has started a tour in Meg Merrilles Willie Colliers new play Mr Smooth is a great success t May Irvines new play Sister Mary is r said to be very successful Mme Repane will play Zaza while I on her tour of Europe this season r Ordette Taylor and R D MacLean are touring in Phroso this season f f I Dorothy Morton has been engaged fpr he leading part in A Great Slave l J There is to be a new burlesque house In New York called the Schley thea I tre i Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry will appear at the Empire theatre New York Becky Sharp with Mrs Fiske is said tovbe the pecuniary success of the season Ben Hendricks now touring in A Yeunine Yentleman is to have a new Swedish play next season Wilson Barrett has a new melodrama entitled Man and His Maker in whCh the hero is an opium eater Sarah Truax will be leading woman of the sto k company at the Lyceum theatre Baltimore this season Sir Arthur Sullivan has written the music for a new opera the scene of which will be laid in the Orient William Gillettes new play Sherlock Holmes had its first presentation in this country last week in Buffalo Augustus Pitou is about to give a gorgeous production to a new naval play entitled The Gunners Mate Melbourne MacDowell and Blanche Walsh will present La Tosca Fedora Fe-dora and Gismonda this season Way Down East with Howard Kyle in the leading role is booked for four months at the Academy pf Music New York The Bostonians are rehearsing two new operas The Smugglers by Gin some Mihkowsky and The Viceroy by Victor Herbert Victory Bateman has resigned from he cast of The Toll Gate Inn haying hay-ing concluded to accept New York engagements en-gagements only Frank Tannehill jr who plays Smith in Broadhursts farce Why Smith Left Home has just completed a comedy for May Irwin which she has accepted and will product next season Mr Tan nehills work as the imposedupon Smith has been very highly commented upon this season wherever the farce has been presented Why Smith Left Home was one of the greatest comedy com-edy hits in last season San Toy the new Chinese operetta to be produced at Dalys theatre Lon don is said to be very much like The Geisha in style I The rehearsals for Klaw and Erlan gers production of Ben Hur are to begin this week in New York at the Metropolitan opera house Murray Carson and Louis N Parker wrote a play some years ago called I Launcelot of the Lake which they will shortly produce in London Louis N Parker the English dramatist dra-matist has written a new play for Mr Edward Willard founded on Addisons creation of Sir Roger de CoAerly When Louis James and Hanford as Macbeth and Macduff fought thp other I night in New York a voice in the de lighted gallery called out The fat un wins The elder Salvini who recently emerged from his long retirement to appear with his son Gutave at Florence I Flor-ence promises to return with him next year to thiscountry Nat Goodwin and Maxine Elliot Good win have returned to this country and will shortly commence their season with An American Citizen and The Cowboy and the Lady |