| Show Stage Gossip Richard Mansfields Ire Is again aroused A Nashville Tennessee paper pa-per recentlycriticised the actors play I I Napoleon as unworthy his ability and accused him of carelessness in his I 1 1 It > jA U i < = L4 y v work in that pIece Mr Mansfield retaliates re-taliates by the announcement that he will never visit Nashville again Early in March Mine Janauschek will inaugurate a series of eight lectures lec-tures each one devoted to one of Shakespeares plays She will not appear ap-pear on the stage again A very pretty little entertainment was given in the Third ward meeting house last Tuesday and Wednesday evenings in behalf of charity by a number of amateurs Two little com edlettas were produced In quite an enjoyable en-joyable manner under the titles of Vanity Vanquished and The Day Before The Wedding and very nearly 100 was realized There was one lit tIe girl on the programme Fannie Farnes who is quite a wonder She has a rich contralto voice and though she has never taken a lesson she sang a selection in a manner which promises a great future for the little I one II II I 4 I Clara Morris who has not been before I be-fore the public this season will begin a starring tour next September e The title of Oscar Wildes new play is The Advantage of Being Earnest It is a three act farce Edwin Milton Royles Friends opened the new Memorial Auditorium at Newark Ohio Feb 26 I of Frederick Warde and Louis James have scored a grand success in San Francisco with the new romantic drama by Mm Greer Harrison entitled en-titled Runnymede Both are highly praised by the coast papers for their individual work Effie Ellsler has appeared in Hazel Kirke over 2000 times Ada Gray can go that several thousand times better in East Lynne f Edwin Milton Royle is finishing his play Mexico which will be produced next fall It deals with an episode in the Mexican war5t Louis StarT Star-T H Haverly has left the minstrel field and next season will manage Haverleys International shows which will be under canvas 9 Marie Tempest will produce a new piece entitled An Artists Model t < s Sydney Drew will appear In the new production of War and Wealth which will be produced in Philadelphia Boon a a Denman Thompson has received a I good Offer from a London manager to produce his play The Old Homestead in that city next season Odell Williams Wil-liams will probably head the company a Carrie Turner has closed her starring tour and disbanded her company She leaves behind her some spirited remarks re-marks In reference to western audiences audi-ences which had better have been left unsaid a a aNew a-New York had a repetittion of the awful blIzzard of 1S8S and the intense cold has seriously affeoted the business busi-ness of the theatres Many people holding seats purchased in advance allowed them to go by default rather than brave the rigor of the storm and on Thursday and Friday the houses were practically empty a a A M Palmer has finally decided upon the cast of Trilby W J Ferguson Fer-guson will play Svengale E M Holland Hol-land will be the Laird Burr McIntosh Taffy Aubrey Boucicault Little Billee and Virginia Harned Trilby to to Charles J Abud the London repre genttative Of Abbey < SchoeffeI and I Grau has crossed the Atlantic more I frequently than any other theatrical i manager This season he has brought over Lillian Russell and Beerbohm Tree from London He will shortly return re-turn and in August will come over with Sir Augustus Harris and his pantomime pan-tomime company and in the autumn Will bring over Henry Irving e o a Sardou writes from Paris to Fanny Davenport I convey to you my hearty 1 hear-ty thanks for the beautiful results of your labor on my Gismonda I felt certain when I placed her In your hands that another success awaited you To an artist the artistic is doubly welcome and I understand from all sides how marvelous is the miseenscene how grand your acting and how perfect in all details the production pro-duction My > applause is yours Frederick Warde proposes sending his young son Ernest to Europe for a tour of the principal theatres in order that he may gain a knowledge of the methods of the leading foreign actors C 9t X Cora Urquhart Potter Is the only so called society actress that has made a success on the stage Otis Skinners parents intended that he should be a minister But first of all he became a newspaper man and wrote longwinded articles When the paper collapsed the stage got another actor I The Metropolitan opera house and Koster and Bials New York and the Castle Square theatre Boston are reputed re-puted the handsomest theatres in the United States a a c CarmencIta the Spanish danseuse left for Europe on the 1st inst for a tour of the world Miss Maude Adams is the leading lady of Mr John Drews company A good story is going the rounds concerning con-cerning her quIck wit While in Philadelphia Phila-delphia attending a select luncheon she met among others a young man recently married who is noted for his bold manners and who has won the name of being the biggest bore in society so-ciety He asked Miss Adams a number of personal Questions and the hostess was about to speak to him when he received his Just punishment from the young lady he had been bothering Miss Adams lie asked will you tell me if you are married i I am not IDo you contemplate such a step I have not thought And why not pray he persisted Because I am not so easily pleased as your wife was |
