Show I Stage Gossip Mr Harry Corson Clarke has a number of the aspirants for operatic fame in training for the coming production by home talent of Jfriscllla Mr Lask is managing the production as to the stage and Mr Hugh Warde will spend sometime some-time with the chorus and perfect them in many pretty dances S SS In the production in San Francisco of The Fencing Master Music and Drama has this to say of Miss Bertha Bayliss Bertha Bayliss as Filipa contributed I some excellent vocalism though Signor Tomasis peculiar custom of chasing all the principals except the prima donna through the music at a twoforty gait places her at a decided disadvantage in the only solo she has a s Mr T D Frawley has secured the rights to The Senator west of Omaha I and will soon produce it in San Francisco Francis-co with Mr George Osborne in Mr Cranes famous part I Marie Burroughs Is to essay Shakespearean Shakes-pearean roles during her coast tour for the first time S S S A letter from Mr John S Lindsay says Salt Lake city will again be favored with his presence sometime in the latter part of May S The famous tenor Jean de Reszki was quite sick lately and it cost Messrs Abbey Ab-bey and Grau 10000 in the way of salary to say nothing of the fees of a homeopathic homeo-pathic doctor recommended by Mme Nordica S S a Many people will be sincerely pained and saddened when they read the follow ing copied from a New York paper Charles Couldock the veteran actor whom presentday playgoers remember best as Dunstan Kirke but whom the cI ders recall with admiration as a fine ac tor of heroic roles is about to retire to the Forrest Home a as An exchange says this of Jesse Bartlett Davis merry laugh It Is a congenial contagious composite concatenation of cheer and charm The performance of Trilby by A M Palmer at the Park theater Boston is said to have the same effect upon the au dience that a nightmare would have The author or rather dramatist has selected from Du Mauriers famous novel the most weird and uncanny parts and the tffect when viewed from the footlights is said to be somewhat startling Opinions Opini-ons are rife as to praise or condemna 0 < W |