Show f STAGE CKOWCHOTV I The scenery and costumes beniaed by Henrietta Crosman this season in the production of As You Like It area are-a gift to her from Julia Arthur The production cost about J20000 S 4 Hugh Ward is playing the part of Offenbach Gags in the Australian production pro-duction of the Casino Girl S William A Brady will revive Around the World in Eighty Days The production Is to follow Arizona Nat Goodwin and Maxine Elliott have made a great hit at the Comedy theater London In Harry V Esmonds When We Were TwentyOne S S S Nanco ONcIl has been at Perth Western Australia She and her company com-pany left Melbourne Australia September Sep-tember 27th for a tour of South Afilca I Recently a play called The Pork Kings written during the heatof the SpanishAmerican war was produced Havana Tho piece was suppressed because of its attacks on the American Government and American customs The season of Florodora in Melbourne Mel-bourne and Sydney resulted in taking In 100000 Victory Bateman Is still shifting She has now signed as leading woman of the McCloy Stock company at the Grand operahouse Rochester Guy Bates Post has been engaged by Louis Nethersole to support Sadie Mar tlnot In her new Filch play The Marriage Mar-riage Game Georgia Cayvan has so far Improved that she Is able to go walking or driving driv-ing every day Her physicians state that she will entirely recover from her nervous trouble Quality Street J ar Barrics new comedy in which aiaude Adams will be seen reals t of the quiet lives of two maiden ladles who dwell In a small English country town where the action ac-tion takes place The period is the early part of the nineteenth century a a > Miss MirIam Nesbitt has been engaged en-gaged by William II Crane as his leading lead-ing lady for his coming season in David Harum e S S W S Cleveland who will be remembered remem-bered as a minstrel manager of considerable consid-erable fame through the West has decided de-cided to enter the profession again M W II Thompson who gave the excellent ex-cellent characterization of the cardinal in A Royal Family was arrested In San Francisco on the charge of attempting at-tempting to leave the State with intent In-tent to defraud his creditors The charge was made against Thompson by the mother of his divorced wife S A Alice Nielsen is now at Scorra Italy I studying for the grand opera stage She recently sang before Signor aiancinelll director of the MaurIce Grau opera productions He expressed himself as delighted with her olce MIss Nielsen Is I also lo study under Tostl a e a A private letter from New York tells of the production of the Mormon Wile In the cast of characters printed the Mormons are divided from the Gentiles there being one dqzen of each besides a convert who evidently cannot be classed as either Tho J Salt Laker who saw the play writes The grand finale Is supposed to be very impressive I found It rather amusing owing lo the fact that on the stage the aiormon Tabernacle Is modeled mod-eled after an Episcopal church with a full vested choir of boys representing the Tabernacle choir singing Gloria T dont think the stage manager ever saw inside a Mormon Tabernacle A e r Last Monday evening the Lulu Gra ser Opera company gave Its initial l perform per-form an co of DOily Varden at the Princess theater Toronto Canada Stcelenpraviid invitations were sent out by Whitney McKinley Sheppard Shep-pard for the affair When one recalls Lulu Glrisers appearance hero as a young girl In Francis Wilsons company com-pany her jump to a foremost place In the profession is wonderful I |