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Show I ill 4?is Actom Wl 5l2Ni nOJAe W?$ efre rise i,;f-ii SimSt T- 1 IT""4" L H'h'v ' TirH OLD question of the Joint Hj 1 engagement of husbands and .11" I -wives is again being dis- i ' 4t cussed in theatrical circles. V. owing probably to the fact that a ' I good many managers In their selections 1 '' for next reason are showing a dis- 1 position to draw the lino more strictly I 1 than ever before. A young1 leading man, i1 ' whose wife is a talented actress, un- i ,tosomd himself on this subject the I , 1 ' 0ther day to the New York Dramatic Mirror, it 'i i believe that 30 per cont of the M matrimonial shipwrecks In tho profes- , elon are due to separate engagements." Hl I ' said he. "At best, the migratory chox- ' ' ricier of professional life is opposed to 1 K , 1 domosticity, but scarcely any life in f I common 1 open to the professional , I' . man and wife unless they are able to M .1 All joint engagements, and I bcllevo U-i: flrmlv that that 1b why we have bo many j 'I unfortunate experiences. , "The objections of managers to eri- l 4 gaging husbands and wives are mostly i1! I1 based on unlounded prejudice. Married oouplea, as a rule, are willing to make III . material sacrifices in respect to salary rl In order to be together in the same- II compans': tliey are better contented and i; usually And a greater Interest in their work and consequently to better worK; they prize the oportunity to preserve I , i1 a semblance, at any rate, of the mar- ( i rjed existence of other classes o peo- , i', Pie, and expedience has proved that 1 1 i their managers find them more reliable. ,1' i "it is a curious thing a demoralizing j one, too that many of tho man- I ngers who disapprove strenuously of 1 j iusbands and wives are not at all par- 1 J tlcular as to the relations of unmarried , ' men and women In their companies. I , have noticed this often, and I believe (k , ') It is a source of untold Injury to mem- , 1 bers of the profession and a menace to I the morals of the stage." , David Belasco said in an interview l.v ' last week that Mrs. Leslie Carter will j, appear In a new play In New York next Id k September, for about a month, and will t !F. then go to London for a year's engage- aaH ' t mcnL. Ht'u 1 Gerald du Maurlcr and Henry Ainloy H will play the principal male parts in ',l ' "Merely Mary Ann," when Mr. Zang- 1 will's piece Is produced In London by ) , Eleanor Hobson. i, ''i Fabulous stories are being printed In j 1 j the East of Richard Mansfield's business !, Jn San Francisco, says the San Fran- ( L , ! olsco Chronicle. It was aa much as the 'i (j' I I capacity of the Columbia theater would Hlr permit, with standing room, which was not permitted, and ran to close on J3a,- ) ' 000 in two weeks. Had Mr. Mansfield 1 1 played at the Grand Opera-house It ' would have reached $20,000 more. H Florence Sarlo, a member of "The j j 1 Little Outcast" company, recently over- V ! lieard two countrymen indulging In a j ) i I unique discussion of herself. They were 1 j ' I seated In the dining car, en route be- 1 ; , v'l tween Cincinnati and Chicago, when the j 1 aotresa entered and took the next table, h1 s says the New York Clipper. "I'll bet she b'longa to the troop that 1 I played 'Little Castout' In taown yes- tidy," said one of the Hoosiers. k, "Nope," said the other, "I think she's the tight rope wnlker in the circus we l j raw the day before 'relse she did that H V , i jugglin' pcene you got eo stuck on." l A moment later the waiter entered 1 Hi 'I Avlth a portion of Misa Sarto's lunch- H i on, which conslatcd of a rum omelet, in I a blue blaze of burning liquor. "By guml" one of the men exclaimed, H "'none of ub wuz zrlght she's the fire V ' eater wo naw In one of the eldo shows." Mrs. Langtry will try this country H again next season, but will omit "The H Degenerates" and a few more of its ilk. She will play the English version of H I "Varennes," the new Bernhardt play. H'. Harry Corson Clarke closed in Texas H ' on Juno 1 a season of eleven months, H yl ,) six of them bolng1 spent in Dallas, Hj Houston and San Antonio. Mr. Clarke H 1 1 and his mother are now in St. Louis. . I " H j I Ben Greet and his Woodland playcro H j t gavo a porformance of Ijaurence House- H I 1 1 man's miracle play, "The Star of Beth- H ) 1 lehem." at Bryn Mawr under trying j conditions. It was an out of door (performance, and when th& company 1 I i an-lved theo' found no stage and no 1 ' . natural elevation to play on. A large H ' truck, wide and flat, which had been H . I used to transport the scant scenery and H i the properties, was pressed into service H I , as a stage, the wheels were covered with H s bushes and tho scenery erected on the H wagon. All went well until Miss Matthl- H son's entrance. In an adjoining ceme- H te'ry the Grand Army of the Republic H ! was holding itK Memorial day exercises, H 1 1 and Just as Miss Matthlson announced H her presence they fired a solute of three H J' volleys. The situation was trying for H i j i players and audience, and the miracle I 1 play lost much of its solemnity. H'"'i I Lillian Blauvct Is to make a concert H tour in South Africa, and H. E. Alward, J i who piloted Mrs. Langtry through the n i ' Unltod States last season, ls-arranglng v H 1 . Amelia Bingham announces that next H 1 i fall she will adopt the plan of Richard H Mansfield and go on tour with an ex- Hl I tensive repertoire. Already she has cn- H j gaged a company, Including Joseph Kll- H i ' sour, now playing in "Tit for Tat," and H ( , Forrest Robinson. Carlotta Nlllson has H been offered a position with the com- l '1 pany. ' I H Leon Herrmann has condenBcoV lils ' 1 ' two-hour entertainment into a viftde- H ; I ville turn of thirty minutes, and hat? H secured a year's booking on the different H i circuits, naya the New York Clipper. H 1 This well-known. prcstldlgitateur re- - t John Morrison, the Irish Singer "Who Sings "Holy City" With Held's Band at Salt Palace Tonight. Mr. Morrison came direct to Salt Lako from Keith's Tlieatro, New York, and has made a ffreat hit with his magnificent voice at tho Palace the past week. He will bo retnlnod over another week The new show which opens tomorrow night promises to bo oven better than the past week's bllK If such a thing is possible Each act Is new In tho clt3', never having appeared hero before. lates two experiences In his clever manipulations that were not performed upon the stage. One happened during an engagement in New Orleans. "With some friends he visited the famous old French marke'e, tho mecca of all touristy to this Southern South-ern city. On the stand of one of the old market women was a pile of eggs about four dozen. One of Mr. Herr' mann's friends suggested his illustrating his sleight of hand ability with the vendor's cggB, and, to amuse them, he approached the white- capped old person. "How much are your eggs?" he asked. "Twenty-two cents a dozen this morning, morn-ing, sir," was the reply. "Are they perfectly fresh?" was the next question. "Indeed they are," indignantly answered the old woman. "Well, let us see If you're- right." said Herrmann, proceeding to break one of the eggs, and from Avlthln the shell of which he appeared to take a tilver half dollar. Putting it in the hand of the woman, he reached for another egg, with which he performed the same trick, again presenting the prize to the owner of the eggs, thus indemnifying her for tho possible loss of more than four dozen of them. Having passod three of four stalls tho party turned to see the old woman In the act of rapidly breaking up her egg stock, anxiously examining the shells, whjle around her was a group of market people as deeply interested as she. Mr. Herrmann performed a similar trick in the old Montreal, Can., market place. "What time i3 It?" he asked one of the party as they were passing a stall piled with vegetables. The gentleman reached for his watch, and, to his dismay, dis-may, found the pocket empty. "Heavens! my watch has been taken," he exclaimed. "Perhaps It is not far away," said Herrmann, "I think it will be found In the heart of one of this gardener's cabbages." cab-bages." Tendering a shilling to the owner, the magician reached across the stand for a small cabbage, which he cut In halves with a sharp knife he had taken from his pocket. Snugly embedded em-bedded In the center was the missing watch, which was drawn forth, to the astonishment of the owner of the vegetables and tho amusement of the party, who quickly realized that they had been witnessing one of the clever tricks of, their friend. After cutting into in-to another, and finding coin therein, he said to the garducr: "I will take half a dozen of your cabbages." cab-bages." Evidently the cupidity of the dull appearing ap-pearing individual had been aroured, for he replied: "They're not for sale, sir." a Just because Fritzl Scheff entered the field of comic opera last year Is no sign that she can't sing grand opera. To show that she can, she will be a soloist in the Wagner and Mozart festivals In Munich in August. But she will do light opera next winter, as usual. Tho famous TIvoll at San Francisco Is no more, for wreckers have torn the old building to the ground and the lumber is now being carted away. It was on April 21, 1S79, that the TIvoll wa3 opened, the first performance being be-ing given by the Vienna ladles' orchestra. or-chestra. On November 24, 3003, the TIvoll TI-voll closed with tho performance In aid of the Verdi monument fund. In all the twenty-four years that elapsed the TIvoll has never been dark, unless the few days for repairs and tho occasions of national mourning are taken into account. Winston Churchill, author of "Richard Carvel" and "The Crisis." has bought a hotel at Cornish, N. H., which he purposes to conduct personally. person-ally. a According to the Now York Dramatic Mirror, the generally unfortunate outcome out-come of tho Inst dramatic season should not be accepted as due on the whole to inherent .uses for which the theater and its administration are to blame., It Is a fact that the public showed by the peculiar character of Its patronage that It had become weary of a certain class of "shows" that have differed mainly in names, and that have appealed ap-pealed solely to the eye and not at all to the intelligence. This fact has been emphasized by many failures of such attractions, the public turning quickly for relief from the superficial and Inane to revivals of old plays made in desperation des-peration by managers to offset the lack of vitality of certain iew pieces some of which old plays, although by no means well suited to this generation, still possess elements of strength that have found appreciation. Aside from the apparent ' lacks in .original offerings last season there were extrinsic causes that militated against a normal patronage of the theater. One of the most potent of these no doubt was tho general business depression, de-pression, or, rather, the depression In stocks, that affected untold numbers of persons disastrously, and led to an abandonment of the theater among other thjngs through the concentration of Interest upon matters that touched so many of the public more nearly. As some astute observer of financial conditions con-ditions has remarked, the pecuniary disturbances in which values shrunk enormously or disappeared altogether were the result of a long continued "speculative debauch," anl when such things happen the people Intimately concerned have little thought for anything any-thing but devices to savo themselves. J. H. Stoddart. who has Just closed his season In "The Bonnie Brier Bush," has gone to his country home at Sewaren, N. J., for the summer. He will continue to play "Tho Bonnie Brier Bush" next season. n Annie Irish and J. E. Dodson have decided to appear In vaudeville instead of the "legitimate" next season In Sep-t"inbM Sep-t"inbM nnd will mnke their debut .on the ICelth circuit. They will have for a vehicle a one-act play, entitled "An Actress' Christmas Eve." V A writer in the New York Critic corrects cor-rects the popular blunder that Miss Nance O'Nell is of Irish blood, saying: "Miss O'Nell was born In San Francisco, Fran-cisco, and is thoroughly American, her mother a Virginian, her father a .New Englander. The name she bears is one derived for stage use from Nance Old-field, Old-field, the famous comedienne, nnd Eliza' O'Nell, the not less famous tragic actress of the seventeenth century." Ireland has furnished more than Its share of great actors nnd actresses, and It Is compliment enough for this gifted lady to have chosen a Celtic stage name, without our claiming anything any-thing else that does not belong to us Boston Pilot. Sarah Truax will be the Henrietta of the all-star cast of "The Two Orphans" next season. an. Polly Stockwell has been engaged as leading woman for the stock company at Vallamont park, In Wllliamsport, Pa., which opens with "The Wife." 9 Stranded In San Francisco are the members of the Melbourne MacDowell company, which on Saturday night concluded six weeks of wretched business busi-ness at the Grand Opera House, 'says the Examiner. The scenery of the Sardou production has been attached by the management of the Windsor hotel, where Miss Ethel Fuller, the leading woman, and other members of the company lived. Miss Fuller might have starved but for the kindness of the hotel people. She was so penniless, It Is told, that she could not have the proper medical attendance when suffering from a cold that made the vocal demands of acting a torture to her. The best actor in the companj, Robert Eliot t. staved off starvation during the ghostless six weeks by hiring hir-ing out as a laborer during portions of the day. Next to the necessaries of life these stranded players would like to have the scalp of Melbourne MacDowell, Mac-Dowell, and next to that the forelock of MacDowell's cousin, Thomas R. Hart. Hart has alternately been collecting col-lecting and trying to collect 5175 a week for royalties on the Sardou plays that his cousin Inherited from the late Fanny Fan-ny Davenport, They tell a tale of Mr. Eddlo Foy, who Is chief comedian just now In "Plffl PaffI Pouf!" the summer musical musi-cal show running at the Casino, New York. Mr. Foy was the hero of the Iroquois theater fire in Chicago. He recently met a lady who complimented him upon up-on his bravery. "I hear you are now In 'Plffl Pa;T! Pouf!' Mr. Foy." she added. "1 should take my children to see It If It were not called a musical cocktail.' " "That's all right," said Mr. Foy. "Tell your children to keep their eyes on me. I'm the cherry." a It may not be generally known that the Government conducts an Institution Institu-tion for giving pleasure to the blind. A room is set apart for them at the Congressional Library, and entertainments entertain-ments are given there. Etta JoBselyn Glfiln Is the official In charge, and In addition to these entertainments she takes parties of the blind to the theater each week, the tickets being contributed contribut-ed by the managers. After Julia Marlowe's performance of "Ingomar" Miss Glfiln took her blind guests up-and Introduced them to the star One old gentleman, after thanking thank-ing Mies Marlowe for tho pleasure she hod given him, added: "And I want also to thank you for the pleasure I enjoyed In hearing your volco In 'Everyman.'." Mies Giffln, having heard of the Joalousles of theatrical favorites, was appalled and hastened to check him. "Thla is not Miss Matthlson, it is Miss Marlowe, Mr. Blank" sho said, hurriedly But Miss Marlowe otopped her with a charming smile, and warmly shook the old man's hand. "You have paid mc the prettiest compliment com-pliment possible In mistaking my volco for such a beautiful volco as MIh.s Mat-thlson's," Mat-thlson's," sho said, In a tone so sunshiny sun-shiny and sincere thatitho last trace of embarrassment disappeared." N. Y. Times. , i. Annie Russell, before sho became one of the Frohman stars, had an oiler from F. F. Proctor to play a littlo one-act one-act sketch for ten weeks. In his theaters. thea-ters. She waa to receive $1000 n week, which was for those days tho record salary. She wa8 naturally tempted by tho offer. "Don't you think of It, my clear," said Mme. Modjesko "I have had many offers to go lino the vaudeville theaters and I have declined them all. And I am much older than you nre. I have but few years more to act, and I have lost In artistic productions much of what I earned. But I want to leave behind me the name of an artistic career. ca-reer. So what necessity should there be for a young actress like you, with her career before her, to take such a step? Be true to your Ideals and don't sacrifice them for money." That decided Miss Russell; nnd probably prob-ably that fidelity to artistic standards was the best thing that ever happened to her, since Charles Frohman made her a star and she has been one of the most popular in the country ever since. O n Here Is aA outline of the plot of the one-act farce which Charles Hawtrey has been presenting during his "plunge Into vaudeville" in New York: Charles Graham, the hero, calls to propose to the rich and beautiful Widow Murray, nnd finds himself without money to pay the cabman. The fare Is IS pence, and It grows at the rate of sixpence every fifteen mlnute3. Graham fibs to deceive de-ceive the widow, and he is driven almost al-most to distraction by the cabman. Impatient Im-patient to keep an appointment with a regular patron, sending Susan, the maid, nt frequent Intervals to tell of the necessity of Immediate payment. A score of trivial Incidents Illuminate tho sketch. Graham tears Jubilee coins from his watch chain, and' when he Is congratulating himself on hla escape the maid returns nnd tells him his fare has grown past the value of the three bits of sliver. The widow nsks Graham to carry fiowers to the window, and he shrinks from sight of the Irate driver. He obtains a few minutes of peace, proposes, Is accepted, and then borrows half a crown from his fiancee. The last sight we have of the couple they are sitting side by side, Graham pressing "a handkerchief to his brow, the widow pouring tea. Shakespearean commentators have often wondered why the poet placed the scene of "Hamlet" at Elsinore, In the Island of Zealand, whereas the Danish prince lived and died In Jutland. But Just recently the municipal authorities at Elsinore, or Helslngor, have discovered dis-covered In their archives that an English Eng-lish company was acting In their town In 1587 or 15S3, and among the names of the actors are several of those who were acting with Shakespeare In London In 15S9. Obviously these "Versons must have talked about their adventures In Denmark, and so Shakespeare became well acquainted with Elsinore, and, when he wrote "Hamlet." naturally put the scene In a place which he knew by description rather than In an Island of which he knew nothing. The poet was no great stickler for accuracy In geographical matters, and this visit of the English actors plausibly explains the reason why the tragedy of "Hamlet" "Ham-let" was placed In Zealand and not in Jutland. o A masterpiece of stage mechanism has been achieved in the great observatory observa-tory dome used In "By Right of Sword," which will be seen In this city early next season. Nothing like It has ever before been attempted In stagecraft, and Its wonderful adaptability has commanded the attention of producing managers throughout the country. This Immense dome, which requires the entire stage, serves not only as an observatory, but as a huge reflector and pounding board as well; Its utility for exterior scenes Is marvelous, doing away with all sky border, making it possible to produce wonderful light effects ef-fects without shadow. a It looks as If Margaret Anglln would again be a co-star with Henry Miller before she goes under the management of Frank L. Perley. Henry Miller has been booked by his manager, Charles Frohman, for his annual engagement In San Francisco, beginning early In August, Aug-ust, and all the plays selected for the coming engagement by Mr. Miller arc right In Miss Anglln's line. Miss Anglln Ang-lln and Mr. Miller are now in London, and they are looking over the field now for new material. Before sailing for the other side, Mr. Miller did not engage a leading woman for his California season, aflhough he was negotiating with several. Mr. Miller thinks he can Induce Frank L. Perley to postpone the starring tour of Miss Anglln until after the Presidential Presi-dential election, and Inasmuch as Mr. Perley doesn't Intend to play Miss Anglln Ang-lln on the coast for at least two years. It will In no way Interfere with his bookings next year. |