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THEATRICAL GOSSIP.
Julia Marlowo will roboarao her company at Waukesha thin fall
and open hor season thore.
"ArmH and tho Man" which Richard Mansfield ia to produco next
season, was producod at tho Avonuo Theatre, London, last April,
and was not looked on as a great success, nl though its author, Mr.
Bernard Shaw, is considered tho most brilliant of tho younger liter
ary sot.
Missllclon Mar has been very successful in London with drawing
room readings and has II Hod a number of engagements of a highly
flattering character, being warmly commended in tho journals for
the quality of her work. Mr. Henry Irving has takon a friendly in
torest in Misea Mar and contributed to her professional bucccss.
Theatrical businoss has been affected not a littlo by tho long un
suppressed outlawry incident to and growing out of tho railroad tio
up. Tho peoplo living in tbo nurburbs, who mako up a goodly per
centago of theatrical patronage, havo feared tocomointotho cities at
night oven had thoy been permitted to do so by tho mobs that seem
to havo possession of things.
Though her last season was not a success Lottie Collins is to mako
another starring tour. Her company next season is to bo called
. "The Lottio Collins Troubadours," a title which suggests pleasant
memories of Nato Salisbury. The first part of tho entertainment is
to be vaudeville, and tho last half will consist of a musical sketch by
Fred K. Bowyer and John S. Baker, called "The Dovil Bird."
A London paper says: "Feminine impersonators of male parts in
tho Icgitimato dramas havo been pretty rare of late, if those curious
matinee performances this year of "As You Like If at thoPrinco of
Wales' theatre by ladies only bo excepted, but at tho Britannia thea
tre Miss Olivo Webb has been appearing this week as Hamlet. Tho
best known lady Hamlet of modern days is Miss Marriott, but before
her time Charlotto Cushman, tho American actress, was a notable
Romeo. Miss Gladys Homfrey, now playing at the Vaudovillo, mado
her first prominent appearance in London as Romeo."
A correspondent from London, who is a much better gossip than
critic, writes to her paper thus curiously: "I remember but ono act
ress on either sido of the Atlantic worthy to be named in the samo
breath with tho Italian, and that actress is Agnes Booth, as I recall
her in tho days when I lived in New York eleven years ago. I am
not sure that even Agnes Booth had Duse's dainty rippling melody
of method. Her comedy was broader, her illustrations less subtle.
But there was the same breeziness, the same vivacity.'' The human
mind is capable of instituting strange comparisons.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Taber (Julia Marlowo), who sailed on tho
Paris moro than a week ago, mado some change in their plans, and
will not go to London at all. They left the Paris at Southampton
and took the screw steamer for Harve and went at once to Paris,?,
where they wero joined by Miss Emily Smith of Philadelphia, who
was ono of the party with which Miss Marlowo wont abroad last
summer, and who, with her mother, has been in Florence over since.
They will mako a short stay in Paris, attending to some costumes to
be mado there and doing all tbe theaters faithfully, and then pro
ceed to Switzerland. They will return tho last week in August.
"It strikes mo as being very strange," said Marion Manola-Mason
the other evening, "what little interest, comparatively, tbe majority
of people in the dramatic profession take in regard to tho great pub
lic affairs. They go along, day in and day out, just tho same old
way, absorbed in their stage life, and in nothing else. What caused
mo to think of this was the day after President Carnot had been as-
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Bassinated, Tho newspapers had columns and columns about the
dreadful event. That evening I mot several actors, and ono of thorn
really confessed that ho did not know that anybody in particular
had been assassinated, and that in fact ho did not know who Presi
dent Carnot was anyway. Now, perhaps you may think this to be
an extromo caso, but I assure you tint it Ih not. Tho man I refer
to is looked upon as a good actor, and is fairly well educated. Hun
dreds of like instances I could point out to you if you had but tho
timo to listen. This man confessed to mo honestly and sincerely
that tho only timo ho read a newspaper was when it contained a
dramatic notico either of himself or his friend, Ho looks eagerly
forward to Tuesday morning to see what the critic has to sa of
him, aud with this end in view ho will purchaso every newspaper
published in the city that ho happens to bo playing in. If the no
tices arojjood ho will cut them out and put thorn in his scrap book.
If thoy are bad he will throw them away and mako up his mind
that tho critic is his personal enemy and doesn't know his business,
Ho novor rcds an editorial. Ho doesn't know nor care about tho
tariff, tho silver question, what congress Is doing or anything else.
Men may shako tho world with a great speech, but this is a minor
detail compared with whothor or not the actor has received a good
notice. No, I cannot explain just why it is so. In a measure, per
haps I can. Tbe actor lives in a world alone. When ho meets an
other actor ho instantly lcgins to talk shop. He can tell you who
tho original in almost any part that has been soon for a generation.
Ho can tell you how good the actor was in tho part. Just try the
next time you meet an actor to have him discuss public affairs. It
is almost a certainty that he will evade your question and branch
right back to tho theater. Ho never seems quite able to get away
from the atmosphere of tho stage. Ho fairly revels in it. It is life
to him, and ho cares for no other subject.
DID'NT BELIEVE IT.
Proportionately to population, Indiana has moro money to spend
on schools than any state in tho Union. It was in Indiana, not so
very long ago, that tho daughter of an old White River farmer was
reading the country paper to him. She got to tho "Personals," and
read this:
"Mre. Willie Morritts, nee Black, has returned from n visit to her
parents in Indianapolis."
"I don't quito understand that, said the old gentldman.
"What don't you understand?" inquired the daughter.
'"That part about 'Mrs. Morritts nay black.' What does 'nay
Black' mean?"
"Oh, that's French and means was born Black."
"Born black!" exclaimed the father excitedly.
"Yes: nee is French for born."
"Well, it ain't so, ejaculated the old man.-jumping up and shak
ing his fist. "I knowed her parents and they were as white as any
body that ever lived in India nny, and I'll see that editor about it,"
but before he bould get away the daughter explained matters and
the old gertleman cooled down.
ONE OF THE PROPRIETIES.
ROOMS 94, 95, 96, BURR BLK. SURGEON DENTIST.
A policeman, still in bis uniform, on his way home, stood a moment
at tho corner of a couple of residence streets, and as he started on a
very handsomely dressed little girl came up and stopped whilo a
carriage passed.
"How d'y do, little girl?" said the officer in a fatherly tone, for ho
had some little girl of his own.
Tho little miss looked at him askance.
"Do you want to get across the street?" he said again, attributing
her silence to the natural shyness of a child.
She merely looked at him and made no reply.
"Come," he said in his kindliest way. "I'm going across and I'll
ascort you over."
This time she stepped back haughtily.
"Excuse me," she replied. "I can take care of myself. My mamma
told me it was'nt proper for a lady to be seen on the street with a
gentleman she had not been introduced to," and she skipped acrors
leaving the officer leaning up against the lamp post trying to get
over the shock.
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