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THEATRICAL NOTES.
Charles Frohman has engaged Frederic Robinson to appear in
The New Boy."
Robert Downing is to have elaborate scenery for next fall's produc
tion of "The Gladiator."
It is said that during the railroad strike the Chicago theatres
played to an average of $15 a night.
The New York Recorder states that Walker Whiteside has married
his leading lady, Miss Zella Wolelan.
Emma Nevada will make a tour through America next year in the
role of "Ada," in Wagner's opera, "The Fairies."
Miss Marie Broughton, a sister of Miss Julia Marlowe, has been
engaged for the role of 'Sue Eudaly" in "Blue Jeans" next season.
Among the histrionic debuts of the coming season will be that of
Mr. Arthur Zimmerman, the bicycling champion.
Manager Charles Frohman will begin his season's work in August
by sending out fourteen companies. Next season he will produce
"The Girl I Left Behind Mo" in London, with a cast almost entirely
made up of American actors who have appeared in the play in this
country.
The Mirror says: Madeline Pollard, the plaintiff in the notorious
Pollard-Breckinridge cas) is anxious to go on the stage. She is
eaid to be writing to managers with that object in view. So far her
applications appear to have been unsuccessful.
The engagement which Sarah Bernhardt has just closed ln Lon
don was the most successful that she has ever played in that city.
She concluded her English visit with a series of matinee perform
ances in Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Sheffield, Glasgow and
Edinburgh
In "Slaves of Gold," a new melodrama written by Elmer Grandin
which is to be produced in New York early in September, a flood is
supposed to happen and by a new mechanical device the water is
seen to rise three feet on the stage. In th company will be the
author and Miss Eva Mountford, his wife; Mr. Frank A. Tanuehill,
John T.Burke, Mr. W. B. Arnold, Mr. Franklin Hurleigb, Miss Ida
Vallance and Mis Lizzie Creese.
Mr. Beerbohtn Tree changed his mind about closing the Haymar
ket season with a revival of Hamlet and decided to present Ibsen's
"An Enemny of the People" instead. He will make this piece a fea
ture of his provincial tour. Oscar Wilde'e new comedy will not be
produced in the Haymarket until the new year, when Mr. Tree will
be in the United States.
Branson Howard has, according to his practice of delivering a play
once in two years, nearly completed a new piece, to be produced at
the Empire, New York, at the close of the run of Henry Arthur
Jones' ''Masqueraders," to be seen there for the first time in Novem
ber. Mr. Howard's last play, Aristocracv," was produced at Pal
mer's theatre, New York, November 14, 1892. The new one is to be
a satirical comedy.
In October Mile. Calve will sing in Sweden and Norway, while
from November 1 to December 15 she will sing at the Paris Opera
Cominue. In January she will give a few special performances at
Madrid. She will sing at Monte Carlo in February, while for March
and April she has accepted a special engagement to appear in "La
Navarraise" and "Carmen" at the Imperial opera house of St. Peters
burg and Moscow, whence she will return direct to London for the
spring season there.
William Gill has completed two acts of the play which he is writ
ing for Miss Helen Dauvray, who will star next season under Edwin
Knowles' management. It is a farcical comedy in three acts, the
scenes of whi :h are laid in Brazil. The play has been christened,
but its name will not be revealed until the comedy has been finished.
Miss Dauvray says she is delighted with the play. Her season will
open early in September.
The scenes of Mr. Stanislaus Stanges' comedy for Mr. Charles
Dickson, 'A Jolly Gopd Fellow," are laid in America and England.
The first act is at West Point on a graduation day, and the soul-stirring
strains of martial music which will be interspersed throughout
will doubtless add to its effectiveness. Act second is laid at a
fashionable seaside resort, and here will be shown the frivolity and
gayety of high life. The third act occurs in Washington, D. C, and
the last in London, England.
A man from San Francisco says of "Charlotte Corday," recently
produced in that city by Kyrle Bellew and Mrs. Potter and supposed
to have been written by Bellew: "He has no reason to be proud of
it, for it ib a bad, crude, unideal transcript from the history of Char
lotte Corday 's assassination of Marat. Mrs. Potter, was thinner than of
yore and not less angular, artificial, and mock heroic'" Her art had
not improved. Fashionable audiences went to the Baldwin to see
her, and they seemei to view her as an exhibit of New3brrk society
rather than as an actress."
"Pickaninny" bands and "Living pictures," will be the features of
many traveling companies the coming season, and all because they
were striking features of the two big succesees in New York last
season, "In Old Kentucky" introduced a band of clever little ne
groes in a strong scene representing southern life, and they pleased
the jaded play goers of Gotham mightily, and "1492" is responsible
for the "Living Picture" craze. Fourteen companies have thus far
announced pickaninny bands, and a determination to trade upon
the success achieved by "In Old Kentucky."
Amoug the coming attractions for the opening of the theatrical
season is a new American spectacular production. "Ship of State,"
by Frank D. Skiff, founded on historical facts purely American,
illustrating in a vivid manner Perry's victory and his famous naval
battle on Lake Erie. After spending twenty-five years as a scenic
artist in leading theatres of Chicago and as an author of several suc
cessful plays Mr. Skiff believes he has at last hit upon the wants of
of the theatre-going public. Mr. Skiff believes that an American
play in which is presented a faithful characterization of quaint
American humanity and faithful pictures of locality, with lines in
which humor, pathos and philosophy are so blended as to produce a
harmonious whole, would be an unqualified success.
Lewis Morrison is fond of reciting his early professional struggles.
His first really great success was in "The Legion of Honor" at the
old Park theatre, New York, then under the management of Henry
E. Abbey. The play subsequently went on tour with Mr. Morrison
the lamented Sam Pierce, and Annie Graham. A later hit of Mr.
Morrison's was in "Victor Durand" at Wallack's theatre. He was
succeeded in this play by Richard Mansfield, As Adelaide Ncilson's
leading support he became widely popular and his Iago to the elder
Salvini's Othello was pretty nearly an ideal interpretation of the
part. His Mephisto in "Faust" has given him wide repute. He wiil
produce "The Flying Dutchman" next year and will have a congen
ial role In Vanderdecken.
Walter Damrosch has recently made the odd confession that he
still continues to suffer from a peculiarly nervous agitation just be
fore he ascends to his place at the conductor's desk. In speaking
of this, subject recently he said: In even the smallest and lea it criti
cal towns in which I ever appear in public, the half hour before the
concert is invariably one of absolute misery. It is not exactly stage
fright but a sort of nervous fever. It is impossible to eat or drink
anything. It is torture. It lasts while I walk out on the stage.
The moment I grasp the baton it is gone, absolutely and entirely,
and does not come back again till the next concert. The worst tor
.ture of the sort I ever suffered was the first night I conducted at
the Metropolitan opera house, after my father had been siezed with
his la t illness. The opsra wa? "Infoe ljri i," and I knaw i; by heirt.
I could have conducted it backward, and the orchestra knew it so
well and was so perfectly drilled that, I suppose, no particular harm
would have been done if I had conducted it backward. Yet my
agony that night, ten j ears ago, is something I don't like to recall
even now.
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