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eter important production to follow will be "in the Palace of the King." for which the Pike company carries the original Costunes and scenery, secured from the Viola Allen company. Later Royal Family" and "Nathan Hale" will be offered. These plays will all be seen for the first time at reduced prices. The Pike company Includes many well-known players. among the number being Misses Mary Hall, Evelyn Brown.

Grace Hadsell, Emelie Aielville. Florence Leslie. Royme and Dorothy Brenner, and Messrs. Byron Douglas, George Farren. Thurlow Bergen, John B.

Maher, Hudson Liston, William A. Hackett, Robert Milton and others. Edwin Barbour. is in charge of the company's stage management. "X'Liss." One of the most popular plays that the American stage has ever known is "M'liss," which will be presented at the Academy February 23.

This play is an adap; tation of Bret Harte's famous story of the same name and is as thoroughly American as a native dramatic offering can be. All of the scenes are laid in California. and the action of the play takes place at the time when that state was overrun with fortune hunters. The company is headed by "Jolly" Nellie McHenry. AWSI DE Mabel Howard, recently leading woman with William Gillette in "Sherlock Holmes," is reported to be ill in Cincinnai.

Jessie Busley has joined the "Girl With the Green Eyes" company in New York, Ulyde Fitch 'having written a part Into the play for her. Miss Grace Freeman, the prima donna of "A Country Girl" company, will be "featured" in a new musical comedy at one of the Broadway theaters next season. J.ames K. Hackett has secured the American rights to Pierre Wolff's Paris success, "Le Secret de Polichinelle," which was originally produced at the Gymnase, In Paris. Mrs.

James Brown Potter is touring England great success. giving recitals. It is reported that XLrs. Potter will open a spring season in London. appearing in an original play from the Adoption of Archibald" has proved very successful in London and will be presented in this country next season.

Edgar Selwyn, with William Gillette's company, is the author of the piece. Clara Taylor. who holds the record of having worked in eighteen musical comedy companies in Boston within eighteen weeks. is to appear In london soon as a member of Thomas B. Davis' company.

Gertrude Bennett. who has resigned from Henrietta Crosman's company, will retire permanently from the stage. having made her kist appearance with "The Sword of the- King" in Norwich. last night. Stair Havlin, who control a thousand theaters, more or less, in this country, are trying to secure the rights to Mrs.

Fisac's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles." If successful Miss Rebecca Warren will be starred in tne role. It is reported that Weber Fields will lose Fay Templeton and Charles Bigelow, the Shuberts. who open another theater New York next season, having secured them to head a musical comedy company therein. Maurice Grau has written to Olga Nethersole. in London, begging to be relievod of his contract to star her in this country next season.

Mr. Grau says his health is poor and that he will not be in this country next fall. Mary Shaw and her supporting company. who have been presenting Ibsen's "Ghosts" in New York for the past three weeks, will take the drama to Boston next week. Miss Shaw is a native of Boston and hs many admirers In that city.

Marie Dressler has fully recovered froln her attack of typhoid and will soon make a tour of the prominent vaudeville houses. She has already signed a contract to heal1 the company to be placed in Boston by Weber Fields next season. Amelia Bingham gave the first pres'ntrrtion of Clyde Fitch's "The Frisky Mrs. Johnson" In New York last Monday nigqt. A consrnsus of the critics places the piec! in the "raw" class.

but praises Miss Bingham and her supporting company. Marle Cahill displayed "Nancy Brown," the latest musical comedy, for the first tine in New London. last Tuesday night. The piece is reported to have made a hit, the music, especially, being bright and catchy. Charlotte Walker-of the James K.

Backett c--mpany was taken ill in Baltimore last wek a4id it served to bring forward Miss Deronda Mayo, who played the leading roll so successfully as to call forth unstinted praise from the critics of the oyster city. Amelia Bing.ham will not appear in "Hamlet" this season, nor will she wear trousers on the stage. This is contrary to the statem.nts that have heen made in regard to Mis4 lingham's plans. She will play only in modrn comedy this season. At the Academy of Music In Jersey City iamt week a rich co)ntractor by the name of English took offense' at Btranlon Tynan's lines in "Robert Emmnet'' and interrupted the pe.rformance.

Mr. Tlynan stopped the play until the remov.al the contractor. Jessi. Davis is a.t her llame in Chi -igi, recovering from an attack of nia which st'arted during her trip to l.stoni. 'There were symptoms of typi.oid, but the say Miss D)avis Wi! be' well by next week.

Kipling's 'The Lignt That was pro.lu--d' in Lotndon for the first time last Saturd.iy night and scored a success. Gecrtiule Elliott. sister of Mrs. Nat Goaodwin, scored a big hit in the principal role, and her e-fforts went a great way toward securing the play's success. after next Chase's Theater will, as us.

i. antually, be given over to the Contic' ital t'ongress of the Daughters of the -an Re-volution, anti the week following. be ginmning March 2, polIte vaudeville will he. re-suamed with a program enlisting cff, Elfle Fay. Burt Sayre.

the author of "Tlom Moor." nid "Tlhe Bold Soger 3oy." has comp' etcd a play called "The Adiorable which may have its tirst presentation ini Lo'ndon next season. It is a costume piece, dealing with the times thirty years before 'Tom Moor'e. A benefit is to be given A. M. Palmer in New York next May.

and already E. S. Willard has forwarded a ('heck for 5N)0 as its -mn'tribution to the affair. Mr. Willard mtae Ihis debt in this country, playing "'rhe under Mr.

Palmer's managemrett. Rticard is the latest young actress to step iito the tirmamnent of theatrical stars. She' re'c'ntly signed a contrmet with Julian Mit chel'l and Fred Hiamlin, under the- terms of which they are to place her at the head o.f a musical comredy comp)any next season. 'he contract covers three years, Paul Potter. whdt dramatised 'Trilby" and a nummiber of other books, has now undertaken a stage version of "Pendennis." It is reported that John Hare will assume the title.

rule, In the book this would certainly Snetun Arthur, but it would seem more likely and wIser that Mr. Hare be seen as the major. Aimee Angeles will, according to a decision of a New York court, be free to give her' inmitations under any manakrement after the 1st of next June, Miss Angeles broke a contract with the Shuberts. They obtamned an Injunction -that was ptermnanent. but tihe lady fought the case and this last decision sets her free next summer, When the "Jewel of Asia" reaches New York Blanche Ring will have the leading female role as a result of persistent negotiations between Jimmy Powers a-nd George W.

Lederer. Mr. Powers insisted that his wife, Rachel Booth, Cctinue in the leading role with him, but such strong financial inducements were put forward -that Mrs, Powers will probablr take a rest wbge Miss Ring is doing ste work. For the first timie In their careers M. Coquelin and his son wil enter upon starring tours at.

the same time, The elder Conquelin will appear in all the principal countries, while his son will play in Holland and prvnciai tnce. Sir Henry Iring and hseldest eon may afford a simiar incident withinus few years, but at present the Cequefin William E. Green VIOUN RECITAL. ALL O7 CHUROH 14TH AND WEDNESDAY 18, AT 8:15. Assisted by Mrs.

H. Clay Browning, Soprano. TI)KETS. 50e. On ado at Droop's and Sander Stayman's ahd at the door.

membered that the elder Coquelin's brother is also a star in stageland. Miss Sandol Millikin, who is not playing the principal role in "The Bird in the Cage," is to be withdrawn from that piece and given the ingenue role in the strong Empire Theater Company. Who will rplace Miss Millikin in "The Bird in the Cage" or whether the piece will be shelved. is not stated. Beatrice Irwin, the preaent ingenue of the Empire company, has signed so as to be with her husband, the Earl of Rosslyn, in another play.

Mme. Roger-Miclos' Recital. Mme. Roger-Miclos. the French planiste, gave her first public recital yesterday afternoon at the Columbia Theater, It was believed that as she had played at several private musicales in this city, including one at the White House.

sufficient interest had been to insure a large attendance, but the audience was only of fair size and excepting in two instances was it enthusiastic. Mme. Roger-Miclos possesses a remarkable technical equipment, but what she seems to lack is the interpretive grasp, the power to bring out the real meaning of Beethoven, Schumann and Liszt. Both in the reading of the Beethoven sonata and in its execution there was a carelessness that was hardly pardonable in one coming here with her reputation, and the same is true of her rendition of Schumann's "Carnaval," which was last given here with such splendid effect by Paderewski. The two instances -of enthusiasm referred to above were the performer's rendition of Haydn's Arietta Varlee and Chopin's Valse Posthume.

In the former she played with great daintiness and clarity of tone aTnd it was certainly her best work. The Valse was given an adequate interpretation, but it was the only one of her Chopin group that found any particular favor. There were quite a number of fashionable people in the audience and Miss Roosevelt was one of a box party entertained by Mine. Margerie. The French ambassador and Mme.

Jusserand also had several friends in their box. OFFERS GUESTS NO FOOD. A Radical Fault Found With "Sherl lock Holmes" in London. From the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. "It's a funny thing, but I tell you that It Is, nevertheless, a fact," said a wellknown traveled American, the other day, "that the chief fault that many Englishmen found with Mr.

Gillette's dramatization of 'Sherlock when it was playing in London, was that Holmes in the play did not offer any of the people who came to see him any refrerhments. This may be, to a certain extent, characteristic of the nation, but a very well-known EngIlishman, a writer, and I were talking about Mr. Gillette's production at the Lyceum one day in the Savoy grill room. He was en- I thuslastic over the play, but he told me that which I have just told you, that he thought it strange that Holmes. who was ostensibly always glad to see everybody, should not have produced a decanter or at least a syphon of soda.

He seemed to think that it was a pity that when Dr. Watson, who was Holmes' friend, came to see him, he did not even offer him a drink. This suggested a new line of thought to my mind, and if you will think it out for yoursElf and recall the English plays you have seen you will remember there is scarcely any one of them but what some one of the characters suggests the partaking of either liquid or more solid refreshments. Of course, in 'Sherlock Holmes' there is not the slightEst allusion to any meal, past, present or to come. The nearest suggestion to food is that there is a fire in the kitchen, which turns out to be only some smoke, and when the butler visits the cellar it is not to get a soothing bottle but to receive a blow on the head.

All this seemed unhealthy to my English friend and seemed to defeat the virtous objet which most British playwrights have in view. "One can almost imagine wl4at a light repast would look like between, say, Holmes and Prof. Moriarty. Holmes would probably have to cat with one hard, as it would be necessary to keep the useful revolver in the other. It is, however, a fact that my English friend thought seriously that all 'Sherlock Holmes' needed was the dispenpIng of some hospitality.

Henry Irving knew this weakness of his countrymen and invariably catered to it. "I call to mind a particular breakfast in one of Irving's plays. It was a Paris cafe, and some gentlemen sat down to enjoy the breakfast and Irving's society. Soup came, real soup, smoking hot, and the guests leisurely adjustcd their table napkins inside of their collars, after the pleasant foreign manner. and did not seem to notice that Irving had done with the soup and was a course or two ahead before they had a mouthful.

They scarcely said a word; he talked all the time, and suddenly, pleading an engagement elsewhere, strode off, leav'ing them as empty as Sancho Pan.za. Nobody siremed to mind that the action of the p)lay could not wait unitil the meal was properly finished. It was enough for the British traditions that hospitalIty had been offerad. Perhaps Mr. Gillette.

Inasmuch as he has had three seasons in England, will, in his next play, introduce a good, hearty meal to make up for having left it out of all others that he has written." NO PICHANINNIES THERE. One Comfort a Bell Boy Derived From Play of "Faust." Frmthe' St. Louis it is declared by the mar.ager in charge that through the south Lewis Morrison and his performances of Mephisto in "Faust," with the fiery brocken sc'ene and its other features, is something of a terror to the colored population. His principal billboard advertisement reads: "The Devil is Coming." and this announcement, spelled out and repeated among the cabins, is enough to bring out all the voodoo charms in the r.eighborhood. At a southern hostelry recently, where all the attaches are colored, the actor rang for ice water, but no one responded.

He rang again and again with the result. Fi.nally, starting wrathfully for the office, he found a v'ery black and small boy huddled in one corner of the hall. "Come here, I want you. t've been looking for you for half an roared the actor, a ngrlly. "Foh me.

suh; oh-h Lawd, I ain't done nothing. I seent you at de show, suh. Please, suh. don't you touch me." The boy was so evidently terrified that Morrison took pains to set him at ease, and succeeded in drawing him into a conversation, which revealed the fact that not a' colored boy in the hotel would voluntarily answer the bell; "de debbie" was ringitig. "1 was plumb scared mysel suh; but dere was just one thing about that place you was in dat tickled me to deff.

sub." "What was that?" inquired the actor. "Dere wasn't a picksalinny ob any kInd down dere where you was, suh." Tax on Show Tickets, From the Londlon ChronIcle. Australia is apparently about to give us another new lead-a tax on theater tickets. Retrenchment is now the order of day all over the commonwealth, and the reduction of the government grants has seriously embarrassed the finances of a number of charitable institutions. A large deputation of the managing committees of the Melbourne charities has Waited upon the treasurer and protested.

Mr. Shiels, inA'eply, pointed out that Melbourne was the greatest sporting community in the world. He thought a tax on sports. amusements and the.totalisato should be imposed for the benefit of charities. The hundreds of thousands of people who cheerfully shUllng each to see a cricket match of' witness a play would feel no hardship in contributing a penny more for t'he sake of charity.

He estimated that such a ta. 1would bring in a year. Wherein the mager Lay. From the aamhrt ht. "Have you any objections tp myi taking your daughter to not oilougra Ou Ag Se' 2c.

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