Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 3, 1895, Page 5

N. B. FAL THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1895. ~ CONER’S CASH SALE CONTINUED. Nearly everything less than cost now We have still fifty thousand dollars worth of goods more than we want to carry, and have determined to continue this cash sale through the month of February, till they are disposed of. We made low prices in January, but the goods will be put now at a price that will compel these goods to go out of the house. Here is a sample of some of the prices we make. Look at them: $1.50 dress goods for 25c, Remnants of dress goods, worth up to $3, go at 43c yard, $4 blankets for $2.85; an $8.50 blanket for $5,85; 10 pieces all wool scarlet Shaker flannel, worth 50c, tomorrow at 25e a yard. Ladies’ shawls, worth $5, for $2.50. Ladies’ wrappers, worth $1.75 for 95c. La- dies’ suits, worth $10 to $20, go at $4.75. Remnants of ribbon¢ worth up to 25c, all go at 3 1.2c a yard. See our bargains in ladies’ underwear and. etc, ete. . LOAK DEPARTMENT. This stock must be reduced. Come what may, this class of goods must be got rid of at some price, We have not space to men- tion many, but the few we do mention will glve you'some idea of the reductions we are Be sure to visit this department | making. tomorrow. We can save you money. 5 $4.u~ Shawls worth $.00 all go for..(each) $2‘1w Shawls worth §7.50 for. Centu § former price o 98¢ y $81.7° mer price !10.'-)‘.)$4 .DH LA it T I worth $10.00 75 ‘We have sizes 32, 34, Ladies’ Dress Suits Flannelette Wrappers, worth $2. all go for. K( Ladies' Ulste to §20.00, for to $20.00, for COLORED DRESS GOODS. Letting Down the Price. Immense Sacrifice Sale Monday IN ALL WOOL IMPORTED DRESS STUFFS AT 25¢c PER YARD. Consisting of all wool He Hopsackings, T all wool Ch striped 1t we sold All g0 Mon materials t and 1 REMNANTS, REMNANTS, AT 43c PER YARD. Hundreds of them, all lengths, all widths, all kinds of black i Goods remnants, plain and fan d- ily in the picce at $1.00, up_ to $3.00 REMNANT PRICE BLACK DRESS GOODS. SPECIAL for MONDAY ONLY. .37%¢c 50c¢c 75¢c 89c All wool Serge, worth 50c, at.. All wool Novi at . All_wool Henrietta, at . AT COST OR LESS. Al our fine Novelty Black Goods, Priestley’s included, that we s0id at $1.75, $2.00, $2.60 and $1 50 $3.00. Your choice Monday at (vard) . alconer. Comforts and Flannels. Monday we make an extraordinary effort to close out most of our cdds and ends in Blankets and Comforts and fine Cheniille Carriage Robes, and if prices will do it we will not have one by 5 P. M, Monday. All our 84 Ruffled Comforts will be (R Eiderdown Flannel, 75¢ quality, while it lasts.. All wool Shirting Flannel, warranted not to shrink, in all our new shades & 2,48 each . 35cyard o PG We have about 500 remnants of all kinds of flannel shirtings, skirtings and wrapper Flannels, Eiderdown French Flannels that will be closed out Mon- day at less than one-half cost. 36-ineh heavy unbleached muslin, 6¢ quality, . ¢ yard Blanket Department. We will show no mercy in our Blanket Department tomorrow. blankets have got to be sold out at some price. for you to secure the greatest bargain of your life. /N e TBIETHINGE 1019 50000600000 060.GH 000000000005 POA0LG Our There is now an opportunity 98c AL 00 BIanKEtTOT, ow S skl Siftaia s mbi it siitiie s eronisions, SBS2008 OF AtgsiooiBlanket for it iiiticivicies sl ls bies sisisxsisieiokels e oloib ois ole I\ BN 6130 000,16 006 0086 GLL 000,00 00000 OV SO0 3.85 5.85 Come and take a look at these blankets, They are all new, clean and fresh We have about 20 pairs of slightly soiled blankets that we will give you very cheap. Ask to see them, A Bargain in Red All Wool Shnker We offer tomorr skirts, never in the world sold for less tha AMONG THE PLAYER FOLK Mary Anderson a Very Sick Woman, While Navarro is a Wreck, ATTRACTIONS THIS WEEK AT THE THEATERS Beerbohm Tree Makes a Blg Sensation In Now York—sadle Martinot and How She “Worked” the Late Dion Boucleault, From all over the country comes the com- plaint of bad business. Only the better established companies seem to be able to Nold- their heads up. The old plays and the romantic drama, strange to say, are pay- ing when new ventures and modern dramas are neglected, Warde and James have done, on the whole, well; Crane fs making most of his success In *‘Falstaff;” Salvini is draw- ing largely; Mrs. Potter is rapidly coming to the front. She has been cordially re- celved all through the south, and the critics are everywhere remarking on her remark- able improvement as an actress. Managers who have hitherto considered her a success of curlosity are opening their eyes and com- ing to view her as likely to head the list of femalo stars, a consummation much to be wished, since she Is practically the only Amerlcan-born star of distinction now be- fore the public. The farce-comedies appear to be suffering, and most of them are dying by the roadside. Even the popular variety shows are again secking the shelter of cheap theaters, In fact, there-is every sign of a breaking up of the flimsy, valueiess enter- tainment and a demand for the stage show of genuine merit and meaning, Nym Crinkle Lus a long article proving that the melodrama is beating out the modern social play, and Palmer i8 playing with his splendid 'com- pany u plece which seems to be much the same as those which arc given at the low- priced theaters throughout the country. ‘The disbanding of the Variety Performers' assoclation was to be expected. The object of 1t, In the original, was a close corporation of the managers who empioy variety talent by which no performers who appeared in their houses should be permitted to go into the continuous performance circuit. No pro- hibitive assoclation of thix kind ever suc- ceeded. Nothing compels a manager of a regular variety theater to employ anybody he does not want, and it the performer of- fends a manager by golng Into the continuous performance circuit, why it is very easy to Tefuso him an engagement thereafter. So- cleties are not needed for that kind of thing The fact of the matter is that the scheme was invented by an t who wanted to increase his own commission, THE WEEK AT THE THEATERS, Attractions Which Will Amuse the Patrons X of the Play Houes. Tho next attraction at Boyd's will be Wednesday, February 6, when the first min- strel show of the season will appear, and the largest ever organized. It will be W. 8. Cleveland's consolidated enterprises, com- posed of Arabs, colored jpeople and white peo- ple, a grand double bill of old-time min- strelsy and modern minstrelsy at one and the same time. Cleveland has always had the best, and this season is no exception to the rule, except that his show is larger by twenty people than ever before. On this oc- caston fifty people will actually appear. 1t is universally conceded that when Charles H. Hoyt starts oiit to write a play the pub- lie may rest assured its completion will bring about something entirely new to the stage. He Is by far the most origual writer in Amerlca, and in the past ton years has treated at loast a dozen different subjects, in none of which cau there be found a single traco of the methods or chiracters employed in constructing others. His latest effort, and from all accounts his best, will be scen here at Boyd's theater for three nights and mat- fnge, commencing Thursday, February 7. At s called “A Temperance Town" apd e story deals with the prohibition question as Mr. Hoyt found it in a small village in Ver- mont. The piece has had a tremendous run for two years, the greater part of the time being spent in Boston, New York and Chi- cago. It will be presented here by the only company playing the plece, and one of the strongest companies which Hoyt and McKee have ever sent out. The settings throughout were bullt especially for the Boston produc- tion, and will be brought here in their en- tirety. For four nights, commencing this (Sunday) afternoon, at the Empire theater, Morrison's company will be seen in a spectacular dra- matic production of “Faust.”” The general arrangement of the scenes follows very closely that made familiar by Mr. Irving, but it should be said that there is no evidence of any attempt to copy the production of the English manager. Marguerite Is imprisoned, charged with the murder of her mother, and not with the killing of her child, and indeed the fact that she ever had a child is ig- nored. This is, no doubt, done purposely, and the reasons for its omlission are both excellent and commendable. The plece Is staged well and the pictures are effective. Electricity is used with good effect in sev- eral scenes, and the duel with its flashes of electric light is a startling incident. The apoth- cosly is also interesting, making a fitting close to the weird and singular performance. The scene on the summit of the Brocken s thrilling and impressive, as was the case in the Irving production. It holds the attention of the audience, and its close, made brilliant by a dazzling display of fireworks, is quite a novelty. A great many supernumeraries are used, and they are handled so skillfully that they add to the naturainess and effectiveness of the pictures. The calcium lights are also cleverly placed and utilized to good advan- tage. Great-care has been used in selecting the company, each member of which is pe- cullarly adapted to the parts for which they are cast, thus assuring a harmonious whole, There is no more brilliant lecturer than M. Blouet, whose pen name of ‘Max O'Rell” i8 famous in two hemispheres. His first book on *John Bull," attracted univer- sal attention by its shrewd analysis of char- acter and its close and critical observation of men and women, and especially of women. This was followed by other works in the same veln, in which he paid his attention to the United States and its people, O'Rell i3 & capital man on the lecture platform, bright, clover and a perfect actor, with the French art of expression, keeping an audience in a ate of hopeful expectancy from start to finish, whilo he does mot disappoint either in matter or manner. He lectures iIn Omaha in the auditorium of the Young Men's Christian assoclation on the evening of Feb- ruary 12, his subject being ‘“Her Royal Highness, Woman.” No one can afford to miss hearing him on a topic upon which he Is so much at home. Every woman may realize a protraiture worth her sitting for an hour and a half before this artist in word painting. Arrangements have been completed for the Shakespearean recital to be gwven by Mr. George B. Wiliams, February 8. From the list of patrons who have encouraged his com- ing it i evident that it will prove an event in literary and social circles, his reputation | having preceded him, has selected leaves no question as to the success of the evening. The recital will be glven in the Woman's club rooms, Boston block, and the program he This wonderful invention is attracting a large patronage, and the scenes presented are truly marvelous. The subjects for this week are Sandow as he appears in his cabinet; the reproduction is so porfect any person who saw him us he appeared at Boyd's theater recently cannot help but wonder and express astonishment. The boxing contest & an- other view that makes an excellent subject. The bucking broncho from Buffalo BUl's Wild West reminds you very forcibly of the days when the west was wild and untamed. A nabella in her famous butterfly dance, is a beautiful picture In action. The slack wire performance is finely done, the wire being visible, making it very realistic. ‘Theso marvels are on exhibition at 109 South Six- teenth street, from 9 a. w. to 11 p, m., and espeelally desire the ladies to call. King's Daughters band No. 2 of the Church of the Good Suepherd will glve a dramatic entertalument at Washington hall, Tuesday, | February 5, for a charitable purpose. The beautiful southern drama, “A Lovely Rebel,” will be interpreted by the following cast of characters: Julian Farnsworth, U. 8. A...F, Edgar Hart George Roberts, Major C. 8. A. .W. A. Overbeck Colonel, C. 8. A. 2 ir. R. M. Bradley Lieutenant Forbes, U. 8. A....Alvin Patten Lieutenant Ellsworth, C. 8. A. 5 .R. C. Ambrose “Wash,” 'a runaway contraband. 5 5 o .Mr. Joseph Woodruff Miss Kate Spencer, a true Yankee p 5 Miss Ada Neville Miss Nellie Campion! Slara Thorne Edward S. Thompson, Impersonator. All friends of the church are invited. Judge Thorne, SADIE MARTINOT A HUMMER. Little Story of Her Relations with Boucicault, This tale is found in the gossipy San Francisco News Letter: Sadie Martinot, when she made her first appearance in San Francisco with Dion Boucicault, was, as she now is, as cunning and jolly a dame as ever pressed her red lips fo a goblet of Pummery. Miss Martinot used to teil a good story about Boucicault. In the latter years of his life the great dramatist was very concerned about his per- sonal appearance, His long hair was care- fully dyed every day with a preparation he got from Paris, One_morning Miss Martinot said to Dion: “Mr. Boucicauit, I want $500." “Miss Martinot,” replied the dramatist, “I cannot conveniently furnish you with that amount.” “I am sorry,” sald Miss Martinot, “but I hope, when I call later on, that you'll be able to find the cash for me. When Mr. Boucicault arose and went to perform the ordinary duties of his toilet he found that his hair dye was missing. He knew that Miss Martinot was acquainted with the whereabouts of that important arti- cle. He alse knew that it would take him at least two months to recelve a fresh in- stallment from Parls in case his stock in hand did not turn up. At breakfast he sald, very humbly: My dear Miss Sadie, did you see anything of my hair dye To which the gifted and beautiful lady replied “I assure you, Mr. Boucicault, I found among my effects a mixture to change the color 0f the hair which closely approach: yours, as far as I can tell from the labe “And what is the price of that mixture?" inquired Mr. Boucicault blandly. “Only $500,” replied Miss Martinot, with vitching smile. How fortunate!” sald Mr. Boucicault. 've got a check for that exact amount in my pocket."” “And how fortunate, also," replied Miss Martiont, “I have the bottle in mine!” Mr. Boucicault took the bottle, Miss Mar- tinot took the check, and then over their black coffec they chatted about the weather. Dion a THE NEW WOMAN, Mrs, A, M, Palmer an Adwirable Exponent of the Sex. Club woman and ‘“chum.” These words well describe Mrs, A, M. Palmer, well known, not only in New York, but in London, Bos- ton and Philadelphia. On meeting her it at once becomes evident that she is one of the most admirable exponents of the idea epitomized in the term, “The New Woman." She 15 handsome and commanding in pres- ence, with blond hair, frank hazel eyes, and a firm chin that marks its bearer as a born exocutive. She is a familiar sight to all frst-nighters at the theaters, and is her husband's assistant in many of his business arrangements, being an excellent house- keeper as well, a sociely woman with & large circle of friends, and a loving and attentive mother to her four ebildren. Everyone, of ourse, knows her as the founder of the Pro- fessional Woman's league, to which she has also been a source of inspiration, and over which she at present presides. In Sorosls she has distinguished herself on the com- mittee on philanthropy. More of her So- cleties are the Woman's Guild, the Woman's Pross club and the Twelfth Night club, while sho is one of the managers of the Messiah home, ‘where thirty boys and girls, taken from the street, are taught and fed; and she holds a similar position with the “Little Mothers," which last summer gave 2,500 girls a country picuie. “The Blue Anchor,” that provides clothing for shipwrecked peo- ple, is another of her favorite organizations. Mrs. Palmer, in fact, is a feminine example of that once wholly masculine institution— “a j'iner.” HUMOR AND PATHOS, Both Encountered on the Road with a Circus Corapany. “It would take a big volume to tell all my experiences on the road,” said Edward Belmont, the Australian jester, to a reporter for the Chicago Herald. “Travel with a wagon show is very different from being transported from city to city in palace trains, and life with one of the old-fashioned shows was full of vicissitudes and incidents of a humorous and pathetic nature. 5 “The saddest, 1 think, was the murder of a little boy by his stepfather. The little fellow was the son of Millle Tournour, the trapeze performer. Miss Tournour’s husband was Onofrl, a gymnast. He was training the boy for a high pedestal and posturing act. Something the little fellow did offended Ono- fri, and in a rage he hurled the poor child to the ground from a height of about thirty fect, He meant to cripple the boy, and as the crime was wilful—though probably he did not intend to commit murder—he got a long term of imprisonment. “As for funny incidents, I think the in- nocence of a farmer in a New Jersey village amused me more than anything I ever heard. He came to see the Van Amberg show, prin- cipally to learn if he could find any trace of his nephew, Wilbur Browning, who had run away with the show ten or fifteen years back. He had *hearn as how Willie had been rolled up into the tent and abducted; that the showmen had cut out his backbone and filled the place with limber grease and made a contortionist of him.' Furthermore, he had ‘hearn’ that Wilbur had married a ‘wild gal with bushy hair from Circasshy,’ and had quite gone to the bad.” SOMETHING OF THE LAMBS, Most Exclusive of the Dramatic snd Lit- terary Clubs. Using the term in its best sense, the most purely Bohemian club in town is that known as the Lambs which was founded some years ago for the purpose of Dringing together representatives of art, music, the drama and literature, It has moved its home often, but is now located, on a long lease, at 26 West Twenty-first street. The Lambs has no_ president; instead, it chooses annually a “shepherd,” and thtre'is also a ‘“boy,’ who is the shepherd’s chief assistant. The last elected member ig known as the lamb- Kin, while much deference is shown to the oldest member, the post of honor now oc- cupled by Mr. John P. Miley, Past shep- herds have been Lester Watlack, Harry Mon- tague and William J. Klorence, while the title of “boy” has beer wofn by John Drew, Steelo Mackaye and Henry B. Dixey. Henry ng is an honorary member. ‘The Lambs some curlous customs, such as ‘‘gam- “washing of the fold” and annual confession of the queep things they have done in their capacity of Lambs. A pretty ceremony of the club is passing the loving cup, @ heavy cup with tliree handles, which is generally kept well siipplied with excel lent drinking material 'by ‘order of various members of the organization, who, though traveling on “circuits¥far! away, frequently telegraph to have the cup dfilled at their ex- pense on certain evenings—swhen their healths are, of course, drunk. The Lambs never closes its doors, the latch string of the fold always hanging out to members. BEERBOHM TREE, Tiis American Debut at Abbey's Theater an Artistic Success. A telegram from New York to The Bee Monday night stated: To see Mr. Beerbolm Tree's English com- pany Abbey's theater was crowded to the doors tonight with a fashionable assemblag A great many in the auditorium bad enjoyed Mr. Tree's performances in London and were gathered to give him the greeting of old friends; others who had never seen, had neard cf his art and knew it to be true, in- teresting and original in method. Hence the reception of the new actor was most cordial At the close of the one-act piece the audience was still more demonstrative In expressions of its pleasure over the visit of the English player. Beerbohm Tree's performance was so | ser w 10 pieces very heavy fine and- soft aR wool shaker flannel, just the thing for c; come and get what you want of it tom ow for Z5c yd, LADIES’ AND GENTS’ UNDERWEAR DEPARTMENT. GENTS' MERINO SHIRTS, An odd lot of gents' shirts that sold natural merino $1.00 cach g0 (each) at MEN'S SHIRTS and DRAWERS Also another odd lot of men's fine all wool and merino shirts and_drawers that sold at §1. 5 each go at. (each) LADIES' UNDERWEAR, Ladies' fine merino and jersey ribbed flecco cotton vests and pants that sold at 50c to $1.25 each, go Ladies' Wool Pants, 53c. Ladies’ fine ribbed black wool pants figc That sold at $1.75 each. lun‘ Ladies’ night gowns, worth $1.50, for 98c. Domestic Department- hmere De Laine that formerly sold at $1.25 for a dress pattern of 10 yards will go tomorrow. 50c A Dress Pattern of 10 Just think of it! ds for.... A whole Dress Pattern for 50c! For tomorrow of only we will offer 5,000 and checked Outing Flannel, the 10c quality; they come as fine fancy striped in short lengths, from 6 to 12 yards. ‘Tomorrow you can get your pick I51¢] er yard MILLINERY DEPARTMENT, SECOND FLOOR. Great Millinery sale Monday and continue ing all week. All winter goods must be sold, Iivery Felt Hat on sale Monday 50c¢ ‘Worth from $1.25 to § All Trimmed Hats at your own price. (each) Falconer. admirable that he was cheered and applauded to the echo. With the exception of Mr. Irving and Miss Terry no foreign player has re- ceived a more enthusiastic greeting than that accorded to Beerbohm Tree. He is a tall, slender, distinguished looking man, with nervous, graceful gestures, fine hands, an intellectual head, eloquent eyes and a face full of expression. He Is an ad- mirable actor. He seems to think his part more than to feel it, or, in other words, to act more with his head than his heart. Hence his performance of Gringoire in the first play appealed to the intelligence of the spectators rather than to their sympathies. It was excellent art, but it wasn’t absolutely nature. The quality bf emotion was more eloquently expressed by Miss Lily Hanbury, whose performance of Hoyse was sympa- thetic, symmetric, simple and womanly. Pos- sibly it was to show the versatility of his talent that Mr. Tree chose to effect his debut before a new audience In characters of wholly dissimilar quality. He appeared in “The Ballad Monger” and ““The Red Lamp. MARY ANDERSON 18 VERY ILL, She Is at Brighton, Her Appesrance Being Awazingly Changed. Mary Anderson is very ill at Brighton, England, according to a letter received from that place Wednesday by Rudolph Aronson of the Casino, New York. The letter says: “Mary Anderson, who has just had a very serious {llness, is here (Brighton), being wheeled up and down the promenade in a bath chair. She is amazingly changed. All the sylphlike indications of her once pretty figure and the somewhat ethereal face have gone, and in place of this we have a matronly woman with plump dairy maid's cheeks. ~ She is followed about by Navarro, who looks haggard.” Qui Mal Y Pense. Louisville Courler-Journal: In the course of an interview with one of our local con- temporaries, Mr. Nat C. Goodwin, the em- Inent comedian, takes occasion to corfect some recent storles circulated to his dis- advantage and to protest against that species of journalism wlilch seeks to enrich itself by the heedless sacrifice of private character, Since no one has suffered more in this regard than Mr. Goodwin himself, he has certainly the right to speak in his own behalf, and, at the same time, a claim upon the consideration of a public which owes 80 great a debt to his genius. As a matter of fact, however, Mr. Goodwin is merely beginning to realize the serlousness of lite and the importance of his own rela tion to the art of which he has long b an_unconscious master. With an exuberance of talent rivaled only by his buoyancy of spirit, uniting to extraordinary conversational Wesources personal charm unequaled on or off the stage, he has scattered his benefactions of all kinds with a lavish disregard of con- sequences and that disdain for appearances which emanates, in his case, from a frank nature, incapable of intentioned wrong and unconsclous of giving cause for evil report He s still a very young man; but he has been, and 1s, a great, over-grown boy; fear- less and loyal; as open as the day; enjoy- ing the abundance which nature gave him in his birth and which his professional abllities have created so profusely around about him; and seeking to have others en- Joy it with him. But, before all else, it ought to be known by the public that he amply provides for those having the best claim upcn his largess; that he is not merely one of the most generous of friends, but one of the most devoted of sons; and. that M can be truly said that no one ever suf- fered through any act of his, To a man of so wany gifts and such real merits the press and the public might be more indulgent, even If Mr. Goodwin were as erratic as it is sometimes sald he is. But he is not so in the sense sought to be ascribed to him. He could never have reached the resulls, which each season we see re-enforced by new creations, except at the cost of infinite painstaking, conscien- tious toll; for, exquisite and apparently spontaneous as his art is, he is pre-emi- nently an intellectual actor; and it 1s prepos terous to suppose he has not been a thought ful, laborious student, finding his rellef in moments of relaxation, which may too often have lapsed into unguarded gayety, but which never degenerated into vulgarity or wantone Indeed, the warp and woof of Mr. Goodwin's character are wholly us. He a most unaffected, affec- tionate man; and, with the recognition which the world is giving him of the foremost n comedian of his time, the inevitable and natural successor to the great Jefferson, it is safe to predict that he will fall into his place with the ready grace that sits upon all he says and does. Meanwhile, the boys in the city editor's room ought to use more blue, and less red, in penciling the coming and golng of onc €0 brilliant and so gentle, and, in all that they have a right to take a note of, 50 un- offending. Gossip of the Stage. M. Alexandre Dumas has been made a grand officer of the Legion of Honor. Sardou and Henry Arthur Jones had rep- resentation at four theaters last week in New York. Elita Procter Otis is soon to marry Charles Howard Johnson, the artist. This will be an artistic alllance. Trilby, that much discussed heroine, is still further handed down to fame as a subject for a living picture at Proctor’s, New York. Henry A. Clapp, the eminent dramatic au- thority of Boston, says of the Hamlet of Jo- seph Haworth that it is the best essay of the melancholy Dane since the days of Booth, Johnstono Bennett has decided to go in for burlesque, tights and all, and will go abroad to study for a while in London and Parls, and will doubtless make her debut in her new line on the other side of the ocean. Oscar Wilde's new play, “An Ideal Hus- band,” at the Haymarket in London is doing well 'in spite of the severe handling it re- celved at the hands of the critics, Some of the dialogue is said to be in Wilde's hap- piest veln, 2 Otls Skinner in “His Grace De Grammont” appeared in Washington Monday night for the first time as a star and made a hit be- fore a large audience, embracing many po- litical and social notables. Skinner received four curtain calls and liberal applause. Richard Mansfield, who was billed to ap- pear at the Capitol theater at Little Rock, Ark., Monday night, in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” was forced to cancel the engage- ment on account of illness. The actor con- tracted a cold at Dallas, which developed into ulcerated sore throat. Mr. Harry Conor, who has many friends in Omaha, 19 to try his hand at looking llke Napoleon tomorrow night, when he will re- place Mr. Charles Stanley as the colonel in “A Milk White Flag,” at Hoyt's theater, New York. Mr. Stanley will take Mr. Conor's place as Welland Strong in “A Trip to China- town" on the road. The 100th performance of Wiliam Gil- lette's rolstering comedy, “Tco Much John- son,” will occur at the Standard theater in New York one evening this week. Manager Jacob Litt has closed a contract whereby Mr. Gillette and all of the original cast wili pre- sent this prime fun-maker as the opening at- traction at his new Metropolitan theater, Minneapoli Charles H. Hoyt, who is a member of the New Hampshire legislature, is arranging tako his entire company, now playlng ‘A Black Sheep” in Boston, to Concord, N. H., to give an afternoon performance before the lawmakers. A special train will carry the company and staff of the Park theater, In- cluding the ushers, to Concord, and urn with them to Boston in time for the evening performance. A curious little book of 200 pages has been published in Paris to prove that there are only thirty-six dramatic situations. The author, M. Polti, quotes the saying of Goethe that Gozzi maintained that there could only be thirty-six tragie situations. Schiller took @ lot of trouble to find more, but he did not even discover as many as Gozzi. He proves Gozzi's position, and then declares that thero aro really only thirty-six cmotions in life, but these are capable of 1,532 subdivisions covering the entire range of love, hatred jealousy, the affectious, the passions, the sentiments and al. Whether Omaha gets Olga Nethersole or not the Chicago Tribune says of her on her ¢ night at Hooley's in ““Camille ot beautiful and not a genius is Miss Olga Nethersole, who made her first Chicago ap. pearance last evening at Hooley's in ‘Camille,’ Only a sweet, sensitive actress, having a gray, dove-like meekness, is the latest a pirant to stellar honors who prefers to make her first appearance in this city as the much soiled and much-sacrificing Margaret Gautior Let it be said of her at the outset that she won the sympathies of her audience; and that she recelved the plaudits which testified | the womanliness, if not to the surpassiug art, of her fmpersonation. She speaks with Just the slightest forcign accent that could be imagined; so slight is it that one knows not to what part of the continent to attribute it, but it is certain that she never obtained it in England. There are times in her acting when it s evident that she has been studying Henry Irving. She has just absorben enough of his method to flatter her model and to please Mr. Irving's admirers. Her one strong hold as an actress is her natural sensibility, and onc could not see that this was strongly demonstrated in the first act.” Early in the season William Collier was playing two parts in Edward B. Kidder's brightest play, ““One of the Boys.” One part was that of a’careful, painstaking pedagogue, and the other was that of the schoolmaster's brother, “Shiftless Ike,” whose name sug- gests the stylo of the character. In the part of “Shiftless Ike,” however, his success was unbounded, and, as a consequence, another actor has been engaged for the quieter char- acter, and when he appears at the Grand opera house next month, Mr. Collier will play “Shiftless Ike" exclusively. Last week at the Irving Place theater, New York, was a memorable one, inesmuch as New Yorkers saw for the first time what is clalmed by many to be the oldest drama ex- tant. Sudrada, the king, wrote it 400 B, C., says some, while others maintain that it ia only 1,700 years old. In the orlginal this drama from the Sanscrit bears the engaging title, “‘Mirichakatika.” Herr Pohl, the Ger- man adapter, simplifies matters a bit by calling it “Vasantas:na.” A modern antique, this Hindoo diama, at least in Emil Pohl's version, . for it is iricked out with all the complications and the finesses of an historical drama by Strdou. Rese Coghlan's new play, which was given its first Boston production at the Hollis Stroet theater last week, is called “‘Princess Wala- noff,” but is the same play that was pro- duced in New York earlier in the season, une der the better title of “To Nemesis.” It is the work of Mrs. Romualdo Pacheco, and is of a type made famliliar by years of secing in other forms. It Is distincitvely a melo- drama, without the features which have of late come to be associated with the name, Like plays of its type, it is purely a creation of the stage, always striving for theatrlo strength, and never for naturaluess, That kome of this theatric strength appears s not to be wondered at, for many of the successos of past years hiave been drawn upon for inas uline iniquity is the Wilde's latest theme of Mr, play, “An Ideal Huj band,” which was produced not long ago lo Haymarket theater, in London, and 1 may be seen here before the end of the season at the Lyceum theator. The hero of this plece, Sir Robert Chittern, has so0ld a state secret to a forelgn finanoier, and 5o gotten a beginning for a large fortune, When the play opens he is secretary for forelgn affairs, and Is involved in a rather questionable speculation. A Mrs. Cheveley, with a dublous past, and a still more du- bious present, {s also in the speculation, and she holds a letter which will incriminate Bir Robert. Sir Robert wants to do what is right, but, with these letters staring him in the face, he s afrald. His wife tries to “brace him up” and orders Mrs. Cheveley out of her house. Lord Goring, who wants to marry Sir Robert’s pretly sister, also comes 1o the rescue and gets possession of the letter. Sir Robert, in the end, iy re- warded—for what?—and gets a seat in the cabinet. Meltzer of the New York World, and ono of the most consclentious critics of the metropolls, says of the “District Attorney,"” allusion to which was made in The Bee last week: ‘It will revive the drooping hopes of na- tive playwrights, who, slnce the flasco of ‘New Blood' and the resulting ostracism of other American efforts, have stood very much in need of some encouragement. It sbould embolden many wanagerial Thomas to doubt less and to dare more. In dentally, It will, I trust, do something to enrich its authors. And last, not least, it may provide a new and an effective argu- ment in favor of tho theory that the ten- dency of public taste lies' ralher toward real and modern plays than in tHe direction of poetic unreality. = Imperfect and uneven though 1t be, ‘The District Attorney' has done more to Lelp the half-abandoned cause of the Amerlcan drama than any effort we have seen hero since the memorable night on which to our delight we had our first taste of an adwmirable play o 4 ‘Ala- | bawa.' *