The Leading Man

Charles Mitchell ís che iatest prize fighter to assault the drama. He is interpolated in "The Roinany Rye." E. H. Sothern says he prefers English to American actors because the latter are not at home iii evening dress. íloyt, the playwright, began bis managerial career with a capital oí $3,000. lie is now said to be a mülionaire. Mrs. D. P. Bowers ha3 been engaged to créate a part in lióse Coghlan's production of "A AYoman oL JS'o Importance." George Grossuiith, tlíe Euglish humorist, returns to this country in January with a new sketch called "Howl Discovered America." Mr. Frau'. Ebert, the pocket edition of Coquélin, is 27 years oíd and 2S inches high, or about one iach for every year he has lived. Marie Jansen made her lirst appearance on any stage iu Boston in a sketch entitled "The Club," in which were Digby Bell, Laura Joyce aui John Howson. Rose Coghlan has engaged Manrice Barïymore at a salary oL S300 a week to appear in "A "Woman of Xo Importauce." Mr. Robert Taber is also cxpeeted to be in the cast. When Bernhardt bas to die on the stage, she goes cheerfully to soaie hospital aud watches some poor creature struggling against death and reproduces the deaxh agony. The announcement is made that Mme. Cottrelly, no.w with Kussell's comeaians, has for two months past bc-en the wife oL Thomas B. Wilson, a Philadelphia nianufacturer. Coquélin told a San Francisco reporter that he feared some of the French actors were becoming loo natural in their efforts to portray nature. "1 like the natural of art," said he, "bot I like uot the natural of nature."