Curtain Raisers

James Young is hailed by many crlticg as the 'egitimate suocessor of Edwin Booth. "Unole Toru's Oabin" was recently producod at a stock theater in Brooklyn - and it made money, too. Ralph Perey Lewis has scored a success in au important juvenile role in Wilton Lackaye's company. Richard .T. Moye is doing some very clever work as the English butler in "Chimmie Fadden. " Edward Harrigan is ill, and has been compelled to abfindon his tour, and his company is disbanded. Signor Tamagno, the famous Italian tenor, has signed a contract to sing in Buenos Ayres next season. Charles CToghlan's latest play, "The Royal Box," has proved a great euccess at the Fifth Avenue theater, New York. "The Yogi," a heavy drama, the title of which suggests its subject, is one of the announced attractions for next season. öeorge Edwardes is to produce the great Paris success, "Les Fetards, " in London. It will be presented in New York next spring. Robert A. Barnet's new pieoe, "The Queen of the Ballet," is being rapidly put in shape by the cadets at their armory, Boston. It is said that Alexandra Viarda, the Polish actresa, discouraged by her chilly reception in New York, will not make a tour of tho United States. The Clyde Fitoh play, "Nathan Hale," which Nat C. Goodwin desired to produce at the Knickerbockor theater, New York, will be first presonted in Chicago. Eva Vincent is another American aotress who will go to London in May to oréate a ' character part in odb of the big cockney melodramas of which that city makus a speemity.