The Stage

Mary Hampton will continue this season as leadlng woman in "Sowlng the Wind." "The Gay Parisians" is at Hoyt's Thnater, New York, for a run. Of course Henry Irving will not use the "Sir" in tliis country. In point of fact, there is no Sir Henry Irving. He was knlghted Sir Henry Broadrib, as that is bis real name. "The Sporting Duchess" at the Academy. Eddie Sothern at the Lyceum, tho Holland Brothers at the Garrick and Della Fox at Palmer's are doing the onl y big business In New York city. EMward Vroom has received from Prancis Coppee the sketches of the scenery and costumes used at the Odeon Theater, Paris, in "For the Crown," whieh Vroom is to produce in this country. A cablegram to the New York World from London, England, says that rumor has been current in theatrical circles for sorae time that Augustin Daly was in danger of losing his London theater. "His Excellency," the comic opera Charles Frohman and Al Hayman are to bring to this country this season is now in rehearsal at the Lyric Theater, London. The Chieftain," with which Francis Wilson has just opened his season at Abbey's Theater, New York, is the seventh comic opera Wilson has staged Blnce he has been a star. Harry B. Smith, the librettist, internis accompanying Kirk La Snelle and Arthur F. Clark on the road tour of the Frank Daniels' comic opera, "The Wizard of the Nile."