The Stage

The manUe of Edwin Forrest has descended on Thomas W. Keene, in the shape of a Roman toga, which he wears as Cassius. Stanislaus Strange, the librettist of "Brian Boru," is at work on a new opera, which Jefferson D'Angelis will probably produce next spring. Cyril Vernon, son of the well-known actor, W. H. Vernon, has made a success in London and the provinces in the company of May Fortescue. ' A one-act play by John Ernest McCann, entitled "Smoke," and depicting the love affair of a middle-aged artist and his girl pupil, has been published. It is announced that Mrs. Bernanl Beere has recovered from her dangerous illness, and hopes to return to the London stage bef ore long. All that obituary copy wasted? Caroline Miskel-Hoyt, whcse daughter died a few hours after its birth the other day, is rapidly regaining her health. She will probably begin her season in "A Contented Woman" about Jan. 1. That engaging actor, Robert Mantell, is booked to appear this week in Kalamazoo, Flint and Port Huron. It would appear that popularity and prosperity still amiably pursue the manly Robert. Thomas Q. Seabrooke has at last realized that he was wasting time in nis impersonation of the Mayor in "Thoroughbred," and resigned from Mr. Frohman's forces. Mr. Seabrooke wUl star in the comedy, "The Speculator." It is said that the relatives of the late Katherlna Klafsky are bringing buí for libel against a certain person who oirculated the rumor that the faI mous üingpr coxnmitted suicide. It is a straiige fatt, however, that very few details of Klafskys last sickness and death have ben made public.