356      A  HISTORY  OF  THE  NEW  YORK  STAGE      C1897
 

until October, 1898; that Mr. Palmer owed him ;^30,ooo for rent;
Mr. Palmer had agreed to pay the ground rent, taxes, interest on
mortgages and insurance, and to give Mr. Moss a percentage of the
profits on all plays produced in the house, and on some of those
played by his travelling companies. In the body of the lease, it
appeared that Mr. Moss was to have twenty-five per cent of these
profits and a clause at the bottom of the document appeared to fix
it at fifty per cent. E. S. Willard returned to this theatre Dec. 14,
in "The Rogue's Comedy," by Henry Arthur Jones, acted for the
first time in New York, and with this cast:
 

Bailey Prothero   .    .    .   E. S. Willard

Lady Dovergreen     Virginia Buchanan
Thomas Dovergreen

Bromley Davenport
 

Miss Jennison
William Clarabut
Lady Clarabut
Nina Clarabut
John Bucklow
Marquis of Bicester
 

Olga Brandon
Frank Cornell
Mrs. H. Cane
Maude Venner
Stewart Allen
Percy Winter
 

George Lambert
Sydenham .
ReffeU . .
Hubbock .
Chester . .
Miss Proye
Mrs. RefFeU
Palmer . .
Robert Cushing
 

. . Oswald Yorke
. E. W. Thomas
H. G. Lonsdale
. . Earle Brown
. Charles Robinson
Violet Armbruster
. . Agnes Knight
. . Harry Barfoot
.    .    . Harry Cane
 

This play was repeated Dec. 21, 22, 23 ; " The Middleman " was
revived Dec. 24 and Christmas matinee Dec. 25 ; " The Professor's
Love Story" was heard Dec. 25, also night and matinee Dec. 26;
" In Gay New York," came Dec. 28, for one week. Lucy Daly,
AUce Veazie, Nana Fairhurst, Gertrude Zella, Stella Gray, Grace
Spencer, Rene Egan, Jessie Haines, Josephine Stanton, Gussie Dean,
Walter Jones, Arthur V. Gibson, E. S. Tarr, James G. Peakes, Frank
H. Hammond, Pelham Wilkes, Lee Harrison, Gilbert Gregory,
James A. Furey, Wm. Sellery, William Torpey, Peter Curley, Foster
Farror, James Prouty, Wm. E. Ritchie, J. C. Newell, William Dunlay,
Frank Farrington, Rose Witt, and Heloise Dupont were in the
company. The opera of " Kismet, or Two Tangled Turks" by
Richard E. Carroll and Gustave Kerker, was produced Jan. 4, 1897,
with this cast:

Kismet.....Camille d'Arville

Haideez.....R. F. Carroll

Chinchilla.....Wm. Steiger

Dan de Lyon ....      Wm. Hatch

Ovah     .......Henry Leoni

Sum......Gerlad Gerome

So-Jah......LiUian Cooley

The Muezzim      .    .     Fred A. Tracey
A-Jeeb......Julian Horton

"The Sorceress of Palmistry," by Giles Reynolds Warren, was
first acted afternoon of Jan. 7, 1897, for the benefit of a local charity.
The house was closed Jan. 25, and Margaret Mather presented
"Cymbeline," Jan. 26, with this cast:
 

B-Jeebers .    .
 

.    Chas. Randolph
 

Absinthea .    .
 

.    .   BeUe BuckUn
 

Ramadamus    .
 

.    . Rose Leighton
 

Fat-Mah     .    .
 

Crissie Cariyle
 


 


 

Kondje-Gal
 

.     .      Emma Levy
 

Pandemonia   .
 

Edith Atkinson
 

Lena      .    .    .
 

Grace Freeman