ART, LITERARY, AND DRAMATIC GOSSIP.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2204, 19 March 1881, Page 3

ART, LITERARY, AND DRAMATIC GOSSIP.

[From English and other files,]

It is stated that the novel entitled “ Strictly Tied Up,” lately published by Messrs Hurst and Blackett, is the first experiment as a writer of fiction of Mr Beresford Hope, M P. Miss Louise Pomeroy is playing in “Romeo and Juliet” at the Theatre Royal, Adelaide, with Mr W. Hoskins as Friar Laurence.

Mr Alfred Dampier has purchased the Australian rights of Messrs Conquest and Pettitt’s drama “ The Green Lanes of England” and Mr Henry Pettitt’s “ Black Flag.” Mr Dante G. Rossetti has a volume of English ballads ready for the press. Miss Braddon’s new three-volume novel, “ Asphodel,” is about to be issued by Messrs J. and R. Maxwell.

The “Athencum” says:—“As tho origin of the name Endymion, as used by Lord Beacansfield, is not generally known, a remark or two on the subject may be interesting. Endymion himself says that it was a family name, borne by Endymion Cary in the time of Charles I. This is snother of Lard Beaoonsfield’s little mystifications, for he blends in one Lucius Cary (the great Falkland) and Endymion Porter. Now, Endymion Porter was the ancestor of Lord Beaconsfleld’s old friend George Smythe, afterwards seventh Viscount Strangford, and the name of the third Viscount Strangford was also Endymion. Of Endymion Porter, tho faithful friend of Charles 1., there is a very interesting account in the * Lives of the Lords Strangford,’ by Mr de Fonblanque.” The janitor at tho Fifth Avenue Theatre has found a chew of gum that was left stuck on a stage tree by Mary Anderson during her engagement here, and ho rents it out to young men to chow, at fifty cents, for five minutes. It has already been chewed by two hundred and eighty young fellows, and applications are on file from five hundred and sixty more. It the gum holds out, he has struck a bonanza. None genuine unless the tracks of Mary’s back teeth are blown into it. The gum smelled of new-mown hay when tho janitor first found it, but it is getting a little frowy up to now. Mrs Bateman, the lessee and manager of Sadler’s Wells Theatre, died lately after a short illness. Mrs Bateman was a native of Maryland, and was associated with her husband in theatrical enterprises in America, la 1871 they took the Lyceum Theatre, and when Mr Bateman died in 1875 the widow managed it until 1878, when she was succeeded as lessee by Mr Irving. Soon afterwards Mrs Bateman took Sadler’s Wells Theatre. She took great interest in the education of her three daughters—Misses Kate, Isabel, and Virginia Bateman—for the stage. The eldest of these sisters is the actress who created so deep an impression by her impersonation of tho persecuted Jewess in the English adaptation of Mosonthal's “ Deborah.” The funeral of the late Mrs Bateman took place in Hendon Churchyard. The chief were Mr and Mrs George Crowe and Mies Sidney Crowe, Miss Virginia Bateman, Miss Isabel Batemen, and Mr Theodore Gripp. On arriving at the grounds the funeral procession was joined by Mr Charles Warner, Mr Hermann Vczin, and tho entire company of Sadler’s Wells, ond a large number of personal friends, including Mr O. A. Sala and Mr Hardman. Sadler’s Wells Theatre will now he under the management of Miss Isabel Bateman.