THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 2 1907.
Gossip About Plays, Players and Playhouses
FTER all, H is the viewpoint.
Thl applies with especial force
to Nsw York. where good or bal
la pronounced of thing without
regard to the opinion that may
be ventured elsewhere, or without any ref
erence to what mar have happened at
other tlmea and other places. For exam
ple: When Mtiin. Thompson & Dunni
vant were associated together as a firm of
architects,' and were gathering In much
ebeckela as directors of the building
operations that brought Into existence the
Midway at the Omaha exposition, they
were stung In one or two places. One of
these was building on the West Midway,
just acroHs the street from Frlta lluol
lar's famous dispensary of malt arid
frankfurters, and about three doors west
of the show where Frank Bostock and
Eddie Fprague added to the already glist
ering fame of Hagenback's. This was at
the beginning designed to be a mine; that
Is, people were to be hoisted and lowerel
and Immersed In darkness more or less
Cimmerian. For this, and the added pleas
ure of carrying a tallow candle, from
which they might drip grease on their
clothes, they were to psy the sum of a
quarter of a dollar. It will be remem
bered that the early days of that exposi
tion were quite trying for the Midway
exhibitors, and not a few of the ambitious
showmen went out of business by the end
of June. Among these was the firm
operating" the Mine, and It gave up the
ghost without settling with Thompson &
Dunnlvant, who took the building as part
payment for services. One or two other
hows were Installed there, but none of
them paid, and It happened that Septem
ber overtook the archlteota with Ihe build
ing on their hands and nothing to ahow
for the cost and trouble It baxf been.
They Anally determined to put In a show
of their own, and after some thought as
to how beat to utilise the upper story, as
well aa the excavation, derided on a plan
that proved unique. Having deviled the
hoi and prepared for Us installation, a
name was sought, and for a time this was
a poser. Choice finally rested between
two, "Heaven and Hell" and "Darkness
and Dawn." At last the second was
chosen. It being deemed the first was a
trifle too suggestive. So "Darkness and
Dawn" It became, and for wonder It
proved the' biggest paying show along the
Midway. It had the merit of novelty, and
afforded some real fun, as well as some
real shivers, and the people flocked to It
.In Immense crowds, and In the end Messrs.
Thompson & Dunnlvant, Instead of being
losers, were the biggest winners In Ihe
show business at the Tranamlsslsalpul
Exposition. For the benefit of the thou
sands who went through that experience,
and to show how easy it Is to make New
York people think a thing Is new, hers is
the description written by Franklyn
Fyles of the season's novelty at Luna
Park, where Thompson's Inventive genius
has won him millions:
"Night and Morning; or, A Trip Through
Heaven and Hull," Is this season's bigger
show or orthodox Christian places of eternal
pleasures and agonies. Visitors first are put
Into a huge coffln In parties; and, seeing
through the glass lid the rising sides of the
excavation, they feel as If they are being
lowered Into a grave to funereal music. A
woman who was in tho coflin with me
sobbed hysterically. Perhaps a recent be
reavement made her choice of diversion
unsuitable. A man laughed out loud, but
It didn't sound merry, and I thought he
was scared. We do take grim ways of
being amused.
The coffln car empties Its passengers In
utter darkness. A rocky cave comes into
dim view, and you see a dosen skeletons
posed around and about; an odor of burn
ing sulphur Is smelt; snd, although the
men of bones (whose flesh Is inclosed In
black that hides them from sight) talk
Jocosely of who they are, and of what they
are being punished for, the effect on most
people Is ghostly and ghastly. You pass
along the shore of the river of death, In
which float doomed sinners on their way
to perdition, uttering cries of pain and dreud
and Jeered by demons. As you draw near
to the bottomless pit you see a lurid glare
ahead, and hear a confused sound of moans
and outcries. Then the night ends sud
denly In the daybreak of heavenly morn
ing. The graveyard Into which you .have
come Is transformed Into a garden of pleas
ant music and prismatic fountains. Of all
the: tombstones only one remains, that of
a cross witli a girl clinging to it, as In the
familiar picture of "Tho Hock of Ages."
An augcl descends with a wreath to crown
the girl, and that's all. "This way outl"
cries a mortal voice, and you find yourself
In a Coney Island crowd again.
Comlaa- Events.
For the closing week of Miss Eva Lang's
special engagement Manager Woodward has
elected a play that gives' Miss Lang an
' opportunity to appear In what many of her
admirers think Is her beat character. "The
Little Minister" Is a delightful drama, pure
In tone and clean In Its every aspect, with
a delightful fund of humor and a rich vein
of comedy through It, and best of all, a
love story that Is powerful In the extreme.
Miss Lang created the role of Lady Babble
during her first season's engagement In
Omaha, and Jumped into favor at once. It
was the hit of the season, and on being
repeated was welcomed with even more of
popularity than when first offered. The
pure mischief of the character appeals very
strongly to Miss Lang, and she gets much
fun out of it at the opening, but gradually
develops the serious phase of the character
as the play progresses, until Lady Babble
becomes the earnest, loving woman who Is
fitted to be the bride of the "meenester."
Miss Lang plays It with much enthusiasm,
for she likes tho part. Mr. Arvlne will be
Gavin Dlshart, the 'little minister," and
will bring to the part a fine conception
of its nicetlos. Mr. Davlea will hive his
original role of. Lang Thammas Whammand,
and the rest of the company will be well
placed In the several role. Mr. Woodward
has had a special set of scenery and ap
purtenances constructed for this play, and
will give It a splendid and appropriate sot
ting. The first performance will be on Sun
day afternoon, and it will be repeated each
evening during the week, with matinees on
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
FEW ' FOREIGN ACTORS LIKED
America Playgoer Care Only for
Their Owa.
NEW TORK, June JirThey were dis
cussing ths foreign actora who had tried
to establish themselves on the American
stags and the conversation turned on a
woman who haa a high reputation abroad,
but has cot yet succeeded In making any
Impression here.
"There's not been such a clever woman In
comic opera here for years," one of the
group said, "and I have never at any time
heard ' on with a better singing veto.
I was with her last winter and used to
wonder at every performance why a woman
ao clever as shs should make so little Im
pression on the public Nothing she Hid,
however, seemed to carry over the foot
lights." "Carry, nonsense!" was the answer of
another, who had frequently seen her.
"Everything she does carries all right,
but thare Is no sympathy In the audience
with her. She's too Dutch, and she looks
It. There's nothing chlo about her. A
show girl with no more sense than a snow
bird gets twice as snucb appreciation from
the audience, because American audlenoe
demand that women In musical shows shall
be wen dressed and swagger looking. No
amount of talent ts going to compensate
for th lack of them. Com to think of It,
I dont know a single German actress
who ever did make a hit here."
The comment of the act or who haa
begun by calling tho woman Dutch and
iidvJl by classifying her race more ac-
A
rurately was founded on fact. TTiere are
very few German actresses who have made
place for themselves In this country.
"There may have been various reasons
for It," said a manager to whom the mat
ter was suggested, "but American audiences
have never takm kindly to the actors thnt
came from the German stage. I cannot
recall a single Instance to the contrary In
fact. Fanny Jamvuschek, who played for
many years here, was not a German, al
though she played first In the German lan
guage. Bhe was a Bohemian, and there
la a world of difference between the two.
"It haa frequently happened that act
resses have shown cleverness In the per
formances of the German actora at their
own theater, but none of these women haa
ever made good when she tried to play In
the VerViaoular. . I can recall that Ellen
Berg left the German stage and acted with
Augustln Daly and could never look the
type of American girl sufficiently to be
convincing. Nor have the men ever suc
ceeded ntsjch better.
'The same Cause Is at the bottom of
the failure of both men and women. The
German accent la never entirely obliterated
and there la nothing distinguished to
Americans In sucH a mode of speech. A
German aocent is to us the dialect of hu
mor, and cannot be made anything else.
"Carl Btreltraan was regarded as the most
fascinating of Viennese tenors and was an
Institution of the Theater an der Weln, -In
which all the Straus operettas were per
formed. Here he) sang with great success
In the German theater. When he werit Into
English operetta not a matinee girl took
the leant Interest in htm. He had a de
cided aocent and he was German. That was
enough.. Max Freeman, who came over
from, the German stage, is ploying just ex
actly the ssme kind of parts after a quarter
of a century or more that he had while ha
Music and Musical Notes
,188 MART MUNCHOFF has been
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the most prominent figure upon
our musical hortson of late. Many
t-v" t'JI beautiful entertainments have
Trite iris been given for her and at nearly
every one she haa very graciously given
the sound of her rare voice to tho cqb
pany. The climax was reached at Mis.
McShane's musicals on Wednesday even
ing. Buoh singing aa Mary Munchoff's makes
a student alt up and wonder, "what that
ahe haa do I most lack and must I work
hard for?" To me the most wonderful
part of her singing Is the use of the head
tones and the bringing of that quality down
Into her middle voice when she needs It
for a pianissimo effeot. " The "echo" in
her voice is exquisite. I can't for the life
of me see why nine-tenths of the student
world misses out absolutely in color. A
song Is marked as plainly as a signboard.
Hardly anybody ever follow the symbols.
Heaps of people get Just so far In singing
then they stop. If they only knew it, they
have but begun to reap the real beauty of
tone and Its myriad change of shade. To
know how and when to use certain quali
ties and Intensities Is a life-long problem.
To aay from this note to this one use so
and so, and from here on so and so. Is all
poppycock. The depth of the colors on a
painter's palate depend upon the kind of
picture he ia going to paint. For a storm
and for a quiet gray day he might pinch
out the same shades from his tubes to be
gin with, but into these primary colors he
would Incorporate the soul that would
make men stop and look at the finished
work. j
The ground work must be done and done
thoroughly, then comes the Joy of finishing;
In other words, the expression of Individ
uality through a perfect Thechanlsm. I
wish Mary Munchoff would give an in
formal talk to vocal students while she
Is here. Bhe is so perfeotly equipped to
Illustrate so many difficult steps in singing.
If all singers could grasp her standard
it would bring about very different condi
tions. Tho trouble with very many Is that
they do not know what the real thing is.
Has anyone yot read "The Quest T' It is
a translation from the Dutch of Dr. Fred
erick Van Eeduns. "Do Kleine Johannes,"
a most wonderful book. Some crltio has
said it Is as beautiful as Ruskln, as inter
esting as Tolstoi and as profound as
Shakespeare." My particular conception
of it was as a review of beliefs and stand
ards. In the end It leaves you broken
hearted that so few, O, so pitifully few,
loved Markus and appreciated what Little
Johannes was struggling for. It is the old
story and questioning of the true definition
of the "Great Light." This talk of a
book Is rather a digression, but if you have
reatf it, you will see how the story applies
to all great quests whether it be the
search for a soul or a beautiful standard
In music.
A prominent musician said to me a little
while ago: "O, you're always way up In
the clouds. You ought to come down!" I
wish his statement were true. Some day
if I read enough and live enough and work
enough I may manage to set up that inner
temple that Marcus Aurellus talks about.
Not quite yet.
It is the season of pupils' recitals. The
winter has been spent In hard study. Now
oome the visible fruits of toll. Mr. Duffleld
gave a students' program before an in
terested audience last Monday nlgM.
Miss Bella Robinson sailed for Europe
June 18 with her mother, Mrs. Robinson.
On June 22 Mr. and Mrs. Kelly sail for
Ireland on the Etrurla. A few days were
spent, with Mrs.- Genevieve Clark-Wilson,
who haa a cottage this year at Ocean
Orrivs, that wonderful summer musical
center, where Tall Essen Morgan is the
guiding spirit. Mrs. Wilson Is a warm
friend and admirer of the Kellys.
The Paris correspondent of the Courier
gtves a most glowing account of a recent
soiree given M. Jean do Reszke. In his
private theater at his own residence he
gave a performance of "The Barbiere dl
Slvlgha," with Madame Adeline Pattl In the
title role. Edouard de Reszke also sang
and the other parts were taken by first
class artists. The audience represented the
cream of musical and literary Paris. Great
enthusiasm prevailed.
David Blspham has spent the last winter
In London. His recitals have been among
the most prominent and Interesting musi
cal events. His production of "Th Vicar
of Wakefield" added much to his artlstla
fame. He has also sung tn grand opera
during the Van Dyk season. The coming
year will be spent In America.
Krtty Chesten, the singer of children'
songs, finds her time In London com
pletely taken up. Her recitals are very
popular. Mrs. Turner had a chance last
winter to engage .this unique artist, but
was afraid ah was not well enough known
to draw. So let's begin to talk about her.
Her charming work Is In great demand
In London drawing ' rooms and she
has beside a very large social acquaint
ance. Charles W. Clarke la having a career
of glory abroad. In May he mads his
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was a German-speaking actor. Yet he was
regarded at the commencement of his ca
reer as a sure star. Max Adolpht, who
made audiences roar when he appeared In
comic opera at the Thalia, came up to the
Casino and was nearly as melancholy as
Gustav Scyffertlta haa been ever since he
began to act In English. Hubert Wllke,
who also came up from the German theater
In the early eighties, held his own better
than most of Ms compatriots.
"When Georglne von Jsnusohowsky left
the Germanta and sang "The Little Duke' at
the Casino, she was praised very highly for
the artistic features of her performance,
but she was not encouraged to continue on
our stage. It was another Instance of being
too German. No actor ever outgrew his
national peculiarities as well as Leo tHe
trichsteln, who first acted In New Tork In a
German theater. Charles Frohman brought
him up to act at the Garden In an adapta
tion of a French farce called 'Champlgnol
malgre Lul,' and he has stayed on the Eng
lish speaking stage with surprisingly little
trace of an accent. en Daniel Bandmann,
who has always been mentioned as one
of the most successful of all the German
actors that ever came to this country, had
only a few years of prominence. The
greater rart of his career was spent In
barnstorming In small towns and latterly
acting In the continuous muslo halls.
"It Is doubtful, however. If they- have
failed while acting in their own language
any more decidedly from a financial point
of view than actors of other nationalities.
The only one of those In recent years to
make any money for their managers was
Bernhardt. Duse'a tours have never
brought much money to her directors, but
she has never lost them such amounts as
Rejane, Mounet-Sully, Jane Hading and
Coquelln. Rejane on her first tour here
never but "once drew the amount that
Maurice Grau guaranteed her personally.
Italian debut with unmeasured success.
Rumors have come to Newport, says the
Times, that the marriage of Mrs. Marie C.
Eustls to Josef Hofmann, the pianist, has
not been a success. Mrs. Hofmann is about
to sue for a divoroe. Mr. Hofmann was a
Eustls, and married her cousin in Wash
ington In 1888, and va dlvoroed from him in
1901. She married Josef Hofmann at Aix
les Bains In 1906, and has been living at
Potsdam, Germany, having a few months
ago sold her Newport cottage to Henry S.
Redmond. Last year a daughter was born
to Mr. and Mrs. Hofmann.
Horatio W. Parker, head of the musical
department of Yale University, Is ill with
typhoid fever. Dr. Parker has overworked
recently and has refused to rest until It
was too late. It is too early to know what
course the Illness will take. Recently Dr.
Parker was appointed director of the
Orpheus society of Philadelphia.
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"Mis Mary Garden, the prima donna of
the Opera Comique," says the Paris Her
ald, "and who Is to create the leading parts
In the operas of the Opera Comique school
at the Manhattan Opera house In New
York, yesterday Invited Mr. Oscar Ham
mersteln, the director of the Manhattan
Opera house, for an outing tn her auto
mobile, In company with her sister. Miss
Garden. Tho party, passing through Ver
sailles and nearlng Bolnvllle, was thrown
violently against the curb, - as the result
of one of the wheels of the automobile
breaking at the axle. Miss Mary Garden
and Mr. Hammersteln sustained Injuries
which required the attention of a physician?
but which are not expected to bo of a
serious character. This was t he first time
in his life that Mr. HammersteJn had taken
a ride in an automobile. He says he pre
fers an ashcart and alone."
Mr. Blumenberg In the Courier gives this
unique description of a Salome night In
Paris;
The last of the "Salome" performances
on Friday night was an exhibition of An-glo-Saxons
in the auditorium, for the peo
ple present were, as an American who had
been residing in Paris for a number of
years said, three-fourths American, one
half of the remainder English and fully
two-thirds of the rest Russian and foreign,
with a few French people fn the galleries
and no Parisians present at all. As the
opera could not be heard in New York, It
seemed as if New York, Boston, Washing
ton, Chicago and chiefly the Paclflo Coast
people came here to listen to It. Nlkch
said to me on Saturday: "Yesterday I
heard 'Salome' for the tenth time; It Is
more interesting to me now than ever; I
don to a great extent tho exclusively oralo
could listen to it interminably."
The Melody club will give a program
next Thursday evening, June 27, undur the
auspices of the Baptist Young People's
union, at Calvary Baptist church, Twenty
fifth and Hamilton streets. Although this
ts the first public appearance of tho o'ub,
It has been meeting every threo weeks
during the entire winter at the homes of
the various members. Its membership is
limited to sixteen, and each member gives
a number at each meeting, the object
being to stimulate concerted musical ef
fort and the preparation of , new memters.
Following Is the program:
Organ Scherzo Bymphoniriuo.Debatpoudors '
Miss Shadduck.
Violin Du Bist die Mull Schubert
Mr. Schaub.
Vocal (a) Florlan's Song
(b) Counsel to King
Mrs. Qoety.
Violin Romance ,
...Godard
.Weberlln
Frenson
Mr. George Barker.
Organ Miss Shadduck.
Piano Soiree de VIenne, No. (
Schubert-Liszt
Miss Rees.
'Vocal Summertime Song Cycle
MY. Jessen.
Violin Trio Terzetto Dvorak
Miss Shaddock, Mr. Schaub and
Mr. Lyman.
Vocal Selected
Miss Damon.
Violin Walther'a Prize Bon's; Wagner
Mtss Olive Carpenter.
Vocal (a) In questa tomba Beethoven
b Allah Chadwkk
Male Quartet
Mr. Jessen. Mr. Lock wood. Mr. Corn
stock and Mr. Mould.
Accompanists: Mlsa Res. Miss Shad
duck, Miss Damon, Mlsa McConnell, M si
Linn Carpenter.
If summer ever comes Ocean Grove will
be a sort of musical Mecca under the direc
tion of Tall Esen Morgan, who will aban-,
don to a great extent the exclusively orato
rio character of the concerts. He has en
gaged a number of attractions. Including
Victor Herbert and his orchestra, for
Saturday evening, August 10, and the
Marine band of Washington, D. C. Emma
Barnes will give a concert July 30. Mme.
Scbumann-Helnk will sing Thursday even
ing, August 29, and Alma Webster Powell
will sing between these two. Ellen Beach
Yaw haa also been engaged, as have many
others.
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The most sensational announcement of
the week comes from Mme. Nordka, who
plan to erect a home for Wagnerian opera
at Ossiningformt-rly known aa Sing Sing.
The prin a donna expressed a good many In
tentions that sound axtremely good if they
could be carried out In this country. It is
stated that over tl, 000,000 will be expended
and she hopes to bring from Europe the
plans of Beyrouth snd a Munich advisor.
Intending to model her structure upon
these two Wagnerian homes. It is -stated
that Walter Dwmroach has been asked to
act as director and the scheme Includes
educational plans, an institution as well
operatic onea. MAKY LUARNKU
Agnes Snrma pleased German audiences so
well on her first trip thst Helnrlch Con
rled booked her for the second year in
several English speaking theaters outside
New York. He lost on that venture all
she had ever earned for him in N)ew Tork.
In spite of that experience, he tried the
same thing with Sonncnthal and lost
again.
"Of courso the greatest success ever
made by any foreigner on the American
stage while acting In English waa that of
Modjeska, She Is a Pole, however, and
that Is utterly different from the Germans.
The next most successful woman was Hor
tense Rhea, a French woman, who spoke
such poor English when she came here In
the early eighties that nobody could under
stand her, although that was the day of
accents on the stage. Marie Almee made
a fortune acting here In English after she
had sung for a long time In French opera
boufTe. She had a musical farce railed
"Mamselle' which made her accent all right,
and she retired with all the money she
needed, although In her own country she
never ranked with Judlc and Theo, who
never made a cent here. Naxlmova has
made her success here because, like Mod
jeska and all the Slavic women here on
the stage, she Is smart.
"The Italian actors who came out here
have rarely thought of acting In English.
Alexander Salvlnl did It because his father
wanted no actor of the name of Salvlhl In
hie own country while he was alive. Ono
son was sent to Russia, where he acted In
Italian, another to Russia, and Alexander
came out here. They all received their
share of their father's fortune for agree
ing to do this. Alexander had achieved
a fair place when he died, but was by no
means in the first rank of stars. Slgnor
Majeronl and his wife were popular actors
a score of years ago, and their son has
now come back from Australia to act here.
Rlstori played here for only one season In
Engllah and made a failure of that
"There are very few actors from the
continental countries that ever threatened
the popularity of the natives. Our own
actors are always liked best."
Gossip from Staareland.
Edward Terry, the English artor, who
raid a professional visit to New York two
seasons ago, Is negotiating for the English
rights to "The Music Master." looking for
ward to Its production at Terry's theater,
London.
Harry Gllfoll has been selected to suc
ceed Chsrles Jackson In "Fascinating
Flora," the musical comedy now running
at tho Casino In New York. The latter
opens tomorrow, and In addition to playing
a part will likely Introduce his specialty.
Leah Russell, the clever little Imperson
ator, who is well known In America vaude
ville theaters, has gone to 8outh Africa,
where she Is booked for a stay of several
months In the music halls of that distant
country. Miss Russell will he seen there
in her different Yiddish Impersonations.
Neither Joe Weber or Lew Fields will
discuss the proposed reunion of their old
partnership. Some say It Is significant
that neither has outlined his plans for the
coming season or will be Interviewed when
It comes down to cases on that line of In
quiry. Charles J. Ross, the comedian, and his
Wife, Mabel Fenton, celebrated the twen
tieth anniversary of their marriage and
professional association lust Sunday at
the famous Ross-Fenton farm, near As
bury Park, N. J. Friends from all over
the country were present, and had a fine
time of It.
The committee of the London County
Council, to which had been referred the
matter of a license for the play, "The Un
written Law," which Is a theatrical replica
tion of the Thaw murder case, has reported
unfavorably to the application. This means
that the Thaw story will not be permitted
upon the Engllah stage.
. Barney Gilmore Is against paying au
thor's royalties If you can help It, so he
has written his own plav, and called It
"Dublin Dan, the Irish. Detective." It Is
to be brought out this fall, with Ollmore
In the titular role. Fine for Barney.
Stair and Havlln will finance the tour
and come In for their drag also.
William C. DeMillo, the playwright, haa
been granted an Injunction in the east
against Joe Welch uslnir the play "At
Ellis Island" pending a final adjudication
of the case. The author maintains that
the play Is a colorable Imitation of his
play "The Land of the Free." The case Is
expected to come up for final hearing In
the near future. '
John Luther Long, who collaborated with
David Bolasco In the productions of "Mme.
Butterfly arid "The Darling of the Gods."
1b said to be writing a new play for Mrs.
Leslie Carter which will be produced by
her next season. It is said Mrs. Carter has
suggested the themo of the drama to Mr.
Long, but further than this little 1 known
of the new venture.
Gustav Luders, whose compositions have
made many a modern musical piece go in
this country, is reported to be lying seri
ously 111 at his temporary quarters near
Berlin, where he usually puts In his vaca
tions. The popular oomposer Is said to be
suffering from an attack of pneumonia,
but Is believed to have passed the crisis
and Is now on the road to recovery.
Frltzl Scheff Is at her home in Frank
fort, Germany, where she is slowly recov
ering from a second attack of peritonitis,
which threatened for a time to end her
life. A cable from abroad says that she Is
now recovering nicely,' snd that It Is more
than likely she will be sble to return to
America in the fall to assume her placo
on the stage, which she was compelled to
abandon lust season
It leaked out the other day that Olga Von
Hatrfeld was secretly married to Irving
Brooks, the comedian of her company
playing "The Little Duchess," when they
were in Richmond, Va., last September.
The wedding was kept secret until the end
of the tour. Those who used to admire the
bride as a child actress In fhe old Baker
fiotllt-.dayf at IIeu-k' will take notice
that time Is not standing still.
Mclntyre and Heath will take a din Into
vaudeville for a short time this summer
and play some of the big houses now be
ing opened up by Klaw and Erlangtr n
opposition to the vaudeville syndicate
They will only make this move tempo
rarily, however, as they are booked for
another tour In "The Ham Tree" next
season, and then will have a new piece
written for production by Klaw and Er
langer season after next.
Alice Lloyd, the English muslo hall
singer, who came over here to offset the
nular Vesta Victoria, like her rival,
o sail back to England this week. To
morrow evening Miss Lloyd will make lier
farewell appearance at the New York Roof
In Gotham, and be tendered a testimonial
on that occasion. She sails for London to
fill Important engagements, but will be
back here as soon us she can make ar
rangements for a return trip.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Thompson (Isabel
Irving) are at present In the south of
France, but will spend the summer in
England. Miss Irving will open her sea
son In the Clyde Fitch play. "The Girl
Who Has Everything," at Ithaca on Sep
tember S. This will be the second role
In which Miss Irving has followed Miss
Eleanor Robaon, as she toured last season
in "(susan In Search of a HusLwnd," the
comedy which Eugene Presbey made from
one of Jerome K. Jerome's stories.
The report that Richard Manstleld had
disposed of his town house on Kivermd.i
Drive, New York City, last week, gave
rise to the story that he liad decided to dis
pose of his American holdings and settle
down in England. The true and cheering
news from the other side Is that Mr. Mans
field a vacation is doing him a world of
good and that his friends are now hopeful
that he will be able to return to the stage
as early as next season. If he does It will
be upon the American stuge that he will
round out his brilliant career.
Will J. Davis' marriage to his former
secretary, Misa Helen O'llagaii, at his
farm, near South Bend, Ind., was not
such a surprise to the friends of the
widely known Chicago theatrical man as
was thought. Mr. Davis was a widower,
his first wife being Jessie Burtlett Davis,
the popular prima donna of the Boston
tans. T lie second Mrs. Davis was her hua.
bund's private secretary for many years
and waa guile as well known In the the
atrical circles of Chicago as Mr. Davis.
Even the movlng-ricture men have
caught the merger habit. I.st wek the
men controlling some of theee shows In
the east got together and lormed an alli
ance lor mutual proteitlon and Improve
ment, according to their announcements.
They say they will try to do away with
the so-called Immoral pictures and use
only clean and straightforward views.
They will also resist different orticlal ef
forts to lancel their licenses without Just
cue. If they imx Improve some of ths
moving pictures they will not have or
ganised in vain.
Harry Askln. manager of th Grand opera
house, Chicago, will have Ave companies
touring under his direction during the forth
coming season. They will Include Eira
Kendall, who will divide his season be
tween "Swell Elegant Jones' and a new
play by George Ade. which Is as yet un
named; two companies playing "Th Time,
the Place and the Girl," and one playing
"The Umpire." Another of his attractions
will be Joseph Howard and Mabel Bar
rlson In a new Howard play called "The
Flower of the iRanch."
The growth of vaudeville is still keeping
the chroniclers of the times theatrical
busy. J. Ferd Zlmmrrmann, Just back
from Europe, has caunht the habit, and by
a neat deal has secured control of all the
sketches written by George V. Hobart for
the Lambs' Gambols. These will he ar
ranged for professional use and Introduced
to vaudeville. William Courtlelgh. now In
the two-a-days with Hobnrt's "Peaches."
has scored so strongly with the effort that
It looks as If Freddie Zltnmerrnann has
tumbled Into a real good thing with its
successors.
Early In the sutumn Miss Margaret 11
llngton will make her stellar debut at the
Lyceum theater. New York, In "Dr. Wake's
Patient," a comedy by W. Geyer and
Robert Ord, which was produced first at
the Adelphl, in London, two years ago. Mtss
Iliington s recent accident, falling from her
horse In Central park, is worthy of remark,
since In her first entrance In "Doctor
Wake's Patient" she Is carried Into the
doctor's cottage, having Just fallen from
her horse. With this meeting with the
doctor the action of the play begins. The
coincident 1 curious.
B. F. Keith has set at rest rumors as to
the future of the Boston theater when It
Is opened under his management next Sep
tember. The house will be given over to a
stock company under the management of
Lindsay Morrison, who directed both the
Castle Square and Empire theaters In Bos
ton when they were devoted to stock com
panies. Mary Hall of this city, was the
leading lady of both the Morrison com-
f antes, and made her greatest successes In
hat city. She Is now considering an offer
to resume her place at the head of the
new company that Is to be permanently
established In the Boston theater.
David Warfleld Is nearlng the 'end of his
phenomenally successful tour In "The
Music Master." A few more weeks In
Boston and he will lay that piece aside
to get In a little vacation before taking up
the rehearsals of the new play David
Belasco la writing for him, and in which
he will be the stellar attraction of the
new Stuyvesunt theater, which Belasco
adds next season to his chain of New York
playhouses. Warfleld. It Is thousht, will
continue In that play until season after
next, by which time It Is possible h will
go to London, taking Beerbohm Tree's
His Majesty Theater." while the latter
comes to America to present his Shake
spearean repertoire at the Ptuyveiant
theater under David Belasco's direction.
George Marlon, who has for the lost sev
eral seusons been the general stuge director
of all the Henry W. Havoge productions. Is
returning from Europe, and hereafter will
be an Independent producer. That Is, he
will assist In putting on many of the Sav
age productions, but will also have time for
outside amusements and will devote his
time to making stage pictures for any
managers that may desire his services. In
his connection with the Savage people Mr.
Marion put on such well known productions
as "The County Chairman," "The Shngun,"
"The Prince of Pllsen," "Woodland,"
'Teggy from Paris," "The Pad Samaritan,"
"The College Widow," "Common Sense
Brackett," The Man from Now," "Mme.
Butterfly," "The Student King" and "A
Yankee Tourist."
The transfer of the Studebaker theater
tn Chicago last week to C. B. Dillingham
and Will Connor was quite a new wrinkle.
This will give Dillingham a Chicago house
for the future in which to play his own
attractions, but Just at present his best
cards are booked for presentation In the
Windy City the coming season at rival
houses. Will Connor was reported to have
retired, and be devoting himself to real es
tate deals in Long Island. He was one of
the quiet and heavily Interested financial
men with Liebler & company for many sea
sons, but has apparently severed all con
nections with that well-known theatrical
firm. Connor's last big stunt as a manager
was the Bernhardt tour and revives Inter
est In tho Studebaker theater as effectually
as he did the public attention In one Bern
hardt. All speculation as to the future of
that house la surrendered. It's a cinch.
John Drew's next play Is to be "His
Wife," a comedy now running at the Hay
market theater, London, and which Is
still on view at the Theater Gvmnase,
Paris, where It was producod originally
last October under the title "Jogette, Ma
Femme." Mr. Drew will make his first
appearance In the comedy at the Empire
theater, New York, 1n September. The
play Is In four nets and the part to be as
sumed by Mr. Drew is that of a guardian
of n sympathetic young girl. In whose be
half he gets Into all kinds of humorous
nnd serious complications. He Is endeav
oring all the while to find for her a man
whom she can love, which mail she finds
at the end of the play In the guardian
himself. This brief outline erf the plot
suggests "De Lanoey," the Augustus
Thomas comedy. In whfch Drew waa seen
the season before last. It Is to be hoped
that the new piece will prove more worthy
of the actor's abilities.
A new three-act comedy by Louis N.
Parker, entitled "Mr. George," appears to
have made a decided hit at the Vaudeville
Theater. London. Quaint, dainty and
fresh are among the epithets bestowed
upon it. The "Mr. 'George" Is a pretty
girl who falls heir to a large business
upon the death of her father In London
and sets out for Boston to look after her
American Interests. There she Is received
by her Junior partner, who soon becomes
her lover, and, later on, after the usual
misunderstandings, her husband. The cri
sis In the love affair is brought about by
the American revolution. Miss Blllie
Burke Is said to play the heroine with
charm and spirit, and Charles Hawtrey
portrays a part altogether out of his usual
line with a success hardly to be expected.
James K. Hackett has secured the Ameri
can rights to this comedy and will use it
next season. He will open in "John
Glade's Honor," by Alfred Sutro, and the
Parker play will follow.
Reflections of at Bachelor.
A man never makes two mistake In
marrving unless he is a .widower.
Bills are very useful things to teach you
how easy It Is never to have any money
left.
You can tell when a girl Is Interested in
a man by the way she pretends to him
tnat otner men are interested in ner.
You can never make a man believe he Is
comfortable unless he Is wearing something
that makes his wife ashamed of him for
It. New York -Press.
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