Show STAGE CHowCHOW I Mary Mannerlngs success in tho roles of Camille and Pauline has led her to abandon comedy work nnd take up the more serious roles 4n the drama Clyde Fitch Is at work on a new play of emotion for the actress a e Managers of two theaters In Provi dence E L have adopted the I unique arrangement of selling tickets to anv person on sixty days credit It is I uta led the plan Is working well The eruption of Mount Pelee Mar tinique and iho destruction of Saint Pierre are to be the subject of a spec tacular production written by Fred erick Thompson V Knute Erlckson the son of Park keeper Erlckson of this city has signed for a live years starring tour In Swed ish dialect plays beginning next sea son with The Man from Sweden He will he starred under the management manage-ment of Broadhurst 1C Curne The management of the new play Corlanlon are booking girls for the ballet under two year contracts They ale paying U a week 4 r The Salt Lake Opera company has cancelled Its booking at the Grand I for Elks Convention week Y Kathryn Kidder presented Dumass Francillon at the Columbia theaur the past week I The adaptation from the French was made by L Dupont Syl of San Francisco > Y The WilburKirwln Opera company is playing a long engagement In Kansas Kan-sas City Forrest Huff directs the pro ductions Word comes from London that Melba the famous singer Is to be married to Earl Lai mare an Englishman A of title James Nelll will take his company for weeks tour through the Yosemite valley at the close of the present season sea-son Mascagnl Is working on a new opera of which Marie Antlonette IB to be the heroine She will flrsl be seen at the court of Austria and later at France The opera will consist 01 several short scene Mrs Patrick Campbell has completed her American tour and returned to England May on 21st Her visit was a big success both from a financial and artistic standpoint She will return to America In September and tour under the management of Charles Frohman Maude Adams is to receive a share of 21000 appropriated by Congress to reimburse the estate of William KIs kaddcn for damage to property during the Civil war George Becks who has been on the tour through Australia South Africa and Europe for the past three years with the Nance ONoIl company has re turned I to New York Walter Edwards appeared at the Glranj Avenue theater Philadelphia week before last with tho Durban Shcekr Stock companyIn Vlrglnlun and David Gnrrlck Mr Edwards was the leading man of the company Inst season |