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Show In the role of CouiUn Kate Mies Barrymore Bar-rymore mieceded In convincing many J that sho can simulate a variety of emotions emo-tions that require an art of high devel-! devel-! opment and her success In the play tin-aided tin-aided by the usual theatrical surround-In surround-In pb of bis cant, hoaU of super and t firs of scenery 43 r.uch that after the allotted time for th original run In New York wu over, four other engagement followed until th time for her appear-' appear-' nee In London called her away.' The j Htory of the play hi a follows: Amy ' Spencer, a type of th cojorlese marriageable mar-riageable maid of the ISnaium upper middle das. In engaged to marry Heath Desmond, a clever, happy nature! joung Irish artist, but deep In her heart she prefers a rather dense, goody goody oung curate. She and Heath naturally natural-ly have a falling out and thing are rather dull, when Cousin Kate arrive 1 on the scene full of an adventure. She ha met a charming young man on the train aud hat ahared her lunch with him. Never saw him before, never ex-Pt ex-Pt to again. On hearing of Amy's ntraugement. she promise to brlnjr the happy art Jut back to her. He la too good to lose. In the second act Kate meet her charming young- man again, he Intruding In-truding on her In a lonely house ahe la airing. The love at first eight deepens rapidly and mutual love la declared, w hen Amy appears and Kate learns that she la In love with Amy's fiance. In the third act of course, the situation Is re-llr-ved. Amy acknowledges that she prefer pre-fer the curate to the artist and all end a happily. Judging from the notably email cant, there are only seven all told In the i 'Jiuim-ii , .miw nrr inorr iiiubl iw 11 great deal In evidence during the piny. She and Bruco McRae have the entire Mcond act to themselves until toward Itr. end, when Ml us Agnew, as Amy. Interrupt In-terrupt their love .making. Grant Stew-Art Stew-Art la the cum to find others are Fanny Addison Pitt, Anita Rothe and Augus-tln Augus-tln D. Wilkes. The play will be presented pre-sented here on August 15 and 16. i Charles Frohman says that "Mite ' Maude Adams will begin hor season In October, making a brief tour outside New York and then come to the Empire theater. Be Idea The Little Minister Mlw Adams will havo an entirely new ' and original four-act play written for her by Israel Zangwlll, called 'Jenny.' 1 have al.o secured for MUw Adams a 60-mlnute 60-mlnute character play calltd 'Op o Me ; Thumb.' " Frnnk Hewctt, the magician, discovered discov-ered a town In the West a few weoka ngo In which no traveling company had eor appeared, although there Is a thenar the-nar there In which "home talent" supplied sup-plied the entertainment up to the time Mr. Howott and his company nrrlvod. Tho place Is called Vernal. Utah, and the population of th town and tho valley val-ley adjoining Is 15.000. Mr. Hewott gave , eight performances nnd took In J2100. Springfield Republican. I ... Rehoftranl of "Rallies, the Amateur Cracksman." which will be here In September, Sep-tember, have been oalled at th Savoy theater for August 16. Mr. Kyrlo Belli Bel-li w Is expectod to arrive In New York about August 16, probably on the Kron-prlnz Kron-prlnz Wllhelm. Jefforson Do Angells will be Men next pason In a new comic opera entitled "Fantnmi." The novel feature of this new musical offering will be that It will prownt a blending of the Oriental with 1 the Occidental. It la the Intention to 1 make this one of the most pretentious : productions ever known to the stag so far ns ensemble and scenery nre concerned. Hj Dlancho YalHt, who has a rummer home a Great Neck, 1. I., ha? baenme 1 a ictlm of the nw autoboat craze. She han lnvltol bldn from various bulldent Avlth the object of competing with the 1 fnMeK boats owned by the millionaire colony. At the fashlonabln seaside rt-frta rt-frta Mlsa Walsh has nuke a. reputation as a lonp dlrtanc pwlmmer. and few of I her sex can beat Iter (Ither for endu-rnnco endu-rnnco or speed. One of her ambltlonw In to swim acroeif Long Islaud shorn to Glen Island, on the New York ahore, , nnd sho doclares she will m?ke tho at-trmpt at-trmpt this summer. BBBBBB . The cast of the musical extra.varanza. "The Runawara." which will be at the Fait Lnke Theater this ssmuo. con In I as moit all of the originals, prominent among whom are Arthur Dunn. Clar-encc Clar-encc Harvey. Charles Dox. Jack Hen-dorran. Hen-dorran. "William lleehan. Krtnlnte ICarlc, Heln Lord. Blanche Wayn. SUters AVollac and Ma York. John Drew will have a. strong sup-IorUng sup-IorUng comoany In "The Duke of Kllll-crankle." Kllll-crankle." th nw play by Robert Xar-shall, Xar-shall, with which h opens tha Ktnplr theater. New York, In September. It will Include Margaret Date. Ferdinand (JottscoAlk. Fanny Iiroogh and Kate Lster. BSSSBI ... Mabel lilt will reinaln la the ca-et of , , the "Vontttan Ho:nancrM next year en tour. Her work in the character of Ke rl.?a was a combination, of eiferrwotni humor and whlrtwiod daactne. and her "goblin" tons; with Joseph Mlron made ( c. great bit m New York. BSSSSsI 1 ' It was not believed by their friends ' in DoMon that Henry Clay Banaabe , nnd H. McDonald, the only "ortrf. i i nal members" of the Jioatonlan allll , j with tU company, a ere dnaacialty af- 1 fected by the reverse of the company, i ( It won underar.od that whan the stock f , company wkm orrli-l J,y louden C bssH 'lJl Curloton and ih r Ha.u( nrd itc- 1 Donald rtrt.n-i ki .-f k f i th )(' 14 rlht to u th nan.c vl.i. h tt.'- ai;i j their aiuelater had mad famous, and that they fo protected a not to be responsible for the obligation of the new company. If report does not err, both Bnrnabe and McDonald have Independent In-dependent means, acquired In the years In which the DoetoniariM w the'motH successful light opera company In tho country. v Both of thes men had nry-noutlced nry-noutlced the Intention of retiring. . Adele Ritchie Is suffering from appendicitis. appen-dicitis. Mlsw Ritchie's case in very unusual. un-usual. Dr. null of New York, her surgeon, sur-geon, say thai he knows of orvJr on other simitar easa. that of Mlsa Besahf Clayton. Mis Rttchie't) diseaH came from dancing. She Is one of the moK active and energetic dancers on the stage. Dr. Bull says that this either aggravated ag-gravated her case, or was the original cause of the disease. Miss Bessie Clayton Clay-ton had appendicitis from th same cause. Fnlllet Paget, who wan chosen by Joseph Jo-seph Jefferson as the natural Kuccefcsor of the late Mrs. John Drew as Mrs. Malaprop Jn "The Rivals" has been and will continue- to be a leading member of Joseph. Jr.. and William W. Jefferson's support in the company that will be wen here during the coming saoit. "Sir Anthony Abeolute" will be played by Verner Clargee. another member of the elder Jefferson's companj'. "Th Darling of the Gods." the B-lasco-Long Japanese play, with its star. Blanche Bates1, opened its seajon last Sunday night at the Imperial, the St. Louit theater which David Belasco has leased for th period of the fair. ,MIi Bates spent her vacation in California. E. S. Wlllard will open the new King's theater In Glasgow in September. "The Cardinal" continue to hold the chief place In his repertory. ... E. H. Sothorn tho othor evening told of a time- when he ami the late- Joseph Ha worth wore with John McCullough. "Ingomar" was being presented) in a Western city and the two stars-to-be were cast for barbarian parts, their costumes cos-tumes composed of wklna of wild beasts. These had lost considerable of their hirsute covering through the inroed of the buy moth and the young men decided de-cided to replenish that pnrt of their wardrobe, so bought Home fine-looking skins at the stock yards. As they were not sufliclently cured, they "smelt to heaven" and, when Sothern and Ha-worth Ha-worth appeared on the ertngo McCullough McCul-lough gave the usual lines: HV HID JUUI illlU ILIVIVCU LUC ufnial answer: "We are the Alemnnnl." At the answer of the "barbarjana"' McCullough sniffed the air for a cecond, then covering hl nose with his hand, remarked? "You look it, and ye godsl you also smell It." Needlens to say the j'oung men resumed re-sumed their old moth-eaten costumes at tho next performnnco. . . Sir Henry Irving, after his farewell tour of England, will pay a farewell visit to America at the end of 1M6, under un-der the amTlcot of Charles Frohman. It will extend for twenty weeks", beginning begin-ning In San FrRncipco in September, 1506, and finishing In New York. . . Ida Conquoat Iff to originate the lcad-Inp. lcad-Inp. role In a new comedy under tho management of Rich & Harrl6. . Delia Fox Is to return to the stage, and will be peon at tho Princess thca-.ter. thca-.ter. New York, next September In a musical mu-sical comedy. "The West Point Cndet," an 22ngllph adaptation of a Frcnoh play. Lillian Russell will not be the prima donna of the company that will support Jefferson Do Angells when he appears In the musical comedy, "Fantana," as was rumorod. Adele Ritchie haa been engaged for the principal woman's part. When Frltzl Scheff appears this fall In "The Two Roses," her vivacious young stage companion will be Alta Yolo, who formerly sang with Duss nnd his orchestra or-chestra and with Soufa and hl band, and who was last season prima donna contralto of "When Johnny Comes Marching Homo." Besides the "Kreutxer Sonata." Blanche Walsh will produce next season Jean Rlchepln's "Prince Chnrmlng" (originally (or-iginally written for Sarah Bernhardt) and a modern play on which Clyde Fitch is at work. Billy Van, a comedian with Haver-ly"s Haver-ly"s minstrels, and Walter A. Wolfe, the Interlocutor, were subjected to a ivcr call-down by tho audience at the BIJou theater In Plttrburg recently. The reprimand rep-rimand was caused hy tho men Joking about tho Bible. They told stories of Daniel In tho llony den nr.d of Jonah. making Jests of thorn. Finally they told a story of the loaves nnd fishes, when an old man In the balcony arose and said: "Boys, you had better cut that out." Shouts came from all over the house to "cut' It out." Manager Nank-orvllU Nank-orvllU Hald that the storlo would be eliminated. Miss Ada Rehan becomes a member of the Shubert forces thh season and after a run in New York will be nont on tour In a repertoire of the classics. Including "Th School for Scandal" and "The Country Girl." Amelia Bingham orrtrui her coming traason on September S. Her tour will Include th SouLn and Middle Wst. Sh will proDt hr New York rucccsw. Th Climbers," "A Modern Magdalen." Th Frisky Mr. Johnson," Clyde Fltch'i' clever comedy, "Olymp." and The Vital Isoue," Mis Bingham's tour is so arranged that she will return to New York Immediately before the holidays. hol-idays. A. M. Palmer's all-Kax catt revival of "Th Two Orphan," which created much Interest at th New Amsterdam theater In New York last spring, w 111 begin be-gin Its tour at the Colonial theater In Boston early In September. An extended extend-ed rout. Including th principal rltlec. has been booked for It. Grace Gorg t and Sarah Truax will play th titl , rotes. Louts and Unrltla. Jam O'Neill will play th Chvalr; Lou In James, Jacques; J. EL Dodson. Plerr; Clara Morrtf. Slater Genevieve; Kllta Praetor. OtR aad IMJon Frnaodz. Ma-rtamm. Ma-rtamm. Other members of the oat ar Jameson I- Ftatvey. WniUm Beach. ThotMsvs Maijrhan. lUwkl Howard. Harrison Har-rison Fowler, IMWln CSaMwtk, Lmcj Millken, Marie Stuart aad Justin Out-ting. Out-ting. May Irwin Is to return to the Kage in October under the management of Henry Hen-ry B. Sir. It Is said that ahe will have a play by George Broadhurat. Mis Irwin Ir-win may also pixy eimt of her former mice ease. . Th 100th performance of "Woodland." the Plxley and Luders fantasy of the fores now running In Boston, was celebrated cel-ebrated July . Live canary birds in cajcaa were given to th women In the nudienc for souvenirs. This is said to be the fltvt Instance on record where live birds have been used for this pur-poe. pur-poe. Sarah Bernhardt ha had what Is probably th greatest experience of all tragedienne in the simulation of suicide. sui-cide. Her deaths by aelf-admlnlstered poison, total up roughly to 10.000; she has Jumped Into the scenic artist' Seine ovw 7000 times; sh ha snt over 6000 bullets Into her head from a revolver, and nearly the an me- number of daggers has the great actree. to the- inexpressible inexpressi-ble sorrow of lntemperatoly sympathetic spectators-, plunged deep down Into the chiffon at th sid of her bodice. At a reception on night a lady asked Mme. Barnhardt If he really kept a coffin at her hous in Paris. "Certainly." answered an-swered the actress with a smile, "and so would you If you were the morgue's roost constant customer." . A statement waa printed lart week in New York that Maurice Barrymore was at the point of death. This caused a delegation of hi friends from the Lambs' club to visit th sanatorium where ho is an inmate, with the rasult that Mr. Barrymore waa found to b In neither a better nor worse condition than he ha been for th last four months. The actor Is at times quite rational, and he seems to be well posted on theatrical events. ... George R. Caine. the father of Georgia Calne, the prima donna of 'The Shotgun." Shot-gun." the George Ade-Gutv Luders comic opera, will play tho role of Riley Cleaver In the Western County Chairman Chair-man company this ason. ' Some person hissed after the first performance per-formance In Berlin of a new operetta entitled "Der Herr Professor." but they ceased instantly when the author waa brought on the stage. A glance showed that he was blind. His name 1 Bela Von U1J. Joieph Jefferson will begin his next season In the Colonial theater In Boston Bos-ton October 17. and will make a six weeks' tour, closing In Kansas City on November 26. He will resume for a spring tour of six weeks on April 16, 1006. In Jacksonville. Fin., and finishes at Providence, R. I., on May 13. Miss Eva Tanguay In the new musical musi-cal comedy entitled "The Sambo Girl," by Harry B. Smith, and muelc by Gus-tave Gus-tave Kerker. will open her starring: season sea-son wlth-her own company of comedians and choru September 6. A new production produc-tion of scenery and costumes will be carried In which she can show her noting not-ing ability as well as dancing. . The release from prison of Mrs. Mny-brlck Mny-brlck recalls a story told on the authority author-ity of E. S. Wlllard, the English actor. According to the mory there was a sensational sen-sational play In rehearwil at one of the London theaters early In the S0p. The plot of the play was In all essentials tho plot of the Maybrick tragedy. Before putting It In the bill a private matinee was given to which critics, actors and literary folk were Invited. In tho result re-sult the play wan condemned and never produced, but among the audience at the matinee, the story goes, wero Mrs. May-brick May-brick and the man whose name was mentioned In the ca. If the story be true It furnishes one of the mot curious coincidences In the history of crime since the loading case of Hamlet vs. the King of Denmark. The Lulu Glaser company, prcrentlng '.'A Madcap Princess." will Include William Wil-liam Pruette. Bertram Wallls. Donald MacLaren. Arthur Barry, Frank Relch-er. Relch-er. Reginald Barlow. Mary Conwell and Gwendolyn Valentine. The opening will take place In Rochester on Thursday. September 1, and the following Monday the attraction will go to New York for a run. |