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Show 1 Rc. i ATRACTION THIS WEEK. GRAND THEATER The Blttner company com-pany In a new play hv Henry Farh-ney, Farh-ney, drat half of Week, nd 'The Count of Mont Chrlsto." Inst half. The Blttner company v. Ill open Its third Week at the Grand theater With ft now play hy Barry Farhney. the leading man of the company. The scene of the first two act. is laid In Colorado, and of the last two In Mexico. The story deals with the abduction of a young Rtrl by her half brother that ho may pain her signature to a deed on the day h becomes f age. In a stage hold-up the father of the girl JP wounded ani Is th r (-re Incapacitated from following the abductor A young New Yorker, who i enjoying a hunting trip in Colorado, volunteers to continue the cha;e arid succeeds In restoring the voung infiy to her father The takliiK off Of the villain Is done in a new and original manner Another novel Idea Is thai the audience does not know until nearly the close of the play which girl the h. ro Is In love with. The blowing up of the cabin contalnlnc the hero and heroine in the second act Is quite a thriller. This plav will ie presented on Mon-dav Mon-dav Tuesday Wednesday and Wednesday Wednes-day matinee, and to the person sending H "to Mr Blttner the most suitable name for the play will he given three lower boxes containing fifteen seats. For the last half of the week "The Count of Monte i Islo" will he presented The Blttner company Is now llrnily established es-tablished at the Grand and Is receiving excellent patronns The Saltalr theater, for which Victory Bnteman and a stock company have been engaged for the summer, will be opened nxt Saturday mcht. The play will be 'Sweethearts. u 0 , Mormon girls have made an enviable reputation on the stage ever since President Presi-dent Brlgham Young erected a playhouse play-house in Salt l-ake ritv for the development develop-ment of the histrionic talent of his people peo-ple Few who attend 11" urpheum during dur-ing the F.llefnrd -i-ason have known that the leadlnc lad. Miss Au'la Due 1- a Mormon girl but she halls from Be ft Lake City, and In face and figure she is tvplcal of the budding beauty of I tab s fair women. Mormon girls penerally. are tl, ! j.retly. and Miss Due Is no exception. Attendants at the little Mormon Mor-mon church on Punchbowl street In Honolulu Hon-olulu were not 8 little interested a couple of Sunday's ago to notice the Orpheum S leading ladv In the congregation, but thee were more interested later when thev learn- d that sir- was a Mormon girl and" had always, until quite r ntly. attended at-tended the si-rvlecs In the great lal i -nacle at Salt Lake. -Honolulu Adv. i ll- r. Chauhcey Oleott Is to have a play Which will haV Edmund Burke as the central tlgure Practical Jokers often have to " pay the fiddler." Not long aK" a young man who Is a clerk in A '- nk heard that his brother was going '-o take a certain Kin to a show ..i, a . rlatn nlpht. lust to have som.- fun with the girl be asked a friend tO -ill h UP and Invite h I W ga the show on the same night. 'She's kind o" stuck on my brother and she won't want to tell you he's going to take hot." said the clerk. 'I he friend thought it would lie fine to "Jolly" the gin. so he - ailed her up and ask.c'l her to go to the show "Why. yea; I'd like m go very much was the reply she gave him Investigation proved that the bank clerks troth-r had tried tO ask the girl to accompany him to the theater but had failed to gel her on the phone. The clerk's friend took the girl to the show, but he made the practical joker buy the. tickets. Kansas City Times. Jefferson De AngellS, who has been ill and out of the cast of "Fantana" at the Lyric theater, has resumed his role. V However certain De Wolf Hopper feels of his new opera 1- i si:i,' the work of Reginald D Kovcn and Frederick Han-ken, Han-ken, which in li to iffei hi September, it can but be with considerable regret that he abandons Wang" The latter piece is more than fourteen .,,- I. having i . ' i its premier on Maj i 1891, in the Broadwav theater. New Vork. and when 3dr. Hopper concludes his present season ho will have been seen nearly 3000 times In the role ,,( the regent ci Siam , Patti is to make anothi r attempt to sell Craig-y-Noa, her beautiful Welsh palace The announcement Is made that the place-Is place-Is to be sold "regardless of cost or associations asso-ciations " The first attempt to sell Cralg-y-Nos In 1901 proved a failure. One gentleman gen-tleman presented a bid of $250 X, but Withdrew It. explaining that the auctioneer's auction-eer's eloquence hail carried him away Cralg-y-Nds la magnificently situated in the vale of Tawe, one of the most picturesque pictur-esque parts of Wales it contains a theater, the-ater, an electrically heated conservatory and two billiard rooms. In one uf which is a splendid orchestrion in his recent engagement at New Haven Richard Mansfield appeared before the footlights, between the acts, and denounced de-nounced the management In characterls-tl characterls-tl style tor the poor lighting effects In the theater. All Sorts Of Qlieer finds nre made by the scrubwoman at Bammerstein's Victoria Vic-toria theater, says the New York T( It -gram. Not long since n woman's light-Colored light-Colored evening slipper was picked up after af-ter the performance at night. Numbers of opera-glass i v-' "' opera bags, fans and various small belongings of feminine apparel ap-parel aro left behind to be picked aj by Ihe clciiiilng women and brought to the box office, where ihey remain until called f'.r. A few nights ago B discovery some-wn some-wn it out of the usual was made in this lion, when W. H. Jones, In charge of the box office, had his attention called to a placard about the size of a postal card liich waa tacked to a p"st directly In front of one uf the orchestra chairs It read as follows "To Oscar Hammer-stein Hammer-stein I hear that you have an excellent show here this week. I occupied this se.it at the performance tonight and regret thai I e-nnot give any opinion a to the merits of the entertainment, because l was not able to see anv of It Yours trulv, "P. L. W I I.LI A MS " The ShuberlR promise a sensation in ' The Jury of Pate," their new play by C M S. McLellan, the author of "Leah Kleuehna " By way of prologue, a man )s shown his deathbed heavy with sin, nnd declaring that If be could hut live ).' life again, he would avoid the mls-tnkes mls-tnkes and sin and come from the struggle a redeemed man. The Angei of Fate appears ap-pears and allows him to begin life again. The rest of the play is devoted to this second career His weakness and tho Influence In-fluence of heredity and environment are such that he passe? through the same in-cldents in-cldents a second time with tho enmo results, re-sults, except In this particular: During his first life he Injured a woman and gains an ascendency over her, In the second sec-ond life the woman conquers him and makes his punishment more severe than he originally suffered The. "possibility" of Sir Henry living's coming 10 us for his farewell next sen-son sen-son naturallj brings to mind the actress whose name Is so beautifully and closely linked In the memory of the American public with his own Miss Terry D understood that ehe was to make a tour in this country next winter, but word came last week from London that this Is noi to be She has scored so pronounced B sue. . m at the Duke of York's theater with the plav Barrio wrote for her, Alice Blt-by-tbe-Flre," that she win continue there In It until the close of the London "season." Next fall she Will rc-esumo rc-esumo the engagement, and. It Is believed, will he able to continue It until December, Decem-ber, when the Barrle pantomime, "Peter Tan ' will ho revived for the holidays Miss Terry then will be transferred to another theater or will be taken for a tour of the principal cities In the British Isles. The countless American admirers of the charming comedienne will therefore there-fore have no opportunity to sec her in their own country until season aftet next. Chicago Tribune s And now we are to have another female Hamlet. Not to be outdone in the presentation of novelties by George Fawcctt and his stars, and emulating the past endeavors Of Charlotte Cushman, Bernhardt and Um Bertha Rallch, Miss Adelaide Keim will essay the trying characterization of Bhakespeare'fl melancholy Dane. Miss Celm'S ambitious bid Will mark the beginning be-ginning of the third week of her. so far, successful summer season In the Harlem opera-house. Miss KelnVe appearance tomorrow night will not be her llrst In the part She played It for the first time In Baltimore last season and was lauded for hi r Intelligence, conception and splendid splen-did reading of the role it is not a spirit Of sensationalism that prompts her to repiat the performance now. She had had splendid training In Shakespeare, nnd almost In the very beginning of her career ca-reer gave splendid evidence of It by her tine performance of Ophelia to E. H. Bothern'a Hamlet. Women are accepted hv the public In other male roles, and she feels there is nothing In Hamlet s char-ftctt char-ftctt r thai should not be within the grasp 1 of a woman "f Intelligence and artistic Intentions Hamlet is target) temperamental tempera-mental and has less of the masculine than most of the male roles with which women have been associated In the j dramn. Miss Keim will play the Edwin Booth version. M Julia Dean will be the leading woman of the Bradford-Hunter Stock company at Hartford this summer Miss fn-an Is resting rest-ing at Seabrlght before beginning rehearsals. re-hearsals. e a Joseph Sheehan. who was with the Savage Sav-age Oram) Opera company when it appeared ap-peared here, Is now achieving success In vaudeville The tour of Frederick Warde and Kath- er n KlddT has c-me to a close, and they will not appear together next season. Moreover these stars now pass from tho management of Wagenbals & Kemper. Mr. Warde may never appear mi the regular regu-lar stage again, Miss Kidder's plans are somewhat Indefinite. She is endeavoring to find a suitable play, and if she is successful suc-cessful she hopes to renew her acQualnt-. acQualnt-. i . "e w ith New York theater-goers next sea son "Leah Kleschna" is plnvmg to packed lions-.- at the N'ew theater, London, while "The Dictator" Is snld tO be the biggest American success In London since "The Belle Of New York." A company will be s. in out Immediately to play the Davie , omeil In the provinces, while no less than three Will present 1 Leah Kleschna' to pi a v-goi rs "'it 3ld 1 .ondon ' Milnne Is to hae a musical comedy written for her which is to be produced by Klnw & Erlanger next fall. A certain English actor, whose debts had made him an object of Inters! to ari-ous ari-ous bailiffs, met a friend one dav who tsked him If he could spare ten shillings tov I'-d a fund with which to bury a bailiff who had Just died. "By all means." replied the actor, "here's twenty shillings bury two " lla riser's Weekly. Effle Bllsler (Mrs F'ank Weston) will M:.r In a revival of Hazel Klrke' under the management of Jules Murray. Miss Ellsler was the original Hazel Klrke and i d the part throughout tho country duting the first run of the play. J. din Drew has received the manuscript Of his next season's play from Augustus Thomas, The title orlglnallj i hosen was Bunch of Violets, ' but this was found to have been used before, and a new name is still to he selected Mr. Drew's role will be himself a club fellow, cross country coun-try rldt r champion of the goir links and pal of Tom Clark and Freddy Gebhard Rehearsals are called for August - In New York, and these will be under the supervision super-vision of Thomas Discouraged bj the adverse criticism that has greeted her reappeamce on the Btagc, following her recent trial for the murder of JCaesar" Young, Nan Patterson Patter-son severed her connection at Altoona. I'., . with the burlesque company with which she lias been traveling and left for her home in Washington Mlsi Patterson was greeted b a small house here last night, and the few women present loft early, notwithstanding that much that was objectionable In the show was expurgated ex-purgated by the management of the local playhouse. Miss Patterson, with broken Voice and tears lu her ees. Just before she boarded a train, said "When I went on the stage I adopted the only means left me to enrn a livelihood, and I am awfully aw-fully sorry the people have so severely condemned me. 1 wanted to do right, and Could see no harm in going on the Stage, whli h is my profession. I owe thousands Ol dollars, and don't know how In the world I am ever going to pay It in any other way I believe much of the criticism criti-cism was due to the company Tlth which I was traveling. I have decided to leave the stage, for a time, at least," " The Butterfly of Fashion " bj Gustav Kerker and C. M. 8. McLeilan; "Seeing New York." by Harrj B Smith, and a new musical comcdv by George M Cohan win be produced by Klaw ec Erlanger during the summer A friend of the late Klrke La s-.h. He is authority for the statement that the pla w right and manager was responsible, for the invention of the phrase, "the greatest ever " According t - rhe storj La Shelle was sitting one night in a restaurant restau-rant here In Chicago enjoying a mug of his favorite ale. " I tell yon." he sold to his companions, this ale s greatest ever." "Greatest ever," rera -tor ,, ,, ,f them, "what do you mean.' ' ' Just what I say," was La Shelle's reply, ' Ihe greatest ever." The phrase found Its way Into the newspapers and later was used In a play. Ah, here comes the chorus. Clothes are scant and porus. Prettj girls. Lots of curls. The mushv songs may bore us, 'the comedian may floor U9. But not the Mays and Doras In the lnde 'orus Chorus. Princeton Tiger. E S Willard will open his season In Montreal on November 2, appearing In 'The Fool s Re eng. Henry Guy Carleton. the playwright, who was stricken with paralysis some weeks ago, is reported greatly Improved and determined to complete n play which he was writing for Frohman. It Is said that Mrs LanRtry nas agreed to play a season of at least twelve weeks In vaudeville In America, appearing In New York early In the fall Blanche Walsh's plans have practically been completed for next season's lout 8he will he seen In a repertoire. Including ' Resurrer t i. in ' "Fedora. " "A Woman In the Case," "Cleopatra" and several rew plays, which she will play In New York. Philadelphia Boston Chicago and Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, gradually working her way toward the coitst. sailing from Bus Francisco about May i. for Australia, where she will play the repertoire for a year. May Irwin Is writing a book, from the advance sheets of which these epigrams aro taken A champagne appetlt and beer Income Is all right If ou have a big enough beer trade. When s man marries a woman he takes her for better or worse, Mine took me for worse, and i made good. An accommodation liar soon travels like a lightning express While rnnnlnr an automobile always keep your eves on the road and the rest of your face In the wagon i know enough aboutn Automobile Automo-bile not to buy one. Wh have nothing noth-ing to say. say It and re'lee... I. tOO, have loved, "lid can say with pride, The love I f. It in youth has not vet died: Have gone through life and now. a strange survival Still love myself, and never had a rival Arriving from Europe. I.ec Shubert was so much prostrated by the death of Sam Shubert, his brother and business partner, that he was unlit fnr business, He indicated, indi-cated, however, that th enterprises of the firm would continue without alteration. Shubert's presence revived the report that he nnd David Kolasoo were to form a business combination and maintain a chain of theaters In onp tsltion to the theatrical the-atrical syndicate Tlie significant point In tt.ese reports Is that no one will deny them. it is said that Mi - lames Brown Potter, on account of the failures of several very expensive prodnctlOHS put on by I e: In London this season, is reported to be again seriously considering tnc very liberal lib-eral offer made h-T by Vmerlcan managers man-agers for a tour in vaudeville. "We used to be very much afraid of Gc-.irgo Adc at rehearsals. " said Frances King of the "Co intj 1 h ilrman" company, "Not that he wns ever disagreeable but he was so distant and iule'. He never took the least notice of the actors 1 used to sav to the other girls that It was Just as well, because I d prohahh say something some-thing verv clever nnd we'd never know how to answer him "One da though. I w.im sitting on i costume basket, when Mr. Adc came and sal down beside m I was frightened ncarl to death lb didn't open his mouth for maybe a minute, Then ho turned and said: ' "Which would you rather be a literary liter-ary man or a burglar?' "I gave him the llrst thin that came Into In-to mv head: " 'What's the difference?" said I " |
