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Show I . Wkat the Theatrical Season of 1906-0? Will Bring B f r . '" 1 .--A By George Henry Payne. 1 vWiiJi3 I NEW Y0RK Sept- Onojby ono they B CflK' liave folrte(1. ,1,elr tents, group by group B M&i ijilpo ' they are gathering at tho ferry houBos iMsBW aml railway stations, and. over tho strip B fV!? of Broadway that Is called the Riolto B VM ll,aL Will to Light thoroughfare that for B a month they have niado populous there B '-'iSx&t Bottloa an unwonted calm. B Jii'VvplPa Twelve thousand Htrong. theso hopeful B &V ' 'vasw ' representatives of tho histrionic art are. " prepared to fall upon the country West, 2 'Vy. South nud North. All during tho hot $ti ' ' " ' month of August they havo workod un- B jS"2!&- ccaslngly, learning new steps. Inventing B d&l?S&?fcE3!J m'w trloUB, Btudylng new and old roloo, B ICSES' anJ today, tho official opening, ono might B Sip:V- rf Ba'- of 1,10 theatrical season of 1906-07, '(AAG tuov t forward prepared to reap their B F5S reward. B Swt?5 130 Bentlo with them, therefore, all ye i iS4i,?-;.v,'fSS; who live on the highways and bywayH B W "x-" of .the theatrical country; give them at H'-a' deis: least applauso for their poor but honest ' " f4. : ' " efforts, even Jf you glvo them not that '.f. i which they appreciate evon more. "?-fC-' Ye critics, who niarktho passngo from ' j-'Vrlr Ellst to "West, from North to South, try B ,V ' 10 1,0 generous and understanding of all B h,v' '-. . the preparation and inspiration that lies B i'-V t-YHi hack of Vlolot. Sassafras when she 3SiSSffiJK4 savs. "My lord, tho carrlago waits," and B VM Pn83 not filehtlngly over the way Clar- I ?' t'v, &3gwj enco Grlfklns declaims, "Tho man who - HaSi would lay his hand on a woman except ' -r- 'wvMsffl In tho way of kindness," etc. ' rsm ' i '-'"VStf. TY Only an approximation can bo made H' of tho number of thoatrlcnl VonturoB that , . ' " E are starting out In this month of Sep-H Sep-H ' tember with tho hopo of furnishing a4'55& amusement to the eighty millions of tho ' country. Those on record form a com- - f&Mt pnrntlvely small percontago of thORo that ve?3 fi unrecorded, playing one night stands H' yeu' n nnd year out. New York with Uffi5a its slxty-nvo theaters In two boroughs HL ! Manhnttan nnd the Bronx roprosents ' uuL vorJ' lltUo Prtlon o what lfi B,nB o 1,1 1,10 theatrical world, although It H. assumes ah importance that theatrical Hj wsfe People of tho country, rather than the . theatergoers of the country, aro inclined JvV.'dSl' 10 indorse. . .. ' iSnfipf fk m "Ono reason why' Now York Is a groat iSE: theatrical town," said a Southern vlBltor -Y,i W' recently, "la duo to the fact that there H&t'& l&e. is nothing to do in Now York but go to l k4s!k:''' the theater or go crazy," and only 10 per H1 RjSy (WW eont of tho population go to the theater. H' t - Theatrical mauagors throughout the ' I -tf country watching New York take more passasBj535 stock In the verdicts that are passed here L?J&i!& 011 theatrical productions than do tho rl'w pcoplo to whoso tastes they cater. That Ww&&$M'& fetish a long run In New York City , rasSaSSffiM Is lossonlng in potontlallty for people H; VrWi throughout tho country nnd New York 1 is beginning to be blamed for the con- i coctionsof managerial enterprlBo that ' , S. '"r tho rostfof tho country has no tnBto for.- 'Hjfr Kji."- Producers of plays who havo asked for H' 1 f-'f v."'' n New York verdict and got it not ex- l 1 actly in the terms that hey wnntod f point with some gratification to tho fact , ' ' k i"V.C,.vj''. that many a good play thnt tho Now u I fv 'i "... ' Yorker turns away .from can go Into 1 -(Vnii liu'jjilji other cities whoro there ,1s less pretense at theatrical expertnoss and more gen- . Gi?,;j,1'Hi!r' ulllc culture and bo well rocelved, tXJXViUj But-It tho judgmonts of New York on &rM9r- shows thai aro wrong In many instances; 1 tSEfflW' lt lt lnuBJls and oncourageB what the H, flSSK' rcsL oi t,,G coimtri" may flnd YulBar and H W' chenp. and if lt cohdemns and sniffs at "Afpl what other cities find serious and intor- f ' tJr,' ostlng, rather should lt "bo pitied than v'v,?Jfvl ," ''V condemned, for with tho norVous tension fiM"' Incident to some sixty-five theaters H! ZV" spawning theatrical efforts weokly, thero .Inms, M. Is bound to arise more or less lntellec- l' i 1 tual and critical astigmatism. I' I &JsfLi. -n however" badly It may do it, stand- 1 , TTTafn: ing at tho theatrical gato of tho nation, l Sfyi til ' with a club in one hand and a hatchet J ' S&V- 'n lcr to protect tho country, lt ) yY v. "sjjftj nt Icast.is over vigilant, and lt all ye I f'it ; who condemn us for our bad tasto and Hl' "j,fcjy ' jOiliB worso manners find that our work is not Hj f&JvtftMihi'' 1,vo'11 Jone; lf i' nro nugry and abuslvo j, 'A 1mwK&-- ovcr what Is approved and passod on, ! . J"0 si'0"111 a,so think in Christian spirit I j jlisttt 10V'' muc'1 wo Bave yu y tno 'nK3 I ''J ' jLBtEMX$$ that are not passod on. 1 V, ''StSBrr-' nn number of new .plays produced last ' .c.., VSM 'car In this country was sixty-two, thlr- Hh, ii yTh&r--'. ty-nlne of which were by American au- Hj h -jJifevvjp thoro nnd tho rest by foreigners. About , . 1 J&j.CliijJt' ' lho samo numbor is promised for tho H , 1 wSS5?1kS coming season, and tho samo porcentngos I i wmB w111, ln n11 Probability, hold. There are I JjjKi about ono hundred first-class companies SjST j. first-class ln tho financial sense fnr bo 'T4 i... W 't from any one to Insist that they aro all H. , ' W&r ilrst-class artistically. All of those aro , i rA' headed either by a star of sufficient, lm- i ' " uw portanco or by a leading man or leading ; ' 1 woman of enough promineuco to make j J LKufeV :-- ' L'1G movements of these companies iu- S-ivS:' teresting generally. Hi; E?r Sf-'. In telling of their plans no attempt Is S.W.V- ' made to mako a roll of honor they are Hj. r Kr7Vl sot lown s!mP!y In the groups into which WjJTl3L they aro naturally divided by managerial J W& divisions. Wittl ' Probably the most interesting phase i BittLaj' V'sTO of Charles Frohman's activity Is that H'! i which concerns his plan3 for his two H; xffiJhC lending stars Maude Adams and John R. : Drew and his most Interesting author. Is ll Hi Mr. Augustus Thomas. Miss Adams will continue to appear In Barrio's wonderful play, "Poter Pan." She will spend most of her year on tour, so that the country will see what In perhaps the greatest product of the genlU6 of this uncanny Scot. John Drew will appear this season in New York and on tour In tho latest piny of Arthur Wing Pinoro. called "Hl3 Houbo ln Order." It Is one of the biggest things that tho great English author has ever done. Tho proscnt writer saw It in London last spring, and afterward talked the play over .with Mr. Plnero, who admitted by Implication that he was willing to stand or fall by "His Houso In Ordor." Ono of tho ' moBt Interesting things that Mr. Frohman will do this season will bo the new play by Augustus Thomas, probably tho first of America's dramatists. After having written three of tho most successful American comedies Mr. Thomas returns to tho earlier Btylo "Alabama" and "Arizona." The new play deals with tho subject of psychic force, and Is said to bo tho biggest big-gest play that Mr. Thomas has written. Ethel Barryraore will appear In Bar-rle's Bar-rle's "AlIco-SIt-By-the-PIro" until tho spring, when s.ho will appear ln a new play. Otis Skinner will contlnuo in Laven-dan's Laven-dan's "Tho Duel." W. H. Crane will appear In "Tho Princo of Money." William Glllotto continues In "Clarice "Cla-rice " Mrs. Clara Bloodgood is to appear In Clyde Fitch's new play. Miss Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth" will bo presented by Miss Pay Davis. Sam Bernard will appear In "Mr. Hoggenholmer," and Francis Wilson continues con-tinues In "The Mountain Climber." Ida Conquost will be starred In "The Judge and the Jury." For Miss JobbIo Mlllward, Henry Arthur Ar-thur Jones's "Tho Hypocrite" has been chosen. William A. Brady's new produotlons Include In-clude "ClotheB," a comedy by Avory Hapwood and Chaunlng Pollock, and "The Richest Girl," by Rupert Hughes, both for Miss Graco George; a dramatization drama-tization of CorelU'B "BarabbaB" for Tyrono Power; a farco by Cosmo Gordon-Lennox; a Berious play by Frederick Lawrence; "Tho Specimen," by Frederick Donaghey; "Mulvnney and Us," a dramatization drama-tization from Kipling, aud two musical musi-cal farces, "Tho Lovo of a Lady" and "The Intonso Irene"; Robert Mantell ln Shakespearian repertory and Gilbert's "Rosoncranz and Gulldonstern," and 'Othello" with Mr. R. B. Irving, who also appears under Nixon and Zimmerman's Zim-merman's management In Phlllps's "Paolo and Francesca"; Mr. Wilton Lackayo In "Tho Law and tho Man," Facts Atout ' Our Xwenty Leading Actors. Star. Mnudo Adams. Blhel Bnrryiuoro. ...... Julin Marlowo. ....... . Leslie Oartor. . ; Pny Tomnloton. ....... Btancuo utile Fritzi Sclieff Blanche Bates Mrs. Fisko Viola Allen Lillian Russell Richard Mansfield. . . John Drew 'Robert Mantel! David Warflold E. II. Sothern Edmund Breeso Otis Skinner William Fovershain. . . . WjhjinLftkaye adapted from "Les Miserables." In "Tho Junglo" and lu "The Pillars of Society." Mr. E. A. Braden's productions Include L. E. Shlpmnn's "On Parole." Stanloy Dark's "Man and His .ngol" nnd a comedy by J. A. Mltcholl. Tho firm of Sam and Leo Shubort announce an-nounce that they will bave twenty-throo companies on tho road, incarly all of which cither havo mado tllolr appearance In Now York or will ln tho courso of the season. They are as follows: E. H. Sothern nnd Julia Marlowe (appearing (ap-pearing for. the first time under the Shu-bert Shu-bert management), who will produce their new plays, "Eric Mackayo," "Joan of Arc," D'Anaunzlo's "La Joria" and a play on the subject of John tho Baptist. They will also appear in a half dozen Shakespeare plays. 'Tho Tourists," a musical comedy by R, II. Burnsido and Gustavo Kerker. Mrs. Patrick Campbell, who returns to this country to mako a tour in a new play. Miss Lena Ashwcll, a well-known English Eng-lish actress, who will make her first lour In America in a play that has already al-ready been seen In London, called "The Shulnmlte." Mnrgarot Anglln. who will open at tho Princess thoator October 1. In a new play by William Vaughan Moody called "The Great Divide." She will also bo seen In a revival of "Tho School for Scandal." Virginia Harned, In a dramatization or a novel, "Tho Girl In Walling." Arnold Daly, ln u scries of one-act ( plays and his repertoire of plays by George Bernard Shaw, with the exception excep-tion of that unpalatable drama, "Mrs. Warron'o Profession." . Real Nnmo. Maudo Adams Kiskaddcn.. Ethel Bnrryniorc. . Sarah Francos Frost Carolino Louiso Dudley. . . Fay Temple ton Blanche Ring Fritsi Schell" Blanche Bates Minnie Maddern Viola Allen Helen Louisn Leonard..... 'lirlittril Mansfield dm Drew , J I'icrt Mantoll I .-uvid Warflold i:. II. Sothern Kdiuund Brccsc Olis Skinner....- William Favorshom Wilton Lackaye Louis Mann and Clara Lippman will appear in Miss Llppman's comedy, "Julie Bon-Bon," a play that ran a good part of the Beason here last yoar. -r ' " ' Ono rof tho most successful pla'A. the couutry has known ln probably ton years Is "Tho Lion and tho Mouse," which has had the extraordinary good fortune of being ablo to play In tho hottest kind, of weather all summer In New. York. Throe companies are now appearing ln this play, and a fourth will shortly bo sent out, so that nobody can escape lt. Its wonderful popularity has been traced to many causes, but the fact that lt dramatizes crudoly but forcefully tho struggle between capital aud labor Is perhaps Its chief claim to attention. Mr. Charles Klein, tho author, is hlmsolf authority for tho statement that his royalties come to very neir $3000 a week. Mr. Klein has completod another play, Called "Tho Daughters of Men," which will bo produced by Henry H. Harris, the manager .of "Tho Lion and the Mouse." Tho samo manager will also offer a new star, Rose Stahl, who ha3 made Bomo bucccss In vaudeville, ln a play by a new author, James Forbes, hitherto a writer of short stories nnd one-act-plays. It is called "The Chorus Lady." "The Social Whirl," a typical Casino show, after rjunnlng all summer in Now York, will go on tour. It Is a catch-as-catch-can sort of entertainment that catches a groat many people. Other companies on tour will be: t Guy Standing ln a new play entitled "A Society Policeman." "A Midsummer's Evo," by E.vojyn Greonlcaf Sutherland and B. M. DIxi "A Woman's Way.1' a drama by Ed-. Married. No No To Uobert Tabor To AV. L. Payno. : Three Timca Twice Yes No Harrison Orey Fieke... To Peter Duryca' Thrcc times Beatrice Cameron Josephine Baker Three times Mary Gabriollo Bradt. . To Virginia Harnod.... Yes I To Maudo Durbin 1 Twice I To Agnos Evans I Chlldron, No... No No Son. . : ,- I No ' No No No 1 No No i Duughlor ' Son Daughter Son and daughter. . : No , No : No ' Daughter ' Son 1 Son ! ward Peple. author of "The Princo Chap." "The Blue Moon." the English musical extravaganza one year at the Apollo theater. London. JameB T. Powers, star, ,JLady Madcap," one of George Ed-wardes's Ed-wardes's most successful English muelcal comedies. Lew Flelds's all star musical comedy company at the Herald Square thoator In a new play. Cast Includes Edna Wallace Wal-lace Hopper. Elita Proctor Otis, Louise Allen Collier, Louiso Dresser, Coralle Blythe. Edna Luby, Cecelia Brown, George Grossmlth, Joseph '.Herbert, Jr., George Boban. Harry Fisher and Lew Fields. De Wolf Hopper, in "Happyland," with Marguerite Clark. Eddie Foy in "The Earl and tho Girl." "Veronlque." with Louise Gunning and Louis Harrison. Poter F. Daly In "The Press Agent." "Fantana." I Camlllo D'Arvllle ln a now comic ppera.. "The Snow Man," a new musical comedy. . Charles J. Ross and Mabel Fenton In "Tho Jolly Host." From the office of Charles B. Dillingham Dilling-ham thero will emanate nine companies, all of which aro headed by more or less well-known stars. Probably the most lmp'ortant of these from tho point of view of public Interest will be the ap- . pearanco of Mrs. Leslie Carter, whose sensational break with her former manager, man-ager, David Belasco, has caused so much talk. She will appear ln a play, the name of which has not yet been announced. an-nounced. Frltzl Scheff, In Victor Herbert's Her-bert's tuneful and high-class opera, "M'lle Modiste," will, after a 6hort engagement en-gagement at the New York theater, begin her road tour ln Brooklyn, ending In the spring in Montreal. Miss Blanche Ring will appear In another of Victor Herbert's Her-bert's operas, "Miss Dolly Dollars." An Interesting venture will be the production produc-tion of tho latest of Victor Herbert's oporas called "Tho Rod Mill " Montgomery Mont-gomery and Stone, of "Wizard of Oz" faruo, being tho co-stars of tho enterprise. Frank Daniels ln "Sergeant Bruo" will tour tho country until early Hprlng, when he will appear In 'n now. comic opera entitled "Omar." Georgo Bernard Shaw's clever nnd Interesting play, "Man and Superman," will spend tho soason on tho road. Kyrle Bellow will bo seen in a play by Sir Conan Doylo called tho "Brlgadlor Gorad." Miss Paula Edwardca, a new star under tho Dillingham management, will appear ln "Tho Princess Boggar," a comic opera by Edward Paulton aud Alfred Robyn, who wrote the music for the "Yankco Consul." Mr. Dillingham also announces that In tho spring ho will probably produce pro-duce new plays by Haddon Chambers, Rlda Johnson Young, tho author of "Brown of Harvard," and Henry Blossom. Blos-som. t David Beasco is working on a now Grentoat Success Poter Pnn and Little Minister Cousin Kato Juliet Zur.a ....".... Tho Mascot . " Dolly Doliors Mllo. Modiste Tho Girl of the Golden West.'. Bocky Sharp Glory Quayle.. ."."." Ija Cicaio Beau Brummel. " King Lear Mumc Master.- if am let The Lion and tho Mouse. . Tho Duel The Souaw Man Svenglili Reported Weekly In co in o S1000 S1000 $1000 $1000 5750 5750 51000 S500 $750 $1200 I $800. , , . $1000 $1200 .$1200 $1-100 ;$iooo ! $200 $1000. , . . I $750 1 5S00. . Manager. Charles Frohman. Charles Frohman. Shubert Brothers. C. B. Dillingham. Klaw & Erlanger. O. B. Dillingham. C. B. Dillingham. David Belasco, llarri&oa Grey Fiske. Nixon & Zimmerman. Klaw & Erldngcr. Richard Mansaeld. Charles Frohman. W. A. Brady. David Beiaico. Shubert Brothers. W. H. -Harris. -Charles Frohman. Lioblor & Co. W. A. Brady. P ay. David Warflold, ho hs v.. playing to crowded houate for t .,J flB ln "The Music Master," will flhV,a IB" traveling aa far wesi aT KaL, n?' as far south aa Louisville. sm HL Bates, in Belasco's very lntorMt.nl P Hl of California life m iho K "The Girl from tho Goldon S S" Sll V also visit most of the .large cltis' 111 Of recent prominence in tho nanr..t i fields is the arm of Cohan ? fft K The head of the flm 7 oto Cohan, the versatile young man HL writes his own playB, writes w HS mimic, acts in theru. slugs n , dances ln them and owns thm h.'u evon more versatile-he his "his tlXn act with him. He himself win S tour in his moat recent piay "Georgo Washington, Jr." Foy TtanU ton will head one company with aE0& r Cohen play, "Forty-ftvo Minute Fmm Broadway," while Corrine will beiou other ln the,. name play. A new pUT fc Mr. Cohan called "Popularity" u troduce Thomas Roes, who was (0 ,Z cessful ln "Checkers." ThU play vl Mr. Cohan's first effort at writing K is known as a straight play, that li ono in which nobody is moved at tt climatic period to burst Into eons. LtU in the season Cohan & Harris, la coa', Junction with Klaw & Erlangsr, win pt sent Lulu Glaser In a now play hy Mr IB Cohan. Mr. Cohan fays he can writs play while you wait for anybody that li B worth while. Mr. Nat 0. Goodwin doiia-t agree with him. Walter N. Lawrenco announces for tbt beginning of the season tlx ventures, u follows: Henry E. Dlxey In "Tho Man on th Box," a play that has been successful In New York and on tour. Later on In thi' season Mr. Dlxey will be seen In a dram- B ntlzatlon of Cyrus Tov.'nBend, Drtdy'i novel, "Richard the Brazen," by Edurf B Peple. Harry Conor will go on tour la , B "Mrs. Temple's Telegram." The prbcl pal cities cast of tho Missouri will be visited. Cyril Scott will begin his skkA . season in "The Prince Chap," pliivn;1a tho principal cities of the West ail South. Miss Hilda Spong will visit all the large cities of the East and middle Wti't In a threo-act comedy called "Lady JId," by Harold Heaton, in which sho opeat-J Weber's theater for the 6cason. WIN Ham F. Hawtrey, a brother of Charles 1 Hawtrey, a well-known English actor, began a starring tour at tho Madlsoi Square thoatcr In St. John Rankin's phr, "Tho fT-wo 5Mr. Weatherbyg." CarlotU NUlson will be starred in Rachael Cro-thera's Cro-thera's Western comedy, "The Three ot Us." She opens at the Madison Square theater late in September. Sho will at torward go on tour. "The Greater Low," a seusatlonnl play built around the life of Mozart, goes on tour. Prominent among the Llobler attrie-tlons attrie-tlons are Miss Elsie Jnnis in "The Van dcrbllt Cup," a musical comedy which serves to display tho young actress In hor clever Imitations of prominent act-ors. act-ors. A second company will be beaded lj "Barney" Bernard. William Faversbaiala Edwin Milton Royle's Western driDi, "The Squaw Man." A Pccond companr 1 will present the same piny he&dcd br fM Henry Jewett. A dramatization of Silly Pratt Maclean's novel of "Caps Cod Folks." Miss Eleanor Robson will ba seen in a repertory ot plays Including i JM new version of Rostand's "La FrlncesM jH Lointalno." Mme. Yvotto Gullbert and Mr. Albert Chevalier ln a new play fla Ellis Jeffreys In "Tho Dear, Unquiet. H Sex." Miss Jessie Busley la "Tho BUh-op's BUh-op's Carriage " Henry W. Savage's productions fall Into two groups, drnmatlc and musical. Th first includes a new play dcallns newspaper lifet by Jesse Lynch WB B "The Stolen Story"; Raymond Hitch-cock Hitch-cock in. Richard Harding Davis's puy. H "Tho Galloper," and throo separate coa H panles In Georgo Adc's comedy, "Tho cot- H logo Widow." Th. loading musical pro- H ductlon by Mr. Savage will bo Pucclau H new opora. "Madamo Butterfly, wwta H will be henrd ln this country for the ur H time ln Washington on October la. aw H afterward ln various cities. H plays In llghtor vein Includo The . H From Now," by John Kendrlck tup H and Vincent Bryan, with music by SIbmm h Klein; the Plxley-Ludcw opera. H Prince of Pilsen," now lu Its bWB yej H with Jess Dandy as tho brewer. - H Wagnor; "Tho Student Klnc. bj ' iw H nafd De Kovon, an opera whlCH w 41 H ready been soon in Chicago. H The Klaw & Erlansor prodU'lifj H headed by their well-lcnor.-u . of tho dramatization of Loi ' r,a ' H "Bcn-Hur." Another prodnc.ln o H ilar naturo has now boon ma: V T ' d jm of tho same author's iu ir H India." Forbes Robortaoa w tj M ( H under their managomont M 'i Wj Miss Gertrude Elliott, 1??? jjJU "Caesar and Cleopatra. "J iWiu$ Russell, forsaking the lyric as a legitimate actress ,yatnC di H Millions." Mclntyro and Hlb. i". H minstrels., contlnuo la tb ki s H lange. "The Ham Tree. "-vS Cawthorn and tho Sousa Ope. a ' H will bo seen hero ln Sou s f h Lance." At Easter tho entire eoa M will go to London to appear m i" H pieco. IH |
