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Show High-Glass Programmes in Vaudeville By Leased Wire to The Trlbuno. NEW YORK, AufT. 20. Theaters in the western states will offer splendid vaudeville program mc.'j during tho coming com-ing season, judging from contracts already al-ready made and Judging from tho high-class high-class vaudeville entertainment offered two months ago. Coupled to this fact Is the "theatrical war," which the west has centered, to a great extent, : and which has resulted In the erection of new playhouses and the better grade of theatricals, as Is always thovcase In competition. com-petition. Nearly every noted American vaudeville artist and numerous distinguished distin-guished foreign features are under contract con-tract for the Orpheum western circuit. Alice Lloyd, having finished a long western west-ern tour, Is preparing for another, which will soon start. Annette Kellermun Is engaged on a tour at present. Vesta Victoria, the English music hall singer, is entertaining the Pacific coast with her coster songs. Among the other favorites who have either just finished engagements engage-ments or are playing them at present In the western states, are Cressy and Dayne, William Farnum, Pastor Edwards. Davis, Mclntvre and Heath, Annabel Whlteford, Lily Lena and others. The war between John Cort and Klaw & Erlanger has, as 1 said, resulted in new theaters and will mean t better production, produc-tion, especially In tho northwest. Van Studdiford Opera. Contracts have been signed whereby MIhs Grace Van Studdiford will appear under tho management of Daniel V. Arthur Ar-thur for a term of years. Her first opera will be an adaptation of one of the reigning reign-ing successes now upon the European stngo. tho rights to which were secured bv Mr. Arthur whilo abroad, and the adaptation will bo made by Henry Hop-wood, Hop-wood, with music by Sllvo Jleln. Mr. Arthur announces that this will be one of the most elaborate productions he will make during tho coming season. The new organization is to bo known as the Graco Van Studdiford Opera company, and its first New York appearance will be made at the Casino theater early this coming winter. Grand Opera in. Mexico. Max Rablnoff has returned to this city from Mexico, where he arranged to give a short aeason of grand opera In the City of Mexico, for which the department depart-ment of education has voted 550.000 In gold as a subsidy. He says that the government gov-ernment believes that It will be of groat educational value to the Mexican people, who arc very musical, but with llttl'. opportunity to hear prominent artists 1 1 st ropertoiro of tho best grand opera. The tscason will be of about a month's duration, beginning September 15, when Mexico will hold a centennial celnbratlon. I Mr. Rablnoff Bald the company would go from New York by special steamer to Vera Cruz. There will be about 200 persons, per-sons, who will be engaged both In Europe and this country. The chorus and ballet will be recruited from among those who have appeared In the Metropolitan anil Manhattan Opera companies, as tho early season in Mexico will not interfere with their engagements In New York. The singers will meet in New York Thursday Thurs-day to prepare for the trip. The repertoire reper-toire will be principally Italian. Somk of the principals engaged are with the Metropolitan Opera company and several were in the Manhattan. Those alreadv under contract are Messrs. RIcardo Martin, Mar-tin, Pasciualo Amato, Henry G. Scott and Andreas Segurola, Mme. Rosa Olltzkn. Mine. Jane Xorla, Miss Rita Fornin and Mme, Maries Clasens. Tho opera will be given In the Arveu theater, which Is to have a. new stage. A magnificent new openf house Is now being completed. Mr. Rnblnoff. Is a young Chicago impresario who came to New York last season. He Is at tho head of a uompany that has the Russian dancers, Mme. Pavlowa and Michael Mordkln, under contract for next season. Openings in New York. A. H. Woods will inaugurate his New iork season at tho New Amsterdam theater on August 20, with "Madame Sherry, the cast being bonded by LIna Abarbanell and Ralph C. llerz. The second New York production will be "Tho Girl In the Taxi." with Carter de Haven, which comes to the Astor In October, Oc-tober, and In November Mr. Woods will initiate Julian Eltlnge as a Broadwav star. Blanche Walsh ' will also open In New York In Nov-emher in "Barbareza." a drama from the pen of J. Hartley Manners. Man-ners. The manager has accepted two phiy from .7. A. ICummcr, Theso aro "The Brute" and "The Other Woman." Goorgo M. Cohan has bought an aeroplane aero-plane to be used In James Montgomery's new comedy. "Tho Aviator," which will be produced hero shortly. Real American Opera. "The Girl of tho Golden West," to be produced at the Metropolitan opera house this coming season, will be a real American opera. Tho story, now well-known, well-known, based on tho celebrated play by David Bclasco, will be only modified or altered whcro necessary, to make IL possible pos-sible .for grand opera use. Tho schoolroom school-room scene will bo eliminated and the last scene will bo changed to tho outskirts out-skirts of a forest, In tho same locality as the scone In the play. The whole production pro-duction has been placed iu tho bunds of Edward SJedle, technical director of the Metropolitan opera, houso, who has just roturncd from Paris. Tho scenery, properties, prop-erties, costumes and all effects will be made in tho Metropolitan opera house. James Fox, scenic artist ol the opera company for years, will paint tho scon-cry, scon-cry, This decision was reached in a conference held In Paris, when the matter mat-ter was freclv discussed by Director Gat-tl-Casazza, Mr. Puccini. Mr. Tito RI-cordl RI-cordl and bis New York representative, : Mr. Maxell, and all agreed unanimously with Mr. Sledle that it should be a homemade home-made production. - I Coming to America, Fred Terry and Julia Nellson are corning corn-ing to this country In October, having been engaged by Klaw & Erlangor. They will open their American engagement in this city in "The Scarlet PInepernel," a romantic comedy. Their tour, will not extend west of Chicago and will only include the large cities. They will return re-turn to England In December. Will Not Work in Zion. The west and northwestern vaudeville houses aro giving their patrons a taste of the 52 brand of vaudeville, even of the highest class. There Is a question In the hinds .of some whether It is reany worth $2. Julian Eltlnge, the female Impersonator, Imper-sonator, Is heading an all-star company into the west and S2 Is being charged upon the tour. Among the cities to bo visited by the Eltlnge company are Denver, Den-ver, Salt Lake. Cheyenne, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Butte, Seattle, Vancouver, Portland. Lincoln, Duluth, Helena and Omaha. Ellen Terry's Lecture Tour. -Preparations for Ellen Terry's promised American lecture tour are well under way. The tour will begin In this city on November :50, The house selected for her three metropolitan nppenranecs Is the Hudson theater. Her entertainment will consist of a discourse on Shakespeare with Illustrative acting In Elizabethan costume. Thn subjects of her threo Ice-lures Ice-lures are "The Women of Shakespeare," "The Letters of Shakespeare" and "The Children of Shakespeare." Chocolato Soldier in London, A cablegram from London nays? Arrangements Ar-rangements wore concluded between F. C. Whitney, the .American manager, and Alexander Henderson. whereby "The Chocolate Soldier" will bo produced at the Lyric theater on September 10. Mr. Whitney expects to have the same big success In London with this comic opera op-era that he had In America. He Is engaging en-gaging an all-English cast for the pro-ductlon, pro-ductlon, Including C. H. Workman, who ; for -years has been a leading vain ilan with the D'Oylo Carlo Opera coir 1 y. and Is at the top of the profession e. Mr. Whitney leaves Satunlay on b.ard the Mauritania for Now York. He will make but a short slop in America, leaving leav-ing New York again for London on August 17 ' |