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Show I DRAMATIC NEWS I AND COMMENT Miss Mary Keener, a j'oung actress who made a sensational success in one of tho plays produced last season at tho Empire theater, New York, by tho American academy of dramatic arts, has been engaged" by Charles Frohman t. play the leading part in "Tho Conspiracy" Con-spiracy" next season. Miss Keener s final attainment of a leading part in a prominent dramatic company came about in a way as unusual as it is clover. For several years she has played leading parts in western companies com-panies and in certain eastern stock companies, for example, the 9iasi Square company of Boston, but all the while she found it impossible to induce anv New York manager to give her a trial. Determined to appear in a Broadwaj' theater, Miss Keener, al- feire the rtbr; -hca'l and sW,i,i?fr YK bfr.aA has m5tt-' frosted in ri en Crane in 'TVxjJfeZ S."uhn?DdbYfn::: course, htort generation auV: the '80s, "Th Stc?M-' S0U will be to ate5?"" hcrc he eoci R P a dinner iTgM course of tic eve&HJR:: mado especially . ccipt of a telemia"SB: honor Um AmtWMfc. 1D ' Carlsbad, ft JSMmZ ''Dear Old BiKjKU tioth anniversary j irb reer ou and stmte Mw atase as star 1Da 3g friends and ndmimj send our love and iQ ' your continuous saeaTl' art. Oiicomiilioecljk . Anna Held wa 1 HJmP'-devllle. HJmP'-devllle. She .lied ViSR" flounced back lo PuCTB" However. Mlis HtM ittt-SB" Elcal comcany has In raiBC Perlors In vaudollU the Roods15" T1'S 'K1 Valerie Bergerc it nfeSt repertoire In vauJevEtKV-. at tho Bushwlek on & aMf lold version of "C4rtaiBr week she will prut uXh ir sketch at the an yK. "Judgment." Thli U 5K by Victor H. Smi!!r, uJHb a poworfiil punch. "CinMK mer.t" will require ;to aK, supporting companltt itaHt Intensely ambltloui ulM1 ferlns to the current ndBjr somothlng to be im lBMt may be noted, iff ti iHt Bergere has a tre!cKY lowing that makei l&f JB:.. office wherever ibe llijiP if Marshall P. WlWtr ? City boardwalk In frctdHkl ley's Savoy dally. attractions of Atlantic CSKgr; niul mlrror-llntJ tofcfkKtf( shows him the gapta; nF' when ho has paiwd bj. .E" John Ransome, the and creator of the b;trkBtt of Pllson " rtll socattjnpt vllle with a nvr rusctoK ti Bryan. Ransome U ut PfKfct man dialect comdlia B,i stage and Is as nell aa behind the W-jE Anions his succeau. of Plleen," were n-"BBt Isle of Bontr Bon;," roBic! Smith: "The HDrfrJWKjT "The Flirting Prlnctft j A notable vaudwE!CBA fully managed by Miro'Kr Albee when El!n BatSTij diva, was captoreJ BtU Madame Yaw will t-J5BKe Orpheum houses. 5.Bi,. N'ew York In October. Mario Dreisler fl ffBT In vaudeville. opW "..r" drome In Cleveland. W. f Dresiler will leave frM a; holidays to apr-ir U jd Mona Limerick, toJfBi' clonal actxess tjh ' fMc States a few fttfiftE! 5 the recipient o'JlBp markable review JfSMptt found their aratlon. It Is roB(T: and after JSMv carnation of rtVR:; "a martyr ri and a saint, 1 dg? Corday. a JVAffiM?1 St. Teres. Jh JMR-"Mona JMR-"Mona ""'luK mysterious .M1 SJ. onca in a WraSSwSTL1 near to be the 'HgK Sons of rt 'mSW strangeness e fj DRAMATIC NEWS ' AND COMMEN1 M (Oontinuod From Proceding Page.) juj otic, like an orchid In a bouquet of tiMcil roses. She looked like nobody I havo Krfil, ever seen, although now and than she ffjaj looked like evory woman In tho world jou That Is the fascinating quality of hor KM face. It Is perpotually changing Its sug- mil gestionis, so that It ends In balding and etfil bewildering you. vexing you with Its IjjJli elunlvencss and its variable moods. Mr uvm Beorbohm thinks she might be Persian jflll or Romany, and he told me that sho KjfB looks like an Aubrey Bcardsley whilo rll sho Is off the stago nnd like an Augustus tin John while she la On It. But tho truth jjjnl Ik that she belongs to no race, for all Mil the races seom to meet and mingle In MB her. I heard many theories broached INI One man hazarded tho wild guoss that tin she Is descended from a red Indian. W 'Sho Is a squaw, eald ho. Another main- Rll taincd that she In a Jewess. Another w&m declared that she Is Irish with a drop nil of Spanish blood. Thlo comical diver- 9MH Blty, of opinion Indicates tho extreme fl subtlety and plasticity of her feature?. KM for she Is a womnn who appears to N sum up all the women of all races." Ml To Charles Frohman's nmazoment, John flER Drow stepped upon tho stage of tho Em- tma Plro theater, New York, the other day. iltffl letter perfect In tho long, Intricate part gM of Benedick in "Much Ado About Noth- mu lng," It was tho twenty-fifth play Joint- tM ly produced by Mr. Frohman and Mr, Sffil I Drew In their twenty-one years of a3so- mm olatlon, but It was the first tlma in all P Ig those years or among all those plays that Mr. Drew had ever been letter perfect In I Id a now part earlier than tho dress re- BH hearsal which Is generally a night or m two before the first performance. When lit Mr Frohman realized that Mr. Drew I n had mastered every word of tho lenghty i U role of Benedick, he quickly tried his befit III to turn hln surprise Into happy congratu- ffl latory phrases. EjjM "It is a record, John," said tho man- JuJ ager to the aotor. "Perfectly Bplendld wm and wonderful; letter perfect. You must ffln have given a good part of your summer 1 1 to 1L Tell me Just how long have yoti 2E been letter perfect with Benedick?" (Ills "Eighteen years," said Mr. Drew. M j "Eighteen years'." exclalznod Mr. Froh- Im' man. IMj "Yes. It was that long ago that you htm, promised mo that 1 should play tho part II i somo day." filffl So that one never knows, In a thea- if i tor, listening to an actor speaking on II I part how many other characters he may n 1 ' liavo Inside of him all yearning for ut- P j lorance. f Hi |
