Show NEW E OFFERINGS F I G IN I NEW N YORK oi I BILLIE BURKES BURKE'S FRENCH I COMEDY I II Special Corre Correspondence r. r NEW w YORK Billy Burke is IA back at atthe atthe atthe the Lyceum with whim a pew new show Chow called The Tile Runaway In ill which she was wu presented pre pre- rented Monday night by y Charles Froh- Froh man Of or cour course e Its It's a comedy and a French on one too being adapted by 1 Michael lIch Mich- R ad ael I Morton 1 from a story b by Mons Mona Pierre and Mons 1 Henri de do Grosse i Two other plays plas new to the metropolis and ami a Scotch h comedian om dlan not at all new constitute the tho weeks week's novelties Harry Lauder an old favorite fa is the tho come comedian com corn e edian In iii question and with a new line of or fun and good I support opened a show at the tile Manhattan opera house houle Monday Monda It was a characteristic Billie Burke Burko greeting that the winsome bearer of that name e received e when Wilen e she appeared pe In ill 1 tile tho rl title er r rob rolo f of re reTh The Th Runaway U w at tho i. i Ly Lyceum Ly- Ly cum theatre Monday Monda There here was prolonged applause after the third act until Miss Burke said I 1 am ani amery ery very grateful to you ou for all this tills and I 1 only wish Mr 11 Frohman could be here tonight to share It with me mae me but he heIs heIs heis Is quite ill lii III as you ou know Miss Burke Burko plays the part of Colette a pretty girl of ot IS 18 who is being reared In ill Ina Ina illa a small French village by two aunts aunte There sue she meets Delonay a celebrated Paris artist who is II amused by her and teaches her to paint Her innocent Conduct Conduct Con ton duct outrages the sensibilities of th tile the t aunts who decide that she must marry marr one Pingo a 0 village yokel okel Colette rebels and runs away to Paris She finds linds her artist friend and makes him give her shelter as the tile police are hunting her in answer to an alarm sent out by the aunts She remains falls Inloe in inlove inlove love lo with the tile painter who WIlO treats her Iler as asa a a. child being many mallY years her senior But she grows gros desperate and destroys a a. portrait portrait portrait por por- trait of a woman of oC whom she is jealous and then the cat is out of at the tile bag bug In Inthe Inthe Inthe the end she sho is married to the artist who has 1158 grown to love her lIar Miss Burke strikes a deeper note in her acting In this tills play pla than she did b by tIer her usual cute ways that were in themselves themselves them them- selves charming but threatened to grow monotonous She shows she can handle a a. more serious sentimental work capably and bhe sue found her quick to see and appreciate it As Aa tho tile romping girl she was winsome as ever and In the studio scene she has a disrobing scene that was well and modestly done C. C Aubrey Smith a as 3 the artist was excellent ex cx- acting the part convincingly and r without any mawkish Sen sentimentality Edt Edwin Ed Ed- win Nicander wa was amusing as Pingo and t Henry Miller Jr was good as a youth In love 10 with Colette As a grouchy lovable lovable lov lov- able friend of Ul tile painter Geor George e Howell was capital and so was Morton Seiten as an aji amiable minister of police poUce Miss i Jane Evans acted the tile role of an all actress and friend of ot the tile painter conventionally but the tIle two aunts were well played by Misses Emil Emily Wakeman and Isabelle Isabella West Handsome settings added to the artistic effect the tile studio scene being es especially especially es- es fine But after all theres there's not much speed to The O Runaway n y I It is slow in getting ft started a Oa a and does not t go dangerously r os-r fast i at any point But its it's a clean little play full of sentiment and Miss Burke is a charming fugitive When Bunty Pulls the tile Strings came cameto cameto cameto to the Comedy theatre Tuesday y night This play Is b by Graham Moffat and has been on view in London for some time at the theatre Shubert Shubert Shu- Shu b bert and William t A. A Brady present i It th In ill Inthis this country The Tile title arises from the fact that Bunty solves all domestic entanglements that arise during the course of or the comedy comedy com com- edy In other words she pulls the tile strings Bunty Is the tile daughter of or a Scotch village grocer and all the scenes are arc laid In a Scotch village In tn about 1850 1650 Bunty's father Tammas BIggar Is 18 being Induced to marry one Susie Simpson Simp Simp- son son who years e ars before gave old man Biggar Biggar Biggar Big- Big gar some money mone to invest hn for rOI her but buthe buthe buthe he u used ed It to pa pay some t of r his sons son's debts Instead A At t the same time there appears Eelen Eden Dunlop to whom Biggar was en engaged engaged engaged en- en to be married Bunty who has a a. alove alove love affair of oC her own steps In Ill and straightens out mt these complications The he entire action takes place in two days one of which Is a doleful Scotch Sabbath Miss lisS Molly Pearson plays the part of Bunt Bunty She Is remembered as the tile in The Passing of or the tile Third Floor Back In which Robertson Forbes-Robertson starred l list last st season The Misses Jean JeanC C Cadell dell Amy Singleton Margaret and Edmond Beresford are In the tile supporting supporting supporting sup sup- porting cast It will be a comfort to theatregoers to know that the Scotch dialect of tile the piece has been laundered out and that English English Eng Eng- lish has been substituted t Frequenters of or Vaudeville during the thelast thelast last season saw George Beban in a sketch about an Italian who buys bus a single rose for tor his little daughter who had died Well Yell the sketch has hall been built Into a R. four-act four play called The Sign of the Rose and with Mr Mt- Behan It op opened ned th the Garrick Garnick theatre for the season season season sea sea- son Wednesday night under the management management manage manage- ment of Klaw Erlanger Mr Beban figures on the bill both as author and star The story the play tells is about the of the little daughter of ot William William Wil Wil- liam Griswold a wealthy merchant Suspicion Suspicion Suspicion Sus Sus- falls on an Italian laborer Pietro who had carried a It Christmas tree to the GrIswold home The child has ilas really been stolen by Griswold a younger brother a good for nothing who is holding her for tOI fora tOIa a ransom But Hut the police track Pietro who in innocently In In- goes to hi his home where his ills lit littie little lit lit- tie LIe daughter Rosa Is awaiting him She Silo SheI I Is all he hf has Ilas In lq life fe When she tells teUs him that she has written Santa Claus he lie persuades her to go o out Into the street to pIs play he planning to bu buy her lIen Christmas prel presents He lie returns from his trip his Christmas bundles N under his ills arm and finds that the tIle child had been run over overby by h Griswold's automobile He lie Is b beside himself with s grief The next day he goes Joes to a Fifth aon avenue aye ave nue florists florist's t t to buy buy H mt rose to put Into n tile the I hands a of c Ills his ll uJ dead ad baby fh There he Ile heIs Is seized by detectives He lie struggles desperately but hut Is released only when news comes that th the little lithe Gr Griswold is wold child has been found In the ills end the real culprit confesses but Pietro is through with this country and und plans to go to back bael to Italy I 8 0 arranges ra that tho ho broken hearted man be rarer cared t for there Supporting Mr 1 B Beban ban who WIlO pla plays plas s the th therole r role rolo le of Pietro are Miss l Marie Mario Pave Pavey l Franklin Ritchie and George Pro- Pro bert S Ed Edgar ar Selwyn n became a star once more moreIn morein morein in his own right Monday Monda night when his hist t lay The Arab which had been at the Lyceum theatre for or two weeks moved to I the Astor theatre to continue its run Mr 1 SElwyn has been playing the role of the dragoman and Henry B. B Harris the producer believes belle he lIe Jias ilas done U it so well that he is entitled d to have his blis name blaze forth In electric lights In iii front of ot tho tile Astor theatre The company continues contin I ues uca unchanged Miss Edna Baker has the tile leading feminine ln r role le The M Manhattan house hous was transformed transformed trans trans- formed Into a of or variety Monday Monday Mon Ion day night the occasion being the tile openIng openIng open open- Ing of or the tIle fourth American tour of Harry Lauder the Scotch comedian Under the tile management of William Morris ho he will make a a. tour of seven ven weeks in the United States visiting all the tile principal cities east ast of Chicago It is said that Mr r. Lau Lauder Lander Ier has some new stories and new songs which hleb have hare been baen told and sung in English music halls halll He Tie retains in ill his repertoire Im th Ui o 0 th Ui Family and one or two others which he sang sang- here on his Ills previous visits which means I Love Lo a aLassie aLassie aLassie Lassie of ot course Among Among- other features features fea fea- tures tunes of the tIme bill are arc William V and a company In George V. V Hobarts Hobart's sketch Peaches Miss Maude Tiffany In character songs Merkle Merkle- German German Ger tIer GerI I man mimic the Santella trio dancers and Mr 1 and Mrs X N. III In a monkey ape ape- daU S Four new plays plas had their New rW r W York Tonic premieres last wc week k and all seem eem to have struck truck til the popular fancy sufficiently well to remain for several weeks Miss Margaret Margaret Mar Mar- garet Anglin who WilO has ilas forsaken weepy parts paris is appearing at the tIlo Thirty-ninth Thirty street treet theatre in A. A K g. W W. Masons Mason's farce comedy omed Green Stockings while other new plays play of last week are arc Rebellion lie Re bellion by Joseph Medili Patterson In which Miss Gertrude Elliott Is starring at Maxine Elliotts Elliott's theatre The Th Great Name with Henry Koller In the tile stellar role at the Lyric theatre and Lew Fields' Fields new musical production The Never flever Homes at the tile Broadway theatre Final performances of ot several plays are announced David Belasco's production of The Concert Conceit which has 1155 been for nearly a year the attraction at the Belasco theatre will with end its local engagement engagement engage engage- ment this week Two more weeks remain of the tile engagement of ot Excuse Me at tile the Galet Gaiety theatre where the farce has hall been running for tor thirty weeks Edmund Breese in A Man of ot Honor will soon leave Webers Weber's theatre to make malte way for tor a anew anew new flew pia play The Tho public has hlas lost none of Its ts enthusiasm enthusiasm over o tuneful musical plays as evidenced evi evl- by the au audiences lences at the various theatres where they arc are the attraction George M. M Cohan is starring at his own theatre in his ills own new play The Little Millionaire and Donald Brian a star of or orthe the new season be began an Monday Monda his sixth week In The Siren at the Knickerbocker Knickerbock Knickerbock- er theatre Julian e In feminine Impersonations Impersonations Im Im- continues at the tIlO Liberty in inThe inThe inThe The Fascinating Widow and a large largo east cast is appearing at the Casino In The Tile Kiss Waltz The two hundred an and sev sev- fifth enty-fifth performance of or The Pink Lady at the tIle New Amsterdam theatre was celebrated last Saturday with pink handbag souvenirs which were given to the 1110 women in the tile audience George Arliss is starring at theatre in the tile title role of ot DisraelI by Louis N. N Parker while Bought and Paid For George Broadhurst's new play is at the tIle Playhouse An Increase of 50 cents In the price of oC orchestra seats Saturday night at the Republic theatre seems to tIara have made no ne difference In the numbers who go to see Bee David Belasco's production of or The Tile Woman by William C. C de de l C. C Haddon Haddon Haddon Had- Had don Chambers' Chambers pIa play Passers By Is the tile attraction at the tile Criterion theatre and John Drew is in the second month of or his ilis engagement at the Empire theatre On n A Single Man In Maggie Pepper Pep Pep- per Miss Rose Robe Stahl is starring at the tile Harris theatre Mrs Rida Johnson Youngs Young's comedy Next ext is at Dalys Daly's theatre At the Hudson theatre Frank McIntyre McIntyre tyre continues in Snobs This is the thelast thelast thelast last week of Henry Benders Bender's engagement at the tile Irving Palace theatre in Der Around round the World tile the e big spectacle a e Hippodrome I is ison ison vP l on view twice daily SAt At etl tl tile the Winter Garden Garden Gar Gar- a den The Revue of or Revues with Miss Gab Gaby Deslys the tile French music hall hail artist in a special sketch has proved pro to tobe tobe tobe be a popular entertainment Douglas Fairbanks who has been heen starring in A Gentleman of Leisure at atthe atthe atthe the Globe theatre will leave lea the cast ast at atthe atthe atthe the end dId of the week when the play will continue to run at some other theatre t Holbrook k lInn went to he the West End j I theatre Monday londay for weeKs weeK's engagement In Edward Sheldons Sheldon's political play The Boss seen cen in this city last season Miss Maude Feal Fealy who In the past has played 1 Important t r roles e with cr E E. S SIn S S. Wll- Wll lard William Gillette ITI and nd Nat X t G Goodwin Goodwin Good Good- win In has been Mr BUnn's BUnns leading woman this season but Wa was taken ill II in Pittsburg Pittsburg Pitts Pitts- burg Pa |