Show c. c BROADWAY HAS A BUSY WEEK f t I EIGHT EIGHT kV NEW ATTRACTIONS THERE THERE Special Correspondence n NEW YORK Oct 21 This CL-This This is the ost lost interesting and perhaps the mo most t week of the pre present ent tA 1 season on Broadway t. t eight attractions tons Ion new to being offered tree Three of them are musical Mme Sione SinE Si Si- one nE' nE the famous French actress made mader cx r American debut in The uThe Thief Ht d Scheff camo came back to New York with a new show The Tho Duchess arguerite ar Sylva of grand opera fame ii me appeared in an a light opera called Gypsy sy Love Lore David Warfield re rev reamed tp amed and presented for the first time ere cro The Tho Return of Peter Grimm geen een last season in Chicago Chica o and other i Cities ties and but the most pretentious offering of the week occurs this after after- noon oon oon Marv Mar Mannering appears inThe in inThe The The Garden of Allah at a matinee performance first f Before a fashionable first night audi audi- nce ceo Cs Mme Simone the famous French and wife of Mona Ions Claude Casimir- Casimir CrIer son of ot the late president of ram ranee e made macl her American debut 91 at t taly's alys aly's s theatre Monday night In Mons lIons I Henri Bernsteins Bernstein's play The Thief ef She Shela Bt ens I l la the role iole or of Marie r Louise y English a role ole that for her herh I h French and which watch she originated Ate at athe I he e Theatre de dc la Ia Renaissance in Paris I 7 7 i. 1906 Interest among theatregoers rs centered In Ime imp Simones Simone's s flirt first appearance in this I I Her every word and gesture was as followed oll cd with more than the interest marks a usual New ew York first I Ight Her English was clear clear- and her a delight New York theatregoers knew the play pla ell rell It w was was s played at the T Lyceum theare theatre thea tre re rc four years ears a ago o with Miss Margaret l and K Kyrle Kyrie Bellew in the tM leading coles oles And Ann it was evident from the manel manner man man- ner el cr in which Monday nights night's audience e ate he and noted differences that thew the wo w o performances performance's were being compared ene b by scone scene and act b by act A After fter the first act the audience seemed impressed at the artistic manner Sn n which Mme alma Simone obliterated herself her her- elf self indulging in none of the stage cen- cen r 1 r habit of f so O man many stats stars Nor did it cape them for an instant that Mme Ime Imone was as master of her technique She teed fled sed her hands more moie freely in g he she h let t her face mirror r her emotions tI l and I I f rl tl bur but throughout lr h the theFt Ft t she wa was not a star tar but an artistic urr of the ensemble And when she shei ivas as o on stage she seemed to k keep the t i ag e Slav lay going Oi vat at top lop speed here e was ni no ut and dried diled waiting of the actors to peal peak peak each in turn but when the conver eon conversion sion tion grew animated as many as four poke at onto once yet vet without interrupting She he be course 01 Ot clarity darity of the action She She acted with piquant charm the lovelick love- love lick ieti wife of Richard Riehard Vo ln Her I work worl earned to key ke kethe the audience up to expect ug nb great groat things of or her in the second cond act for or her fame as an emotional actress had sro roo tossed sed the the- ocean before her But Mme Imone did not meet expectations in thereat the neat reat confession scene when the wife is dually Actually forced fOIe by her husband to admit fiat at she stole so that she might indulge n prett dOl clothes h s In order to hold his love lover lovel r l' her There appeared to be too little f the real woman who is a a. slave sla to her herve herye Jive ye ve for her husband Instead ad there was as clever de actress atress who never nc overacted The he big force farce of the scene acetic was as lost the therill rill was wras missing In the last act shIso she sh Iso Ian act acted cd with precision rather than emotional force All In all ail the audience got Jot the Ion lon of having seen FEen a clever Er actress but butof not ot of a. a great emotional player Her lter voter voice vets vas somewhat metallic In timber which vas ap a a. disappointment but perhaps this ras as due dut to her speaking in a foreign oreion The K tt P at Dal Daly's Dalys rs r's with II Mme imone ft the of i i nal 1 Mae Louise is dc- dc interesting but It is not a stirring e. e Scheff Again Ml Scheff 1 s ay in il the I Lyric theatre In Victor Her Her- bei Erl eris eri's t s operetta The Duchess hadr ad ad an appeal to the audience after aftel the curtain fell upon th the second act which gild quite as much for the success of the evening even on ing ig as anything in the text of the new newie newis piC is ie i You Yon know she said that since Mlle Mile 1 e. e tc odiste we WI have had nothing but bad bed badii uok uck ii k Do make this a success If you ou nb irs knew how bow hard we lave worked worked- ji jr ii Herbert and tho the actors and aud orchestra stra strand fend nd ad ver vel ever one else Mr Herbert Is such good man mall that be he deserves some ome encouragement en en- Please give it to him After that of course ourS Mr 11 Herbert who d th thi performance from an en orches- orches ira Bira e rai 11 t had to go o on the stage and say sa lint frig few words of thanks thank an and anal the audience kept up a a. Kindly din until so Whet Whether I he-I her The Duchess will catch the blk taste as did the most popular of air Mi 11 Herberts Herbert's operettas operettas' will depend in hr arl rge pa part pall t upon how Its Us Ito story affects the petrita PI ita ta going constituency For Tor a a. woner won- won iler er el here here- is a plot can be followed diagrams and with situations which h almost Mr ir Herbert Her Hei- bert s 3 music l is as tun tune tuneful ui melodious tc eat l and dainty dainty- as It always alWI is lB There Theres s a a. waltz that thai was as made for humming nd and various romances concerted conceited numbers num nuni- bers ers lIo and choruses that have all the merit nd swing that are aie needed to make the call caU for repetitions as It H did ut ast st night If It later audiences take the theor Orv or orf f enough The Duche Duchess s sou ou ought ht to prosper The rte e have gone Aone to an old England farce farco by Madison 1 Morton for foe their material The pretty daughter aughter of a florist agrees to marry a nobleman whom she he has lias never seen lie that she ma may maj- save saveli Mier li r father faili r from imprisonment The hus- hus husband band LUand agrees to r forever after 1 the he 1 but h lie he does nothing of tho the aol I keeps things ly confused until II ho h w turns tuina out to lo be he e the man whom the lIe he pretty girl 1111 loved from the beginning Mi 1 Miss s Scheff was In III good voice hud bud spirits pipits and made de all that was possible of or ora the he part She acted U with arch coquetry U arch l lm l a and and sang pang a an as well lf as ever ever- Ther was also m me glo good l singing by George d orge Anderson ron nd d comedy work that ph pleased the till house hOU th Ml M alias May Ja Bole le John IS E. lUz- lUz rd ar rd W Wilton Taylor laylor and Graham The chorus horus waS wafe large and x an and anIh the Ih tage tt I Everything er settings thing ri s were worth adequate repeating i ilg was as ie- ie and after aCter each act there was wasill ill applause The Tho Only Son a Big ig Play Without any particular herald heralding In there to theatre Monday Monda I came eam the Gaiety night a pIa play that made an unusually nt first night audience sit sll up and l take lk notice nolle Before the first act was fairly under way it was apparent that the Hie heavy rh handed dl ushers would J have baw a night off U. U OI own O The l' l h hands house e a and took J no the h professionals r applause rJ into were its g U. ned Not the often la is It Jt fortune of or ofa offa fK fa a pia and inti a Y of players play play- players ers 1111 to no establish ao so quickly CI a 0 build of such complete PI sympathy h with an 1 J Je as X that which I from ro b beginning III 11 to end neld l 3 thi th players ers and 1 the he people In front In Iu Ilie Th Only Son Ron Smith hies 11 written n a pla play with a n. punch with P red led blood with wIlli human appeal arid aiM grit with all the other things that plays nowadays now- now adar dar are art to have Ills His show moved the R audience to tears tearl and laught laugh- laugh t r. r In to applause and to tl en e And lid nd it did dd it all b by the e story sPry of or a boy bov who k cluck to his mother when he ehe was In trouble lit hi the Brainerd family tautly Mr Smith cre re Med a 8 group that one would not flee to travel fra many blocks In Jn New York tl to tb find TIl The Thc father f lher and antI mother had be begun begun begun be- be gun life together with little or nothing a and land great treat wealth wl alth had come to them n In bUl the father fathel had left lef the film family 11 to th themselves mcl and the thc mol mother her and pretty had fallen Into th the silly idle flirtatious habits of th the otner w ornen of ot her circle The daughter way wan we o o ei ll an anti and hard as nails and the son found his only gir In hl life the pursuit o ot Into Inlo Ihl family came a a. grafting detri dtp dt- dt tri tive p with th letl letters leHer r proving pro that tha t ther's r s Hilliness lied had r reached a a. point Of f If Vl F-Vl id al wrong strong with a a. FI French artist whon Cher Injured husband had ed rd a f few few- w days before The wife Ift a adt Rd ad- j- j lo t ny n led her hel guilt t and lh th the husband In n a hard tf n. rage ordered her to leave k o 0 house instantly notified her that thai he be her heI r I 1 j would dl divorce her and told the two children In her PlEs presence nCe the reason r lor tor his action The rage Iare of the daughter was equal to t that at of ot the father father- and the this two left the room together leaving the broken hearted woman W sobbing on on a acOB couch I cOB But back to he her camp came the son son Mn the careless spoiled supposedly vicious vicious' gun KUH and and bending o over er her he said quite SI simply i Well f t. t mother where'll we go go So the son and the mother went away away- together and the son made into a a. aman aman man by the stress that had come cOlne into his life lite saved the tho threat threatened sc scandal and by calling in the aid of the family doctor and working up a a. cough persuaded persuaded persuaded per per- ever every one to believe that he le and his mother were going to Denver for forthe forthe forthe the fake sake of his health quite by a accident n he lie n made a business connection eec fona fon with a wild d eyed son of inh the I west that later made him a a. fortune and won on him his fathers father's respect Of course cours there was a a. reconciliation In to the last act between the husband and wife after both had done two years years' penance for fOI their faults a reconciliation that was as built entirely on the d desire of each each todo to todo do the best Jest thing for the future of th tM the gg the for I boy bov There is a It love interest in the play play- the boy bov is In his love loyf with a girl artist But ButI it Is the devotion of the boy oy to n mother a devotion that before the catastrophe ca catastrophe ea- ea no noone one suspected himself least of all that makes the play Also Aso there is a conventional eon love affair by which the hard little daughter attains her ambition ambition am am- and l secures a title for herself Wallace Eddinger was vas featured as the I son He Ie played charmingly with a fin finish ish lab and poise that lifted the tile f far lr above e the conventionality Into which I it might easily have fallen He lIe was al always always at- at ways simple real and earnest Gypsy Love Produced Still a th third musical pr production on of the Ct H w week I is an operetta railed called Gypsy Love by Franz I Lehar composer of The Merry Widow VIlow which was presented presented presented pre pre- at th th the Globe theatre Tuesday night by A. A H. H Woods In it Miss Marguerite Marguerite Mar Mar- Jar Jar- Sylva a grand opera singer heard at the Manhattan Manhattan- opera Louse house is ss the star The original I German libretto is by Dr Willner while the present merican American version Is by Harry HarlY B. B and Robert Robert Robert Rob Rob- ert Smith Supporting Miss Sha a woo 1 is best remembered here b bv by her Interpretation Interpretation Interpretation Inter Inter- of Carmen Is Harry MacDonough MacDon- MacDon oU ough h. h one of the quartette of comedians his Ills companions in mirth being AI Albert ert Hart Uart George e L. L Bickel and Robert Pit PH- kin JUn Arthur Aithur Albro a new Russian tenor has bas an important role Gypsy Love was nag first accepted by bythE bythe bythe the Metropolitan opera house and was Intender in intended intended In in- tended tender for fot production at Rt the New ew theatre thea thea- tre The story to tod d deals with daughter daughter daugh daugh- ter of oTh an old l aristocrat aristocrat td She is ut be betrothed betrothed be- be as a It young oung girl to Fedor chosen by her father A fea feast is arranged to w celebrate tc the en engagement an and a young oung strolling I gypsy sy Jo Jozsi sl has been bidden hidden to PIa play his violin She Slip and Jozsi fallIn tall fall In love and plan plan- to elope that nl night hf But Rut an old nurse who hears of the plan gives Zorna a a. drink of water from the Czerna Czerta river which sends the girl In a Il aswoon swoon on and rings prangs to her visions of her hr future life In which h she r realizes all the misery of being being- the gypsy's bride bilde She awakens to life and nd sees her I betrothed be- be troth d and guests all about lt her an and anU abandons th the thO id idea a of eloping with sith the 1 he heg g gypsy and returns to Fedor Fedor- David Warfield Returns Returns' With David Da Belasco as author authol and ami David Warfield as star stair Tuesday Tuesday- nights night H opening at the Delasco Belasco theatre of The Return of Peter PettI Grimm had more thin than ordinary st Mr 1111 had not appeared in Neva York for some time lime al although although al- al though thou this pIa play hJ haQ been seen in other othel cities both last season and thi this The TIle idea for the pia play was suggested d I to Mr II B Belasco by Cecil de P. P Mille aline and Mi Mr h Belasco was S written also acknowledged after w a conversation that I a the le leth with play th the late Prof William James o of Harvard university The Thea plot deals with ith the coming bark bar to life of Peter Grimm and the pIa play is a departure from the conventional Mr 11 arfield plays the part of Peter r Grimm a quaint old Dutch character lie lieis lieis is Jo supported by bv Miss lIss Marie Rat Bates s Miss 11 Janet Durbar Mers John and Thomas Meighan The scenes are arp all laid in the living room of Peter Grimm a ai a Grimm manor a a. small town to in New NewYork ew York Voik state slate founded by early Dutch set set- tier Victor Herbert Opera Another musical product from the pen of Victor Herbert is The Enchantress I an opera in In which Miss Kitty Kilts Gordon stars It was sung for the thc first time lime here at the New dv York theatre Thursday nl night ht The libretto Is Iii by Fred Fredde de and HarrY Marry B. B Smith The story Is about a prince of la who has lp spent nt five years sowing wild wll oats about Europe HP He is ready to claim the throne of hj hs native land but conspirators con con- I 1 plan plan u that he forfeit e this h right g by arranging gr that a ile fall l lor or In love lo with 11 an 11 opera singer for If hu he marries beneath his hh dignity he will lose the throne He lie falls Into the trap laid but It |