Show L Charles Frohman h has decided to ocon- ocon Miss Mills Ethel season o othe at atthe the Empire th theatre JI tre In Tanto her mot most decided success In years earsl through th the Christmas and Now w cw s Years holidays S. S William Collier fins hM commenced commence l the tho reh rehearsals re- re h ot of the new farce A Little Water Wa- Wa Vator tor ter Ion on the tho SIde whIch h ho and and Grant Stewart have written together The piece will have Its first flut performance December 8 II after which Mr Collier will have the the unusual experience of opening at a Now New York theatre tWI twice e I n o one e season Miss Maude Adams will m begIn her rehear rehearsals ot of the nest ne Barrie play The uTho Legend ot of Leonora In order to have the tho piece readY for production by bythe bytho the tho middle of January Peter Pan be laid aside until the Easter holidays so 80 that Miss Adams may void avoid the necessity no- no or of rehearsing one play and acting In another b by nIght Inasmuch as other Barrio Barrie pIa plays play's art aro to be played by Miss MItis Street for forone forone Adams thIs season Quality one It Is hoped her Now York season la Is lato to tole be In tho pUblic mInd as A ACcIo Cycle of J. J M. M Barrio Comedies The Liebler company takes great pleas peas uro In denying the tho widely cIrculated report re- re port that the beautiful l Pauline FrederIck Is to quit the stage tAgo Miss Frederick hayIng hay Ing scored the greatest greatest- artistic success or of her career lit In the tho part ot of In Joseph and His Brethren She was wasso wasso so wholly enthusiastic about her stage work that those who know her personally personally person person- ally knew v at once that the report that W was J telegraphed from Montreal where the tho actress wass 1 taken week was quite unfounded Miss Fre Fredericks Frederick's illness was Wa not as serIous as first reported and she sho Is again appearIng appearing- In the big S spectacular spec spec- ec- ec production ot of Joseph Ja and Ills Brethren In accordance wIth theIr pr promise to toMa toMay Ma May Irwin who strange to say a lothe lo loves los s the one night stand the company com com- pany has booked a route for that popular pop pop- ular ular- In her most successful play y or of recent years Widow v b by Proxy It will cover more than sixty cities prior to March 1 The ry In whIch MIss Irwin ln splay her comedy gifts In- In the southeast far south Texas the Pacific coast tile the northwest and western Canada Dy By March Miss Irwin will have e completed her whirlwind tour or of orthe the southwest est and north and will wUl appear ap- ap pent pear In Widow by bJ Proxy for for- forthe the first time In ChIcago where she will probably abl ably spend the tho remainder or of the tho season Henry Miller In common with many other representative actors and managers mana- mana gers Is not n-at In fa favor faOr Or or of the new type o of suggestive plays In a recent IntervIew lie he had thIs to say Just now no there are managers who are presenting exhibitions of the sewer and having the effrontery to assume for their efforts II a high moral purpose their pla plays s being supported by those sections of the public whose taste is b a matter of their olfactory sense The Tho Inherent resentment resent resent- ment of the decent people or of the community community com com- should have killed them at the outset While I deer decry an any mere prating for business s purposes I am am happy to rind find rinda finda a response to a wholesome pia play like the The Rainbow R. Such support Is the one balance that Is the ray or of hope the testimony that the public Is not all decadent decadent deca- deca dent and vicious In taste One or of the interesting interesting interesting- facts about the appearing In At At Bay at the ninth Thirty street theatre In New hew York CIty Is that most of the leading artists are either sons or of of famous players This In fact might be called the second generation cast Miss Chrystal Horne for Instance Is the daughter dau of the late Ide James A. A Herne Guy Standing Is the son of Herbert Standing Marto Is the tho son or of a a. man who was famous throughout aU all Europe In hIs day One mIght continue continue In this manner throughout practically the tho entire organization org proving pro that tai ta nt for Ute ao drama an gift Eleanor Gatt Gates author or of The Poor Little Rich GIrl which Klaw Erlanger Erlan er are presenting on tour says It was some time before she found a name for the pIa play Finally one dR day almost n despair she saM said I 1 told an Intimate frIend that I could think of no suitable title the play about she asked Why Wh I said Its about a a. poor little rich girl and she she- There she exclaimed stopping slopping me thores theres your title The Poor Little RIch Girl And 50 so It was wu S S SOh Oh Ohl the delightful Caryll McLellan-Caryll musical play has captured captured cap cap- Chicago and Is making makinI new record at the Illinois theatre It is 19 not a 0 ques of geography with a play like Oh Oh- Ohl Oh It has no sectional appeal ap- ap peal hut but Is as much liked In Toronto as New cw York and In C Chicago as In Toronto Before the current season ends next summer summer sum sum- mer all parts of the tho country will have a chance to applaud this popular Klaw Erlanger offering offering Ono One of the tho most notable dramatic events of the tho season S is the tho presentation by Joseph Brooks or of V lIlIam II H. Crane Douglas Fairbanks Am lla Bingham and PatrIcia Collinge In The New Henrietta Henriet- Henriet ta the tho new no play by lI Smith and Victor Mapes based upon Howards Howard's famous comedy After B. B brief tour In neighboring cities The Tho New ew NewYork York but only for tor a limited period asa os as osa a tour ot of tiro tho country Is planned The supporting company Includes such fa favorites favor favor- 01 Ites as Lyster Chambers Chamber Halbert Brown JI Poland Arthur S S. S Hull Malcolm Malcolm Mal Mal- colm Bradley J J. J IL H Huntley B Bud d Wood Wood- thorp Eileen Errol and Tilbury Ernest L Leeman eman Th ran Man who sIngs before the tha curtain In Kismet In whIch Otis SkInner is appearing with marked marke l success Is widely known In America as asa asa a concert and oratorio tenors tenor H He receIved his musical education under the late Charles R. R Adams or of Boston Doston and Sir Charles Santley In London For the last six Ix years ho has lived abroad and In thelast the tho last revivals of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas nt at the SavOY theatre In London ho he sang the roles ot of Poo Poo tn in The Tho MIkado and Frederic In Iii The rhe Pirates of Penzance |