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Show - I ' 'I M j V con- r;-, v.: : u f.:;- '"5 w- Vs cr -2gf -t-.X at V. Zs.lt . J-c' i Th iter, v ;:i be t r. : -el a private. pri-vate. cr;an recital at the Tabernacle ' this afternoon. Prof. McCIellan saw the rrf - cf "Ar:-?r.a," :::-r..:y r'skt i fend ai so pleased with the players that he volunteered an organ recital. The play was presented a fourth, time last niht to a good-sized audience and indications are that the engagement i wij prove one of the season's record breakers. Managers Rowland and Clifford wl'j r resent the talented Irish comedian, Thomas J. Smith, in "The Game Keep-f Keep-f r" at the Grand theater tonight. "The Game Keeper" has a strpng plot, full rf t'raraaUc situations, and although having larp-ely for its theme the unreasonable un-reasonable laws of Ireland, it is in no way sensational. It does not bore the audience with scenes that are unreal; on ! the contrary every art known to stage 1 realism has been utilized to make the l effect as natural and picturesque as pos-sible. pos-sible. The play pictures Ireland and Its yeople in a true and faithful manner. jJhe company that will Interpret the -ydirterent characters In the play is a - S strong one and Managers Rowland and Cliftord's personal guarantee is given that it will be a first-class performance. - Mlsa Agnea Mulr, who plays Bonlta in "Arizona," thrilled the matinee audience audi-ence yesterday by Inserting a little "business" which the stag director had not counted1 upon. During the trial scene In the last act, after Denton Is acquitted. Bonlta rushes off the stage . to find Eetrella, As the little heroine reached the- edge of the footlights her feet slipped from under her and she fell violently to the floor. One of. the players play-ers assisted Jiiss Mulr to her feet and she pluckily -went on with the perform- ' anca. ' - . r --:.;. War among the theatrical circuit managers may result in making of the Grand a theater for flnrt-class attractions. attrac-tions. : Stair A Havltn, the managers of the popular-priced circuit, have de-chared) de-chared) their Intention to put In a circuit of high price theaters in eighteen of the principal cities next season because the' Klaw-Erlanger syndicate has insisted in-sisted on-sending out popular-priced attractions, at-tractions, a part of the theatrical business bus-iness . which Stair A Havlin consider their province. Stair & Havlin are promised the co-operation of Harrison Gray FiskeV James E. Hackett and the v Henrietta Crosman management. They will continue their popular-price houses at present, but merely as managers of theater and booking agents. Next season sea-son they Will own no plays and will manas no producing companies, their only Interests being as the head of the t6 circuits. The theaters which they announce as being In the new circuit are; Lyceum. Toledo (to be remodeled) ; Majestic, New'Tork; Majestic, Boston; v VXuditQrtum, Philadelphia; Maryland theaterv Baltimore; Lafayette, Wash- I lnr:on;' Empire. Pittsburg, Lyceum. Cleveland; Lyceum. , Detroit; Grand opera-house, Chicago; Great Northern. Chicago; Grand opera-house, St Louis; Walnut Cincinnati; Grand, Kansas City; Grand, San Francisco; Grand, New Orleans;. Grand. Toronto; Grand, Columbus; Grand, Indianapolis; Empire,- Providence, and a new house in . Denver. Manager Hammer of the Grand stated last night that the Grand . Is In the Stair-Havlin circuit, which means it will get all the first-class attractions at-tractions that are sent West by that circuit . .. r-.. Ellen Terry evidently thinks she can make money in the country on her own accounts At any rate, she seems to have definitely split with Henry Irving. The latter has. It Is stated, permanently engaged another leading woman, and Miss Terry 1 arranging for a long American tour the coming autumn. ' Stuart Robson and Joseph Jefferson stand today the leading exponents of comedy in the United- States. Jefferson in his career has played 117 different characters, but Robson has played 697 different roles. ; When it is stated the actress Annie Russell has been playing for the past - thirty years, ideas of her being a venerable ven-erable lady are apt to suggest themselves. them-selves. But such an Impression Is very wide of the mark. Mies Russell made her debut at the age of 6 In a child's "Pinafore" company. She was born in Canada and is the eldest of three children, chil-dren, each of whom won success on the stage.' Her sister, Marion, followed An- - nie Into theatrical life, but soon-married and retired. Tommy, the young- est of the tribe, developed talent at the age of 10. and was selected by Mrs. I 1 Frances Hodgson Burnett to create the f part of Little Lord Fauntleroy in her play of that name. At the age of 12 ' Tommy was earning $125 a week. He was a beautiful child and the women went wild over him, but when his voice changed - and "his w hiskers began to grow he fell out of fashion. - a ' popular player was recently relating re-lating some happenings when he was barnstorming through the West. The hotels were of a character that left much to be desired, and one house in particular he considered the limit. In th morning when the men of the company com-pany met In the hotel office after breakfast, break-fast, one odwhem said to him: "How did you sleep last night?" 'I didn't sleep at all," was th reply "I was kept awake by Insomnia." Then the landlord spoke up and wrathfully said: "I'll bet ye five there ain't one in the house!" - . - |