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Show Charles Frohman Home With Big Budget of Plays "I here secured plays gnd contracts with plavrights in America. England. France and Germany. Augustus- Tbomss has agreed that I shall have the com ' edy he is now writing. Porter Emerson Emer-son Browne hss completed g new play for me called "Seg" and is now at work on another play. Thompson Buchanan Bu-chanan has also completed a play for me, and A. E. Smith is at work for me on a new plav. I ahall also have a play by- Winrhell Smith and a new eomedr bv Martha Morton, which she will deliver Hentember 1, and a new drama by William Gillette, who will finish this plsv during the winter be fore ha resnmes his stsire work. scenes, and a plot of Ihe coherence that made 'The Dollar Princess ' such a success. suc-cess. It hss modern dreasea and uni forms. Moonlight and love aceaea are the principals of its charming- atmosphere. atmos-phere. Mr. Brian's leading woman will be Julia Sanderson, and hia comedians will include Frank Moulan and Will West. I hava another musical eomedv bv the same author, Leo Fall, called 'The Doll Girl,' entirely different in its treatment. It haa music which ripples like laughter and eomedv of the farcical farci-cal quickness. The English versions of both 'The Siren' and 'The Doll Girl' are the work of Harry B. Smith. "I have the London Mavmarket. the atre eomedv success, 'Lady Patricia,' in which Mrs. Patrick Campbell is now playing. I have also a Vienna eomedv called there 'The Guardsman,' but which I shall call 'The Actress.' It is by the author of 'The Devil, Frani Molnar. In October I ahall produce in New York Pinero'a comedy which ran all winter in London, called 'Preserving 'Pre-serving Mr. Panmure. ' " "I am to have the new play which J. M. Barrie is to write immediately after he finishes hia 'Peter Pan novel. I am to have the new eomedv whirh Sir Arthur Wing Pinero is now writing, writ-ing, a new drama by Alfred Sutro. a, new comedy bv B. 0. Carton, the author of Lord and Ladv Algy. ' I shall have the new play that Somerset Maugham is now writing. It is a eomedv in four acts with two of the seenes laid on this side of the ocean. Besides these I have secured a new play which Haddon k Chsmbers is now writing, and a new plav which ia to be produced in the autumn bv Hall Caine in London Henri Bernstein, the French, gnthor of 'The Thief,' is at work on 8 new drama that I shall have. I have a new eomedv eom-edv written bv Caillavet and de Flers. called 'What Woman Wills.' which may be produced here before its Paris production. pro-duction. - Maude Adams In London. "John Drew will open the Empire theatre's seaeoa early in September with a eomedv called 'A Single Man, by Hubert Henry Daviee, the ant nor of . Cousin Kate' and 'The Mollusc' Mr. Davies will come to New York for the production in August. Maude Adams will again appear in New York in 'Cbantecler.' And during her engagement en-gagement here she will give special matinees which T shall announce as 'Msude Adams' Afternoons With J. M. Barrie.' as the lattter has written three short plavs for her, running fifty minutes min-utes each. One ig called "A Little . Plav." another ia called 'Judy' and the other ia still unnamed. In 'A Little Lit-tle Play' Misg Adams will appear in a double role and in 'Judy' aha will appear in a most novel character, another an-other one of the Barrie surprise. Mian Adams will continue In 'Chanteeler' until next July, when she will leave for England to make her first appear - anr.e in London. Her season will open in s new plav followed hv'Chanteeler' and TAiglon.' Ethel Barrymore ia to follow John Drew's engsgement at the Empire theatre in a line plav by A. E. Mason called 'The Witness for the Defensor1 De-fensor1 whirh has been running for months at the St. James theatre, London. Lon-don. Billie Burke will appear in September Sep-tember in a new four-act comedy called The Runaway,' br Pierre Vcber and adapted by Michael Morton, who adapted 'My Wife,' the play in which Miss Burke made her first appearance in Js'ew York. Naxlmova In Bepertolre. "For Madame Naiimova. who now begins her first season under ray management, man-agement, I propose a widely varied repertoire rep-ertoire of comedy and drama that will include two plays written- bv a new American playwright, with the see nee laid in America, and never previously produced on aay stage. - Along with these play Madame Nazimova will appear ap-pear ia a new comedy by the author of 'The Comtesse Coquette,' never previously pre-viously produced. I also bring her a modern play from the French. "At the Criterion theatre in September Sep-tember I shall produce Haddon Cham-bars' Cham-bars' play 'Paasrra Bv. ' whirh is now running at Wvndhsm 'a theatre in Lob don. Haddon Chambers will be ia New York for its production. Marie Doro will appear about the middle of October Octo-ber ia the four-act plav 'A Butterflv on the Wheel,' which is bow running at my Glob theatre, London. Otis bk taper ta-per will open about the middle ef October Oc-tober in s new play bv A. E. Thomas Kyrle Bellow will come to New York is - s new play about New Years ' time: previous t that he will make a tour as far west aa San Francisco. Hattie WUliama will have a new comedy readv for production in October, and I shall present Francis Wilson in 8 new com edy called 'The Magic Ring." William Wil-liam H. Crane will open his aeaaoa ia October and he will have the choice of two American comedies. , Donald Brian to star ia "Tne KlraaL" "I ahall present Donald Brian aa a star at the Knickerbocker theatre at th end of August in a new musical plav bv the authors af 'The Dollar Princess,' called 'Th Siren.' It has all th element of tn nreheaUatiena. rav ' max table nioaieal taaies, and novel love |