Show tY J 3 r Sr y ii r t i a a c y jc C ts 3 PT t 5 S S a 4 Mi MiC a C 1 y F 7 1 u a r rw d rl I 4 J g tX t i-t 1 A Aw r tJ t 1 h ht hf r w b r u fj t G Gt f t t 4 F Fa a f os r C iM tit t 1 Jt fi o k r i j r ra 4 J LM II 67 1 d m md d v 6 4 t 7 M Ma a N Z t r if Jf 7 if 4 f fj j d fb 0 d. d Ellen at the Music Festival Monday night directed dif eliI di- di Sa a t Lako Male Chorus which will the assist Festival Chorus in the rendition of Max Mas Bruchs Bruch's Fair f f I by Squire Coop STAGE E COMMENT YBY BY VINA VANE p J feller r. r on of and company of six lep c i a I I t tour n next week a Told I version i of f the tho Rip Van twill which the actors actor's Illustrious I is s so long Ions associated 1111 rs ns and Eva Tucker whose sy oC of J L wel t typos types ps remains one of t. t ht It spot of th the Orpheum's first firste e to return to vaudeville after attN l jice t 1 Q e of e Years years They rhey are arc still sUIl YA Driftwood b Ward Vard clones her Hr American tour h N New w Lady Lad the latter April Jh h will sail at once forto for foe to b h b sin do In 1 rehearsals of The Thew w w. by hy L Leo Lee f Arthur and Forrest n willed j-ho j he will appear In her herson son ason S cd d 11 become the legal allU 4 AT u JJ I Irwin and her i Mi lIl J Carouse the the 4 e sk I teli that thai the tho Judge of he the ei c crIn court uj-t uj t at Buffalo is 18 now i to determine whether t vehicle hide Mrs I's a Pl pit vent nt Mix lIx an i on Mrs Airs Peck Peck- C U let ill w well t it known to local tr s hay lust Just given iven trial In In iW w York of new acts tW r l Julius iulius Steger V. I t tc the tho Heart what VH- VH nl new nw vehicle that easily t PI m The Fifth Coin Coin- I i tidal lolle French r. r i. i again In ht New York hi t lie K hi songs in white cos- cos th i h k ar if n a white and lark bat background and special it ts I. mother another popular play play- t id i'd I Ills his bridges and ants run an runt ts it t is II It David Belasco Mr AU w t u t i d any definite he t t lug a ui II 1 e for 01 rely holy week weck Ii ui IJ j ih II year ar aI In theatricals in inq q j Nt es e u u.'s us I Her success j IiI I J I has been lieen m t 1 Y Y ten p i l r I closes in is June Itt II II 11 till ill 11 make Ke w n n. short aholt visit r nun in ill to b begin ln her heri I 1 of r n i n II nw w t play ilay The Widows Widow's fray finy ht I tl I I y had a n. gOIn gOI good n tJ h ic ili It ili Ja l. l Grey ny I II a tai tl th the stars oo t it ool will hill II ar a-ar together lORether ethe next I I a 1 n 1 1 1 h l' l d J d n f r 1 ii fore bi-fore the sum sum- r ts I tIn I lu ius 1111 DIV v n. n nui t j. j iv n 11 foot in Russian II and amyl nd 1111 1 I in honor the memory IJ I I a. a di the Polish It hu I d in ill April sc S. S Ills rte c do to for memo oro I rial services and a statue of or Mme 10 1 Modjeska Mod Mod- 1 jeska leska will be erected in th the foyer of the I Warsaw theater A committee is work- work In log ins in Austrian Poland to erect another statue at the Lemberg theater On May 9 Tim Murphy opens an en- en Chicago in My lily Boy If th the play is successful Brady fluty will ar arrange arrange ar- ar range to send their star to New York I ar-I City I t Francis Franls Wilson will 1 ec at a special special cial dal matinee in Baltimore his own three three- act comedy The Tho Bachelor Baby This I Is the first play from Mr Wilsons Wilson's ped jerf to be given a public production Eugene has completed The be I Circus Man which Klaw w I c have obtained far lor Maclyn i wA A Arbukle b 1 for next season Beason There are thirty-five thirty speaking speaking speak speak- ing parts in the play which will be on the same big order as The Round Up and an Ben Den Bur I Charles Frohman has cabled his New NewYork YOlk York k office that arrangements had arrangements had been made for tor the appearance of Billie Burke Durke In Love Lov Watches V In London during l teJo ronco May Two w months 7 later her company will go from Crom London to San Francisco a distance of miles Little Nemo Klaw Erlanger's clangers bl big musical comedy will go 10 t to London next year if It a a. theater can be bo obtained Meantime Meang Meantime Mean Mean- time it is making Il a o stay aY In Chicago g isTO Too Joe Cawthorn tI or Billy Van V and t Harry HarlY Kelly r with Klaw v ErlangEr Er- Er hanger langEr for fol another season season There is every overy reason to believe that Hiss lIss St. St George Hussey the celebrated el Irish actress will soon Boon be lie 8 seen 11 in vaude vaude- vaudeville vaudeville yu ville le In fir the west In Comical Concep- Concep She is well wc-Il JUl Known thrill gin lt ghI tit Jowa Iowa having played Irish character character- r parts whit organizations is Fannie Ward Vard Ward is about ll to lo druse her hu American tour tout In hr Tho The New Lady Ban nan lock luck t lie Iut will sail salt at once oneo for London to begin of The Higher Law Jaw aw by Leo ce Arthur an and 1 Forrest Halsey Halse In which sho alo will appear In her London sea sea- son Non For Fey li curtain raisers this accomplished play player s' s liON has Channing Pollocks Pollock's one act With tier Her Hack Bacle to tho the theWalt Walt Wair and Eugeno Eugene Walters Walter's rho Flag Station The Tile Alaskan bas Ims got off orr to a lying flying start at the Great Northern theater Chi ago eago ago making malting an emphatic hit with the pu public arid and the newspaper reviewers revl Jilts Hits were made by the singers lIl Air Mr Martindel Mr Muff Hurt and Miss Mills II b. b and b Ih rom corn ediano Mr Carroll and find Mr t. t Tho music ranges ranged ran eK from the till lively lI el rhythm of specialties to lo the flu tl dramatic finale of or tho act and when there is no music if Is t fun tun in abundance Charles Chic t has hili selected Hattie Williams to lo In Inaugurate au t I next season his new III poll fore for the 1111 Garrick theater In New Mow York which is henceforth to bu be made the home bomE only of ot comedies and to tobe I be occupied the th year round by Miss Williams Williams Wil Wil- liams llama and William Collier Miss 1 Williams Williams' first appearance In several years in tomorrow tomorrow tomor tomor- straight comedy will wm be effected row roV evening at Schenectady in a new three act comedy The Tho iho Marriage of a Star r It he became came known last week that Charles Charl s E E. Blaney Blancy the theatrical manager and I Cecil Spooner his favorite star have been man and wife for fo some time The in ceremony was performed some time January at t Bowling Green Ky and they kept the wedding a secret Cecil Spooner during her days as a child actress had hada a great following in Iowa the Spooner Dramatic company being one of at the best known companies In the west a dozen or fifteen years ago S t James Forbes' Forbes comedy The Thc Traveling Salesman Is meeting with success at atthe atthe atthe the Illinois theater Chicago It alms chiefly at a humorous exposition of the characteristics of oC the modem modern drummer a atypical atypical I typical American rl character cc familiar r to all 11 It offers good ll clean cut comedy and plenty of character types The original Company comprises Frank l J J. McIntyre Elsie Ferguson William Bench Beach Sarah Mi McVicker Arthur Shaw Percival T T. Moore II D. D rp Nicholas I hum Burn ham io ej Edward J a d i s Richard Ogden J R. R fr C. C Turner fumeI and Maude 1 B. B Sinclair lr Lincoln J. J J Carter whose name has been connected with melodramatic productions for tor many years and who was Wits for for for-a a 0 number number num num- bp ber of years own owner r of tho Criterion theat theater r. r Chicago on Sed street near Division street has ha sold the theater to Earl r II Macoy IC president of f the National National Na Na- o Printing I. I tI and d Pj Engraving I c company p for fo and ami Mr 11 Macoy will hold the property for rOI Investment In There are uro stores stoles and offices In the building and the theater theater theater the the- ater is und under r lease to Charles Challes K N. Kohl of or orthe the Western Vaudeville Managers Managers' association association asso asso- elation mid find will willbe be opened August 15 with au vaudeville With vl vigor ol Charles Frohman Frohman Frohman Froh Froh- man has followed up his hold upon tho the American rights of henry new play play pla Le andalo greeted greeted enthusiastically enthusiastically thUlla by 11 Parisian lan critics critics hy by obtaining tho English J rights an IlS well to the piece plc Lo Ie Scandale is ill said to to bo be not only the h best hest lt pl piece cp of or work that lint has thus far conic come from the author of La ra Keeme Nue Sue but it ft Is hailed hulled as one ono of oC tho the most lall interesting Interesting Inter inter- rC r- r esting C Ung plays play's plu tho the French stage has lies seen In III years II I The rhe story is t that ha t of or It an u affectionate trec- trec 11 affectionate mother r. r honest honet and of middle class clatl life who falls a victim virUm to tho the wiles and plotting of or a scoundrel who puts to base buo uses US H an ascendancy 1 gashed gained too loo easily It II la Is In reaching t a D tremendous dl chum a one tile of pardon no so far tar as ilK the tho husband is concerned that th the playwright has shown extraordinary acumen and feeling Charles Charls Pippin of oC Mar pl Md Nd died HerI from the effects of oC drinking stage stape tu C wine Stage wine wille o of course is the concoction served at amateur theatricals theatrical The lesson is plain The next time the townspeople cultivate the drama leithem let lei them see that nothing but the best Maryland Maryland Maryland Mary Mary- land distilled product is served to the talent s s sCharles Charles Cherry and the company now appearing In New York in Clyde Fitch's comedy The Bachelor will start on atour a II atour tour around the world next season They will go to London and from there to tc Cairo Bombay Colombo Madras Calcutta Calc Calcutta Cal Cal- c tta Pekin Yokohama Honolulu and San J. J Francisco S Do you the profession an anold anold anold old darky asked at the box office window of the New Amsterdam theater on the night of Mantell's Lear Why what uncle branch r of Oft the the e Jf affable profession ticket l do t tY Y you seller II belong asked to I is on Massa Frank McKees McKee's farces sah said uncle I got full charge harge o cleaning out his offices lIe He got by Lole Lobe Fuller FuJIer has arrived to supply th the ballet for the Boston opera having trained a class of fifty young oung women according ac according according ac- ac cording to her ideas But she has another another an an- other reason for coming and that is an Invention of at her own for stage scenery Painted scenery Is done away with in its place an arrangement of lights and stereopticons produces what Is wanted to be represented on the stage Porter Emerson Browne who wrote Robert nobert piece A Fool 1001 There Was t takes the prize C In the Playwrights Playwrights Play wrights wrights' r I Opening ln Night Contest Ills His remarks were were brief and pointed and his example might be followed with profit by other members Of his profession Ills speech follows in iii full Playwrights should hould bo be seen and not heard Hear Bear Hear t May Robson Ito llon is to to write her own plays pla s 's sIn in th thC tho future To back ack up her assertion that the thc playwright should be bo an actor tOI she says In the future futuro I Int Intend nl to write my own plays plas B Beginning with Shakespeare Shakespeare Shake Shake- speare a down to our own W time tl and n country u l bep I J the best dramatists t In 1 every r ago have been players It Is not from the tho literary view point that I sp speak sk but of the tho mechanical mechanical me me- or actor quality which it is impossible im inn- possible for laymen to breathe into their work Another Ano Clyde Fitch comedy The Happy Marriage with Doris Keane and Fd Edwin ln A Arden len is about to try its fortunes in New Florence Stone Stolle probably will play Mary Shaw Shaws B role In III th the tho suffragette drama Votes Vote for Women when It is presented In sto stock k In tn Los LOti Angeles IN J and I Kempor Kent Kem- par por have parted company Miss Russell will visit Europe before deciding on her lien next seasons season's business bm arrangements J I III II Holmes Max Alax Finnan's Fi first I lei Irad- Irad Ia l- l in woman iu ill The rho Man Mua ou pa the Ulc Bose J U oW S Jf to be be l woma r for foi r i In a California stock shock k company mia Louis Conaughty a Minneapolis boy is playing an important part in a a. new ro re- romantic mantic drama called Zoll built along the lines of The Prisoner of Zenda Lenda t t David BEI Belasco has secured th the Amerian Amerlan Amen Ameri- an rights right to Die Thur ins Frele Freie Th TJ Open Door and n It will b be produced next f. f f season 1 g Leo Leo Ie ft Ch ln is f to translate translate trans trans- late it r Sam Bernard will appear next season on Ina in ina a a. new musical comedy The King of Caledonia which has had a long run in the tho Prince of Wales Wales' theater in London Alb Albert rt Bruning who was as last season with Mrs 1 Fiske in has been hEen engaged for an Italian role In The Climax to be produced in New York April 12 lL t s The Blue UI Bird Is the title of or Maurice 1 fairy pia play In five acts Not only animals are arc made to talk in this play trees trees fire water and bread also have tongues I Kyrle Bellew will bo presented last season by Charles CharlE's Frohman In The Builder of Bridges a play by Alfred Sutro Sutra which ran all winter In London i Bellew Is to appear In the role created by George Alexander Eugene Va Walter Waiter Iter has written anew melodrama melodrama melo melo- drama called The Last Muster He lie Is also said to be at work upon upon upon-a a new comedy come omo- dy to be called Another Way Was it is likely Charlotte Va Walker ker will be starred under the direction of David Belasco Be Be- lasco |