Show Rupert HUgheS Hughes has Shubert that Florence Roberts Roberta broken the contract entered the playwright and the Shi Sh which stipulates that there will willit it Interpolations in the text of ot his I IThe The Transformation because d the recent earthquake in California actress made a speech to the tile stricken audience and succeeded Un venting a stampede which might resulted in much loss of life Hughes Hughes' letter unique In many wa as follows S h The Central Park studios 15 15 Sixty seventh street New My Dear Shubert I am compelled to call your cent breach of ot my contract with Miss Florence Roberts while pl The Transformation In San Jose permitted th the action of t the play play-i I J rr Te Interrupted t d by y a mere earthquake h passant and paused to quiet the theof of ot the audience before continuing the dialogue fim My contract however stipulates no interpolations shall be made it text without my consent If It th thi had been held HP Id until a tel could be sent to me I would che have wired back an appropriate sj sf but I must protest against the mf of ot my plays play's s artistic Integrity cause of a cataclysm Mt It If If you think it desirable I will w speech to be used for future cyclones or other acts of ot God The extemporized by Miss Roberts wen dently the very reverse of ot they had a calming and they neither brought down the ho hod raised the audience out of Its I Please do not let it happen again Trusting that I may have nOI norl cause for complaint I am yours truly RT HUGI HUGHI S a S Bright lines from the German OJ opi Madame Troubadour M MA A Literary Amateur Amateur I I lave giver give to an idea His Wife Yes Wife Vi Yes and youve been i ital atal a atal tal Invalid ever since since S Poets are born not born not paid 3 The chevalier an old reprobate tempting to reunite his niece and h band says Marriages are only when husband and wife deceive other Theres There's s lots of time foras for as they grow older If It marriage vows are broken husbands husband's s duty to do the break Chevalier Is Is your husband His Niece Spotless Niece Spotless as marble as warm Garlic Is the only literary vs va which gives ives an air all of bohemian sal Sni dining room S SS f Chevalier Now Chevalier Now that I know m y another nother S I do not see why you a ad husband should not lead a ye ve very happy life Ufe Miss Beatrice Roberta Forbes 5 S 5 It ItS S S S HALLETT THOMPSON i As Charley Chancy Steele in The E.- E. the Way at leave the New ew theatre compan compaU end of the New Nework ew York ork season to western lecture on suffrage Miss Robertson has delivered se seon several on the subject in New York io a t that the cause needs her more the stage moret S f The most popular play of ot the gr gri Ibsen has after all be Pillars of Society While attention f a has had any considerable tJ country countr it was produced over Jf in Europe prior to 1900 part of the repertoire of ot most ot of m stock houses If y New York witnessed ed the pre this play on Easter Monday t Harrison Grey Fiske present i Fiske and the Manhattan compau I. I H 1 Lyceum theatre New York 5 run of two weeks Mrs Fiske do Gerhart Hauptmann Hauptmann's s flan lIan In conjunction with It tt the M t company will I 1 give the on one one one-I a aThe I The T Green Cockatoo at bYl r The entire enga limited to f four weeks i Harrison Grev Grey e Fiske and M Mrs Mr and careful P pre have made long Ibsen's a s of ot Ibsen fourth for tor this this the which they have done Mrs IF F e study of the made a particular over two years and is risking H H ships of an extra spring season benefit benefit of f of this w the public t the The urme title of te Pillars l of Society of I Ibsen Ibsen's s titles titles titles-an an iron ro so many to the story of fe his drama m The pillar of society in quest captai certain Consul Bernick a to use e Carlyles Carlyle's a J 5 n A. A l' l g phrase i He e eu is u the personification I ts jA a J I normal normal critical respectability towns towns and and he is protected bYl lying silence which holds it nit so carefully in small social cir l kj wraps around its consciousness jj garment after atter garment of ot false p 1 q spurious US indignation and nay a Consul Bernick as a 0 by no means e the model of t dT ss to be s lie i is h haunted n In inthe ory of a hideous scandal the protagonist but from th which he was saved by the chiV J friend who himself assumed t t s lot l'- l' ot of disgrace S The return of oC the friend nd In Johann Johan leads to a an dram dramatic unexpected Incidents bv by lb Ibsen with that exQUIsite Sitt S N. N b bed skill which has caused him I tO ed as a master of stagecraft TI 1 force k to con S in pieces pieces' tIll tb wrongdoing to tear pie of lies h has concealed himi clear observation of ot his It of honesty The moving spit spirit In the whole matter is Lona Lena lii II k t tuner thinker emancipated i w wC lurer representative of social condillo ini I- I an anthan long run far more wholesome petty than v t those minded edh which and hd p prevail trI I In i ii t I i iThe towns ts tio ties ties' distinctive of If small mahi The play ends with one of tM the f I of which once phrases For mast forgotten rarely ho was he was also naSte J as maker eor 4 There J There is f another th learned these past few tew K women woman are the real ral OU you a pOOrs Miss Iliac Hessel fhe h have sie learned d brother nN No tn the th tb y w they are truth and liberty lars bars of society |