Show U I NEWS OF THE LONDON STAGE I Correspondence O DON o 11 Outside the Ion Tn L don Vaudeville where hero Tho Thia notch Catch of Of the SNI n Is being heln played pastern announce that the tile thee five e hundredth performance Is In I close chose nt at Ct hand 1 this musical comedy Is I expected to 10 t nm on on Oi au In I until the tue begin beginning fling ning of at nt at least boat and 11 uncoil mean meanwhile ICAn while with wih May 11 ns an 18 Its It I heroine the tho piece 1 conies comes to bo be I enjoying finite totIte as I much mull favor rl or II lou n the thu United States It Itis ith 1 h is of juet the old do dory storI of o OIn CIn In provided with wih a modern setting by Cosmo Conino Hamilton and Seymour Hicks Uc and ant has hUR convinced those Interested that lint other as LS familiar themes can 11 be lie made the thc ground work for musical IU comedies That I May Is In to In make her h r reap reappearance ut out the thu Vaudeville in II an otto ul tto date dut musical version vur lol of or bunco O und and Juliet thu telegraphic dispatches it hI y have already announced a and In a od U It I may ia be ho added Idled that thaI Captain hull whoso Idea 1 at lt ot originally worn to lo muke lake Cinderella Into musical play I It thinking seriously ly of or committing the theme me ItIC Indignity y upon Don Dolt Quixote whIte while Seymour 1 b e mOi I Hicks Hll und and Cosmo Ham Hamilton ilton Iton have he their eyes Cel on the numb at comedy possibilities of David no rio less lean S S S SIll The Ill hp Vaudeville version of ot nolen and Auth Juliet I Is in being made by b two tWI ex cx experienced librettists Captain linol and Charles Of at lourse the play which they the are aro writing tar for 1111 May Is In Intended to bear belI only the slightest resemblance to tn the story c Ott f enles lovers for Instance In lot Inthis II this musical mumbo I comedy cooled the antagonism between the tue and ant the tho becomes n it I feud between aristocratic poverty orty on oil the one Oll hand l and lowbred plutocracy on the other Hut lInt the tile mi ml onu M t promising thing about the th new nev ne piece piNe Is ho that the score will 1 be he furnished by Ily II Leslie Stuart who composed rn rut and ti mod who alto set Iet people humming Ii 01 in in on oil 01 both buth sides shies of the Atlantic with The riot School Girl airl The Tho bottle and Charles Krohman who control the Vaudeville will produce the new now piece which Is I ex cx pe ted to 10 be he ready red for tur Miss Mien Mays It s II ne neon on Oi hir hr return from her hoer American tour next lext spring shoring It I is I ruther rathel Interesting to learn that for alt all al of ot Sir Arthur Comin Doyles reputation u c he lie Is one Ole of o the many 11 folk toli who want to set et plays 1119 produced and cant ett It Jt seems eelS that inspired by h the of o Sherlock Holmes on out Hii tOto II stage Dr Or Doyle I II conceived the th Idea Idel of ot making a play pil out of or hU his iula cf G a Brigadier did so Manager however toIlet failed to tob tob toh b h attracted by thY I It I I offered It to too a t gOll many lilI iuie fly confided Dr Doyle Do le to an till interviewer this week only in toi have it Or I htmL bat bil 1 I am ani sill confident that It I would make a n gooi 1001 play although hOe tiie managers are uro equally certain that I It t would hO Oil it not Ilot nol I 1 hoped ho ci peth at to t one time I I inc that t I ha oo t Martin Harvey lre would accept It toad and ap at appear pear as aro Gerard Jerard but hut this proved Impracticable In the same lame Interview Dr D DHole Hole Doyle declared d that the work of or pre rr preparing preparIng paring ills his hi Sherlock Holmes HolmeR for tor the tho was uvas entirely that of at William Wilam Gil Gillette GI ill lette hette lete Ho lie took tool my story toxy mild 11 Kir Hr Arthur A u ed It to obtain the beat bl t effect ered 1 I think he lie has han his a C wonderful genius for lor situatIons situation S 5 In lou of o the th t net foot that there thull is j new neus nel play pIl by Piner coming on nn the tho t th sensation of n if this season f OI iem seems Ile likely ly to be the production of Ir Stephen Stophen Phillips Philip Nero which Tree Is lit KI going to tta put on In III January You 11 count on 1 0 tremendous stage effects ut al Hh Ills Majos tys tyl whenever there In is II the slightest ex P t cune cuce for them th l tono their will wi be t b an On uncommonly good excuse CI Ule In Iii II a I play la about shout Nero but hut there ls IB also alHO likely JI to too tobe be he ome sante uncommonly good AOi poetry In PhillIps new lew poetic drama as tie I well 11 ns an ome striking sll nl situations situation There hove have ha b been n few f liner finer works work In the Joist hut decade than the th sortie same authors author Paolo Ild ca given by h George eorge Alexan tier der del there were striking lines In both bolh hit hIS Herod Herol and amid ld Ule and there thero h k reason rOI OI to expect Oven even better ietter beler things H In Iii Il Nero Sera that U Is Ii because helt e the tue char character tooter acter of ot the emperor haa hua at lit this ever II Lou lince Ik hil his hk boyhood bo In tact fact Stephen Phillip ii l told un uIn UI the other IlY that tha t toll tiu th opening lInes of nf hut bin hit drama were wel written whet when he lie was wan only 15 lr ii Phillips Is lii I convinced html thul Nero XIII was 11 no monster but hut above toll all I things n a 1 dreamer ami tuoi a 1 po inet t and ld In of or till this View leo he hue P out hunt as soon an as al he hue the purple he lie to the imperial court the lion 11 lager finger 11 tr Tern Tori nu nun and In henceforth ii h devoted himself hll to music painting sculpture and anc tho corn com m position of or verse S S S The lol for Cor or art says MAS Phillips Philip l colored every er thought anti and action t f bis hii IB life ilfe kven when he hue Ir hI committed it iL L murder I be lit III the th artistic pos pOH possibilities i 4 at bi I I ties the hoe tragedy Ille ly y eta u I ti afford to forth And a I when to tn him was vas IM hut but a aitt i nf itt l seconds nut and hu ho heard the tb I CU indue t of horsemen ent ll to kill him o Klong the road moat he lie fell rell to tu quoting toni I er pr and amid tiled died exclaiming What luat an artist 1 Is IB lout host lo t In me mule Such wim ivila 11 the hue ni Nero I have hl Vt endeavored ndel to te In Ito n my mv play Us tin Nero Nr an ron n a target for the of or three tl ti g maternal love lov of nr tili I motel as tool tod cli roan t of out Poppa the beautiful an n tumid and the th tell len del tier der devotion of the th slave Acts Acte who ho 1 remained faithful to the thA emperor even een utter after loIs his hi death The Tue he action of rut his hint play 1111 II place partly at nl Komo HOlo and had partly at UnIon thou the famous rt HomAn plenum resort which should give a 1 duane change for some ome Im effective stage pictures Tue last tableau will show ho the tho hurtling burning of or f th eternal city rl lout but hit of nt Neros view Ing the tho conflagration front from a Il tower lower ringing the elegy of or the tho th em enu perot In Is II seen een len trembling with wih f tear Clr nr awe at the sight Ight Tree fre will iIii wi of out course tUUt 1 lw ho Nero IO whIP the pat part nt ot of i Wl will b II tie played 1111 In by jy Collier Coller who Mho H I now appear log ing II In HI Hl Ills as p Nancy Naney In Ito II oil wr tr r If I I f the new 11 Stephen Phil 01 lips hips PlAY Piny I II he n to success it goes goen IOB without Phi ahu that it I will whit be ho Khel In Ito the thu S S I haw whose new pta Major ts is II to to be lie hI given GIen on th iii tho 2 lh I 11 it i L 10 II I th tb t ourt company 1 the other ether day hl It ht IK lot saId ald to have I II Ild halo mai maian an uncommonly favorable 11 Impression I This II Iti In n three acts n as Mr calls u It opens open In the tho I library ut itt iUt lt house In wn AVI ton Crescent ele cent titter after which the thc action II ho s transferred to the thin West Vest e t Hum hanoi abel shel tex ter of ot tho tito Salvation Army AVOn The b be 11 bl 1 of or time tho third act Is In also laid hold In iii ac Lady Lad library hue Hie hlo second leeond half f among tho thio high explosive sItcom sheds nt lt the Ito arsenal of ot ibid and 1111 near nOlI tho Iho model town of nf Bt St An drews dle Dy Uy the WilY way the present Show Shaw Shu I son at tot lt the hue Court has hall drawn some distinguished II auditor Tho The king hInt him elf lo it Still saw I John Hulls Other Othol Island a 1 recent rHent audience at nt tho play pil house houMe bun no In I ot S its numbered both hOlh ho Lb tho tue Duk Dul mind and Duchess of ot Connaught and the tho prime 1110 minister ClUTIS flItON |