| Show STAGE NEWS I Correspondence ONnON March 3 U ti tulle LONDON L ly I that before either r sha or II th public heru realizes it May Ia de deSousa i Sousa SOIl I this the pretty American II who II c now principal girl nt lit Drury will wll have ha become nn In cs 11 stage favorite In London and that Ihal In n It few months more eve every eVer ry r ono ana will have that she ohe Is n product of ot the United That seems to 10 be tho Iho of American tArN of or the Drury Luna pun of whom there thre have bell been sev e eIraJ end IraJ recently There was Wall MU IKO Leas Leasing ing In for Instance Erstwhile the belle of 0 the New York Casino Hh atIe her London how In th show nt the Lane und directly It 11 vas IA over i found her II offered f RH a I lore lort with tho result that ulie hl oon wua to t in her lieI native nalle land At t the Ille present moment sho Is on of ot the most mo t 1011 popular lar performer nt at tho London toll ull where she he Introduced l My Molly and anil IH IN now no other American IH I also Murie An American favorite too ulio I ho took tho Drury 1 r Lan lne by h us UI thu little girl 1111 in hi the Mother Iother pantomime then became ti IL top loP liner at tho Palace ond other leading I hall nod hut him lately I bp hp ii playing i ian an A In The White i the Criterion musical which is I toon to bo sent over oer to 10 tho States SillIes In fact rather ruther likes to tn bor hor borrow row ro comely young women from the States and then not give gle them back Billie lurke IH IK u I wood example net lIot to mention Edna Muy Iu who by the tha way ln Is due nt ut Vaudeville rett noon In III I J llIe now piece Tho of or Billie Burke came over Oll here to sing n u w songs un at thu tho Pavilion but J Ja d her up Ul she t AP pears In tho School then th n In InThe 11 The f of or l und latter latte latterly ly Iy In The Moon with tho result re that If It Burke now remembers that she sh waR wan n daughter of et the and sho ho is s one of ot tho fuw who ho do Pauline Chaee too loo The dainty Pink 1111 of at The Liberty Belles nelle may ma return permanently to 10 own land III lid some day but It hardly seemu 1 for ehe has not Mt only scored hugely hugel with the public here and become a 1 with the picture postcard bajer hut but iho nan hIlA also won the artistic heart of J M 1 Harlle and it Is IA not that ho hll will allow her to 10 be 6 out Olt of ot the tho cast of ot many man of ot hU hl l future pIU d Sho iho was wall on of or the hits of or hiM Pantaloon likewise of or his Peter peler Pun Jun and Americans may mil have noticed that I when Miss MIs wan formally bliP I tf ed at lit a II London church other r dl Mr 11 Barrie Burrle stood as li lIr r K und another of equal distinction tion Ellen Terry n her To return to II May do 10 however ho er thero lire arc already ully that London IM III going to borrow her from tho United Slates for UN till soon hH her nt Drury Is Dim la Islo to appear with Harry HArr In h a I now no play which Cosmo Hamilton who hll with Seymour In III Tho I of tho Is now IIO writing of Is the Iho r Frenchman a 11 reputation In 1 I b h ro for or tho time lime In the Drury Lano pantomime winter and PC I u prompt s rho play which Hamilton in III writing for ful thin pair of or Is I nut not named yet ct hut but It Il promises and III whether hether It ur or nut di Ih la n not lIot likely to tob II b allowed to 10 leavo London 11 ii 1 us 1 hc ie can call wing 1111 dance im III UH II clio Is now doing nightly In III Cinder r dill Ha t It wax waH u IL lucky IUd moment In III which Mario t decided stio llo could o betler than In III I opera ra for she h now hll H II niche all to III on Oil tho English In saucy I comedy romI that on Oil tho 1110 of farco tarco them th Is la no un nn i to tt with Her and that thai Is Just jUHt the sort of part Iho hau In Hu produced by h Frohman nt lit tho Duko of u Yorks thU week w Tho lon especially be bu tho Ih Is by h a r new author Ernest Denny Jill Its story Is III not noL clear And would not lIot b ho ut lit nil 1111 convincing ing In If tr It II were not 1101 for rOl tho H N of ot Its ILs chief two Interpreters Miss Tem Tempest pest und Of ml I hilt but Its ILl dialogue li III delightfully bright and un fo forc rc vl I and It In II with amusing It seems that a Il peer whoso Iho o is I In tl him hils invited to his hili housu the tho Irish widow of nt a It ami lilt tho widow has brought her hN daughter Peggy Tho peers mother IK Is by his hili evident fondness for pcr a II younger son lion to with her hor and ills tract her attention non 1 promptly falls falla In lovo with Peggy lelly Th lesten of that minx however is not lIot lo to loII II nd a n for tor herself hut but to tn marry her mother oft off to In tho Ihl peer To this end nho sho hall been beell secretly married to tho younger son Of ot course In the end bolh loth couples t married after complications more than ordinarily If It tho 1110 now nn author gets hold nf ot a I stronger und clearer Mory n time ho Is 18 sure to tobe be hc un Important addition uI to III ex extremely limited company of ot successful British playwright nil OWN |
