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Show H. PLAYS AND PLAYERS. M j Marguerite Snow is said to be the W. j youngest leading woman on the stage. Kj i She plays the part of the widow in KJ George Adc's comedy, "The College Widow." KJ Madame Nazoniva, the Russian act- KJ rcss, who has been astonishing New KJ I York by her delineations of the char- H nctcrs of Ibsen's women, will be seen KJ soon in a new play by Owen John- M son, "The Comet." 'it will be staged KJ in Wcw York during the holidays. 1 'i KJ Miss Isabel Irving is srid to pos- KJ scss the finest library of dramatic KJ i works in America. In private life KJ Miss Irving is Mrs. William II. KJ Thompson, wife of the well known H character actor. 1 KJ Bonita, prima donna of "Wine, KJ Women and Song" company, will be H the star in a new comic opera that KJ Mortimer M. Theise is having writ- H ten for her next season. Augustus Thomas, who wrote "The Education of M'r. Pipp," founnd material ma-terial for the comedy in Gibson's celebrated ce-lebrated picture scries bearing the same title, and last season the play was one of the New York hits. Mrs. Fisk has concluded a tour of Texas with the Manhattan company in "Tess of the D'Urbcrvillcs" and "Leah Kleschna." Her experiences in the big state were interesting in many particulars. Sometimes she landed in a town where a theatre wis opened to her and sometimes she didn' . In the latter event she persuaded per-suaded vaudeville houses to suspend their regular shows and give her the right of way. . Edward Marindcll, singing "My Totem Pole" in "The Alaskans," completely captivated San Francisco, during the engagement of "The Alaskans" Al-askans" in that city, he having proven prov-en a greater favorite than Teddy Webb, who has long been regarded as one of San Francisco's favorites. , Blanche Bates has returned to ilic Bclasco theatre, New York, as Minnie Min-nie Smith, in "The Girl of the Golden Gold-en West." She was given a warm greeting in the western play, which Puccini ha,s said he will set to music as he did "Madame Butterfly.'' Her stay at the Bclasco will be short, for she is billed to visit the middle west with the Bclasco play and may bring it as far across the continent as the scenes the drama depicts. George M. Cohan has temporarily retired from the stage in order to complete two new plays. "The Waltz Dream," a new light opera by Oscar Strauss, is to be produced pro-duced in January. Andrew Mack has closed his second sec-ond tour of Australia, where he has met with great success. The actor's future plans have no', been definitely settled. Joseph Hart has entirely abandoned aband-oned acting and become a producer of vaudeville pov. Ities. His wijfc, Carrie Dc Mar, also has entered vaudeville n a single feature. w Julia Marlowe has returned from Europe. A next tour will begin in a modern play. Richard Buhlcr, who was for many years leading man under the management man-agement of Charles Frohman, and is the author of the historical drama "Paul Revere," is going into vaudeville. vaude-ville. Robert Edeson will soon take "Classmates" for a tour on the road. |