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Show ALICE NORTON, At the Orpheum Next Week. PLAYS AND PLAYERS. James K. Hackett is planning a tour in a repertory of his former plays, including "The Walls of Jericho." Charles Dalton has been engaged to support Mrs. Patrick Campbell Camp-bell and Mrs. Beerbohm Tree in "Electra." "Father and the Boys," the comedy written by George Ade for William Crane, is one of the American plays which Charles Frohman selected to produce in London. "Sampson," the new play by Henri Bernstein, author of "The Thief," will be given its first American production at the Lyceum Theatre, New York, September 8th. It is announced that a fine set of the first four editions of Shakespeare's Shake-speare's plays which belonged to the late Bishop of Truro are to be sold at public auction in London. Charles Frohman has secured the American rights for "L'Amour Vieille," a play now running at the Comedie Francaise in Paris, and it will be seen in this country next fall. Otis Skinner's new play, "The Honor of the Family," is pronounced pro-nounced by the New York critics to be one of the strongest plays the celebrated actor has ever appeared in. Paul Armstrong and Rex Beach, collaborating, have produced a farce entitled "Going Some," which will be presented to the public for the first time Easter Monday, in New York. "The Agitator," a London success, has been secured by Jessie Busley, who expects to make a big success, financially, when she starts on the road in the ppring. The leading part, it is said, will suit Miss Busley in every way. Mrs. Beerbohm Tree, who is in this country to play Clytem-nestra Clytem-nestra in Mrs. 'Campbell's production of "Electra," is coming back to the United States again with her husband, who will present "Nero," and some of his other recent productions. The failure of "The Secret Orchard" in New York will not affect af-fect its presentation in London by Fanny Ward, nor its production in Paris, following the London engagement. And the chances are that it will prove a success across the pond. |