| Show I i IN LONDON THEATERS Tiff A 11 I OIl I ONDO Juno June 22 you ny nyI LONDON L I likely iI on l in I J 01 la In Ii tho time to end them t to London Surely HIP Uit Ih Blinde 11 nf or the lilt relI would ex exult could It IL lt the West Vet Wc t 11 iid 1 for fo h play of Ut tho th old Adelphi HI In tn high tavor ll lir r rAmi Ami wI ns IS surely w uld 1 the Iho or nf Sir SI H y living l he chagrined could coul l It II make Ilko it U similar excursion C II all since tho the first important niort nt London ton playhouse 11 t In l bo IJ b dc lIe dov Old v id to tn tl IH IK the Iho tI historic Lyceum L the tho pectin of Ot tho greatest ns al well us as usuf tt t Jils ih eventual Tho Thu now 1111 with London 8 lii ta to ho ha pro dun if I you Ull Would java u II hoodoo house Into n a 1 one nad nd certainly or the th example of if f the th famous Lyceum no little Justification for fOE xiii h a II It 11 will vIII be b IMI fUr Irving h d himself CI Unit lIli spells ruin In III Lou ra ion wil i with to La 0 the tho lust hl t degree l gret tho 1111 Lyceum I was wn turned the Iho two tw IW into Jab a IL 1 nd run on an hows hos ft nIght principle by hy n wealthy r om tho provinces Stark fail failure ure UI was be J 1 II however and for months the theater II 1 a melancholy object abject Then It IL that lint n II t pair of com comparatively nn youthful managers malingers whose ef or orTEs TEs fOI previously hod been borI confined to t the oa atOr t or coster end of f London look tock over tho tilO ancient temple of I t Shako and announced 1 that popular melodrama would II bo ho prodUced there at popular prices The Tl e latter range ra n 1 I t from 10 cents to a dollar uirt nd tin tho production by tile the new neI a lurid piece called Her Hert t ove 01 A tho the World proved the th biggest success known In London in ro 10 roi rout i iM put ut years It has hu been licen promptly for fol followed lowed moreover by a n second production tion t The Midnight Wedding which is s as liS emphatic IL 0 hit as aa iho first and n fervor Cerol with which tho th hero horo and at the tho Lyceum are applauded 1 lightly the villain hIssed recall 1 to 10 old Londoners the days or of Terries TerrIss and lo ns a well us os l of the famous Surrey across the tile ri ii ver It tt may laW be hI said too that of or u a I sort ted America lifts new life to In another London house e that thai has been a IL hoodoo for years Terrys theater having come cOllie In Into Into Into to Its own again with Mrs ot of the cabbage Patch after a l history Isto of o back luck us as perhaps no Ho other London can mUch It Is evident morn atom ox oer ci cr that thai the tho tip lIp Is Js being taken laken for forthe fort the t hr latest howe IB le that the old uld Princess In Oxford street which has lias stood empty tot for several Is Iii now to 10 ho bo reopen reopened rl on ed id and anI with popular melodrama An All Interesting feature In ip connection with this thie 1 Is tho tIza fact that ono one oC of the Interested 1 Is lt no other ohp than limn Sir Ir Arthur Arthu Conan Doyle Doyi who tells me mp that among the futuro productions will be b u ti dramatization of one opo on of o his novels Which one olle Sir Ir Arthur declined to 10 state but perhaps It may my he be The Hound of at the and un unauthorized authorized version of which al at att t has hns been done ilone In Germany That ho can n a popular clay vla ncr without tho assistance of o William Gillette Doctor Doyle already has hll for his hl dramatization or of his hili own OUT Gerard produced by b Lewis Wailer Waller last Insl seasonS season was ww a n huo iuca success and still Is 18 being played In III tho thit th provinces With Ith him at the tho Princess will be lie h associated two veteran makers makem j of nr melodrama In tho thin persons persone of GeorgI H R and Arthur Shirley and as I t hear that thul about will wilt ho he spent by bytho b bI I tho the new management In III transforming the tile old 01 1 theater Into an home of melodrama It Is likely enough that the s of ot the Lyceum experiment will be duplicated there Thu Princess ss by tho the way Is 1 1 the tho Lon London London don flon theater that 11 B F Keith acquired several years ears ago no with the tho Intention of turning It Into a continuous house and why wh this thle Intention was wall not carried nut flit a n L 11 lter In III Circles hoi her herc A further Instance of or the tho tendency In iii London toward of Iho thu oMir tent null Is I to III b be found In hI the he core of ot Mai tin Hut The or 01 Kor lur his hl present Oll lit at UK th IIII hl this 1 lpt ed tour out llla The Thc 1 or fir thu III tt Tics In I imms The TIll Only Vt 1 Thu The Torn unit orAl dill Git t Pos es InK lons the tho th it Iii hi I cu I pl id ey v nf at Jf which w made In III I it hili I Iii column ill 0 time U ino HBO agi This ru i latter hiltI i Ete I by the bye h t til ti Id l lII no II tonIC cume up UI lei Pi It I I wm 1111 Cr ind t uI 11 unless I fled failed to draw ii mw the 1111 t town The Tue star i r fit 01 I trie III suson 1 l OIl however was thC ol Jill l play nittY which III In spill of or I f Its Iti a a I hi au I eti fOnt I anti II lul dialogue ill al igue succeeded sti ed In Iii t I I lIon a 01 01 CIA to lu an oat extent that It 1 It Is to In itt Input 1 put rul on un foi fiti a It run nt III lr theater Ih e soon 1 aH till the th It H war ns of or course one of n the th bl t tI II successes I R of or IrIn his prime hut bUI few expected It II to c the playgoers of the and Harveys j appearance In Ip It was made lunde largely largel M w ww w for 01 the Ihl sake tiko Sll ke of ot doubling tho parts of or the brothers He lie does docs this by the way extremely well ell ellIt It H will HI ho bo seen then thou that hut tho the chances chancel for real American thrillers ri are arc un uncommonly commonly good In London at present Perhaps one of them theta would I bring for fOI fortune fortune tune to another London playhouse which Is under a II cloud the Imperial in hI Westminster which Mrs Langtry built at III vast expense ami which has proved the worst kind of n IL II white So for far as aR Otto one remembers erl there thelo never nover has been a single success there theme Tho Tue Waldorf Is U another playhouse I whose whoso hoodoo might bo be banished by byan b an tin American success of ot the tho melodrama melodramatic tic tie typo t r May lay be In III fact feet since Jn lit the Bishops Carriage Is to 10 be b pro produced produced produced shortly at lit this theater which lass Inn been closed since the tho conclusion of 0 thin tho visit That visit by liy I the tho way nay wa thought though a complete artistic sue BUC cess s did 1 not ho much lo to mend the lie HIIm ma matei tei liil hi fortunes tort U II fleS 1111 ii f t this I house lion e which him has been bp he n a r from rota the till start U n was Willi opened 1 by 11 till the with an nil Eng ElIg English lish of o but this did tIld no great things and a It long series ot of has hits followed including Maudes lc with Acres eros erosH H aol itt lut of af II the th American WRIt with Mis It looks us as If It the redlining returning luste for or melodrama In lit London hind he tu to strike American managers 1 nl ni I judging from fraini William V II I 1110 A U decision to tu Way ity Uon l IIII Kant Kantat at the tho l lIch Neither this thin Ihl piece however howeler urn nor In lii the III IH of If dilute till the order truer of r the Ih which have hl saved saNI the Itte Ih letain natal and 1 which me lire expected to 10 HI M VP the I lu Princes London li 19 yearning for Is IH pt iiii fl th another le ns l of 01 or Fatal Ital Wedding f ai 0 who whoever ever er Id I 1 po 10 i of ot steh In lit tho United Sin I es will tt I II do well to scant 1111 them beta I n cross B forthwith Ci 4 i fl t t r i ID m it I j lt dL I i J t t tI C 1 t i t f t f f ft 4 I t d 4 t 4 i I I I 5 z 1 e t i iN 1 I i Jj If t f d f Ji J 1 1 Y v vy 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