Show I r THEATRE T GOSSIP 1 NUllee O Jl hulls hilS opened d Ire season on In III The In ht tins hUH signed I a 1 t tH H W WYN N MN NN for tor Il a three months month tour III n South III ht the tho spring liNin John Griffith 1105 secured Ihu pro producing rights ot of SHut Saul ot of Tarsus us by James author of oC The ot of the tho Robert Iii is giving IL a series of oC Shakespearean revivals In Now York which Include Romeo Homco and Juliet Julieta J a RI 1 a p N Ill King J hear nr let Oth lIo The Merchant ut of Venice and Julius Caesar ar Mall Inn Superman In III which is In this country II hll hug Just been ruI 1 at the Court Theater r Crystal has signed 1 D a n five year tf to the tho management or of Chmiel Dillingham next llonel Henri Do will 11 appear III at the tho Theater lass Jw York tills In n a n new play by b an Thu hire Mice II I Ethel will revive reo Clyde IchI later Inter In th the rumen Silo Sho made her Iter first decisive ru I In 1 it lel a now nosy 1111 play with rith the scenes in III London The Tho piny has been accepted by l and is co 0 be litter the lint of oe the tho year Louis Mann alln iI and nd Clara Clarn arc to 10 make their London debut It at the Th the tho latter part lart tIC of this month Th They y will VIII ho bo scan 11 In Miss IIII original comedy Julie lion Bon bon ban I DIxon nix III Jr In last l I seek eek that hu hol arranged for IL a H 10 weeks week nt at the London for Cor the or of Th The Ono Woman The rhe company will salt all On May lay 20 0 Paul 1110 play n I Pal will serve u as thin tho for tor time th debut of oe Charles Charl Cartwright ns as a 11 star lIar under the Shubert rt management Ir CArlin h will open at the Colonial thc I In No w ww Nv n n G 6 Ir hills haH been business fur tOl 10 yeats Parkers play Under Skies a 11 rural thin tho Memos ot of rt nr laid In the tho south Is to 10 bo be Oil an early carl ds 8 Oakland stock company Is III at present In ht San Fran Francis d cis Co o lit thu Davis Theater presenting The Jibe Sign ot of tho rho Thomas Fisher nn an actor formerly a with Booth Char Charlotte lotte CU Cushman and ond Jo Joseph Jefferson has received Into the Old OILI MOil In Thompson It is III reported wIll to the stage next In his hili old of nt Joshua Whit Whitcomb comb In The Old A ju it In New York award od 01 to the tho parents Qt Sara Sam R H Shubert the Iho former head of oC the tho the tho who as killed In 1 a wreck on tho railroad at liar ll on May 10 1901 1 Cecil CedI Raleigh tins hns written IL a new rIllY play for tor Lawrence which wll be seen een lit In thIs country before long The scene Is laid lall In amid the tho II story to except for the central character Is said to bu be serious In an Interview with thu en ot of the tho Theater ter Magazine Edna EdnaMay Ma May saidi lIall My Iy ambition Is to le hayo n II home It a husband and children pier ideal husband I us n a man ot of lit at least 0 who has plenty or of brains out never Ier gives In to his hll whims but kindly and has hall ills his one way In III her career us 1 a star alar Mias Ethel has twice as un tin American girl twice as an English girl olleo ns 18 a Norwegian matron once oneo as IL a French boy bO and fu her new play b bJ by byJ J M I Alice lIce bp the I Is seen as an 1111 English woman longa long IL a resident ot of In India la and the Iho mother ot of three children Barry Harr Huber Bulger the tho a time farce laree comedy player singer and dancer now liS as the tho star In Tho Minn llIn l From rom Sow threatens th Invade the fluid of at legitimate corned comedy Bulger has hns mot met with success nil as asa II a Ono One ot of hl test hest efforts was fill a 11 Ever Flow So Ao lie He have to Light which WOol was n a nhit hit Ut In Woodland This season ho has hasa IL a song sonK called There Thero Anything That Cant Ho Racing With the failure ot of Fey Davis ill III The Th louse of at Mirth following her allure In Lady Hose Daughter and other failures of oC navels nonI this It Il looks all as If the Iho craze for suns 1111 In the tho theater AnybodY cats can remember a 11 tIme when nothing except had a chance chanco Now the tho pendu hum is III the tho other way war and the tho sh 10 that was 1 n play Idell and worked out us 1111 1 a play Is iii get getting ting back to the Iho position ot of honor honer from which It as driven by the Goths and of oC dramatizations One or of the or of the present dramatic season will be TM The Road Hoad to Yesterday a 1 new II e 1 play piny by Evelyn Sutherland and Beulah nix J which Is to tl have bravo its 1111 first presentation 00 stage lit at tiro tho Garrick theater Chicago ot of souls l h the tho central theme themo ot of the tho drama and the entire action hinges upon n happening tint that tokes takes piece on ml n mid 1 eve 01 Thu Tho spirit of oC nesy i and romance hovers over It melodrama Is rampant during one act nod onI It I Is claimed the tho richest rIches I comedy per udell It troll alert to With th the fine success R that has been achieved a ill III Now C York by lure tho new nevi miming piny pIli Th The Three ot of Us conies the tho that most moel or of the great greal successes that arc conspicuous now In inthe the tho Mama drama ore ure either Western plays plas or plays written lIy by western men It would woul seem that the tho west as IL a locale has taken laken the place pinel or of the tho tong popular east that In westerners the dramatists have dl discovered sources ot of real drama ram hitherto hit heto unsuspected that those themselves Ire ere lie so many of t them from the west that it II Is almost II a certainty hunt the tho great m ow ow 11 pity the great groat Am American and the thc great greal American are 1110 nil all to 10 como come from the tho west Reports from Nol New York arc all 1111 to the effect that thal In Betsy Miss Mary has hns found the tho meet successful vehicle whIch she has hils had since she sho became IL a star Therole The Therole role ot of Betsy Dolsy Patterson as Miss les Rita To Young un 11 the tho l hs has arran arranged It ItIs Itis Is said to give II her r exceptionally tine IlIe opportunities for both and comedy work For the tho next o five 1 weeks Miss idles Mannering will remain under her husband James It Hock Hack management and wilt will fulfil dat dales with his syndicate theaters which were contracted for over oCr a 11 year ago After ACter their Miss and her new play 11 at paea Into Inlo the control of the who hayo signed n IL con contract to star lice her for tor say sey oral years |