| Show f I IN LONDON THEATERS filA I Correspondence Jan Jou 1 On both sides NI ot LONDON tho Straits of or Dover tho UJo over oer present nuisance of oC the big hat nt the theater again In 19 ll cU llon Hy 11 I ondon writers It is as Ie asserted Hint the enjoyment of HC many patrons l tOno of seasons pan pantomimes him been by the adult wearers We of oC these but un up to data rio course of against thorn thom moro more than moral ha been lieen Hut In Franco tho RUt suf sufferers from In tho havo resolved on storn meas measures lq ures u s The Tho lend lead In tho new Is III being bj II newspaper which v has just n 1 gold medal to tho play playgoer goer who makes UK th most successful as nil assault sault on a big hat which linn hall obscured his To 10 begin b gln with this Journal attempted to form torm a 1 l of theatrical mana managers gers the tho bit big It failed a II Id ba bo causo three directors held hehl out 11 line tho sold old medal which will be he awarded to the spectator who before the tho end of oC tha tho present season having been heln an nn annoyed noyed by a n womans hat shall have hae made tho most mo t row ro c medal I lilt already announce their plans One will go to tho th play pIn next time with a 1 pair o of shears and lot let a E little daylight into any an hat that may bo him Another who Iho bins a n head of ot hair proposes to It and appear In his hili like Ilko tho fretful porcupine He warrants that Ulal his locks on ont will cov cover I Ier er an nn area of two feet which IJ tho lillo of oC n small mall z matinee bonnet bonnetA A third aspirant to tho modal declares ha ho has hils bought a 1 millers hat which ho he will smuggle into the house hou under n cloak If ho Is h behind a lady In tho Us Usual ual theater headgear who refuses e to re remove 1 move It ho wUI put his hili cm on and wild horses will not tear It off nt A fourth rev revolutionist IU has the tho most Ingenious It IC Iti i rather ither laVage scheme Tako he rec rel a string about aboul feet feel lens and tie u tL pin to each Mch end Stick firmly ono of oC the tho pins Into a ladys lad hilt hat the other Into tho stuff back af 01 the ladys slightest movement made mado by Ivr I r will then dis ds disarrange arrange the tho monument on her head When sho gets up her hat will be turn torn oft off Then you CUll can laugh She wont want put it on again 81 aln limen hats In lu fact appear to bo he goading tho French Frenchmen Frenchmen men into Int a fIrc sacrifice of their na nn native tive gi I In London the American actress Is hiving another triumph In tho Drury Lano leading t of oC Ihl kind In tho country II principal boy bO and principal gill 1111 both hall flom tho land IlInd of o the dollar The he filst is Miss Ir redro who came oler to appeal at ut atthe till the halls in The Stunning Grenadiers who was up by h Arthur Collins and tho Is Mario George who nut now Is III un established favorite to with audiences at Old Both havo scored I cont heavily In thin winters panto pantomime mime which ls Is The rhe Babes In till tho Wood Meanwhile further up the tho Strand the tho bright of oC tho pantomime Aladdin Is another damsel Happy Panny She Sho appears nt ot tho moreover In spite of tho th two attempts to 10 le IC her from so 1 0 doing dolnE one ano on the part of or the thc and the other on that of oC tho Holborn Music Hall lIall It Jt ap appears pears this young huUs luda happiness 8 led her to enter Into thieo contracts 1011 tracts which conflicted rather seriously To begin with thero was the one oue with Robert Arthur pr of ot tho which as 11 has been Indicated stands in lilt tho classic The other two tun minnin ment do not go In for pantomime ol and 1 their complaints were not on oil this score but on tho ground that tho American Iud had covenanted to ap pear In their theaters In May Mil and In the tho meantime not lIat to give performances at any place of entertainment within u IL nillo of either playhouse Nor the Is I exactly the street from the the thc Holborn Is le leht than half a mile away hence th re recent recent cent attempted Injunction against Happy Fanny Panny They failed as 11 It proved that the agreement with Robert Arthur WIS of oC prior standing that It was entered Into In fact In Janu January ary 11 1106 whereas tho other two in III August last BO ino girl is III temporal My nut Dut that If It two Judi o nuns to n action tor lor Miss the thu ot being to 10 col loci we bright According to accounts Brow Uro aU R Millions Is the kind ot or orIl Audiences at III atthe u Il success In Australia the mo nut con content tent with sympathizing passively I eb the tho American author In his hili struggle against circumstances Tho Sidney cm respondent of ot the London Mall describes a II truly trul remarkable scene cene that took look place nt tho of oC that city dining tile the thelast last act of oC tho play pIa In this act Americans Americana will remember finds without cash to post l n letter Turning out his hilI pock pockets ets he remarks I r u 1 penny But Thomas Kingston 1111 II who plays the thc part purt was Willi considerably tak talt taken en aback by b having a 1 two piece thrown on tho by HomO somo emotion emotional al n 1 Then came from tOm oth others others ers of the tho first t a It and then thell u IL sovereign In gold 11 32 3 shillings eight dollars Was IVI handed to the tho management and by b bIt It given to the thc Sydney hospital ho for Cor SICK t children Mrs who nut not been beel seen In London for fol over a year or since her essay In management at lit tho has just been heen engaged by hy the reopened Coliseum 1 wilt will appeal l there shortly HS HII Lady In n ta tabloid bloid version of The School for tor Scan Scandal dal al which hat has been made by b Cecil Raleigh CURTIS BROWN |
