Show Franco Exhibition Causes a Boom in n London Theatrical Circles I Special Correspondence ONDON ODO Nov Nn 26 At tue begin beginning L 0 ning of tho present theatrical year al London L 1 managers were veme viewing low ng with wilh apprehension tho tile opening of or tile the l exhibition lUll tion and it n d thu Ihu th tea Inroads Itt toad s into I it to their business s Now Noll t It Is It nil all allover nilO over ovet O I tile tho salon samo managers tIle arc wearing smiles that Ihal wont The Tito cause causa of Oi tills this strange change of front is that tile the your yell now tott drawing to 10 t a It close clime clo c has lias in itt inthe InI the lie I words of one on of if them been b otto one nil nilor of or the tho best bc t years year I 1 have IHle ever known from it tt box olleo viewpoint And after nil all what outer other viewpoint worries a L manager of oi today todar With a very vety few fo exceptions all the tte houses hOIl eH art ac ai aid doing d a n house full business and In Inmany inmany many cases the tho advance bookings ex cx extend tend lend Ott ti fill far La r into Inlo I ii to February l As an alt of this general pros IHO prosperity lo i take lain tile the case ea e of or the tit th Drury Lane Lotte I Ii I It the lIe t first Ii tto t performance of o 0 which does not lot take tale place Pie until thin tho day ater Clot Tickets however hao been on ott sale ule for about a week weel weeland and alt all catl more Inure than worth w of nr If theta them have been disposed of oC Ad Ali Advance vance anco bookings for fot Peter Pan which ii Is to 10 bo 10 the special Christmas Uttie attraction lion tion at tot tho the Duke of Yorks amount to tel while 2500 icO worth of seats wore sold oil in itt advance for or tile the two recent Pet per performances of The Tho Only Way Yn which Harvey gave at the So exceptionally good Is IH the tue business that I tat almost anything I rig goes O especially I In Itt the tue way of musical mn loul comedy Tile Tho of oC Brittany which Is now how no play playIng Ing In to big houses ho ses at lit tho tito Queens WitS was universally it Ft I I condemned coti on ott tho he t first Ii rs t night as ts a footless aimless less sort of ot thing yet et tho tite various libraries i Itt In n London Londott who deal doal In Itt theater tickets I I Immediately Invested something like oooo In have had no reason eaon i ito I to regret their expenditure to to dale This Ihl however may in itt part be bc accounted for fOI by ity b the tito extraordinarily good cast which was provided by the tho producer Robert Henry W tv Y Savages partner In itt London All the th Ih evidence o o points towards the tile conclusion sion that t holme he ho had a L weak piece ploce and nod deliberately determined to 10 soLve save the tho day clay with 11 cast east In no way a can catl ono explain his loll for Mr III is isn isIt 1 n It S noel never throws lilt his hl I money away aay awa Inthe Tn In the filst place el t Includes George lIae Il o Baron DIlIon of ot Tile Tho Merry MelY Widow and probably the thc comedy comedian in England Next is II Ruth Vincent Incont the tho theold thoI old really has a It voice ote I and knows how I to uRe tio it and who vilot is l llie tit st singer in musical nl ca nl cl here Number No throe t It reo is It I Walter another old ohl Sa Se Savoyard I and tt a It of oC the tho lie Lane fane As he lie has haM been com onto compelled polled to to give up imp all Idea of nC appear appeal appearing ing lug In this years pantomime at the tho Drury Lane it ii is jt reasonable to assume n sumo Mint he lie 11 was not procured proc tred by b Court Coutt without a liberal expenditure of Next Is Laurence Laurenco Ren who what hIlt lias been he appearing at Covent Garden and one ono might extend the tho list of stars stare and s considerably so as fiR to In in lu elude several well iteli known on this tills side but hut with whom you would bo ho unfamiliar millar I I lat h be those e who see fO In itt the weak weakness Ic ness ne H of ol Tile The T lie Hello lI lIo of or tf Brittany as us a It play an indictment of tim the growing pra or asking a long list of play playwrights wrights lyric J Ilc writers composers and omit songwriters to collaborate In itt a II L pro production or The Tho hello nolle of Brittany boasts no tb less lo s titan than Ih fi c The rite book hool was lis by P 1 J Barrow and Oie 1 lyrics by Percy Tore Green Gr while H Howard warl t and Miss Horne Horno confess to having h the tite music t From F the latest information which hm me ml poor appears appeals to tn have had a II very pry rough I Unto time of it In lit Russia Hussla One would suppose that Russia with Us Its snows and its Ice loe would h e been the U e last place In Ito the for fOI Salome Salomo and nd her p pocket edi edl edition edition tion costume q 4 But she sHo bobbed up In Itt St r a d had a II tussle not with tho tue Item head of or John JoInt the tho Baptist but with tim the holy 1101 synod s That body hody on ott t lern tIe the perform performance alice ance unc on oil the that ground tutU th It II was trot blasphemous hut but t upon It more moore mature FO thought hl t involving Vi ng 1 sa say no lit little Il I Itie tie tle mental menial gymnastics It relented and gave gae permission for the thc production If Salome were transformed Into Inlo an In Indian dian ii bitt II I I if I f C Johll 1 oh to tho ti t ii Baptists tb p t is Is head Ii wore velo made the COIlIO of o a tL t king ill ug am If dances tilt were WOre performed by b the t it queen Julien itt eon and tutU her hol I ter dames tot es Sooth rt alchemist 1st of tho I lit hI drama ti duly dot iy accomplished these miracles tn and It ti U the first ilIst public tt Id I n per performance was well troll under way when the Iho holy synod oti changed cit Its I ts mind to i I ci again ti gil I ti Tho police itol I to marched Into lot o the tIle theater eater stopped stol bed the ItO t hl play pla 11 IL and a n ol turned t It CLI the tho audi audience a tt Li I nee ence out without I t I I may t y add ad d ing In their thelt money a S 1 0 I suppose sit sl co 01 e Frank Franl Gotch lOtS has be become come an nn aCts aeto act mi not II Is a ti legitimate le sub Hub subject subject jeet for fOl the tue Ih of or a IL dramatic correspondent At A I any atoy rate here horl goes Joes Ho Un lb opened at the X II Cross Empire last wool week and this weck eel Is at the Shop Shep herds hords Bush Botch Empire l Ho lie got ot a II much better reception than r I thought ht possible po sl ble hIe In Ito view vi ow of or tile the opinion on ott this side Illo of oC the its of oC lilt his match malch with Hack Hack Is more muro or 01 less les of nn all English idol Wal cud and yon nu cannot con coIl convince convInce vince It a that lIml Golch really licked d him fairly and squarely hIt But they he seem to give glo tile the Iowa mana mall IL fair fah hearing and while no wild enthusiasm greeted Jo his hll It Is appearance op here hore at ot the tho samo sante time ho Itu got gOl a good reception Ills His HI Idea ilett of appearing in a 1 I sketch Instead of oC In a n eriES of wrest wrestling wre l ling Ihl bouts boots as Hack and bysco hero have been beon doing struck the English public Ifs a novelty and pleased them accord accordingly Gotch Is it booked for IS 18 weeks seek and will travel to the north of o Eng England land br foro making his hi appearance in Inthe inthe the tho heart hoart of London Carrie Do Dc Mar Is booked for Cor till the Coliseum In the near future It Is an nit announced that silo she will appear In itt both holh Lonesome Lono omo Floss ilp s and Winking Vin In tile nie Cissie Loftus Is still topping the bill hilI at tot the tile samo amo house IHl O with her imi imitation imitation tation management Is paying haying her hor a big hi price but hut as she is filling ev cv every e eOl ely ery Ol scat Ral in the tho enormous theater there Is probably a IL t fooling feeling of satisfaction on both hoth sides sl John Powell tho the young American pianist who lias 1015 lately returned from froma a vacation aCa lion visit 1 lt to 10 his lilt homo on Ott the seems fo to be lie carrying carl ln ev cv everything before him In London He JIe played cd with the Queens Hall Orches tra at the Promenade concerts tho hie other hay day anti and succeeded In Violating all the titles rules by h getting g an encore something out oitt of o keeping with the tho strict traditions of ot tile tho Promenade concerts The audience refused to 10 let lot the tho program proceed until Henry Wood tood the tue conductor marched off to the thc artists room and brought the Ih American musician willy nIlly back to the tho piano stool sOol Powell Pow is giving recitals on Nov 0 16 1 G and Doc DeC 7 with VIt Francis Harford at lit the tho Aeolian hall halland halland and has lInt enough other oilier engagements tp to keep him pretty busy bUH hero until spring when he h goes to Paris larit for fOI a It series ot if o concerts He HO says Ia s he lie is It suc cd I ng far fat hotter bettor than ho lie dreamed 1 would bo b possible in so HO short a time He Ho is IR still In itt his bItt early twenties CURTIS BROWN |