| Show r I NEWS OF STAGE f AM to to to I I W w U 11 U Special Correspondence T Aug U lz novel pub LONDON I Untied limbed In London tills thu year has hiss L Men been more successful lucce than The Ragged Messenger alten by lit W B Maxwell This Thin young youn writer cornea comes naturally by b hit his talent for or he hi is ii I the theaon son lIOn of ot id Miss U l s Braddon whose WhON novels novI Lady tod Secret and the rest mt have been read the world over oYer The Tb Ragged Messenger tells teU the Ih story of or a London slum clergyman who marries a to 10 reclaim hoer her Severn playwrights wele eie struck with Its dma ma tic possibilities smut and applied to Max Maxwell Maxwell well nil for tor or permission to adapt It U for tor the tle tleta stage ta but bul after hag tho the nut mit nutter tee ter the author decided to und this himself HI lUll dramatizatIon dramatisation la tl no now finished and anti will be bl given Iven at a West Welt WestEnd WestEnd End theater thester early In November The American rights are or already In request A W I Is up In Scotland put tin the tho last ot of Innumerable finishing touches ouche on en play which It IH lx IHnow now nolY settled will be seeli leen at under the management of ot Charlie Charles According to the dramatists lard hart and fast fait rule rube rul nothing whatever In inthe th the he way wa of or a preliminary announce taint rent M si to tn the tho character of or the piece lucre h has tat been vouchsafed Mr Pinero how however ho hoI however ever eer has hili written to the newspapers newspaper to lo correct ornet H it report that Weedon Gros ONI Grossman Or smith will have haYe a leading in ill 11 it The rho chief role will be in tho the bends of or U LI l U U U U II U U U U U U U U U U U U U U Dion who ho Is II now in III the States He lie Is III one on of ot favorite actors and anti created prominent lIt ports parts In both Iris and Letty LettyS S S H II V Esmond who wrote When We Wa Were Wem and Imprudence derided awhile ago ugo not to let act too any more but hut evidently has hall changed chanell hits his mind for forlie he lie II Is to appear In III Lewis Wallers corn com coming log ing production Tho rho Muter Matter of ot the tue Kings Company In which h he will have halt the part of II The Merry Monarch by the a his has hood had u II rest rt since the Ih deluge of or Nell Neil a l la a R year or two Iwo ago no Another reappear Cr Rill In hi connection wIth Ith the Waller aller play will be that of ot Millard Mho a ho was n the original Lady Ursula In Anthony Hope play Some Som time ago she Ih rn but soon lOOn afterward t cc c an un engagement In Henry Jenry Ar Arthur r thur Jones I play pisy The lackeys Garni Carni nil Mil Then Theil mine came aln trouble for tor Ml Miss s Millard got ot her l rt she found rounel It contained certain lines which sho thu hll shrunk shrank from speaking Jones declined to cut cuI them anti and the actress resigned refined d from the cast cOlt It was UI a matter of ot no noat great at account however for tor tile the 1 was VII foredoomed to 10 failure Maestro Is II grappling n II at present with an sei unusually dIfficult task tuk He lie n li is composing the score Core for tor an In Ino opera o ra which Is I the property of ot n a 1 French firm Orm and the contract was signed on condition that the music was Wal written to a French libretto and that hat the opera should be given for tor the first tint time at nt |
