| Show jessie hall has just closed a sf 1 summer season with the bald vin melville company at land herman has been engaged as buical director for the red t eath pr company which will soon begin its second road tour joe welch will be starred this sea son by andrew W dingwall and george nicolai in the merchant play by lee arthur mrs A doremus and leondas es collaborated in the for t ines of the king which was recent ly produced for the first time in lon don theodore roberts has macan r bud ie s part of the lawyer politician and q loter of sl al lespeare in the corn any that is placing the county chairman on the road frank e bailey formerly of weber fields has decided to enter ville in a latin quarter sl etch in fourteen minutes she is to appear in two different kinds of tights annie ward ciany has closed her cottage at buzzard s bay and re turned to new tcora she to re main in the city this season albear ing in new productions geoage middleton the boung colum bla man who helped to dramatize the cavalier for julia marlowe two years ago Is the author of amelia bag bmg ham s new piece the vital issue victor herbert will conduct a win ter series of sunday night concerts at the majest theater new aorl be ginning the second sunday in october the soloists will be of the grand opera class mrs charles russell hone who has not been seen on the stage since her appearance in the stubbornness of geraldine will mike her reappear ance with clara bloodgood in alie coronet of the duchess E hamilton is reported from paris as having made arrangements to present edna may and her present company to the parisians at the the ater de la renaissance early in march the school girl will be given in english miss sybil carlisle will join william gillette s company again as his lead ing woman in the admirable cr ch ton since playing in new york last season she has been appearing with sir charles wyndham and mary moore in london madams mathilde cottrelly while visiting a friend at ridgewood N J a fortnight ago had the misfortune fp fall down a flight of stairs though no bones were brol en she was badly bruised and la still confined to her home in judith of bethulia Be thulla a biblical trag edy by thamas bailey aidrich is to have its arst stage presentation next month in boston nance 0 neill whose popularity at the H ib is availed is to create the leading part A production pf exceptional splendor Is promised edwin barrey the distinguished old actor whose public career covers a period of nearly half a century and who has been associated with cally all of the celebrities of the amer lean stage in that time js desperately with dropsy a the muhlenberg hospital at plainfield N 3 A party of among whom w as oscar wilde were one evea ning discussing bernard shaw and his works after several had expressed their opinions of the daring satirist mr wilde remarked dear shaw nice man bernard Is he an enemy in the world but his friends fan t like him I Ilam to have the chief comic part a ceylonese lawyer who has been half educated in english and who mixes up engi sh proverbs and passes fearel fe arhl ard worder full in the cingalek Cin this winter at daly s it is more worth of s tal ants than any part 1 e hos taken n musical plays mary jerrold a mem berof mr and mr kendal s company tells a story of a provincial landlady s dramatic criticism miss jerrold once gave this particular landlady a couple of seats for the theater and aske her after ward whether she had enjoyed the ell miss was the candid reply it was a rest and a sit down reginald de koven that he has ed the music for the new opera for de wolf hopper the piece is not as et and there is some secrecy about the identity of its librettist mr hopper is in no bartic ular hurry for the vehicle since his revival of ang is proving so prof bitable it is probable however that the opera will be produced about feb edward terry and the terry s the ater company of london are to be seen in january at the princess the ater new york mr terry will pre sent his latest hit the house of reside and selections from bis ex tei sh e repertoire in which is pine ioa ever delightful comedy bleet labender Lai ender the engagement at the princess will be followed by a short tour of the country sir henry irv ng promises to appear in a new role when he makes his farewell tour of this country next year probably the last part he will ever create will be that of Grard fath er Co quesne in a little one act t built on cosmo hamilton s story ol 01 name mr hamilton a young english author who has into sudden fame has made the dramatic version ot his story at sir henry s re quest when robert edeson next appears in new york it will be in a new amer lean pla not yet named edeson will appear in the role of a college bred ind an who has finished the course at the carlisle indian school william de malle son of the late H de malle is the author of the new play he has been at work on it for over two ears the play will not be pre dented until after jan 1 1 holmes who has been re en by henry harris for robert edeson s company was the first actor to play the role of the poet in candi da in america george bernard idhaw s brilliant play having been pro deuced originally in chicago some six ears ago mr holmes vis ted lon don the following year at the request of william archer the celebrated eng iash critic and appeared there in sev eral of shaw s plays mascagni according to correspond ence in an eastern paper Is struggling at present with an unusually difficult task he is composing the score of an opera which is the property of a french j firm and the contract was signed on condition that the music was written to a french libretto and that the opera should be given tor the first time at monte carlo during the carnival of 1905 that meant less than a year and a book to work on written in a language of mascagna is far from being a master however after undergoing a difficult exercised to render himself exact in the french pronunciation the compos er commenced his task and soon be gan to make progress he has a new room quite isolated which contains nothing but a piano where he retire every evening or rather mornice at la m after laving spent the foregoing hours with friends just how long he works is not known bu by noon he is up and ready foi lunch and labors following tina medhod mas cagel is confident that he will carry out s condrac con trac aa |
