Show advice from the know ng at the graduation exercises of one ot the prominent new york dramatic schools recently mrs sarah cowell le moyne and W H thompson were the appointed advisers for the young thespians they spoke to the class of hope to be actors earnestly and at some length and among other things aoker them please to be an honor to their chosen calling the way to uphold the profession you are about to enter said mrs le moyne is not to seek the photograph gallery or to have your name in the newspapers but to study and labor and many of the called managers of to day when they are not merely jan igors may simply be designated as lords of misrule buffoons and mountebanks are now called come deans and the matinee idol Is ex pecked to be a simpering idiot it you are entering this business on a commercial basis said mr thompson I 1 rill say save your money borrow from your friends rob your sisters and sweethearts get out into the world and act and like a skyrocket you will draw a great deal of attention ou will go up like one and you will also come down with a dull thud that is the shooting star of today any of you could recite curfew shall not ring tonight perfectly on three days notice and yet it took four years to write it there is a man within the reach of my voice who could put on faust in forty eight hours it took goethe forty years to compose it irv ng a modern henry irving quite naturally be cleves in the shakespeare setting that Is modernized he does not believe that the greatest of dramatists should be presented upon a stage bare of scenery simply because he wrote his other and if it be the most fleeting t Is also the most it S nothing that while the spirit of the poet Is preserved bis ideas are allus rated by scholarly detail by bar conious pictures by appropriate music by all that appeals to the sense of beautys we do not quarrel with the novelist when he describes the scene in which his creations iyer and moye ho yv many famous passages in action can be quoted to show tl at a word picture adds infinite force or charms to the most dramatic episode of human passion so on the stage the accessories which are attuned to the story must greatly en hance its fascination I 1 have heard that some people still hold that we should play ahal lespeare very much as he was played in his own time but is one art to stand still while others progress or rather Is the stage to repudiate all the aids of painting and music to disdain the archeologist and the antiquarian 1 I 1 am not pleading for pageants acting and act ing only can make a play successful but let us acknowledge that by the legitimate arts of the stage history and poetry may be illuminated for the dullest understanding and a new zest added to the pleasures of refined taste i mrs langtry s comments mrs langtry the prints would have us believe is becoming epigrammatic she is possessed posse sed of a natural wit and alertness of mind according to mr alward an acquaintance who travels ahead of her company you can lead americans but you cannot drive them is one of the lily s latest another an american audience understands all kinds of hu mor an english audience only the english kind the english actress loves american audiences for many reasons one of them is that they do not boo boo ang on a first night is a most ahral sound she says regarding critics langtry thinks it Is largely a matter of liver abeth er they are pleased with a play or not A good liver makes a good critic A law should be made says she making it a misdemeanor for critics to attend a performance in company with their wives or sweethearts they are always wrongly influenced by them on first nights the use of the word troupe in connection with theatrical companies Is another thing which the jersey lily mojid hae abolished in eng land sho sas only tra ned dogs are members of boie soie newly arrived english women to mrs langtry that the bells on the street cars were nerve racking no one here pays any attention to bells the actress even the old man whom I 1 have run over with my automobile so many times in the newspapers never hears the bell here Is a last bon mot which mrs deering got off just previous to elec tion day so many people confuse aromi nence with noise it Is too bad this belief Is not confined to the pollyl clans henry millers play henry miller who has returned to the charles brohman told hopes to strike the taste of the closing season with a new love romance called man proposes in his support he has miss dorothy Ha the english actress who through the kindness of mr mansfield joined him here the story of the play deals with lords love and a loose broth er the nobleman Is lord wykeham who retires to a little village near london to find rest from the city s turmoil and as a physician s assistant poses as dr lee the physician has a pretty niece and there you are the complications begin right at that point 0 course dr lee falls in love with her without knowing that she has promised to marry his scala wag of a younger brother who has been posing aa lord wykeham there is a meeting in london where the wicked younger brother has his sins shown up in a lurid light and the real lord after recovering from his amazement and chagrin takes the burden of evil upon his own shoulders and mal es a sacrifice of himself before the altar of the girl s love all of which seems a little foolish on his part but wait in the last act the bici ed younger brother confesses plays for an age that knew naught 0 stage accessories in his book lespeare on the stage and in the study england s first actor wrote acting Is an art as distinct as any and wipes the stigma off the real lord s character with this clean bill of morals the sill being thoroughly feminine changes the object of her and rushes to hie arms she la bound to aei a lord any way the game comes out ot s skinners next play otis skinner has made definite an no of his plan to produce a play by jean Ri chepin mr skinner will produce the new play as soon as he closes his present season with miss ada rehan its first presentation will be at davedson Dav ldson s theater in milwaukee on may 5 joseph buckley mr skin ner s manager has the supporting company nearly all engaged and the scenery is finished miss Lizzle Hud son collier will probably create the leading female role of toinette the name of the play has not been fixed upon that of the wanderer Is most favorably thought of the scene is laid on the french canadian bor der about 1850 it is said to be a romance more idyllic than dramatic greenroom gossip robert craige has signed tor a spring season with kate claxton in the two orphans mrs langtry has closed her season and sailed for england next season she will tour south america and aus kittle baldwin the comedienne of an english daisy has been engaged for a prominent spring production in new york ethel harte a daughter of bret harte made her debut as a concert singer with the D oyle carte opera company in london juliua booth son of mrs agnes booth Sc hoeffle is now in london where he has signed to appear at the garrick for the rest of the season hermeone Herm lone eldred formerly with foxy grandpa who joined the beg gar prince opera company as chorus girl is now taking the part of fred erick in the mascot percy haswell will star next season in 0 kiku san a japanese play by alfred rowland haven author of rheas josephine it won the prize in the fawcett play contest in baitt more john P lockney has completed for next season a sensational comedy drama entitled what all the world should know and will star in it with pauline fletcher the management of J M ward A |