Show I 1 I NEW YORK THEATRE II III I LETTER LETTERII 1 11 II III II I I I IJ B By o maii New w York April 27 1 Tf there ther Is a I happier IlU on th the Island Islat of or Man Man- today than O O. O Oscar car cRr Hammer Hammer- I l shou should ll like to f men PIO hint him Ho lie has hns accomplished the Impo Impossible which it t ma may be hp sail paid In Iii passing Is li no flO new nt thing for foi him him and 1111 I is now taking a awell aneli well eli earned rest Incidentally manag ing mg IT n few w theatres anti and away for rOl a J couple of lf roof gardens Arll ns willing a pl play l or 01 two t and wll a mt few ew things of or that lint sort ort to keep himself from finni feeling lonely When hen It was i first Nit known that lint ill Mr Hammerstein was to make c a venturi In iii grand gi opera In n oPI opposition o to lh the Metropolitan Opera Ia house tho those o who did 1111 not know inov him well regarded it as UH rather rathel n n. joke und almost up to the he time hue his hits singers Inger arrived In this country coun coun- ll try ti-I there here Avero 0 those thos who pretend to wl wisdom wim-ilont who regarded i the talk of or the tho two ncI grand opera In programs JIo ranul In iii New NewYork 1 York Yoi-k as a bluff It Il was Wa held h by the know all that hat there e wn was isaa mm no room in inthis inthis this city for mi two grand opera companies com com- and when at nt Inn lut t It Il became hInt evident t that tha t I ci 11 ti II in meant en Cant lit business great disaster asler Wn was predicted Already I have ha given i en some olne comparison com corn parison figures ui as am- to tc the time financial anti and tlc tlc results t for the time two to houses houMe I For or various ren reasons Conreid came out awa ava h behind while canto came home a winner He lie said aid this timis week weel The receipts receipt of the he ea season on were nearly neaily thi ee quarters o-quarters of or a t million dollars dol dol- lars hats o overbalancing to coul considerable ex- ex the thc expenditures Theio arc o many indications that lint Mr 11 Conreid wilt will not not noth h be 10 in control o of the I Metropolitan forces next season On One i of these tl I is the offering o of his New cw I York house for Ol OlIc sale Another is the report he ho is about nho to purchase u it home In Vienna anti and live hive abroad It ma may maybe maylie b be lie said Sil that all nil Mr Conreid's Coni-cid's business Is dependent upon his health lie Isnow Is Isnow now no abroad seeking to rt regain his strength h Tn In dramatic affairs in iii New cw York Yul there W were II few lew no this thiR week t Neti York had haI its iti first t opportunity to see mice ec Inton Sinclair's ls portrayal of lil I in The rime 3 Jungle dramatized dram drain ed by hy Miss fj Margaret et Ma Mayo o It was Monday night at Keith c Proctors Proctor's firth Fifth avenue CIHI theatre The complete scenic equipment with lilt the lie thea additional a realistic tlc oc accessories of or live lI cattle hl which hi h made so much of a sensation SOIl semi in Iii II other Ul I cities cHI I The Undertow a a. drama of mod mod- ern n municipal life written II by I Walters s was Pl presented el for lh the first st time line Monday by hr U I stock company at Koith Proctors Proctor's opera house Mr Ir Walter t. t pin play deals with political chicanery lY and graft with and the narrative imani nf imf the thc Ion wrongdoings wi of Iho those r higher up 1111 Is IR tim drawn In ill It u cans cans- tic lIc antI and uncommonly dramatic fashion Before Bor taInt vand After AnN is thin the Lea farce that inaugurated the season Il of comedy at nt the A Sl l' l theatre theatre the the- atre c Thursday eni e evening This lau laughter pin play was chos chosen n O as the mo most l popular I u of all the time comedies I Geor George e M. M r. r Cohan presented hl his imis successful sue suc U- U ful com comedy d Little Joi Johnny Join n Jone Jones 1 Monday at the Academy of or MusIc MuMe when i-hemi it il will have hn an n engagement of oC only two weeks Mr Mi- Cohan will be ht bescott I t seen scott here in lii the pan lall of nt the he American jockey for 01 or tho ho In last lart t time lime also Tom Jonm L Loins In his famous characterization nf nr If The rhe Unknown Now New cw York YOlk is IN a elt city of millions in nil all I lino ln li in i theatricals among the l' ro rest t. t I la iii to say uy that tho amount Spoilt spent L Tux Tux- UIl h a wil JI run oll Int n en I It Ju J just t i J low O j would ic nc huiel H nl to ll KI any Alt in ur tf r the lie theas as t t amount spent for tor this chasM clas- or oC f amu Is II found II u In the tho statement state stat meat ment that th the 1 box 0 receipts for fIll ono one play The Tho Th Hell Mill 1111 already I 1 is in excess of half a million dollar amid 1 this his In a 30 week ck run ruin Ellna May Ia according cording to advices advice from fromI mum I London Jondon onon actually has hal quitted quilted time the stage stage- The Tho announcement is positively el made that with th time the performance Monday onda night sh shi Mh Ita has bas finished with the time footlights and nud ii inthe in ii the he future will see time HIP show from Crom the As s s Mrs rs Oscar Lewisohn she sho hl ea can canwell well afford the best cents In the Ih hOIl house as often as she feels like bike it The Tue Themar mar flint r tinge ringo bug hug seems to lo hl have been busy Inthe in inthe the lie May Ia fam family I for the announcement t comes come that Miss Jane May a sister of the tho fair Edna soon Is to become th UK- UK bride c of or young David Sassoon n a relation rein rela ton tion of or Sir Edward Sassoon cousin of King ICing Edward and hanker banker to his majest when as o of Wales Vales h he be was vms a nfl hard har up as lip as ho lie not was We W. have have- Buffalo Hill Hili with u us th week and young oun America has lias an nn opportunity unity at Madison Square garden n 01 ot seeing real Indians cowboys vaqueros ros Cos Cossacks ack Arabs n anti and all nil the time other typos types of or rough ri rulers riders rs In the flesh Clesh And AntI young a l is taking advantage ad of or the op op- op Old America merica too too is on hand to see seo that the youngsters come to no harm The Tho Coney Island season Is almost at hand hand- Thompson n and Dundy will open Luna Lurma park on Saturday May 11 11 IL Luna Luno punk now in Is undergoing entire reconstruction Lion tion employing a l lorce force orce of 1 1100 lC M mon lIt li addition to the thc lie numerous special uie diversions di tho ho court of or Luna Iuna will willbe willbo bo bl one of or the most ro pl creations Of its kind The park hark Ia rl will trill hn have 0 almost entirely remodeled at the ito Opening opening open Open- ing of ot tl tbS Its filth season Olga will not in New York 1011 this I season owing to lO till lii length lh at eie i her Imer Pacific tour which l Isnow Is bl now closing Arrangements Arrangements' t for lion hoi appearance appearance- in III London til III I Lyric i th theatre next September have ha been canceled can n InI I o ceicil In iii order artier that she he may many to i tho ho slope at nl the first j moment After cn engagements in Wash Wash- ushI I ington inKton Philadelphia amid ami Boston Hoston M-it M tJI 1 eth Isol will dOll lit her on on May is lS antI and s sail all Immediately for or or Paris MUSS Miss will return to 10 NewYork New l-ew York rork In n August U nail and will opec oper her hor pro hire western tOur our in Omaha on an I Labor oror tiny 11 She will then go o directly to San un Her regular m season sea sea- son see will III begin Eln In Chicago al about ou rh 11 Thanksgiving Fh She v will ill bo he lI seen cn Ji Jim New W York in los IffS at ni the time Astor theatre In iii Paul luul new piny TIt The Awakening The T Three Tireo re ot or Us ls 5 In the M n Ilson Square S UC theatre ended lt Us Its run tonight the final this Inter cutting play Wi was given Riven gl 27 times th the longest run of or any play In this theatre bloc bince time the days of the tho Hoyt farces Although Al Al- thought though h the Js New vr V hc eIlI season 40 comes u to o I ah aim Time Tho Three e of oC I. I IV Is J will cont con con- t to entertain play goers for some som months montus Li to In come as us bookings will trill ink the Uw production to Il Hoton nn and Chicago I This is also th tint tim last week this s season of or Tho Great Grent Divide Dt In Iii time the Princess theatre Miss J anti and Mr Miller appeared In the famous anions Mood Moody drama ln lnor for or time tho roth KOth Othi time into on Friday evening c The date selected for tor the tho reopening of or orTho Tho The Groat Divide DI In Daly Dah theatre is August u 25 I I Miss lIss Eleanor Hobson begins Monday I the tho last weeks of her tier bl highly hl 8 C ll season In iii time tho Liberty iha- iha fire the time final performance df ot Salomy t I Jane her most successful srul vehicle thus thins tar r. r taking place on the tho evening 1 of Saturday Sat Sat- urda ilium May 11 L W. W J Robert Mantell will wilt follow The Time Grand to Mogul III a as the lime attraction In the lie Now New Amsterdam Am Aimi- th then ire where he will ill appear as i In Julius Cae Caesar tr on Monday night April 23 oJ That tr tragedy Ed will b IJ b tf repented p 1 on OtI Tuesday lIe day anti hlf y l nights and Mac etli Saturday afternoon alter after I r. r noon l Richard Ichard III HI lh Thursday 11 arid and Friday nights and aud Macbeth SaIu Saturday relay nl nIght ht will be other tragedies o of thi th the nr l week wel cel in matinee Wednesday day wilt will be hl devoted to The Merchant of or Venice I |