Show New N evv York Theatre Letter fly B James Grant Giant New York March 11 Is Is New I to 10 have three grand opera olra houses I That question naturally followed a report re io 10 port poi t which gained a wide currency this week to to the thc effect that Mme Melba 1 was to bo be at the head Of or a great greut I temple of or dramatic music which should eclipse anything of the thc kind Inthe Inthe In tn the world anti and was to he lie backed by hy unlimited capital The first sor hadit had hadit it that some of oC the lie men Interested In Inthe intile tile the scheme were dIrector directors directors' of or the thc Metropolitan Opera house and that this would be merged in the new scheme A variation was that Oscar r hammersteIn tein was III in the scheme with Melba and that when the tho air all cleared It would see fee New York with one homo honic for fOl Grand opera the finest and anti most up-to-date up which the lie mind o of man could coul conceive with Melba and hammerstein in joint control the Metropolitan 1 opera house site sHe turned over v to 10 hu business purposes and the Manhattan opera house devoted to another branch of or dramatic art and Henri eliminated Since re reports re- re ports pOlls there has been the Ihie usual crop croll of denials half halt admissions and tho Ito like hike and it is I Impossible to form forman an any accurate Idea as to what the situation really Is It Is 18 known however that Mme Mine Melba thinks Oscar Hammerstein Is an I I Ideal operatic manager while Oscar is certain that lint Melba Is not only the greatest artist alive but Is a business businesswoman businesswoman businesswoman woman of fIrst cia class ability If lC there Is anything at all nil In the story stol It Is al altogether altogether altogether al- al together probable it w ill ho found that lint Mr 1 and amI Mine Meiba arc to together Salome will not hot be hc seen In Iii America again this season according tho the the plans of Mr The suppression of oC the thc opera cost the tho Impresario cash cah outlay outhay without without with with- out considering the prospective profits would It was thought Mr Conreid his tour toUl make muke some ome effort to recoup on through the country count but bul it Is officially of or- orI I announced that Salome will not be by given a tour New z-ew York Is again to have an opportunity opportunity op op- op- op 1 to pass on Mrs Warrens Warren's Profession lon unless Indeed the thc police decided to prohibit tho the performance of or Bernard Shaws Shaw's unsavory play billed for or the Manhattan tonight ht Miss ManShaw Mary Man Shaw who headed the tho original plOt production pro plO t auction of the tile play here heie heads beads the present ca cas casl Ernesto Emesto the great Italian actor begins hl lila his first t cn engagement In InI inthe tho the United States Slates in lii Boston this week I Signor Signer No is said to bo be the gl great great- al- al r est t Italian actor since Tomasso Salvin York YOlI Is and his advent In New with great Intel interest st st. TIle The Ben Den Greet players who e at tho the Garden theatre Monday onda havia hasa havea have has York Fo FOI a a sure UlO welcome In itt New their premier they the presented Thi Merchant of or Venice as the tile first pla pta of or the series erles This play pia wa given luring during the tile entire firs week weel and will bo ho followed during tin lb week of or March LI LI 11 b by Macbeth The rho lest first part of oC tho ho week lc of oC MarchIs March IS I S will be devoted to As You Like Liki It Il It and anti the second half hulf to Juliu Caesar ITaly Holy Hol week beginning March 2 25 wIll 25 will see a 11 revival re of the tb fifteenth con century tury morality play pla Every Man 1 with which Mr 11 Greets Greet name always as will ill be he associated Th Tb Shakespearean plays are arc acted h Ii In Elizabethan settings the complete am anti unaltered text and with the original music Henry Henry W. W Savage has sailed for fOI hit hi annual trip to Europe Mr 11 Savage said that for Cor two weeks after arriving on O oil l tho the other side Sile of the lie Atlantic lu hl proposed ed to drop hrop out aLit of or sight after which he would make malc the rounds atthe ol of the large continental cities in search of ol new ties plays and operas for or production In iii America next season reason Joe Weber anti and his company In Dream City and The Tue Magic Knight will leave lea Weber's Webers theatre on Saturday March larch 23 and start on onn an n nel el sight eight ht weeks weeks' tour o of the principal cities ether east cast of Chicago returning to the he homo home theatre Iho ho latter part of 1 May a when the season will be rounded out with a new review now being written b by Ly Edgar Smith and Victor Herbert This is 1 the sixth successive lve month of oC f The Thc Three of oC Us 1 in n the Madison Square theatre There Thel Is no diminution diminution tion In the popularity of the tho play which Is attracting large and appreciative live tive audiences au lences Tho original orl cas cast enst t re- re mains intact It is a commentary on the Infallibility of o managerial perspicuity pers Imers- er 1 that this play pIa went begging alon along Broadway for rOI weeks week before ita It secure a hearing lue itie 1 one ne hundredth performance o of The Road to Yesterday was celebrated celebrated cele cele- in Low Lew Fields Field's Herald Square theatre Tuesday evening c This play plu has tins proved cd to be one ne o of the most striking dramatic novelties of the sea sea- eason ea- ea son on At the Ito conclusion of or the present eng engagement of Tho The Road to Yesterday Yester Yester- day lay the play pin will be taken to London Lon Lon- lawn clown where whore it will fl he be lH presented in the Waldorf al theatre The Thu American company com con pany will bo be taken abroad Intact f |