Show DRAMATIC LETTER FROM NEW YORK II thy lly JOHn James Grant York March l 17 SIgns H.-SIgns Signs arc are not lacking that the Bernard Shaw fever Is abating and tills lug despite tho the fact that several se of or the rich playwrights playwright's productions productions pro pro- arc are still on the hoards boards Wo yo have hav had within the past three years an opportunity of seeing no less than J 12 shows pl played l Jn Jo New Nw York some omo good somo bad had and some worse and have o therefore been able to form a pretty prett Ill idea a of or tho the versatility of or tho the genius of these most prolific of or moll modern ern pin ghi ts S In the lie bl beginning It looked n as though the tue demand for Cor Shaw was without limit and it was WS no unusual thing to see three or four Shaw Shiaw plays plas running here heie at t the same time and nd to ca capacity en- en houses The Tho interest now seems selm to wane however howe and anti while we will nl in all probability have Shaw Shiaw with us fOlsome for fOl some time to come it is that thal tho the doses doe will bo ho somewhat I less 1110 llo and there thore are aro people who will not be sorry The later works of oC the tho Frohman Indicate that ho he running running- dry tiry He no has not of oC late days ays produced anything anything any any- thing nearly nearl so gool good ns OM Cnn Candida lda Man Ian and nuit nail and You Yon Never tr Can Tell rell The rite stage ta e can fr very well spare such SHell productions ns l fr Mrs Warrens Warren's Warrens War War- r rens ren's Profession Captain ll Brass Brass- Conversion anti and none jinn of or tie tho thoo late lap o Shaw s pl will be 10 he particularly missed t I Doubtless ed h by the fact that hint the he police have e not not stopped slopped tho the pro pro- n of Mrs Irs Profession herr lorr announces that thai ho lie will produce Salome Salomo next season Richard Richart Strauss l composer om poser of the operaS opera will be lie with u us next year ear and Herr hopes and believes es that the fact that Strauss will personally personal direct th tho thic per- per will mal make e It now palatable It Ir t he can oan produce the tho Austrian Maestro Maos- Maos tro ro to fumigate expurgate ate and otherwIse otherwise other other- wise rise make male the theme less repuLsive to the tie tio moral sense of the Hie American people perhaps ho ma may be able to make It go o. o S S S There Is every ery reason to belle believe th that lint t the he lie Actors Fund Pair Fair which is to be he bebout heM bout eld at the tho Metropolitan opera house the ho week ending Ma ray May C. C will be the Teat great success it Il certainly s tn to be Tho Tue executive c cr committee r of tI the fair comprises Daniel Frohman Charles Joseph Brooks Drooks Joseph Grismer Gris- Gris nier mer and anti Clay Greene This means that it will bo lie managed as a fair air has rarely been lEn managed President t Roosevelt will press s the lie button hutton which opens op ns the roll fair and every actor and actress who I Is within i reachIng caching distance of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York will wilt take nn an active e part in the work The Tho public should and doubtless will give ghe tho the enterprise the tho fullest measure of or success The rhe actors actors' fund Cund Is Js doing loing a a. oo g-oo good work The There care re or the sick the burial of the dead lead and anti the support of or the Actors' Actors Fund Home In n Staten Island exceed a year ear The actor is the first volunteer In time of or Ire fire famine flood or 01 earthquake or to help special charities Now No he hc asks tho the public to help him caro care for Cor his own The Metropolitan opera house is Js donated donat donat- ed rent free fieo for Cor the entire week by 11 the thc Conreid Metropolitan I Opera comP company ny nn and nd this JI gives s the project a n. splendid tart start S S The Tho most Important new production ot of C the week was Tho urho Spoilers a dramatization of oC Max Beacha Bench's novel no of ot the he same name It was well staged tho th ho company Is well w. balanced and ond competent com coni- potent the theme of or tho the pla play Is Js fresh Cresh tho the treatment of or It vigorous it will bo tie a su success Is Is' Is assured Other r changes chances were as follows S pal 1 on d no O don Theatre n Theatre Urn n Greets Greet's t Shakespearean l i In Macbeth Lyric Theatre Theatre 1 Mr Soth Sothern rn and Miss lIs Marlowe In iii Joan dArc Wednesday Hamlet Thurs Thursday n Romeo Horn eo and antI Ju Juliet Ju- Ju lieU liet Friday Twelfth NIght Satur Satur- da day The Sunken Bell Bijou Theatre Theatre 1 Mme Mla Alia Nazimova In ia Ibsen's lIc n. n Gabler As Waldorf toria torla Players Players' club of or Columbia University sit sity in The Ides Illes of or March comic opera b by I Emil Breitenfeld S S S Of the lie two opera houses tho the bills were as follows Metropolitan Opera Monday Monday and Oretel Gretel with Misses Allen Alien Mattfeld Mattfeld Matt Matt- feld feW an and Mr G Goritz 01 It z anti and I I with Miss Allen Alten and anti Mr 11 Caruso Wed Wed- ed Alda with tIme Mme Eames Entries and Mr Mr Caruso Friday benefit for Mr 11 Emil Fischer with members of or Conreid company and Mr 1 Fischer In acts from the Wagnerian music dramas ramas ven I-ven livening In La Boheme with Miss Farmr Farrar Far Far- mr and Mr 1 Caruso Saturday matinee Madam Butterfly fly with Miss 1159 Farrar and Mr 11 Caruso Evening Tosca with Mine lInt games Eaines and anti Mr 11 Dippel MondayLa Monday La Boheme with Mine lames Eames and Mr 11 lIonel Bond W f Fra Pm olo with Miss li 8 t rt anti and Mr 1 lIonel Done Friday Fri FrI- ela day first time lime in this house with Mme Donalda and Mr Ir Bone Bonci I matinee matInee mat mat- inee moo Ca with Mine RUSH nut and 1 Mr It nl an and I r f Fag Fag- with Mme Donalda and anti Mr Bassi Jov Evening Carmen with 1 Mme Mine me Dressler anti and Mr Dal Dalmores motes S S SI I T hoar that tIme Mine Emma Calve soon will wll Join the he Hammerstein forces She will appear in four operas neither of which will bo be Carmen tIme Mme Calve Cal wishes to prove to her New York fi lends friends that the th cigarette girl rl la is not her het strongest strong strong- est cst part Pait While she sang In concerts In America last year rear Calv Calves Calvd's s 's la last t tip tip- in opera in New York was In S 1301 loi S S The man many friends of oC Miss 9 Mary Man Man- acting g will be pleased to know that she sheI I is making satisfactory progress towards rc recovery It will be he a wel or two Iwo however however how how- ever er before sh she can resume I her Interrupted interrupted inter Inter- work S S S SOne One of oC Richard R Mansfield's Mansfields pet charities charl- charl ties Iks is tire thc homo hom for blind LUnd babies in Brooklyn n He lie not nol only Is a liberal contributor con con- to this IH beneficent work but has hias ai ranged arranged that subscriptions for the home will be he received ve ut at ever every thc theatre where horo horoho ho plays Mrs Irs 1 is as deeply In Interested Interested In- In as ns h her hec husband lie He will give lve a benefit for the home next season S S I i At Alt Alf Hayman Haman sass that Charles Frohman Frohman Froh man is ig soon to add another theatre to his collection Mr Ir Hayman declines to tin say nay whether tho the playhouse will be he in iii New NewYork NewYork York or elsewhere S S S Negotiations which were pending between between be be- tween Mrs Irs l Leslie Carter Cartel and William Harris looking to a tour of or the actress in Zaza have havo come como to an nn end and tho the star is planning to appear un under er her own management Mr Harris said that while he h had negotiations with Mr Mrs Carter after It became known that she would not appear under tho the management of Charles no contracts h ha e f ht been cn feigned At the last moment he lie said he and Mrs Carter could ll not agree on ono one or two clauses in the contract S S This was was was' the eighth and concluding week of or the highly h successful engagement at ot Sothern unit und Mai Marlowe low e in iii the tho Lyric theatre where tho they havo have been hen presenting I in lii all three of or which seven Jle plays plas t. t S. S g L' L i 1 r rt t.- t. 54 5 i. i j 4 5 dArc d'Arc The Sunken Bell and anti John Johl the Baptist were ere now new to their repertory Tho The others were Shakespeare's Twelfth Night ight Romeo and Juliet The Merchant Met Mer chant of oC en Venice Ice fin and Hamlet Sothern and Marlowe sail for Europe on the Amerika March 21 t the company compan leavIng leaving leav leav- ing three days ays later Thc They will oi oJ-m oJ n in inthe th the Waldorf theatre London April ir 15 tri the lie engagement being limited to a period of or six weeks S S S Mr Ir James K Hackett will appear next season reason in Mr Me Alfred Sutro's new play pIn John Honor which was given lt It its i premiere by George A Alexander er Friday Frida In the St. St James theatre London Mr Ir Hackett has obtained the American rights of the lie pIa play S S S The closing week neck eek of or tho the success successful Cui run of ot The Thie Belle Belie of or in Days Daly's theatre at last has been lIeen announce announced It will wilt bo lie given t for Cor the last Saturday evening evening even even- In ing April 20 when n the lease for the present management expires Notia- Notia Negotiations Ions or are now pending for rOl the transfer of or orThe The Belle Belie of to arther Broadway a theatre so o as not to Its marvelously successful season in New o-ew o York ork City S S S The fourth anti and farewell week eek of ofIr Mr Ir sir Mansfield's Mansfields s 's New York season eason will III be lie bele tie le voted to this lids repertory Monday londa Marten ch MartenIS IS as us Arthur In The Thie Sc Scarlet Scar Scar- r- r let Iette Letter Tuesday In Beau mel mcl Wednesday as ns the Bacon Baron in ir A Romance At the dost clos of oC his enga engagement in Manhattan an Mans Mans- lick will wiil begin In a brief spring tour within with with- in lii n a limited radius of or New York City Ho lie will be seen in Baltimore Brooklyn six of the thc larger cities cHIts of New York store state and New England and for the first time into In many years ear in Providence Pro Ills season will terminate on April LT 27 i S S S SEthel Ethel Barrymore will on Monday Match March IS 11 appear In the tho second of the of plays which she I lis is scheduled sched oli d- d to lo present during her sta stay The fhe new pia play will be bo John Galsworthy's realIstic realistic real real- IsUe drama The liTho Silver r Box in which Miss Barr more will have a part hart that tails calls for character acting and antI at tho the same Harne time line for strong emotional motional work worl S S S se Ro Stahl began bes-an Monday night the thC ninth month o ol of her New Now York run in the James Forbes ForLes comedy The Thc Chorus Lall Lady which continues its unbroken n n reign of popularity In the tho hackett lt th theatre ca t re I S S The Tho Lion and the tho Mouse is now no in Sn fl the Iho last month of its stay in the Lyceum I theatre where on Tuesday 2 2 Jt it will reach its performance Souvenirs I airs will then be distributed In la honor of tho longest consecutive run Ir tr the thu history his his- tOl tory of or the American stage f S S S SOnly i t tOnly Only one ono week more mote remains for or Dream City an and the Mag Magi Knight In Webers Weber's theatre after h h the tho big organization will make lIln flying Hying g visits to tu nearby cities and return In time to close the regular New York season with a new offering by hy Edgar Sn Smith th and ictor Her lIer- bert S I 5 J 4 1 t ik t |