| Show i NEARLY TWO I MILLION II PAID AID ADMISSIONS 1 Hippodrome ume in r New Wew ew York Makes Matchless s Seasons Season's success Takes Success lakes in 1400 in Cash All A- A and I Escapes All Accidents TW In nl T JAMES fES A C CHANT GRAST N New w York Tune June 1 When hen one one 1 play In y house In New York has a record o of 0 P paid aid admissions in a single season pason and ant gross receipts of or 14 some fome Ill Idea 3 of or the Uw va vastness s of the business business busi busi- nc ness ss of oC amu- amu New amusing York YOlI may be t tJ gained J This Is the r record cor of the Hippodrome Hip Hip- I which has lias just ended the season The rho aera average e atten attendance ance was 1 a day a which Is just about the combined seating seating- capacity of Webers eh rs r's Dalys Daly's and the Bijou the Princess the thet t Square SI the Knickerbocker er th the Casino the Empire the Broadway the New Net York tho Iho Astor and the Criterion Criterion Crite Crite- rion Ion theatre The days day's business was vas on Washington's Va birthday ay when the receipts receipts receipts re re- Were vere more mor than the biggest big big- gest best weeks week's receipts footed up tip and a 1 little more The total amount paid in salaries for Cor the season season- was wm mOr more than During the sea- sea seaon season son on horses elephants and other animals ani coals mals In th the Hippodrome stables have consumed ICO IGO tons of hay 4 48 O 0 bushels bush hugh els ls of oats 4 20 bushels of ot bran bl-an 2 3 4 3 tons of top lOp corn orn 1 1000 pounds of oat ont oatmeal meal meol and an 1 GOO poun pounds s of salt Dur Dill United States with separate companies going in different directions Theatre building building- within the last few fow years seem seems to have become a disease among among pla play folk foil The Tho latest addition I to the ru ranks Is of theatre e builders is George orge N N. Cohan He has hns completed ted negotiations for a new playhouse to be he known as the George N N. Cohan the the- atre The new structure will be lo located located lo- lo catell on Broadway between Fortieth and Fiftieth streets an and will cost I Ground will be broken onor on onor onor or n about out June 10 and unless unforeseen unforeseen seen obstacles are arc encountered b by the contractors the new playhouse will bo he completed complete in time fur for Mr 11 r. r Cohan to too o open en It on ton Washington's birthday O It seems a n trifle absurd to talk of roof lOOt gardens g with the thc thermometer persistently hanging hanging- about freezing point but hut the tho calendar says Its It's roof gar garden en time and what th the calen calendar ar arS ar'S says ays S 'S go goes s an and the th roof garden season ene this week It is the New York roof that is first in the field this year Florenz Ziegfield Jr is the tho th manager and ind he has bait ha given the roof root tho the summer seasons season's e engagement of or tho the beautiful 1 Russian actress in the brilliant Bracco 1 comedy will continue at least until Juno June 15 Closing at that timo tim Is 19 contingent conI contingent con con- ent upon the weather however I Unless Is becomes excessively hot Present present present pres pres- ent demand indicates in that Comte co o Coquette will hold the hoards boards until midsummer Dustin Farnum having finished a atour atour atour tour of or miles playing The Virginian Virginian Vir Vir- ginian hn has just got back haole to New York For four years and arid a half hale ho has been playing in tho the dramatization of Owen Wister's novel Now that his contract is ended one of the first things Mr 11 Farnum did was to listen to Augustus Thomas at the Lambs Lamb's club rea read II the new play for Farnum called The Ranger I Tho he Ranger Is In four acts Mr Ir Thomas read three of them and outlined the tho fourth It all happened happened hap hap- down on the tho Rio TIlo Grande Gk-ande with an nn American who gets into trouble but hut Uncle Sam straightens him him out nut all right t o 0 0 W. W S S. Hart who has originated and has lias played continuously until the close of nf the present nt season the i ns- ns hl floS flo'S n I cowboy Cash Hawkins in ht The Tho Squaw Squaw- man has hns si signed a 1 contract with the dirko comp company company n to play piny tie tle title lIth part In The 1 Virginian The contract which covers CO a lc term lerm rm of Y years will go n into effect at once 0 0 Something of a mystery surrounds lh plans for the celebration o of the th- two hundred and fiftieth W of The rite Road to Yesterday which oc oc- our eurs Irs s on the nl night hl of oC Tuesday lung lunn J lungin f i. i In the thc Lyric theatre So o far fm the only announcement made is that a valuable and hl hl souvenir will be he highly unique pre pre- I to e every ery ry woman who attends the performance It Is announced as asI I Kiry that Ihal the management of or Ilse th i theatre shall have h In advance th the 1 I initials tot whom the th Sou souvenirs ou are al' al to 10 toi tot i i hi t given n in ing the whole season oC or 38 weeks week then then- has boor been no serious mishap to any of 4 employees e the U 00 performers 0 or thre never has been the slightest delay de- de deJay delay de de- lay Jay In any an IlaI ce no one of or the I pe persons ons who have attended the performances has been injured or l been taken seriously III in the build- build Ing It has not sad Had lada a strike a a. scandal or a slump in the business from flom the thela day la its doors opened to the minute when they closed for fOl the season While of course no other theatre can come anywhere near these figures there are arc many of oC them then which acco according t to ea- ea ca ca- most t favorably will compare comlat mo with them o e 0 0 Impresario Oscar Hammerstein is When automobile automo automo- always s wine awake an bile smashup has not the tho power to dIsarrange disarrange dis dIs- Ills arrange his thinking apparatus latest idea is to 10 sot set Peter leter Pan to music and amI make grand Iland opera of or Barric's Bar Bar- Dar I Barrios Barrio's rios ric's charming play Mr 11 Oscar expects expects ex ex- to tn conclude negotiations whereby I the story of ho hi will bo IH enabled to w use J J. J M M. s 's play The new work worl probably will have its first American America production in the U Manhattan before the tho clo close e of next sea season sea on The Tite compos composer er m no doubt will ill be bell Mr ll Victor Hc Mary Iary Gat Garden Galden den who conies comps to the HIP Manhattan next season to make malto her American debut r attaining success success suc sue cess in the tho Opera In Paris Is IE being considered con among others rs forthe forthe for COt the title tHle role One of Mr Hammer Hammer- j chief lea reasons ons for going oin abroad I u n few Cow weeps weeks ago was to confer with Mr 11 Charles Frohman who produces Peter Pan II in n America an and with Mr BalTie annul about his plans plan for making an opera from front Pc Peter t J Pan 0 0 While no name of actor octor or actress scroll of oe fame Caine was among those on the at nt the tho New York University Thursday the tho name of Charlotte Charlotto Cushman lacked only five fi voles votes of achieving the honor It takes 44 H votes to place a 1 womans woman's name namo in the Hall of or Fame and 30 votes were recorded for tor Miss Cush Cush- man There Is a strong stron probability that in l 1 0 the time of the next vole her name namo will receive the requisite number The Theote vote ote for COl Miss Cushman Cushinan out of or 23 colIe college t was as follows f Ten n presidents 11 out of or 27 2 professors and scientists 11 out of 2 2 publicists pUblicist editors edit ors Irs and authors author and seven sC out of 23 3 3 jurists According According- to localities Miss H 9 Cushmans Cushman's Cush- Cush mans malls fame nine was strongest in the 1 mid mid- middle of 23 3 where sho she got 15 out dlo dle states slates England al also o have gave her a votes otes New ew majority majo 11 11 11 out nut of 21 In the tho south sho rho ho 1 received ClI five e nut nul of 18 In to the middle west four out of 19 and ii In the far ar west wesl four out of 14 H. 0 0 that announced announce It L is authoritatively el the tho partnership which has existed be ber between between tween tweets Julia Julin Marlowe larlo and C P. II Sothern will end enl with the present season l The hey finished their theli London engagement eng yes ter n and and sailed Alle for Cor home on the Umbria today On th their lr return they the have hae arranged with Mr Mi 11 Lee Shu Shubert ert io in together for fOl two t weeks at thi th th thAC to play and Juliet Julie of Music Romeo Romeo AC Academy my and anti Twelfth Night plus plays in greatest reate t successes e ir the seared scored l th their London after aHer which the and under tinder r the manage management will terminate anent ment of Shubert the they will tour th of Jardin de Paris PC A little hit bit bit bitof of It Parts Paris transported lIan port d to lo Broadway an effort to reproduce the principal features features features fea fea- I tures of a well known resort of or the French capital is what Mr says bays h ho he has attempted Vaudeville and anda a musical revue will be the hot weather er attractions on the root roof Grace George closed her present successful season of or in Thursday evening evening- The Sar Sar- dou Iou comedy has proven to bo be t one orthe of or the hits of or the season reason and antI would have continued tho the entire summer in Wal Wal- al lacks lack's had hall not the opportunity of a J. T London ondon opening presented itself its Jr Miss 1158 George sails today and open the Duke of York one of Charles Frohman's theatres on Monday June Tune 10 O Mine Mile Nasimo a begins her pr ninth week as tho sc- sc Coquette inThis inthe in inthe the Bijou theatre row night This |
