Show 11 NEW YORK LETTER THEATRE II I II H TAMES IAMES I THURSTON New York July The li-The summer shows I are arc now iz in full ull blast and from om tho the roofs and beaches haches come corne the tho reports of or good business owing to the torrid wave now Prevailing n Iver Everything goes Kocs oes with summer sum sum- mer shows show from the tho man who removes s handcuffs to fa a a. comic cornie opera Indeed one dock lock company managers had the nerve to o put on Dr Jekyll and anel Mr fr Hyde at one ne of the beach be-ach theatres This could har hardly be called a a. cool summer tion ion and the manager malinger was not nol assasSinated assas- assas and an his audiences Were ere up ur to th the usual sual size Everything goes In good old summer ummer time S S S The Time Road to Yester Yesterday ay and amI The Man Ian nn of oC the Hut Hur have ended their most SuccessfUl season Thc They were two most popular plays plas and have a to prosperous future fu- fu tare ture ure before them Caught In iii the Rain Rain- till remains with us at the Garrick anc and I William Collier laughs at the hot er r as ho he counts up tho the house Collier ha hai I broken all records having played a L I of or July matinee maUnee Its It's a merry show v and deserves Its Us success S S Max ax is expected c home from the West Yest In a a. few tew days das and has a a. busy time ahead of him He will direct the rehearsals rehears rehears- als of or John Borte's new productions and after aCter J producing The Alaskan will re rehearse rehearse re- re hearse The Stronger Sex This made mad madea a a. big hit In London Maude l Fealy will interpret the tho principal role In this country coun coun- try Florence Roberts in Zira a a. now comedy and Sar Sarah lh Truax In The Tho Spiders Spider's Spiders Spider's Spi Spi- ders der's Web will then be rehearsed by Mr Ir Figman after aftel which his second starring starring star star- ring season in The Man Ian on tho the Box Dox l it scheduled to begin gln September 30 s Fol Following Following Following lowing a brief tour with the McGrath- McGrath Furniss comedy In this country countr Mr Ir Figman Fig Fig- man will make his debut as a n. star in Lon London on S S S The Amsterdam theatre roof where George M. M Cohan Cohnn Is le presenting The S Honeymooners Is 13 crowded nightly This week Mr Ir Cohan Cohnn Is singing for Cor the first time his new song entitled Tho The Doctor Docto Says I Haven't Long to Live and Im I'm Going to Enjoy Myself The song ong ha has caught on and will soon be whistled a all allover over town S S S SA A A. marked marled difference Is Is noticed at th the performance this week of Sheridan Ride JUde Mr Pain has been able to give the production more attention now the big rush of the tho Fourth Is over So mch has been done that it Is like a new pro The ride of ot the time cavalry leader has tins become more prominent allowing allowing- the spectators to see Fee It almost from Crom start to finish G. G A A. A R. R veterans who were with Sheridan on that famous occasion flock to Manhattan nightly and declare that the tho ride Is th the rea real rea thing The theatrical season In Paris closed last Saturday and strange as It may seem the mo most t successful pia play prove proved to tobe tobe tobe be Mr fr Raffles the time delightful burglar who had been carefully translated ted The rime Parisians went almost wild with delict over o the clever ele gentleman who took look such sucha a keen pleasure In house and they hey will probably demand hl his return nt next season M N New sw w play produced during the season nearly reached readied the number or oror of 1000 of or cour course c the great majority were failures only a n few tew managed to survive and narn Raffles s led letI ih the thc list S S S A curtain raiser called The Dumb Cake recently produced at the tho t theatre In Lon London on seems oms to be a clever cleverand cleverand and nd rather fanciful little piece A simple girl employed at al an almshouse and ancl fed fedon fedon fedon on old rural traditions by the aged female fe fe- fo- fo male mae Inmates t t puts a c cake tc a glass s of f ale anu aria a lI connie on a a. tame tanie on un mi- mi midnight of All Hallows Hallow eve and leaves the door open In the expectation that he lover will appear A fleeing thief seeing a chance to old avoid his pursuers darts In and as ns soon as ns the danger Is ia ov over c promptly prompt prompt- I ly consumes the cake and ale alc but the superstitious superstitious superstitious su su- su- su girl sees in him the destined prince arid and proceeds to worship him giving giving I ing mg him hint a n. locket as 38 a token of oC her lion tion Soon the thief realizes the he situation hut hilt scorning to take undue advantage of It It presently departs slipping the tho locket secretly into her pocket rocket before he goes oes There she sue finds it a little later r on on after r learning lc the time true character of oC her visitor Thereupon she consoles her herself with the reflection that lint even so o poor and brief a romance was better than no romance at atall all S S S SOne One of the great hits of the tho London season season sea sea- eagon ea- ea son gon was vos Mrs Irs VI Wiggs gs of oC th the tho Cabbage Patch Some American plays have cold receptions but Mrs Mra fn won all hearts London took to her and her brood because of or the human nature that Is in them m took to the Illa play because of the very human stor story that it tells It fell fellIn fellin In h e with Mrs urs because that thal sublime creature possesses a nature and temperament that all humanity loves lovs the quiet cheery heroine which grows stronger strong strong- er and more cheery as trouble and danger danger danger dan dan- ger and difficulties thicken That I Is wh why America fell in love her too S S S In the London London London Lon Lon- Mr William Archer writing don T Tribune has hns some p pertinent remarks about the so-called so stock companies In Inthe tho the United States lie He says sas One of or the chief advantages od of or a repertory theatre theat I is that while it gives elves its actors practice in a variety of parts it also allows them bern thema berna a reasonable amount of or leisure How at the tho different is 19 the state of or things stock company compan theatre Here the company com corn tinny pany Is so small that most of oC Its members members members mem mem- bers are engaged in every play 13 that is presented The They have ha to act not our four or five times but twelve times time a n wc week pk and nn nd while the they are acting ever every afternoon afternoon after after- noon oon and evening they have hare to be rehearing re- re hearing every morning the next weeks week's eks production reduction It seems teems almost Incredible that hat flesh and blood can stand such an appalling strain One wonders that the Society for the Prevention of oC Cruelty Cruelly to Animals does not Interfere At an any rate no artistic results 01 or any value are to be expected from such merciless slave slave- driving and as a matter of oC fact I cannot cannot can can- not learn that the stock company compan theatres theatre have lave proved good nur nurseries erles or recruiting grounds 9 for the stage stase at large larce |