Show New York Theatre Letter nv BY rES J. GnA GRANT r New York JUI July 27 The 27 Tin actors are coming ba back l to town and antl soon SOOIl the will be crowded with greater and lesser lights of lh the stage The alls nave la ave g gone lI forth and every stage in III the city Is occupied b by companies r rehearsing for till th coming season Not only aro are all nil the stages in use use hut but large halls have boon boen rented for the purpose of getting getling Into Inlo shape and und there then Is much macit bustle and hurry In su spite ite of the summer mid neat heat H at S S SOwing Owing to the continuation of prosperity pros pros- perRy throughout the land managers predict a most successful season There will vill be elaborate productions cheap productions and amI classical and sensational productions but bul all alt c ex expect expect ex- ex to do 10 a record business I- I Iver Every ver I I year tho the number of theatres Is In Increasing In- In I creasing r and It would surprise the un un- Initiated initIaled to know lenow how man many thousands thou thou- sands ind of men depend on the stage thou thou-I for fora a living It Jt Is a bl big army and a harda hardworking hard hard- working one for nowadays managers al demand ernand mand the goods gools The season In N New w York YOlIe will vIll start earl early any will ring up the curtain curtain cur cur- tain ala on Au August C G The Time the tho Place lace and the Girl It I Is said to tc contain fun and music and pretty prett girls This lila Is a combination that even New Ne York can stand 1 though h tho thermometer eter itce Is about 90 degrees Some Sonic of the heap cheap stock companies or I should say ay stock companies anle playing at 10 20 O anti and 30 cents cent will ivill start starl In next Sat t They Ther cater to good people who cannot afford to summer at Newport Newport New New- port or in the mountains and have hav to remain In Iii town and demand amuse ment meat So even though the season seaser I opens open ear early the stock companies ex cx expect expect ex- ex to do a good business Tile The theatres theatres thea lhea- tres will wUI be cooled with electric fans and tired mothers can check thou the their babies and enjoy enjo the show The Tin nUl nurses es In the III lu 20 O and cent 30 houses house S Sare are arc a great Institution There Thero are aro cribs crib S for the babies bahles If Ii the they want to sleep and toys If they conclude to kec koci awake until mama comes with a check C to redeem her treasure Years ago Barnum's show had a 1 sensational feature of or a girl being shot sho ho t from runs lom a cannon Hying flyIng through the ai al aland all all' alland r and landing In a n not Tho The cannon cannot made a terrible noise hut but this was on for effect as the girl Irl was shot through 1 the air all by hy mOans means If of a powerful spring This effect el Is IB now to It be he used In a anew anew I new thriller called the tho Kin King am ani md l Queen of Gamblers The persecute persecuted 1 heroine 1 la Is loaded loadell Into a a. cannon the villain 11 nils at a a deserted arm arrn post When hen he tires fires the tile cannon h he C expects to see Ice the girl hurled to de tle- but but not so The Tho hero I Is S up tip a tree and the tho gun un is aimed I Ii In Ii his direction The villain does no not t know tho hiding place of ot the hero herc so 50 with a a. devilish de Ha lIa ha he applies ap ap- plies the match The rue girl goes goos shootIng shoot shoot- lug Ing up t through rough the air and the her hero 0 reaches out through tho the trees tree an LI catches her her and and there you ou are e Tho The society columns tell us that tha I everybody e Is 18 out of town This I Is e hardly true A visit to the tho roof root gardens gardens gar gas dens or tho nearby beaches con con- vince one that there are sen several ral thousand thousand thou thou- sand people still lingering with us and and who appear to be he enjoying themselves The rhe roof and seaside managers' managers sea sea- seah son began hegan late but now the they have nothing to complain of Tho They nave lavo given us UR fairly good attractions and have h bOon been on rewarded with good reports from front the lox box nUke On one of the roofs this week weel a gentleman L cool cooks an omelet on the tho head of his devoted wife while on another roo roof live five women pose as golden statutes I Tie They are aro 5 gilded like pl pi picture ture frames fames I alit and their worle Is quite ciullo artistic S Having sprung into su sudden den notoriety notoriety noto noto- riet by hy a man deserting her with I she sho ho had tied fled from froin her hel happy happ home lome Flor Florence Scheel the Virginia I girl who went to tot London to drive Alfred Afred Alfred Vanderbilt's horses appears In Ir I The Maid and the Millionaire at the tilt Madison Square roof garden galden She m does docs art poses and gives a D. recitation S S S SOne One oC or the recruits from flom 1 legitimate to vaudeville next season reason Is likely t to I bo IH John West Westley ley who ho played the elder ehde I of ot the broth brothers rM in Tho The Three of oC Us Us' with Miss Charlotte la last t sea son Since the play Ia closed Its roa road 1 tour Mr Westley Pestle ha has been heen back Ii in i town busy husy with typewriter I a The rise re result re- re sult stilt Is a sketch for tor three people It Il is now under tinder negotiation In the tho vaudeville vaude vaude- ville yule field neld Recently M Mr It ant and Mr 11 Oscar Oscur had hind a C discussion and as a re result the composer has haft com corn work upon a lyric Iric opera which ma may h be le heard in the Manhattan Opera house the season after next There Is rea reason on to think that thal the tho book of or the tho opera Is complete some of the themes therne have ha alread already he been en developed and part of tile the score Ecore has been written S S S SMore More rore than ever before has the public displayed eal tillS this season on Its liking for fOI those shows at Coney Island which are of ot a religious or oi semi religious na na- nature na- na ture Tho thrillers and anti Illusions still have their following but a n large part of tho the attendance turns lurns In to see the shows Knows that pretend to deal with stories l of simple faith Among those I that stand forth is h. The rite Feast of ot I that tells In a vivid vl colorful colorful color color- ful pageant the Old Te Testament jab laIc Jale of ot overweening o egotism effecting Its own downfall Studying religious subjects at Cone Coney Island is something new but Coney has been heen transformed The days das of ot the fat woman and glass g cater eater have havo gone gono forever Of the pla plays s 's that remain there are only six Ix It requires a pretty robust Imagination to realize that some borne of ot them thorn are arc plays One Ono real roal drama four musical comedies and anti one review Here they are ure The Honeymooners Fascinating Flora The Tho Orchard Follies of or 1907 Thelma Thclma and The Maid and tit the Millionaire 5 5 U James K It Hacket has secured the American rl rights of 1 Blue Bird but the tho expenses of or production production pro pro- arc are said to be so heavy that It Is by no means means means' certain that pia play will be he seen seon here hem after all Perhaps I it t is reasonable to doubt the dramatic I I value of a 0 pia play that is so largely dependent de de- IC- IC pendent upon costly stage accessories ies S S SOtis Otis Skinner Is to be seen next season season season sea sea- son in a version of La which made mado a success at the Paris Pails Odeon in 1903 and has lately had a arun arun arun run of or several months at the theatre Antoine It Is a romantic piece the hero liero being an art adventurer ad in the N Napoleonic p cam campaigns who becomes entangled In a variety of or exciting In In- In The character is expected to toIvo give gl Ivo excellent opportunities to Mr BI Skinner one of the very few pla players els experienced in Iii the thc ways of ot romantic drama S S S Tho The promised appearance in iii a Broadway theatre In an English play of the tho favorite Yiddish actor David Davic Kessler lon long an Idol of the East Side will be he a dramatic event of more than common Interest For many years he had excited enthusiasm on the EastSide East Side by his Impersonations in the plays of Jacob Gordin Ibsen Gork Gorky anc and S many others and f fervent nl trIbutes have been paid to his v hi his wide emotional range h hi his is tragic intensity ily his humor his p pathos athos and anti the thc veracity of his human t types Beyond question he Is an ahl ahland able a and nd experienced actor hut but It remains t to o be he proved ll whether or not In hl his hisong l long ong service In III the Yiddish theatre hohas he ho has acquired faults faults tricks tricks of manner a and expression expression Of of which he ho will not miot f find ind It easy to rid lid himself upon the English stage a I Various are arc the opinions expressed ell t upon the formation of ot a theatrical trust rust t to control the theatres of the enire entire en- en t tire the earth but the consensus of opinion opinions I Is s that It will break Itself apart from i It Its ts own weight A theatrical organization organization org org-an- of such vast dimensions which while It monopolizes the time best places of entertainment at tho the same ame time alms aims at depriving both hoth actors and playwrights play play- wrights of their legitimate opportunities ties s. must In course of tuna limo fall faU to pieces through h the ordinary processes of dry ily rot The rhe poor 1001 drama will be reduced to a pretty desperate pass pas probably before the occurrence of the collapse but buthen when hen tho the wa way va has once more moro been opened to fret frey competition the da day of oC her resurrection will not be befar befar befar far distant |