Show I r Successes Successes and Theaters In n New Ne NeY Y York ark Failures o of the Wee Week k U BY J. JAMES IES GRANT CHANT New ew York April IS 18 There Is Ks no ito doubt that thai the time Lenten se seison hn has lias Its effect on Oil the theater Man Many theatergoers theatergoers theater theater- goers refrain from the play during th the penitential season and managers are arc somewhat chur diary chary of trying on new plays All 11 this makes c for dullness and yet ot the playhouses 6 as a n rule are arc fairly ralrh well filled and some Iome now new pla plays s 's sire aro produced pr wIth lucco y f J i r I Kor r nominee at ut tim q tin minter on 11 Monday C Cyril Scott and J his cons con puny vany gave gU the Uio premier performance of or n Sit SOW now play ho Mounted un and unU have played It to lo good hoot audience au lit week seek It ig he a tine line play well staged tu cd ant and beautifully acted lI It has nil all the 1 of success The scene i ia is laid In time the Far Par Xoi o and won wonderful erful to relate has haH neither In Indian lan nor cowboy in lu it It 11 deals with that lint wonderful body of soldIer the time North Northwestern western mounted police There Is plenty of ac action acton ac- ac 1 ton lion a n good If it somewhat hackneyed plot a and d is clean and J bright Another notable production of the wc week was waa Don Quixote at the lie Lyric b by that sterling sterling- actor I K B. II Sothern Mr Ir Jester has made ma good work of the dramatization of Cervantes Cervante's master master- master master- piece Tho part purl of the time famous Knight of La Lu fits lits Mr h Sothern like a 0 another to his long Ions glove Io c lie has tins added list of ot successes U lIon henry ry I 15 B. presented Papa L La- La J a 11 French play by Joan Al- Al card at time the Bijou Dijou Mr 11 Dixey always Is good in comedy come The names of Sothern and Dixey in tn conjunction suggest a 1 thought Mr Sothern recently has hns re revived revived re- re success his characterization character character- clI 1 with great of Lord Why should Adonis which not t-ot Mr him fame tame and fortune first Out bro brought lur-c. lur unadulterated fun I do o not re recall recall re- re Tor lor pure call anything In ln recent days nys which I. I In is quil quai to Adonis as ho he played It 20 10 I years ago I S I Already word has been given of uC a n I score of new plays plas next season and undoubtedly chief interest lies In th the way of or Samson Sams m. m U by Henri Bernstein Gillette will return to in 11 which William have been many New ew York There Thoro slowing glowing reports report from Pang Pails about tills this I rhuy and the of ot critics agree thai it Is superior to The Time Thief and ad The Th the work In which Bernstein first Jc the lie Inventive and auth ability to tit wall walle in the time first rank of or French Fionch diama dna dia- ma lists 5 Ch Charles a Ill I'll l' l hits lias a U c company practically recruited for tor Samson only afe v o n niftier minor roles r l' IIIi tu be Shied filled hua i time Yc U It win appeal moro more to our than Tue f. f 11 J t seems to possess vitality l allty for u a second tle Lyceum thea- thea ten tel A study lUdy bf bt time the plot tennis tends s to confirm confirm confirm con con- firm firm opinion for fOl In lt Its main I features the story st strikes straight lIl it at atlie I the lie sympathies of or our audiences 1 1 I I I I U S S Mme Imp l Emma mma games Barnes has sl signed a a. contract con cots tract to sing sins at the Metropolitan l opera house again next season cason After fter tIme tho formalities for for- were over which Ins Insured her herr r reappearance before th the New v York op opera opera up- up era audiences next winter she el pressed e great satisfaction over her contract which she said Bald is 18 the time most to her tier liking ilk lik ing of any sh she ha lias ns ae ever er had either cither In Inthis Inthis Inthis this country or Euro Europe H By fly the tho terms ernie of her new agreement Mme Mine Homes Barnes becomes becomes becomes be be- comes a m member of the time metropolitan forces on November 36 G. G and who she bo will wIn I slug continuously Until February 20 During this time tinie she will sing twenty twenty- one times U S S Mr Ir Cassazza Gattl aza the this new Italian general manager of the time Met Metropolitan Metro Metro- o- o po politan Ulan opera house and und Mr Auturo the time Italian conductor are It coming to New York this month will be their first vl visit H here litre and willbe willbo will willbe be bo made for the lie purpose of getting in ill touch with operatic affairs In New York ther arrival and In advance ot of their J ii general genera interest rest In the lIC men Inca who a i IP I-i- r to occupy such important posts at t tl Ii Metropolitan and ana in their artistic r r. r i I oras Mr Cassazza Gatti-Cassazza l Is 39 30 years old M u in native of Ferrari He ne was Vas educated d a naval engineer but forsook this n nIng lag Ing when 25 years ears old and because became T Jr i v theatrical it Ident of or tho tIme Ferrari |