Show Theater and Its People One Week in New York BY nr JAMES GRANT T THURSTON New v York Feb We Wc 20 We have hare some som pretty good playwrights play these da days s 's In Inthis Inthis inthis this country countr- Men who are aro prolific an and nearly always Interesting but among among- them all there Is Js not one ono who can size up with that grand old man manat manof manof of at the Paris stage Victorien who at nt tho ago age of or 76 has just finished his sixth seventy play and most of ot them successful In his latest cst play In LAft lre des es Poisons i Is credited with having given the best character since Rostand's Cyrano de sic e Bergerac The wide vl a range of or 1 13 Is shown In the opinion of the tho French Trench critics In his blending blending- In iii this thU play piny of ot the methods ho em- em l I Ix Ip the tho In 1 0 of or breezy breez comedies om for COl or Kosu Chert rl lt liv II dramas In In I U d comedies 81 for Cor n th V VIng eX experiences S. S in it writing Ing t plays ln s 's furnish an example to the aspirIng aspiring ing youth of oC this day ay and generation Ho He bo began nn life liCe as n n. medical student eking cl nr out aA m existence by teaching Latin to wealthier but loss Jess gifted fellow tellow tel fel fel- fel low lov- stu students I wrote three plays and hawked them about Paris he lie says Managers wore wore- too busy to see se seme me or to read my mr plays plas and pronounced them i rubbish This opposition determined determined deter deter- mined me inc I kept on hawking I be became became be- be came somewhat of ot a pest Im I'm afraid But ut fortune smiled in the end In Ina Ina Ina a few tew years I 1 had the satisfaction of ot seeing m my three plays on tho the stage stae with not ono one line Une altered Tho rho moral is plain The rho road rond of ot the beginner Is hard progress pros very cry often otten Is Js slow Rebuffs Rebuffs Re Re- buffs bus should only be an Incentive to greater effort Perseverance has hns been my guiding gul principle and If J I might offer offer of or- fer a advice to the young oung author or dramatist fighting the bitter fight and struggling against adversity I would say say eay to him Persevere C The theatrical program for the tho past been of or particular week has not any Interest The reappearance of oC the tho two I noted English Ush actresses Olga Nether Nether- sole and Mrs Irs Patrick Campbell were the main Incidents Miss Katherine Grey In The Worth of or a Woman was the only onh premier Here Is the tho pro- pro Olga In The Awakening a pIn play adapted from the French of oC M. M r. r Paul Bijou theater matinee mati mat nee nee French French players In La w Prix du Bonheur b by M M. Sylvane Slane Tues Tuesday Tuesday- aGar a- a Gar Garden en theater Mrs Patrick Campbell in Electra adapted by Mr 1 lingo Hugo von and antI translated by Arthur Arthur Arthur Ar Ar- thur Symons and In the Flower of or Yamato a Japanese play translated We Wednesday b by d' d Madison Square Garden Miss MIas Kather- Kather Ino Inc Gre Grey In The Tho WOIth Worth of ot a n Woman a play by David Graham Phillips In the world of or grand opera there was also rather a n dearth of oC anything L I new now The Tho program ram follows Metropolitan Monday Itan-Monday Monday Madam But But But- with Miss l larrar Mr Ir Caruso and anti Mr Ir Scotti Tuesday Tuesday Aida Aida with Mme Mum Mine Homer Mr Carso Caruso Caruso Car Car- uso so and nd Mr Ir Wednesday Don Don DonGiovanni I Giovanni with Mme lIme Eames Miss FarL Far- Far L mr Mme Mine me Gadski Mr Ir Bone Bond and Mr Ir Scotti Scott Die Thurs Thursday Dle ay Die with Mme lIme Gadski Mme Ime Mr Ir Burg Burg- I taller statler and Mr Ir Van flODY I Friday Friday- Tosca with Uh Mme Eames Mr lr I Caruso and Mr Murn Scotti Saturday matinee matinee- Ha and Grotel Grote and I wIth Miss Miss Mr Gorlitz Miss Cv Cavalier Mr Ir Caruso and Mr Ir Evening Evenin Met is- is I t-it t 11 1 wi with th Miss 1158 Farrar Rap nap void told Mr Ir Martin and Mr aIr Manhattan Sunday Manhattan Sunday Dal- Dal n t o- o Crabbe Mmes Bressler and Dei De I in concert concert- Monday La Monday Lu I I Ira 1 ra with Mme T Mr I Z and Mr 11 Ancona Wednesday Lucia dl di l with Mine Iu Mr and Mr r. r An- An cona Siberia Friday Siberia with Miss Ag- Ag Mr Ir Basel Bassi and Mr 1 Saturday tur ay matinee Luola Lueia Lucia dl di Lam Lum- with l Mr Ir and Mr Ir Even Even- ing Carmen Carmen with Mme Breeder Bressler I Mr Dalmores and 1111 Mr Ir An An- n cona coca The SUCCeSS of or line has gained for the thc United States privilege of oC hearing hear hear- ing lag another great Russian a actress tress Despite De Do- spite her name Miss Vera Vcra who is booked to appear before American audiences at Dalys Daly's theater theat r. r beginning on March is ia without questiOn ques- ques tic tic-n the most gifted d artist of or Russia today o of the apparent seclusion don sion in tn which l Russian at artists ts havo have kept themselves her bet namo Is la not ot so wall wIl kr known wn n in foreign Countries as her art merit although every one ODe who visits St St. Petersburg nev r rails fans t to 1 see ky in her own Dramatic I theater For a woman loman of ot 33 to be re regarded regarded re- re by the Russian public as the French and the look upon their Bernhardt and Duse pr presumes an unusual unusual unusual unu unu- sual personality A new stage beauty w whoso whose portrait has just been painted pointed by Mr Albert P P. Lucas Lucus for next years year's Paris Salon is Miss I Ida a Greeley Smith and granddaughter granddaughter grand grand- daughter o of Colonel Nicholas Smith and granddaughter r of Horace Greeley Thin j jyoung young woman of ot so distinguished ancestry an au- is Ss a member of Mr John Drewa Drews company In the short hort time she has hall been on t the tho e stage she sho haa baa received many requests from sculptors and artists art art- isis hils who to reproduce her feature tea fea ture tures In stone otono and color explained I n ce the tho ui B I. I O Hol C 1 n. n in 1 n n n cal lon Ics genuine love for lor or tho the stage stag on and a hope that 1 I 1 might somo some day ay succeed In tt It It I wanted of ot the to do tIn som something that no member tam family I ha had over ever done before I read reao somewhere once that heredity Is morels mereLy the tho apology for tor our our own vices nn and the time explanation of our neighbors neighbor's virtues So I thought if It I picked out a n. proCession profession profession sion that no Smith or Greeley had ev even n tried I would got the time cre credit lt for rol any success I achieve If I achieve any an I In a allt felt teU that if IC an actress happened family f no one could say lay she literary literal y Inherited her talent fro from Horace Hurace Greeley Gree- Gree ley Icy But they haven't said any anything thins yet et I |