Show III New N ew York Y or k Theaters Th ea t ers I Best Plays People in Review andew and BY DY J JAMES GRANT T Now Nov ow York Mardi March I uch 22 So So It Is to be Chevalier in the time near fu fu fu- lure ture Tho The one and amid only Oscar Is to be decorated atc with the tIme cross of oC tho l. l Legion glon of Honor and Is to lo take talce his place among the great ones of oC France While the tile honor hOllor has not been formally formalI formal formal- I ly lr conferred upon tho time Impresario I understand there Is s no doubt It will be he This will simply be a graceful compliment com coin for the time vcr ver very great service sef Mr 11 has done one for French mu mu- sic Ic Before his advent ent in n the field of or gran grand opera there thero was a general Impression Im un- un In this country that thal French music was confined to opera and and Yvette Guilbert tra la songs ong us a pretty prett representative n ta ti tic c French singer that only the German and Italian italIan Ital ital- ian could compose music or render lender It which really was worth consideration by musicians In the time popular mind French music held a place lilace little If It an any above c ragtime has changed 1 all alt this lie has demonstrated to the American public that France has composers who lib are worthy worth a place beside Wagner Ya ner and Verdi endI and that she has singers equal to the best It Is in iii recognition of or this positive service to French art that It Is proposed to make malce hammerstein a chevalier chev chie alier aller of oh the Legion of Honor S S SI I 1 understand that 1 Mr 11 who gives JI wa way after this season reason to G Gattl- Gattl Cazzaza and DIppel at the time Metropolitan tan lan proposes to devote a gou good part parl of his time for a while to the time writing of his autobiography I trust timI this report 1 I b true Mr Ir has been bed a big figure in the time musical all and dramatic world worl In In Inthis this city ell for a number of oC years ears and his experiences would certainly cm make mighty might Interesting readI read- read I Ing n g. g S C C In Iii the time worM world of or time the drama time the all up- of of John Barr Barrymore In Toddles Toddies and of L Leo o In Bluffs were perhaps tho the most Inter Inter- inter inter- cHUng esting C at In g Neither play plu Is liable to lo cause a blockade III In the time N New w Jersey Jersey or or I Long ong Is Island Island Is- Is land tunnels with a rush ruh of out out-of- town visitors to be seen but time the they aregood are arc good pla plays s 's and arc pleas It Is worth a note nolo that Ml Miss s Uola oIa LaFollette dau daughter of the time famous ramous Wisconsin senator appears with I I and that she sime shows latent enough to warrant rant her choice of the stage as a profession lon S S S Vera Vcra the time noted nut not ed cd nUH lL actresS has not found Cound the stage the time gold mine she an anticipated anticipated anticipated an- an and has hus de decided l ed to curtail her I cn engagement here b by two weeks She will go on the roa road l for a n week returnIng return return- return return-I Ing InK for a brief sta stay In New ew York an and then timen home earl early In III April I The Russian alter tur Is a fine actress but she Is not quite strong enough to ap app appeal appeal ap- ap j p peal al to lo an all American audience when playing In her native language It takes a great genius to tn do this and while Mme Mine K c I Is a finished fin fin- I artist he hu Is not an astonishing genius I S S S SNow Now ow Clyde r F Fitch itch Is In the second half hundred of or his plays play and his first fifty dramatic work was seen In tIme the Garrick Monday onda night It Is new only ii In this this- country for It ha has haa had hall a u years year's run lit hf Ix I London and the French original Trip J had the time longest e st run In III Pa Parl Panl t. t hi of or an any piece produced there in Iro the tIme last tell ten years year In Vienna and Berlin It ran fan almost a as long IonS Fitch Pitch adapted it fo for Charles Iut Frohman from time the French of oC Tristan lan Bernard and Andre o Those who have havo seen Scott It l say al' al 1 bitt ho not I only emily has hns conserved all the atmosphere of hip original but has hut added much of ot of his own humor h and character drawing The Tho adaptation is called callet I I Toddles John Barr e mote plays 11 time the j I chief chief- role that of or Lord Meadows vho whoso nickname nickname- supplies time the comedy with a a. title Lillo It Il was ius his lila first work In this tiis city since hits his appearance in itt Tho Time Boys Dos of oC Company Campan B last Jast season C S S For a 01 stay of four weeks William Faversham Fa In The Squaw Squa Man lan opens In Tho Time Academy of Music Monday Monda evening e The rime stage staSe of or that pin pla house Is larger larg-er than timan many and the tIme production is bigger than It was In where 1 two wo years ars ars ago it ran ram for fOl seven sc months This Is the seventh metropolitan tan taim engagement of or time the piece and Fa- Fa last season In in the time role ole of Jim Carston Carslon Many members els o of cit the time original or or- company ar are in the time Academy cast which Includes Margaret l Bourne Stephen Steph en Gratton and Katherine FIshier Fisher a C Again for time tile third time lime It has been found fOUl necessary to extend extent Edwald II H. Sothern's engagement In the Lyric and ancl now It looks as If IC time the post Lenten season would find rind him bun In iii time the theater Ills his engagement orl originally was for only four weeks This week was as devoted to two favorites of oC the actors actor's repertoire Sothern appeared as Lord time the first three nl nights of oC the tIme week and andon andon andon on the latter three as well us as Saturday afternoon as Francis Villon In If U I Iere Were ere King There was a special matinee pf f Laurence Irvings Irving's Russian play Time The Fool Hath Said There Thele h Is No 10 God on Oil Tuesday afternoon Sothern next week will appear In I Hamlet amlet as asI I Lord or In I If I Vere IVere King and in Iii the time Irving drama He lie will gIve on March 30 the tile first performance of ofa a a. now new play Don Quixote b by Paul Pah Kester who wrote When Knighthood Was Sas as In Flower |