| Show THREE NEW NEM PLAYS I ARE I i New York Theatergoers Are I I Enjoying Novel Stage i Offerings BY Y JA JAMES lBS S GRANT h Ne' Ne York March 20 At At At t 1 Ethel a has haa surrendered urr d r d- d dt t to th the con con assaults of or Cupid an and there Is IN Ismore ismore more than one aching heart In Europe x and America in consequence thereof It Is now Mrs Colt CoIL and It ma may be safely said that few brides have tt started on the live matrimonial o voyage aSo with more mOIo heart hearty well wishes than this fair tall young oung daughter of ut It I Is gratifying to know that l 1 Mrs airs Cull Colt has haa I 4 no Intention of or giving up her wor work k for tits the present at least a There Is rather an amusing g coincidence coin coln- v Ui Ln the manner of ol the Uio three new nets n pla playa s which were wele presented t to 10 o New Nety York theatergoers this lilts week The They are arc The Bachelor The Return h I of Eve Ee and Votes for Of or these tho the most Interest was shown it In I J tho thu last This by reason doubtless o of f the very general and Increasing Interest Inter Interest est In the suffragette movement fh The rhe c play Is h by an English woman MIsa ae Elizabeth and deals dials with the e English suffragette movement Ints In a ts most Interesting tlc style Miss 1189 Mar Mary ay y Shaw played played the principal part an and d pla played cd it well I The tiThe Return o ot of Lt Eve a at at the Herat Herald I i I S Square rU n t te le e eit Is doubly interesting in that it marks also the fife return of that strikIng I ing nu actress Miss Mias Bertha Garland Galland The story tory is pretty It is well weIl told well sla staged ell and well acted Charles Cherry Chem showed us just how effective e a a. wooer a n middle aged woman woman wo wo- man hater can be when Cupid Cupl makes males a center shot with his heart as us a target target tar tar- get set in The Bachelor Clyde Clde Fitch's Fitch s I. I new now piu play piny at Maxine Elliott's Elliotts theater i I J miss m my guess ess If this play is not net In I for tor a 3 long an and successful run I et Theater lint Hat I I A novel solution of the tho matinee hat problem is a advanced b by Miss Jean Aylwin AylI Ayl Ayl- I win of ot the London Gaiety theater Sho She has haa de designed a hat consisting of or two parts the parts tho crown and the brim which are made mado quite separate The crown in l Itself elf forms torms a tiny toque loque offering I a a. minimum of or obstruction to 10 the view o of ur anyone sitting while the tho I detachable brim forms an enormously enormous enormous- I ly exaggerated Merry 1 Widow I uw affair When hen the hat Is worn at a matinee and caw causes es the usual protests from behind behind be be- hind the wearer with a smile simply lifts the gargantuan brim of off her head hend 1 leaving the Inoffensive little toque asan as asan asan an n adequate headdress which can no not t 1 be he e objected to b by the time most moat fastidious merry anti This creation I hat has nut not made its appearance In New Neti NewYork I II York yet but taut it doubtless will before e I long IonS I Ir Frederic Thompson's Thompsons on production o of or t Porter Emerson Brownes Browne's new play A l Fool tool There Was as with Robert HIl- HIl lard as the star will be presented fo for tor forthe r the fh first t time Monday 1 night March 29 9 at the Libert Liberty theater Mi MISS 8 Fannie Ward purchased fro from m Channing Charming Pollock the English rIghtS t of or a n on one act acl play pIny entitled Wish Ish Her Jie r Duck Buck to tho the Wall which sho silo will wit rI I present next summer in London Tho The piece was e especially written for Miss Yard Ward because of Mr Ir Pollocks Pollock's recognition nilion of or her work worl in his ills dramatization li tion n of In In tho the Bishops Bishop's Carriage Klaw KIa Ss Erlanger have engaged the following cast of or principals for the revival of or Audren's opera The Mascot Mascot Mas Mas- cot which will be bo produced 1 at ut tho New Amsterdam theater April 12 Flora as Bettina Estelle Wentworth as Flametta na Raymond mond Hitchcock as Lorenzo Edward Faver Favor as Rocco Benr Henry Henry Coote as Edgar A Atchison Ely as l Frederic and Bruce Druce Smith as Wireless For FlU S The rho announce that they will shortly establish on the roof root o otheir of ot f their Casino theater where James T. T Powers Is now appearing In Havana an overland wireless telegraph station sta sta- tion for the tho more effective e centralization central central- of ot all their theatrical Interests Interest ts s and theaters extending from Now Not v York to the far tar West In ever every city where the control a n theater theater thea thea- ter this theater will have havo a wireless station on Its roof and In every ry city where the have several theaters theaters theaters thea thea- tho the mo most t conspicuous will have havo 0 the wireless equipment Oscar Hammerstein has secured secure d I M Miss ss La Ll Palme She is only 21 years year I II I I old and was born In to Montreal and Is Isnow s now note tho tiro lyric soprano of or the Opera Open Continue of or Paris Parla Miss Mibs La Palmo Patin u took look first prize in tho the Montreal con sou conservatory aen atory for tor violin and was waa sent t to o the tho Royal Academy of or Music In London Lon Lon- don where she won the gold medal meda 1 One Ono night In London sho silo went vent to tou a private house to piny with Noyes and d They w were ro strumming lh the e opera La when she began singing tho the role rolo of Mimi lIml I Iwho who Is an old gray bearded pianist well known In lets Xu York exclaimed Why l you OU can sing It was at this moment that fate Intervened Mr HIggins manager of or orthe the Convent Garden opera house found that one of ot his hits artists could not appear next night In La and called up her understudy by telephone A mistake mis mis- mistake take tule of or the tho telephone girl 1111 connected him with Lady Ladr Warwick's where tho the musicale was being given answered the telephone and told HiggIns Rig Rig- Riggins gins ho he wanted Miss IJ La Palme to sing Ins tho the role She went to the tho telephone and heard Higgins say bay l Can you OU sing Musette tto In La She She answered in Immediate terror yos yes and studied the role of Musette which she hud had never tried all night The next day at ut the tho midday rehearsal she sho was waa successful and anil d sang Musetta lusett 3 In La La Bohenie Bohena with Melba and Scotti now tho the manager of the Paris Opera pera house directed d the theOl Ol opera ta that night tit and ho he was so enchanted enchanted en en- chanted that he Insisted that Miss alias La Palmo should come coma to Paris Her I triumph in Massonet's Cinderella t added to her vogue ogue and tocla today this young Canadian girl Irl holds the tho same game I place In Paris that thal Mary sines Gar Gordon Garden on and other American types t-pe hold lucid a dozen years ago I Iu Jul Theater Chat Clial Miss Annie Russell closes her American season In The Stronger I Sex In ht Philadelphia and will go so to I Lon London on In fn a few days air Mr Ir Robert In a new play piny A Fool There Was Wag by Porter Emon Emerson on Browne la 18 s to bo be presented as a a. star under the tho management of or Fre Frederic Thompson In the Liberty tJ theater cater March 24 24 t Mr Mt L E. E II H. hl his hla engagement in Dalys Daly's theater March 29 with a revival of Richelieu 1 that being his first New York appearance in the play Other plays ho he will present present pre pre- sent aro are Hamlet Lord and If I V Were rc King |
