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Show NEW PLAYS FOR OTIS SKINNER. Otis Skinner is abundantly supplied with now plays, according to authentic reports. Booth Tarklngton has written writ-ten a play for him for ono. The author au-thor of "Tho Man From Homo" has collaborated with his friend and part-nor, part-nor, Harry Leon Wilson, on a now and up to dato American play in which tho principal character is intended for Mr. Skinner's use. Another play which tho actor has under un-der consideration is tho work of Mrs. Josephine Parker, wife of a professor of chemistry at Harvard university. This, it Is rumored, is a romantic drama of tho typo mado popular by Fechtcr and Davenport, the giants of tho palmy days In romantlo drama. Still another now play of which Mr. Skinner thinks well is a drama of tho Spanish Inquisition from tho pen of Lloyd Osborne, tho stepson of tho lamented la-mented Robert Louis Stevenson. Thero Is no likelihood that Otis Skinner will bo sen In any of these plays until next September, when ho will again begin a New York engagement under Charles Frohman's management II will continue . for the balance of the present season In his present play, "Tho Honor of the Family." His tour will continue well Into June and will cover all of the Important cities of southern California and tho north- west. |