The morning times., 1896-07-12
FAIRS look hopelessly immature fe

~ the lOrtn. OfnlnS theatrlCdi DuSlntSS
I campaign at tfis ID week OF tgly.
Just \ s; altering of players know
which foot they stand on, and VAST
majority haven I any Iee6 " stand TN, 60 lar
as the pedal Iernanency OF Il Contract is
concerned. The players look at each either
with concerned hopeiessness and the mana
gers wOulu ike 10 ntnw where Tile attlat-
lions are to come from. The producers
over in New York, who are Looked to Tor
the novelt les wiierv withalt TO butlda sea sons
looking, have been barren OF even tneap
promises a $ an English comedy of laughs.
Some how they have all held back to see
what the Frohmans are going to do.
Charles and Daniel went to the other side
OH the annual quest, and they had clear
field of tLoice. There was not rival
bidder. They must have found easy terms,
but certain IL is they tagged all the game
in sight.
Charles Frohman came home last week
and he spread n dainty neal OF news and
ulans for the dramatic writer's. ID the bud
get of European successes which Mr. Fioh-
man has brought back with him is the
French ntelOdraiIia Les Deux Gosses,
literally translated The Two Brats.' THIS
Is said to be u sturendous success in Paris,
and the large amount of royalties Which il
has earned for tie author has set nearty
every French dramatist crazy to succeed in
production here in tie Academy OF Music.
lie has also tie rights for Stanley Wey-
tiZed by Edward Rose, which, II ready In
man novel, Under the Red Robe, drama
time, will be the opening attraction Tor JOHN
Drew's enga cement at the Empire Theater,
underlined for August 81. His Eext open
ing attraction will be Eisson's comedy
'.inc Liar. wilcu VIII Dc presented at
Hoyt's Theater on September Z. On tie
mill h.,.r ItIl
career at the head OF carefully selected
company or refined entertainers at the
Garrick Theater. JOHN Hare's repertoire
under Mr.. FrohInan's direction, will include
a new pay ny a. w. Piuero, and Miss olga
Nethersole Will have two new pays TO
add to her repertoire when she returns 10
America.
The Empire Theatcr Stock Company will
be seen in two new plays, one by j. NJ.
Barrie and the other by II. V. Esmond. j.
NJ Barrie's dramatiZation of his novel TIE
Little Minister will also DE oTe of the
new productions to lie anticipated with in
terest "Roscmary,' the la est London sue
cess, now running at the Criterion: a new
comedy by Alexander Bisson and one by
George FeydeaD. author of The Gay
Parisians," and the dramatization of Paul
Bourgeois "a Tragic IdyI' are equally
notable productions which theater gocrs VIII
regard with pleasurable aDticipations. In
oDJunction with Manager Dan Frohman.
the NapoleoDic Charles owns. the rights to
Mrs Burnett's "A Lady of Quality" and in
injunction with Manager Frank Sanger
he controls Wilson Barrett's The Sign of
the Cross" which, as already Doted in these
columns, is a great substantial London sue
cess.
Mr. Fruhman by way of postscript as tile
scribes penciled their last page OF foreign
items, gave utterance to that trite generrii-
Zation that he has contracted for new
American plays by native dramatists.
Henry Guy Carlton, William Gillette.
Gus Thomas and Frankiyn Fyles.' You
may wager his tongue was in his cheek the
while. Frohman is given to this sort Of
patronage of American rlaywrights. Every
season lie reiterates that the American
drama will be given immediate and extern
sive consideration. But he never substan-
tiates. When the Barries, the Pinerrs.
the ones, the Bissons, AMI the other alien
riff-raff have had their chance To make
or fail then at the fag end OF the season
with public interest depressed and early
closing staring the company in the face
an American play will b, slappel in as
stopgap. Frohmap will and does pro-
| duce American plays where the foreign
| market is absolutely empty OF any merest
| trifle to dangle before the anFlOmaui3c C
anu WOTSfilDHS uolndlnttss. WHO
/, live only in the reflected warmth Of foreign
suns And what New York bites we must
| swallow.
| Charles Mackay IS a shrewd young man.
| He keeps his eye on the bushes situation
| every moment, and couples high art with
| business. Some one. remarked within rar
| shot the other night that the tendency uf
| theatrical commerce was not toward con
centration as distinguished from the old
Il ia r ~
Mr. Mackay took him up on his statement
| and told him few actual facts with regard
| to this particular point: Concentration
| Why, in few years dozen managers will
1 own the theatrical worl Land the manou the
| outside will b. as cold a. the frozen heroine
in a poem I've not just finished.
J There's Charles Frohman with ourteen com
| panies to go ont next year. Count them:
| Empire Theater stock Company; John
| Drew, John Hare. Olga Netbersole, Cheva-
lier, Bohemia Company. Girl Left Behind
| Me. William Gillette, The Liar, The Gay
Parisians, The Fatal Card, London Gaiety
Company, Thoroughbred, and Too Much
| Johnson.
| Nv. "A. Brady hasten. Count them: Maurice
Barrymore, Under the Pola Star Charles B.
| Ward, The Glare OF Gotham, The Cotton
| King, Cuba. A Daughter of the Tenements,
| Humanity, James j. Corbett, and Eddie
Foy. Jacob Lift will win and loose on six;
| They are: War OF Wealth, The Last Stroke
Shaft No. 2, In Old Kentucky, A Yenuine
Yentleman, and A Woman in Black. E.
j. Abram owns five: Lewis Morrison,
Rosabel Morrison, Morrison's Faust, and
Morrison's Faust westerly. There's Frank
L. Periey, with fourstrings to his bow: The
Bostoniaus, ModJeska. Sporting Duchess
and Robert Hilliard. Even Parson A. IL
Palmer has Trilby, His Absent Boy. and
The Great Diamond Robbery. There are
forty-two picks of the profession and they
are owned by six men. IcouId name a score
or mana gers with couple OF Companies v
He knows his points.