The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-30
FRoHMAN's THEATRICAL PLANS.
VIII Have Three London Houses and
Spend Half the Year There.

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NEW YORK, June pa cablegram from
London to the Journal says that Charles
Frohman returned there a few days ago
from Paris, where he has been making ar
rangements for the production OF Secret
Service in that playgoing town. Saturday
he signed contracts with the Gatties and
George Edwardes for the control of Adelphi
Vaudeville and Gaiety theaters during
certain months of the next three years.
Mr.. Frohman said: Il am going into man
agement in London, but l am not going out
of management in America. 1 have finally
made my arrangements so that my pro-
auctions will go on in London by sending
over my American stage managers to du-
plicate my New York work here. My orig
inal intention was, if possible, to remain
here through the winter, but that was
found to be impracticable on account of my
new productions for the Empire, Garrick,
Garden and Hoyt's theaters in New York
for John Drew and the launching of a star
in Miss Maud Adams. AS my next three
productions in London, Never Again. Too
Much Johnson and Good Mr.. Best are
now progressing here, having engaged the
companies in the past month, there will be
no difficulty, for the present, in handling
my affairs in London and New York from
my headquarters in the latter city.
Next season | shall spend six months in
London and six in New York. BY reaching
New York in September and London in
March L can be present at the seasons
opening in both cities. My contract with
the Gatties at the Adelphi calls for one
American company each season at this
house, and at the Vaudeville there will be
comedies for the next five seasons begin
ming with Never Again in October, in
which three of the American cast viii APP
pear-Ferdinand GottSchalk Agnes Miller
and Maggie Holloway Fisher. In connec-
ton with George Edwardes, of the Gaiety,
L propose having a season each year with
and Miss Maud Adams Instead of send
ing my New York organizations to San
Francisco in the spring / will send them to
London. A success in San Francisco means
only few weeks, but in London a COM
pany can play the entire summer. The sue
cess of Secret Service is not entirely re-
sponSible for these plans, as l have been
working on them for five years, although
dence by Secret Services triumph, and
that facilitated the negotiations to greater
interchange of companies.
THE first English organization l shall
take over is In Town, with its big cast of
seventy players, from the Galley Theater.
1t will open at the Knickerbocker Theater
in September. Yesterday l concluded ar
rangements with both Julia Marlowe and
Nat Goodwin to play them in London under
my management. l expec extend my
operations to Paris, where ranged last
week for an adaptation an, )duction of
Secret Service, and hereaft n contract
ing with American authors 4 will include
not only England and Australia, but all
continental cities Before next winter Sc
cret Service will be seen in Berlin and
Vienna, and my New York version of The
Gay Parisienne has now reached Johannes
burg, South Africa, and Germany and I
participate in these profits. l will reach
New York at the end of July, start my au-
tumn productions then and come right