The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-08-28
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.
IN EARLY AUTU1EN OUTPUT OF VIEW
PLAYS IN ABUNDANCE

TO DV
Native and Foreign Authors to he Tested
18th New York Audiences-some Pieces
Of Settled Quality to BE Revived.
rb,s week will be unusual in It's large num-
49, ~ reopened theatres. Ten now plays will
- nerformed. and as many old ones will be re-
yIved. At the Lyceum tomorrow night q
niece by Anthony Hope viii be acted by Ed
Eord II, Sothern. Virginia Harmed and others.
"The Adventures OF Lady Ursula" Is pot taken
trom one OF Mr.. Hopes novels. nor IL 1t like
Ma nrlnted fiction in quality. 1t is not a m6lo-
drama. but a comedy. It's story IL that OF an
English girl OF the early eighteenth century
Tho northumberland to enter the residence
q, a communicating gentleman; that the eX-
Mott miscarried and involved her brother In a
nroenecttye duel; TINT she disguised herself
a. male attire, and took the absent brothers
nlsce in the encounters; and that finally she
and the backward bachelor became husband
and wife. 1t is said to AFFORD excellent oppor-
t]nnities for Miss Harmed as the venturesome
MAIDEN and to provide SOM efectual ma
tarIol for Mr.. Sothern. The duel episode is
declared to be a serio-comio achievement Of
M mean order in composition and acting.
Mr. sothern's company has not been changed
IN ony important particular since 1t was at the
Lyceum before.
new melodrama ready for performance at
the Fourteenth Street tomorrow night Is q
,reely nctional treatment of some OF the facts
IN the celebrated case OF Lieut.. Dreytus.
whose prosecution and imprisonment In
France have been regarded by many as perse-
.ution. The play is by Vera de Mole and Ar
thnr,D. Hall. and is called Devils Island" IN
der other than their W names. Dreyfus fig
rres as a clean hero and Esterhazy as q nasty
vllloin. The action passes In Paris, where q
Mot for the downfall Of the Hebrew officer In
the French Army Is elaborated, and on DevfPs
Island. which is represented as sinking slowly
into the ocean, with what seems to be q GER
tainty Of drowning the unfortunate prisoner.
but with a happy climax in his rescue. Love
and jealousy are made the motives. The piece
IA meant to be ultra-sensational- 1t Ii said TO
have been successfulsin Europe. L h leaders
in the cast here are William Harcourt. Emily
BIOL Edelyn Wesley and Ralph Delmore.
Charles Hoyt is good for an annual output
n, farce that Is peculiarly his own Nobody
olse has been able so well as he to transfer
American racy humor from real life into
rtare mimicry, and to exaggerate It without
losing its elemental truthfulness. His con-
tnbution to the stage this year II "A Day and .
Night" and It will be acted at the Garrick on
tuesday night. The day and o night men
toned In the title are spent In New York by
New Jersey son. who comes here to engage Q
VI CUOlIt uIN AAAO aAeAAS@ NFAS SSNO- ~
him In the way Of taking o lot Of stage chorus
Girls INSTEAD. Otis Harlan and William De-
we're. adopts In Hoytean acting. have been
assigned to those two characters. The act-
resses are new to this service. and no doubt
have been carefully chosen. OF course, there
ia a great deal Of singing and dancing for
them to do. The play was sent travelling last
spring for the purpose Of elaboration. and 20
VIZ should get It at It's very best.
Augustus Thomas should DO able to MT
Stuart Robson out with q suitable comedy. and
there will DO o hopefully expectant audience
at Wallack's on Thursday night to SEQ II he
has dom 30 with "The Meddler." Tho char
acter created By the author for Mr.. Robson Is
that of a man who sticks his nose. habitually
into other peoples business. He undertakes
to be everybody's friend. and does It 80 bung-
nngly that he complicates the affairs OF his
acquaintances, while at the Same time getting
himself into bad dilemmas. The action OF the
piece Is made up largely OF the extrication OF
the embroiled parties from the troubles which
the meddler has plunged them into. We may
expect that the talent and the personality Of
the actor have been taken into account by
MI. Thomas. and that he has. in his aocus-
toned manner, blended sentiment and humor
telicitously. The cast IL far better than Mr..
Robson has afforded to any play hitherto. II
contains Marie Burroughs. John E. Kellerd.
Theodore Hamilton. Maud Granger. Harold
Russell. and Mrs. Robson.
A farce directly from Paris. and probably
with Its high Partisan temperature not much
cooled by importation or translation. will be
acted at the opening Of the Manhattan next
Saturday night. The Turtle" is the work Of
Leon Gandillot and 1t had o long term at the
Eouveautes. The English version has been
made by Joseph Herbert Tho theme. as a
matter Of course. Is marital Inconsistency, Illus
trated by the comic escapades of some of
the men with some Of the women. William
]. Ferguson and Michael A. Kennedy are ia
miliar experts In the acting Of such matter.
and they are in the cast. So are Henry Berg
man. Sadie Martinez. George Leslie and Mrs.
Rankin. The mounting will be a copy of the
original production, The Manhattan has been
ton, and In comfort by the widening of the
spaces between seats. The auditorium is now
B5oadw9y, this season viii be" The Maine
fions Of Hamilton Harris m MI pr M, Harris
ward as an effort in sensatlonalism. It win
in a manner to thrill the beholder very much.
After q final performance OF Young Miss
tarcs called IL dPs aTSe R esf9 %id sSTn Bfo%n E % wifi be
sssas6ore season. It is:a transfer from the
German. The industrious singers. dancers
and comedians employed ali summer at this
resort are retained for the new piece, and the
management declares that there is plenty for
them to do in various entertaining ways.
OF the theatres that will not be opened this
week several will come into use next week.
The American will begin its season of operas
by a stock company with "Boccaccio." The
Grand Opera House will make a popular start
with When London Sleeps" The Madison
sQuare will introduce a London company in "A
Brace Of Partridges.' The sBiiou will wait
until the subsequent week to try Sam Ber-
pard In The Marquis OF Michigan" The
Tying Place will hold of gil then with the
Ayyeng ,.m first visitor will be Charles Coghlan
duce an English version OF "Cyrano de Ber-
eerac| without the authors permission has
CAUSED u quick change of plan at the Garden.