The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-11-21
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~ pcnpla connected Nm ~" dramatic hH'I-
u..s or profession The cNt'r' aud imIoi'nn'"
ri h. o,oratipns 1fe Indicated IN N"w l"tt
by the simultaneous APPEARING" under III
ra,sr.mcnt nf sarah Bernhard, Constant
,oau.lin. Maudo Adams, John Drew. William
" Crane. John Hare, Richard Mansfield ard
annie Russell Yesterday MIR ffohran IL
y,Ised hi complct. tlnns for the remainder
~ the season 40 to the production 81 new ila's
ia stock company will begin at N" Emplr"
with Henry Arthur Jores's Mrs Danes de-
fence" a, already announced. and the other
plecps IN hand fot that STAGE are To Have and
to Hold" by Mary johnson, and "A Noble Lord
and another work bv Capt Marshall. The
plays which hc has decided on for the Criterion,
I.yceum. kuickerl q, Err. Wala,k'N. Herald
Square. Garden. Madison square and IN"
Academy of Mus.c az" captain J!rkS Of ~"
Horse Marines" by Clyde Fitch. A Debt ol
Honor" by sydney Grundy, The Wedding
Guest" by J NJ Barrie. The Wisdom OF the
Wise by John Oliver Hobbs. Tho Girl From
ID There with Edna May by Hugh Morton
and Gustave Kerker. The Swashbuckler" by
Louis n. Parker. My Lady Dainty with EfNe
shannon and Herbert Kelley by Madeline Lu-
cstta Ryley. Lady Huntsworth's Experiment
By X. c. Carton. pieces as yet unnamed by Je-
rome X. jerome. Basil Hood and Charles Hav-
try. the aforementioned two being prepared
with Elsie de Wolfe and the Charles Frohman
Comedians In view. IL viii be observed that
Notwithstanding the supposed rush for stage
versions Of novels. and the fact that options
on practically all the books Of fctlons are given
first TO Mr.. Frohman. only one scissors-and-
paste play Is mentioned in his schedule.
A project In which Daniel and Charles Froh-
man are concerned with J. J, Gottloeb is tho
maintenance Of a resident company at the
Columbia Theatre. San Francisco, The plays
that succeed at the Frohman houses in New
York will be given there with equal care and
without much delay. 4 start will probably
transfers in view are Mrs Danes Defence,
A Man Of Forty" The Wedding Guest and
Lady H~untsworth's Experiment, while N
Wallack's and the Lyeeum, san Francisco
has been getting most OF IT, plays from second
stars with bad Companions The cost Of travel
across the Rockies makes 1t generally %unproft-
able TO include the Pacific coast IN the tours
Company has Just flzalcd out through inability
70 obtain attractive rev plays; and a Ihail-
low prices. An EXPERIMENT made last season
with Henry Miller and better casts IN some OF
the latest plays seemed 70 prove that san iran
cisco will support the forthcoming enterprise.
The play in revival at the Murray Hill this
week Is a good example OF the mistake nearly
always made by writer's Of comedies with histor-
teal persons as central figures. Sheridan. or.
The Maid OF Bath" Is a good warning because
il Is q poor play. The plan that Paul NJ. Potter
set out upon was first to read all OF Richard
Brinsloy Sheridan's plays, and then TO connect
their incidents with happenings IN bis life.
Surely. 1t Is hard on the great playwright 10
credit MIN with so little originality. Judging
by this case Arthur Wing Pinero will be repre-
sented a hundred years hence 40 playing badger
games on manicuristS. and Henry Arthur
Jones' rs speaking exclusively in eptgrams.
In Mr.. Potter's play Sheridan enacts scores of
The Rivals" and The School for Scandal"
Perhaps be is testing their value on his friends.
Augustus Thomas used this idea admir-
ably IN oliver goldsmith MIstakins a private
gyer Mr.. Thomas DID no. override this as
best way to write s1ch' a play is as Read did
In Nance Oldfeld, and hazeline In Mistress |
Nell" These authors took the Iersonaliiies
sabf,aHSsF3Y Gl nSidIsRR':s, t. t. w was RS SS@Ti iG0' xn aa
ls ss' %sSil!p. ssF'F1fhy e TON IN F WTcnSi Of ar ,1as Sgined Il
was supposed to be Robertson. but Pinero
gave a different name 10 him. and therefore
did hardly more than this In Beau. Rrummel."
and less In Barbara Frietchie. The idea Of con- |
verting the patriotic old woman, imn2rt9li1ed
sSscri eyious Is Mr.. Fitch wrote he play he
accounted for the won gray head. Of the poem
suspense had silvered Barbrra'' brown hair.
Julia Marlowe considered this too far fetched.
and so the last vest ee Of adherance to history
meet to see Maud Muller wearing French he led
Slippers on the stage and Paul Revere doing his
mingled fact and fancy effectively In Nathan
drama Of Major Andre" However,, he should
- e. - Y,atfz n n y mora - aVh.-"
or ~playwrights Of tho next century following
the lead Of Paul Potter in sheridan, will show
staircase. pursued by an Infatuated mob Of
purists.
A lot Of vassar girls went to see how
was construed in a stage ver-
sion Of Vanity Fair. They were 20
lightly Impressed that the leading actress.
Minnie Maddern Fiske. asked the manager OF
the theatre what their indifference meant.
He replied evasively that Pougbkeepsis
audiences seldom applauded much. But
there's a man asleep out there" she is re-
ported in the local press to have exclaimed.
and he snores, too. won't go on until
he ia awakened" The slumberer was
reused In time TO see what is known as the
badger-game scene, in which the siren
lures the old libcrtine to her apartments
and he is caught there by her husband, The
account does not tell whether the Nd-Sar
girls remained chilly through that act,
Ada Rehan is almost ready TO return 10
the stage In the Neil Gwynne play Of sweet
Veil of Old Drury." Nannette Comstock
will take up the Maxine Elliott role in
abandoned "a Woman no Loves Madge
Iessing IL about TO Quit Francis Wilson's
to go to London, and Jesst" Mack
ave, who r~e,ires from Jefferson de Angel
rs into matrimony, will be succeeded hy
Paula Edwards. Olive May will take Eleanor
Robson's place In Arizona. |
drama produced in Buffalo under the
title of "Old orchard" with. the authorship
attributed TO Marguerite Nerlngton, turns
out tn he an adaptation of jules Leinaiires
Il Aimee" II was a failure. Plays by Mark
Twain ard William Dean Howells are in tho
hands of managers for examination. \ Bald
win Sloane Is making the music for an .cN-
trayagan71 about Gullivcr's travels Tho
STA GO versions OF In the Palace Of the KING
and Janice Morcd H." arc described rs poor
nv reviewers in the cities where they are used,
but Viola Allen IN one and Mary Mnnncring
In the other are praised and prosperous
Such an innocent thing as "San. Toy mas
caused a challenge for a duel Tho trouble
.tnrted with sidney Jones, the composer,
who refused To permit n production ~ The
comic opera AZ IA" Carl Theatre, Vienna, be-
,alse the management proposed re1rranGing
arts of his score VIII he music tucked under
~ arm, he lncrilv lei' the theatre. The dircc-
TOR + B Norman. vented his anger on RarOn
JJa,nn,er-tein. the pri'nl dpnua'= husband, and