The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-03
THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES.
FOUR PLAYS or -FOUR KINDS
READY FOR OUR STAGE.

READY FOR OUR STAGE.
They Include . Fairy Extravaganza, q
Modlsh Comedy. q Gay Buriesque and
Social Problem ~study-The Large
Number OF Reproductions Ihis Week.
This week will be theatrically busy with
several new plays. some ~revivals OF more
than usual interest and extra matinees
on election day. At the Broadway to-
morrow evening Klaw & Erlanger will
produce tle big Drury Lane fairy spec
tacle Of THE Sleeping Beauty and the
Beast In the matter Of expense 1t will
probably excel anything ever done in this
country The management says, 1T will
be the first Drury lane spectacle witnessed
In New York. and It LIS said to be the most
brilliant and gorgeous Of the long line Of
SUCCESSES achieved by London's historic
old playhouse. III Of the scenic. me-
chanical and electrical equipment, to-
gether with al the properties. costumes.
armor and other effects. have been brought
over absolutely intact, and an idea of the
magnitude Of the production may he CLEANED
from the fact that II represents an outlay
Of 100000. Of which t2o,o0 o was spent for
a single effect The ballet and specialties
of various sorts will be numerous. The
play was written originally by Arthur
Collins and j. Hickory Wood, and II tells
a connected story. mingling the fairy tales
Of THE Sleeping Beauty m Beauty and
the Beast j. Cheever Goodwin and John
| j. McNally have A~niericanized tho matter.
! The music In by Frederick Solomon. j. NJ.
Glover and others. The cast Is very long
and includes Harry Bulger, Charles j
Ross, Joseph Cawthorne. John Page, John
Hyams, Franz Ebert. Ella Snyder. Viola
Gillette, Phoebe Coyne and the Hengler
sisters.
Elsie de Wolfe will make her local debut
as q star actress tomorrow at the Vic
toria, which has been remodelled. She
brings . company Of unusual strength.
Among the bes known names are Frank
| Mills, Vincent Serrano, Alison Skipworth,
Harrison Hunter, Clara B~loodgood and
Jane Holly. There are a dozen others.
| The play u called .The Way Of the World
and was written for Miss de Wolfe by Clyde
Fitch. 1t deals with New York's smar set
In much the way that THE Moth and the
| Flame and "The Climbers did. There
are five acts, and two are certainly novel;
ties. One shows the progress Of an auto
mobile up Central Park West and the other
| shows a fashionable christening. II
| plot concerns the effect Of politics on the
home life. a mans political enemies cir
| c~ulating scandal about his wife n nearly
causing a separation.
Practically a new entertainment will be
| given at Weber 4 Fields's on Thursday
| evening. The first act will still be called
.Hoity-Toity,' and the funny farcica1ity
and the slightly minstrel parade will he
retained, but fresh songs will be introduced,
| The second act is an all new burlesque OF
"A Message From Mars As usual the
words are by Edgar Smith, the music by
John Suomberg and the production by
Julian Mitchell. Fritz Williams will play
the travesty OF Charles H~awtrey's role,
a man so generous that q messenger comes
from Mars to stop his giving everything
he has away. De Wolf Hopper will be
the messenger, Fay Templeton the sweet
| heart. Lou Fields the tramp with inventive
IDEAS, Joseph Weber a man-sbout,town,
Sam Bernard a policeman and John I.
Kelly, appearing for the first time IN a female
role, will enact the aunt. Small roles will
be taken by Amy Angeles. Belle Robinson.
May Mckenzie, and George All.
After Monday devoted to Dolly and
Tuesday to a Blank Page the Irving
Place viii ave an important new play
on Wednesday evening by HERMANN
Sudermann called -Johannisfeuer.T IL will
then be acted Tor the first time In America,
and will he retained the rest OF the week.
Hedwig LANCE will have the leading role,
Thu week brings an unusual number OF
changes where nothing new Is revealed
Annie Russell comes 10 the Lyceum for a
| third season. Charles Frohman says II
will be her last there, as the number of
people who want TO see her IL too great for
so small a theatre. That IL one reason
that Miss Russell starts her season with
a revival OF a Royal Family instead 81
producing a new play at the outset. Robert
MashAll's s~atirical comedy 81 the family
lives Of royalty had a hve months run OF
continuous prosperity last year. IL comes
back with practically the same cast. Miss
Russell reappeaTs az the young
Mrs. q. II. Gilbert a. her grandinoth"r,
the Queen DOwager, whose dlgnlty II always
being trampled upon. During miss Hue,
sells engagement al the Lyoeum she VIII
appear IN "a new comedy 10y Clyde flcl
called The Dir and the Judse.'
sir Henry Irving and Files Terry In ul"ir
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