The age-herald., 1901-06-23


 are now in full flower. With the excep- ton of two or three of the popular price houses the doors of nearly all places of amusement will remain closed until the suitry nights of summer have run their course. The outdoor resorts by the sea- shore will all be running under full sail. with all attractions set. within the next week. and from now on until the first day of September. all who can spare a few days or weeks will hie themselves away to the hillsides farm fields, lake borders and seashore to enjoy the sum- mer sunshine and forget dull care.
 Kitty Cheatham, a bright American actress, has been making success in London in a new play called "A Lady From Texas" This work was written by Mrs. T. P. O'Connor, who, by the way, is also an American girl Kitty Cheatham is & daSchter of the Sunny South, and te well remembered through out this country. She began her stage career, if I am not reastakcn. at the Ca sino, when it was under the manage ment of Rudolph Aronson. She subse- quently joined Augustin Daly's company and remained there for some seasons For the past few seasons she has been in retirement Her reappearance in Lon- don with such a brilliant success as has been attr1buset to her Is source of qualification to her many friends at this side of the Atlantic.
 Nat c. Goodwin and his wife, Maxine Elliott. have taken their departure for the other side, and by this time have set tied down for their well-earned rest in their pretty little English home at Jack wood, in Kent, where they will remain until the last rose of summer has faded and gone. As I informed you over a month ago, MF. Goodwin and his wife will not return here for a year-that is he will not be seen here on the stage next season. He has taken a theater in Lon don for the winter and will there revive with an American company When We Were Twenty-One," perhaps one or two others of his successful plays, and pro- duce some new dramas. So satisfied was he with the way his revival of The Merchant of Venice was received this season that he proposed another Shake spearian revival when he returns
 God save the King is the cry of all loyal Englishmen who desire the per petuation of the monarchy; God save the stage is the plea of all true admir- CTS of the drama, and preserve 1t from its many stage elevators. When one looks back few years and realizes the movements of people and organizations instituted to elevate--Go6 bless the mark --the stage it is impossible to refrain from smiling. Tt Ia to laugh " The latest attempt in this direction is to be made by the Chicago police. There is to be police censorship. From the reports made by the highly intellectual censors of the Chicago detective police force, it is said Chief ONeill is going to interest himself in the matter and take hand in the elevating business. He says: "I shall take the matter under consideration and may decide to take a hand in the show business myself" We'll, all can say is, if the shows given in Chicago have shocked Chicago detectives, they must have been pretty loud, and if Chief O'Neill proposes to take hack at a reformation, may his shadow never grow less.
 Pietro Mascagni, best known here as the composer of "Cavalieri Rusticana' will visit this country the coming season and make a tour of the country A syn dicate has been formed to exploit him and the orchestra which he will bring will be composed of seventy musicians and four soloists. Mascagni will arrive here somewhere about the first of No vember. ,j is, 4 flu,l
 Manager Donnelly of the Murray Hill Theate- is now going In for new produc- tions instead of depending solely on the revival of old plays to entertain his pat rons. He has just produced a semi religious play of 'The Sign of the Cross'' type. It is called '"The Prince of the World" It was written by MT. Hall Reid and Bertha Bell Westbrook. It is billed as "A Christian Play" an entirely unnecessary qualification The Prince introduces bonctns Filate Peter the Apostle. CaiTsaae, J'i1As. Simeon. cyreue the leper. J,idissis and two nve Hons in an iron cage. Tn faots .. of these so- called senii-relsgfoTs plays da. ard sup pose that is tbe sole Justification they have for their production. Hall Caine is about due again with one of his-semi- religious works. ana then we shall have stage.
 Two popular but wefl-worn plays have been given here lately-"Rosedale," at the American, and ''The Silver King at the Grand Opera House. They pleased the patrons at both houses. The ad- vantages these old dramas possess over new plays Is that all the stage business is we'll understood and a stage manager who knows anything about his business good stage managers are very rare can easily. by the use of an old prompt book, drill his people in their parts. The production of a new play is an entirely different proposition. and that is why players and stage managers in the popu- lar price theaters make such mess of them.
 Maude Fealey. one of the most inter esting and talented young actresses of the American stage, was reported a few days ago as being seriously i'll in Mem phis. Miss Fealey will be remembered by her charming representation of Eu- nice in one of the many Quo Vadis'' plays that inundated the country a couple of seasons ago. William Gillette was so pleased with her Eunice that he offered her place in his company. which she accepted. Her stage work was of 50 great character that MT Gillette intends to take Miss Fealey with him to pean debut there.
 James A. Herne. the we'll known actor and stage manager, is dead. and his body was taker. from tis home to Fresh Pond L. and there cremated. There were no religious services over his remains Friends gathered around the bier at his nome and took last, sad farewell look at thc race of the dead. That was ail Peace te his ashes. God rest his soul
 Mark Twain, the 1umorist, and Syd- ney Rosenfeld, the playwright. 1t is said are at work on a new play which, in all probability will be seen here next sea-