The age-herald., 1901-08-18

New York, August 14.-Every theatre in the city just now is occupied by busy people on the stage. Rehearsals are the order of the day. The opening night is near at hand. Anxiety is on tio toe awaiting events. Many anxious thoughts are directed toward the immediate fu- ture. Two prominent theatres will open here next week-the Criterion with a Don Caesar de Bazan order of play-"A Roy al Rival"-which will be the means of introducing William Faversham as a star, and the Fourteenth street theatre, which begins the campaign with new play called, The Mormon Wife" written by Charles D. Blaney. Roselle Knott, William Humphreys and Victory Bate man, three good players, are in the cast.
 As if there were not enough new stars being added to tfe theatrical Armament there Is going to be an addition in the person of Arthur Byron, late leadlns man of John Drew's company. MT. 6y ron Is capable young Actor and as his managers are enterprissng enough to have in preparation three plays In wnlch to expect him, he is going to have a ialr chance to get there-if he has the aoliity' MT. Byron comes from theatrical lam fly Ada Rehan Is his aunt.
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 Sadie Martinot has got her company together. and has begun rehears@lns SHE Clyde Fitch's Marriage Game. lo people the titan tinted Sadie mas o rounded herself with are men ana VI men of ability and experience, so .no game is likely to succeed if a good com many can insure it's success. Ohe eai' never tell, however, in advance ho" .The Marriage Game is nkely 10 pan out. We are told MT. Fitch based n.s game on powerful French pias .aa ten by Emile Angler, and who dedlcateu 1t to his friend Meissonnier, the picture painter Miss Martinot has assoclatea with her in the cast: Edwin Aden' Al S. Lipman Frank Sylvester, J. B. Booth, Mrs Mckee Rankin, Mabel Wright anu Jeffreys Lewis. It is to be hoped the play is as good as the people who are 10 play in it. It will be given its first pro auction in the Broad Street Theater, Philadelphia, on the 23d of September.
 Reports are current that Georgia Cay van Is in sad state of health, and that she is not likely to be seen on the stage again. It is said that for months she has been in a sanitarium at Flushing, ana that she Is now a mere wreck of her former self. I am sorry If this is true. Georgia Cayvan, when she was leading woman at the little theatre around the corner. in Twenty-fourth street, and sub sequently leading lady of the Lyceum Theater, in Fourth avenue, under the management of Daniel Frohman was an interesting, attractive and intelligent ac- tress. on the stage she had many friends who admired her for her charm ing social qualities. After she left the Lyceum she starred for awhile, but like so many others who have had similar ambitions. the reign was brief, unsuc- fs.ID tC rrrffl h TN6 m these lines of the evil that has befallen good woman and a good, if not great, ac- tress. The other day it was reported Miss Cayvan had died.
 Paul Potter has written a new play for Louis Mann and Clara Lipman. They, went abroad for 1t, and have Just arrived play is laid in and around Johannesburg The main character is that of an old Boer whose daughter is in love with an English army officer. The father is 6-1ly opposed to the union of his daughter with the bawsted Britisher and drives her from his home when she refuses to give him up. It is said the Manns were recently in South Africa so as to be thoroughly imbued with the at mosphere of the story of the play. Inci- dentally they picked up some homemade South-African wardrobe. So that far as the clothes are concerned, they will have the real thing.
 hope we are not going to have a tide of Boer plays. John Drews Second in Command" is Boer war play. Now comes the Manns with theirs. If both make htts-well, let us wait and see what will follow.
 George Tyler, the head and front of the Iiebler theatrical concerns, is back in his old haunts and is as busy a bee with his engagements for next season. He