The Washington times., 1901-07-28
AMUSEMENTSA

have just finished a hundred nights rur
in London, will again come to America
with me for a season of twenty weeks
| / will also bring Charles Hawtrey and
| company of thirty members, opening In
| A Message From Mars, which he has
| played for two consecutive seasons In
| London. have also an arrangement with
| Charles Wyndham by which he Is to de
! eide by October l whether he will under
! take an American tour under my direc-
| tion with Mary Moore and their entire
company, to begin in New York in Janu-
| ary.
Il have made an offer to John Hare
| and it will probably be accepted, which
will bring him to New York a year from
| this October with a specially selected
company to play the entire season at the
Savoy Theatre, producing all of the old
Robertsonian comedies.
u will begin the campaign In New York
at the Empire Theatre with John Drew
IN Captain Marshalls play, The Second
in Command to be followed by the EN-
plre Stock Company in III. V. Esmond' S
The Wilderness
After Sir Henry Irving's engagement
at the Knickerbocker. Maude Adams will
begin her New York season with a new
play by. j. NJ. Barrie, and we will also
make the production intended for last
year of AS You Like It. Miss Adams is
in little village I'm the interior of France.
and will return to America in three weeks.
when Sarah Bernhardt left London
Juliet as used by Miss Adams, and will
perfect herself in the part of Romeo, hav-
ing the assistance of Miss Rockman, an
American actress. With Maurice Grau l
have selected the towns for the Bern
hardt-Adams tour, and it is now simply a
| question of Mime. Bernhardt learning the
role.
Annie Russell viii come to the Lyceum
in November in The Royal Family with
the same company she had last year, and
Captain Marshalrs comedy will be fol-
lowed by a new play. Clyde Fitch is writ
ing a comedy for Miss Russell, which he
hopes to have ready in time for her Ly-
ceum season. The Garden Theatre will
open with E. II. Sothern. after which L
shall make my productions in that house.
Virginia Harmed, who will star under my
management, begins her tour in October
with the drama tizatipn of Alice of Old
Vincennes' Miss Barrymore will resume
the run of Captain links at the Garrick
Theatre in September. and when Charles
Hawtrey comes to this theatre Miss Bar
rymore will begin her tour.
William Faversham will begin as n
star under my management at the Cri-
terion Theatre in August. His first play,
a Royal Rival Is a dramatization by
Gerald Du Maurier, son of the author of
'TriIby.
versham at the Criterion Theatre in La
DuBarry, and she in turn will-be sue
ceeded by Julia Marlowe.
William Crane will begin his second
season in David Harum in October. AT
the conclusion of William Gillette's Lon
don engagement in Sherlock Holmes he
will return to America for the special pro-
duction of Hamlet
All of which should prove that Mr..
Frohman will be a remarkably busy
amusement director during the next eight
months, and that he will be once more
! the most important figure in native the
/ atricai circles.
! Estelle Wentworth, a local singer. whose
stage experience has been confined TO ap-
| pearances with the Bostonians. of which
organization she was last season the chief
| soprano, will next year be a member of
the company that will assist Lulu CHASER
| in presenting Dolly Warden" a new
comic opera
| Miss GIaser will be under the direction
of F. C. Whitney, who has had consid.
cradle experience in the direction of
operatic ventures. In addition to Miss
| Wentworth. he has secured a number of
well-known singers for the organization,
and If the work of the librettist and COM
poser is at all worthy. Miss Chaser will
undoubtedly be greeted by good sized au-
dieEces, for notwithstanding her tend
ency to coarseness, she is one of the most
popular figures in the field of musical
entertainment.
William Norris who has recently re-
signed from the cast of king Dodo,'' the
Chicago musical comedy that is proving
so popular with the people of the Windy
City. has been secured to play the role
of Beppo, the Jester in Otis SINNERS re-
vivaI of Francesca de Rimini' This is
the part that was played by Louis James
when the piece was originally presented
| by Lawrence Barrett, and it is believed
il will give Mr.. Norris an admirable OPP
portunity to display his u11doubted talents
as an actor of uncommon calibre.
Mr.. Norris will be recalled by local
theatregoers for his excellent interpreta-
! ton of the part of Adonis. the hunch-
| back in Viola Aliens In the Palace OF
| the King. last year. when he made one
| OF the genuine successes of the play. He
! is one of the few of the younger Amer
| ican character actors who can boast OF
an nnbroken chain OF successes to his
| credit. His work as Pinchas. the poet. in
! the Inflated The Children of the Ghetto,
| Is one of the pleasant memories of that
| performance, while his efforts in The
| Burgomaster." of last summer. and king
| Dodo," of more recent date, were equally
successful.
| When the Reilly G. Wood vaudeville
| show was at Kernan's last season, one
| OF the performers, Fanny Fields. con-
I fessed to a Times interviewer that she
would make a try at the big music halls
| of London during the summer. Recent
| reports from the English capital are &c
| the effect that this same young lady has
| had her try. and has proved to be one
| of the most successful performers tf1ai
| has ever come from the United States.
| Miss Fields is young woman of scarce
| eighteen years. Her speciality Is the rep
/ resentation of German girl. VINO takes
| unbounded pleasure in singing and dane
| ing and holding confidential conversations
| with her audience. When the Reilly q
| Wood show was in this city. she was one
| of the most popular members of that un-
4 nd rar1fz zaff II
| talent that won for her many encores ai
| Kernan's has resulted in getting her 2
| chance to go with one OF the importan nj
| George Edwardes musical comedies
| while Charles Frohman deferred his re-
| turn trip to this country IN order that he
| might witness her work He was remark
| ably wei pleased with Miss Fields abili-
| ties so mach so. in fact, that he ;mme-
/ diately offered her a contract. but she
! was compelled to refuse, as she had given
| Manager Edwardes an option on her
| services in musical comedy.
Sol Smith Russell is spending his sum
mer very quietly at his cottage at Edgar
town, Mass, where he will soon be Joined
by Fred G. Berger, who is in great need
of a rest after his season Of arduous work
at the Lafayette.
Mr Russer's health is so far recovered
that he is making active preparations to
take to the road In his new play, the title
or subject of which he steadfastly re-
fuses to divulge, owing to his lack of
confidence In the American dramatists
Mr. Russell will tell an interviewer that
the play concerns one of the most notable
figures In the history of this country who
has for some unknown reason. so far
been overlooked by the native playwrit-
crs He will not give any additional in
formation for fear that some writer may
turn oiIs play along the same lines. ano
thus depreciate, to certain extent, MIR.
IusseiTs prCperfy