The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-07

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ton contains some exceptionally good
! plays many of which are unnamed.
| Miss Rehan will next season be seen in
| a new play. but just what it will be is
| impossible to say at this time. Her man
| ayers have several under consideration
! and choice will be made before the ac-
| tress goes to ireland for her annual va
| cation.
| While Washington did not thoroughly
| like Sweet Nell of Old Drury. and while
! there was nothing particularly excellent
| about her company, the work Of this tall
! ented woman was never better than in
| the kester piece. and there was only re-
| greet expressed that she was not provided
with better vehicle and supporting or
/ ganization.
Charles Frohman has sailed for London
| to personally supervise his quite impor-
/ tant theatrical operations in the English
capital, but before sailing was thoughtful
! enough to send out manifold expressions
| of his future intentions. The copy that
! came to The Times contained the follow
| ing information:
The first attraction I viii offer London
J theatregoers will be the Edna May COM
! pany. | am sending about eighty people
abroad with this organization, which will
| have its opening at the Duke Of York $
! Theatre on April 81 During the same
week I shall produce at the vaudeville
/
! with the Gatti Brothers a new play by
| Basil Hood. in which Ellaline Terriss and
Seymour Hicks will appear. The play is
| called Sweet and Twenty.
although | had abandoned all idea of
having Maude Adams go to London this
| season with 'L'Aiglon, l have received
! offers from four managers who wish her
| to appear in that city. l have not yet de-
/ cided what L shall do in the matter. and
| will not determine until l reach London.
II shall produce Augustus Thomas
! comedy, on the Quiet. in London; also
new play by George NJ. Broadhurst. Be
| sides this. there is William Gillette's APP
| pearance in Sherlock Holmes at Irving S
| Lyceum Theatre to look after. Mr. Gil
| Iette's season there will begin in Septer-
Der and he will remain there for three
months. When he returns to America he
is to play Hamlet under my manage
ment at the Knict1erbocker Theatre.
My present American season has been
a most prosperous one; out of some fifteen
productions there have been only two that
have really failed. have made my, ar
rangements for next season, which include
productions by Clyde Fitch, Augustus
Thomas William Gillette. Paul NJ. Potter,
Edward E. Rose, Mrs. .Ryley, Edward e.
Kidder. and other authors. | have also Sc
cured the dramatic. rights of 'Eben Hol-
den, and The Gentleman from Indiana.
My stars for next season include John
/ Drew, William Gillette. William Faver-
Russell. Virginia Harmed. and in connec-
ton with David Belasco, Blanche Bates.
Miss Harmed comes to me under a two
years contract. ! have added the Savoy
Theatre to my list of New York houses,
and during the summer that house Will be
completely altered. ! expect to make it
beautiful house for comedy productions.
Henry Irving and Ellen Terry. who will
appear at the knickerbocker Theatre the
end of October. and Charles Hawtrey and
his company are the attractions that l VIII
bring to this side from London next sea-
son. Mr.. Hawtrey will open at the Car
rick Theatre in October in A Message
From Mars which piece he has now
played five hundred times in London.
Frederick Remington, the artist whose
clever pencil has dignifed for all time
the cowboy, the Sioux, the Apache. the
blue-coated cavalryman, and the fringe
legged scout-all the picturesque person.
alities of the frontier-is the man to
whom Augustus Thomas owes much of
the fidelity of detail of environment and
atmosphere which is inevitably remark
ed by the intelligent playgoer witnessing
performance of Arizona"
ington-artiSt par excellence of
THE Man and the Horse''-has not
achieved his kingship of a unique empire
in the realm of art without working hard
for it. He has, for the past fifteen years,
spent fully half his time in the ranches,
army posts, and Indian agencies of the
great West. He has studied the types
of frontier folk from the Canadian border
llilt To the leil-fOitS WHICH fIldTk IIle IN
ternational boundary between Arizona
and Old Mexico. He has ridden with the
scouts and Indian police through the
grass lands of Montana and Dakota
rounding up proud but recaIcitrant
Sioux; he has lived with the miners and
prospectors of Nevada and Colorado: has
hunted coyotes with the cavalrymen of
Fort Riley. and has spent long sweter-
ing days with the unfortunates of Tn
Gle Sans service. who. from Fort Grant
and other Arizona posts, have been kept
busy watching the vagaries of Geronimo,
Cochise, and Apache Kid.
All of which is by way of saying that
If there is one man alive outside of the
cavalry. Indian, or ranching business who
thoroughly understands the frontier
game" that man is Frederick Reming-
ton. the plump and joyous individual who
left his illustrating and his studio to go
with his friend Augustus Thomas to su-
pervise the final dress rehearsal of ''Ari-
IONA at the Herald Square Theatre last
fall. single incident of that rehearsal
will serve to demonstrate the beneficial
influence of the artist upon the work of
the author.
A dozen supernumeraries culled from
the Bowery, artificially sunburned, clad