The sun., 1901-08-11

sUMMER sLUMBER BEFORE THE
ACTUMNAL AWAKENING.
Ouay One Week Moro without Novelty.
and After That . Rapid successasn Of
New Piap Abundant In Promise OF
Uncommon Interest and Excellence.

l;ucomnson Interest and Excellence.
Drama is still In It's summer slumber
bait will be awakened for the autumn one
veck hclioe, which will bc earlier than has
been usual in recent years. The succession
of nex plays will thereafter be rapid. and
mover has the promise Of novelty and ex-
csllence been moro positive. The managers
IA control OF our theatres Of the first class
know very well that In tho sharp business
compstltion only those who have really
attractive entertainment to sell can hope
to maize money. so we shall get tho best
that can be procured in plays and acting.
Besides tio many pieces that will be OK
detrimental, because expertly careful judg-
ment Of rn-ied writings for the stage often
errs. thero viii be importations OF all that
hea proved its value In London. along with
some French and German material that Is
only little Ice safe and sure. Last season
brought out nosLing amazing In stage art
or nferature, but there was an unprece-
dentod amount Of that which was highly
satisfactory. Next soason can hardly fail
% Yield equally coed things to those who
dnply desire wholesome theatrical diver
sion and those who hope that dramatic
sndoavor will continue 10 move along on
IN upward grade.
woek from tomorrow night Will have
four openings with two now plays and
two old ones or the first "A hoya Rival
b important. as II will introduce such Q
favorite actor as William FavNrshAm at
% modish theatre as the Criterion. The
other new play, A Mormon WIFE, 70 to
bo shown at the Fourteenth Street. Ar
Sons. and Are You Mason3' will be re-
vived at the Academy Of Music and tho
Oarrick. On next Saturday night at Wal
lacks James X. Hackett and his company
will give q semi-public dress rehearsal
Of -Don Cesar's Return which will not
be acted regularly until Sept ..
Among the theatres soon TO reopen
are Proctors In Twenty-third and 125th
streets. Both will start for the new
season on next Saturday. The Fifty
eighth street house will remain closed
N til September. The Fifth Avenue win
make Its usual change Of play tomorrow,
with vaudeville interpreted.
For the last half of the Castle Square
opcra company's fortnight at Manhattan
Beach .Pinafore' will be performed. This
4 second only to The Mikado' In popu-
larity among the Gilbert a Sullivan pieces.
A cast Of good singers has been arranged
and there will be comedians able to look
out for the fun. Sousa concerts and Pain
fireworks are still among the beach's d.
versions, with variations in each.
The term OF The Strollers' is neces-
sarily nearing It's end, a. time at the
Knickerbocker for the Rogers Brothers
was set aside q month or more ago. A
they will produce The Rogers Brothers
In Washington' on Sept ., Francis Wilson
can stay only three weeks longer. Marie
George, Irene Bentley. Harry Fairleigh
and two or three others are still in the ex-
cellent company. Mr.. Wilson has . new
song In the second sot.
Plans for 'Florodora' read 90 far ahead
q to arrange for Leslie Stewart, tho COM
poser, TO conduct the orchestra on Nov. u,
when the musical farce will complete Its
FIRST year. Edna Wallace Hopper will
stay In the New York company, with Isa-
dore Rush playing her part ON tho Eastern
tour and Graoe Dunley on tho Western.
Some changes In the double seKtet will
be made tomorrow.
Tony Pastor will reappear at his theatre
tomorrow night heading the new pro-
gralnme there. The second place Is given
to Crimmins and Gore In Like Mother
Used to Make Other sketches listed
are Two Strings TO Her Beau, with
Perry; sThe Girl Next Door, with Jean
Cowgirl and Charles Harold: The New
Boy with Blanche Newcombe, Fred Bulla
and Lille Raymond, and .The Duke OF
Hoky Dory,' with Clark Ross and May
Porter. Several single specialists are also
Lillian Burkhart. taking first place In
Keith's bill, will appear In q sketch called
sKitty Clve-Actress," by F. Frankfort
Moore who wrote The Jessamy Bride,'
and According to Plato The rest OF the
programme Is exclusive vaudeville. In,
cludlng W: C. Fields, juggleri Frazer troupe,
logist; Bush and Gordon. acrobatic clowns:
Neakin and Rapier, blackened comedians;
BERTHE Fowler, the Du Muths and Morrell
and Evans.
Svengali, Eleanor Falk, Stuart. johnson
and Dean and the Gainsborough octet
keep the best places In the bill at Paradise
Gardens. Svengali has added new
assistant impersonates the famous men
on request, he DISCUSSES himself besides
In imitation OF a man In the audience, sup
posed to be selected at random by Svengali,
but possibly q confederate. Eleanor Falk
h singing a new song keeping her pretty
and graceful chorus women for II.
Harry Bulger, Dan Collyer and the others
IN Fun on the Beach are among the enter
tainers at the Cherry Blossom Grove. Will
Tam Gould in two ongs,with several assist
ant singers, 10 a favorite. The ballet,
Ernest Hogan, Norman Whalley and Madge
tox are other leading numbers.
Vaudeville and The Pan-American Girl
entertain visitors to Bergen Beach.
Eden Musee has a rearran cement Of
some military groups and the usual changes
n concert and moving pictures.
evening trips with vaudeville on board.
About this time the managers Of the
theatres with barrooms accessible from
The lobbies have to fix things with the
police for the new season. The law Is
positive that no drinking place shall be
open to any part Of theatre. At those
houses licensed "a music halls, and In which
The legal entertainments should be- re-
0tricted to vocal and instrumental music
The police have to be induced to permit
The acting OF plays. As rule the man
ayers of the strictly dramatic and modish
theatres do not seek to evade the law on
this subject. Charles Frohman IL under
stood TO favor the idea of bars placed I'M
obtrusively In the smoking rooms as an
accommodation TO men in his audiences
h sedats modification OF what Is regarded
q O matter Of course In the bost London
houses, but he will wait until II is lawful
The doors from seven Of our Legitimate"
aA bar