The Washington times., 1901-08-11

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'Kubelik is but twenty-one years old
but already is great artist. For com
! par1son II may be said he is with tn
violin what man with the combined
| powers of Paderewski and Rosentha
would be with the piano. possessing AZ
much technique as the latter and having
all the art and emotion of the Pole HI
is the only person since Paganini who car
play the compositions of Paginini as the.
Were written.
''Kubelik but yesterday went through
the formalities which make him of age il
| bohemia II was only through the inter
vention of the King of England that he
| was made exempt from duty in the army
of his country. Performance of such a
| duty would have been a serious menace
| to his career as an artist. He was under
| contracts in Russia and Poland, which
| would have prevented his coming to this
country for three years, had l not made
| concessions for his release"
In Joan of the Sword Hand Blanche
| Walsh's new play, the actress will be
given an opportunity to realize a cher
ished ambition. These who have read the
novel from which the play is derived Will
remember that the Duchess Joan of Ho-
| bernstein, in order to see. men see him.
| the man TO whom she is betrothed goes
| in male attire to his principality.
Miss Walsh has long desired to play a
+ male part and is even said to aspire to
the character of Hamlet" In Joan of
/ =
| fled, as the play cOrpels her to disguise
| herself in doublet and hose and imperson-
ate boy OF the Middle Ages.
1t is prophesied that when Mrs Leslie
! Carter is seen for the first time as the
/ brilliant and beautiful Du Barry, in David
! Belasco play OF thatsname, she will give
/ the theatre world another of the thrills
J which it has come to expect of her.
! Mrs. CaTter's moods and Temperance mt
1 are perhaps the most versatile to be found
, in any English-speaking actress of today.
/ 1t would seem, therefore, that as the err
ratio Du Barry, whose career as the fa-
! vorite OF Louis was at once so me-
/ teoric and so intensely dramatic. she
/ should find character well calculated to
give fun scope To her unusual talents
David Varied is the most promising of
the new stars in the farce-comedy line for
the coming season, and it is generally re-
marked that David Belasco has shown
fine discretion in securing this clever fun
maker
For the past Few years warfield has
shone among The Weber-Field aggrega-
ton. In his lucicrous impersonation of
the East Side Hebrew and his odd char
acterisucs, he is combination of orig
inality and naturalness, and. all in all
one OF the most delightful figures on the
stage today.
Amelia bingham has decided to begin
rehearsals of The Climbers during the
latter part of this month, and has in
structed her business manager to secure
Broadway theatre for the purpose of
giving a dress rehearsal of tine play.
Clyde Fitch will arrive from europe to
supervise it.
Miss Ringham's somewhat unusual pro-
cedure IN regard to a production that ran
for some 2o0 nights at the Bijou Theatre
10 pa by har oil,
her patrons in the cities in which she will
present The Climbers a perforrna nee
with that perfection of detail so admired
by Gotham theatregOers.
Clyde Fitch has just completed what he
believes to be another Beau Brummel -
which was his first successful effort
The new work is called 1.-The Last of the
Dandies" and has been secured by Beer
bohm Tree, the English actor, who has
always had desire to do pieces like
, this new Fitch play.
At the time Beau Brummel" was
written Mr.. Fitch disposed of the English
rights to the play to Mr.. Tree, only to
find out that his contract with Mr. Mans
field included the foreign as eel as the
American rights to the work, consequent
~ the London player was compelled to do
without the clever comedy.
II is said by Mr.. Fitch that THE Last
!
| Beau Brummel.'' although there are
some slight similarities between the two
chief characters. The new play will pic
ture the downfall of Count D'Orsay, one
of the noted London gallants of a half
century ago.
TIE New York theatres are beginning
to get ready for the coming season, which
will be well under way a month hence
The announcements for the openings hold
out much promise. just as they usually
do. and while there will undoubtedly be
a number of failures. the initial per-
formances win see SO many popular
metropolitan favorites striving for pat
ronage that there is little chance of the
better established stars falling by the
wayside.
The Garrick Theatre will throw open its
doors August %. with Are You a Ma
SOM the farce which made such a sub
stantial success in the metropolis last
spring. William Faversham, in "A Royal
Rival" viii commence his starring career
at the Criterion Theatre the same
night, while james X Hackett, in Don
Caesars Return, Will be compelled to
wait until September before he can
show what sort Of a star he will be under
his own mana cement. This event will oc-
eur at Wailacks, and Mr.. Hackett has
engaged the house for eleven weeks. An
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forts have heretofore been confined to
the Fourteenth Street theatres. will tempt
fortune by appearing on broadway, and
has selected the Herald Square Theatre
for the scene of his operations. The first
performance OF his new play, Tom
Moore" viii take place during the last
week of this month
six of Gothams playhouses will have
their openings on September =. These will
include the Knickerbocker. where the
Rogers Brothers will present their new
comedy. which will have Washington as
its locale the Empire will have John
Drew in new piece Of English manufac-
ture and trial, entitled The Second in
Command" and the Garden Theatre will
attract the admirers of Il. II. SOthern,
who will display his new play from the
pen of Lawrence Irving, called Richard
Loyelace." Manager AarOns will open
the Metropolitan Opera House with a
spectacle. The Ladies Paradise" and in
addition. the same night will see the
initial performance Of the year at the
Murray Hill Theatre. which is tenanted
by the Donuelly Stock Company. while
Francis Wilson "ill open the season Of
the Harlem Opera House with The
Strollers." During this week of theatrical
activity Weber * Fields will inaugurate
the season at their Broadway music hall
The German comedians will have prac-
t!cally the same company as last season
the only detection of any Importance being
David Narheld. who retires to become a
star under the management of David
Belasco in The Auctioneer." His place
at the music han viii be taken by Sam
Bernard. a German funmaker not I'M
known n the habitUeS Of the Weber *
Fields place
Mrs F'iske will commence her season
at her own theatre. the Manhattan, Sep
tember .. in Miranda of the Balcony.
and on the same night JAMES 4. Powers.
in THE Messenger Boy, Will be ON view
at Days, while over at the little Lyceum
Bertha Galland will be put forward as a
star in dramatization of Maurice Hew-
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