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| who possesses mind and will of her own
| and finds herself involved in continual
trouble because of her ingrained contempt
| for conveutionaiity.
Campbell Gollan has been re-engaged
! to play the role of the Marquis de Cha
teauroy in Charles Frohman and David
| Belascos production of Under Two
Flags"
Edgar L. Davenport. of Viola Aliens
company. may go into vaudeville, ana APP
| pear in a short play made over from one
| of Wilkie Collins novels by the late Dion
Boucicault
Cissie Lotus will be f. II. Sothern's
| leading woman next season. and Mr..
| Sothern viii produce a new play by Miss
LOTUS divorced husband, Justin Huntley
Mccarthy, jr-
James f Sullivan. of THE Casino Girl
COMPANY has refused an offer from
George Edwardes. the English manager,
to play for three years under the latter s
| management
James A. Herne has retired from the
Sag Harbor" company for the ,cst of
| the season. owing to I'll health. George
Woodward is playing Herne's role, Capt
Dan Marble.
Betsy Ross" to be produced in Phila-
delphia Tuesday night by William a. Bra
dy and Joseph r. Grismer, is agiow with
the picturesqueness and romanticism of
the Revolutionary period.
Clifton Crawford and Cheridah Simpson
have replaced Arthur Nelstone and Lii
X.
nets My Lady" now running at the Vic
| toria Theatre. New York.
A dramatic version of Booth Tarking-
tons interesting story Monsieur Beau
| caire" is mentioned as the play in which
Harry Woodruff of the Goodwin com
| pany, will star next season.
Ada Reeves, the English actress who
originated the part Of Lady Hollywood in
Fiorodors, is suffering a mental and
\ ply steal collapse, and last week sailed
! for Australia, where she will remain
| indefinitely.
Kansas City win erect a new theatre on
the site of the Coates Opera House, re-
| Gently destroyed by fire. The cost of the
new house Is estimated at s225. 900, and II
| win have a larger stage than that of the
Metropolitan Opera House. New York.
When Grace George appears at the The
| atre Republic in November for her annual
| New York engagement. she will be well
| equipped with plays, as William "A. Brady
| has already signed three contracts for
new material suited to her, and is look
| ing for more.
4 Lovers Lane is not to leave New
| York this season, although it is forced
| out of the Manhattan, through change
| in lesseesfip. after Its Tooth performance,
April ". IL Will at once be removed to
| the Theatre Republic, where it will con-
tinue until hot weather.
Uncle r ms Cabin" which Is entitled
| to reverence and respect as America S
only classic drama. continues its record
York ACADEMY of Music II is given dig
| nifty and distinction by splendid acting
and great res lism of stage pictures.
When Brady * Ziegfeld were approach
ed with suggestion to sell their unex-
pired lease OF the Manhattan Theatre,
New York, they named what they believ-
ed to be a prohibitive figure. 1t was
promptly accepted. Mr.. Brady will short
liz have a new theatre OF his own. In the
meantime he holds valuable time at other
houses and Mr.. Ziegfeld takes Anna Held
10 the Casino for an early autumn en-
gagement In new musical piece.
Two gigantic concerts at the New York
Academy of Music this afternoon and ev-
ening have been arranged by William A
Brady and De Wolf Hopper, in aid of the
Actors Fund. All the famous stars and
headliners from Weber q Fields and LII
Dorothy Morton. have been combined. A
novel feature will be the cottonfield
scene from Uncle Toms Cabin with De
Wolf Hopper as Uncle Tom" and Dan
DAILY as the yillainous Legree. They will
not burlesque the parts, but will play
them straight, assisted by the regular
members of Mr.. Bradys company.
Mile James, daughter OF Louis James,
the tragedian, is in her early twenties
but in Clyde Fitch's Lovers Lane" al
the Manhattan. New York. she person.
ates a hoydenish orphan of eleven and
not one of the fat and aggressively blonde
child impersonatorS, who wear blue check
aprons and pink silk lingerie. She is a
little slim girl with saucy tip-tilted nose
and legs that are appropriately Juvenile.
Her own fair hair is parted down the back
and braided and her little calico frock
and cotton undergarments are the sort
that real children wear. All New York is
talking about little Miss james and her
remarkable performance.