The times., 1901-04-07

Dorney believes that Mr.. Days collec-
tion 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 a choice viii 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 tai
ented woman was never better than in
the kester piece. and there WAS only re-
gret 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 will offer London
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 q. During the same
week l shall produce ct the vaudeville
theatre in which ! am jointly interested
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 tins
season with LAiglon,' / have received
offers from four managers who wish her
to appear in that city. ! have not yet de-
cided what l shall DO in the matter, and
xr+sII Il inc, 4 oh nr1Ag
Il shall produce Augustus Thomas
comedy. ON the Quiet. in London also a
new play by George NJ. Broadhurst. Be
sides this there is William Gillette'S ap-
pearance in Sherlock Holmes at Irving $
Lyceum Theatre to look after. Mr.. Gil
lette's season there Will begin in Septem-
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 Knickerbecker Theatre.
My present American season has been
q 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, wh1ch lnclude
productions by Clyde Fitch, Augustus
Edward f. Rose, Mrs. .Ryley, Edward E.
Kidder and other authors. ! have also Sc
cured the dramatic rights of 'Eben Hoi-
den, and The Gentleman from Indiana.
My stars for next season include John
Drew, William Gillette. William Faver-
sham. w H. Crane. Maude Adams, Annie
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 VIII be
completely altered. ! expect to make ii a
beautiful house for comedy productions
Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, who will
appear al the Knickerbocker Theatre the
end of October, and Charles Hawtrey and
his company are the attractions that | will
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 dignified 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 fronter-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
a performance of Arizona.
Remington-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
line TO the hell-holes which mark the in
teTnational 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, swelter-
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 saving 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-
zona at the Herald Square Theatre last
fall. A single incident of that rehearsal
viii serve to demonstrate the beneficial
of the artist upon the work of
the author.
A dozen supernumeraries culled from
the Bowery, artificially sunburned. clad