The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-16
NEXT YEARS PLANS
WISE MANAGERS HAVE THEIR
WORK FOR COMING SEASON
MAPPED OUT
NEW PLAY FOR MARLoWE
ssBen HHr' to Return to the Broad
way for Another Years Run
Many New Pieces to
BE Tried.

NEW YORK, Feb 15.-Although the
present season has scarcely begun to
wane the wise managers are already map
ping out their tours for the season Of
1902-1903. This shows more clearly than
anything else could the care with which
theatrical affairs are carried on at pres
ent. Formerly the business was almost
an affair of catch-as- catch-can, but dur
ing the last four or five years the enor-
nous business of amusing the public has
been compressed into grooves almost as
eXacting as is the business Of bank.
Contracts have to be made sometimes
years ahead, and theaters in which the
organizations contracted with are to ap-
pear In different parts of the country,
have to be booked sometimes three or
four years before the star arrives.
Thus Charles Frohman has practically
decided where the big productions of his
next season will be made. These include
Julia Marlowe, who will open the Cri-
terion theater, with new play called
1.-THE Sword of the King Virginia
Harmed is to follow Miss Marlowe in
Iris" which has made very strong
success in London; William Gillette has
been booked to open the Knickerbocker
theater with a four weeks revival Of
Sherlock Holiness, after which the long
mooted production Of Hamlet will be
made with Mr.. Gillette as the "Melan-
choly Dane' Following him comes Nat
c. Goodwin in a new comedy, possibly
without Maxine Elliott, and then comes
in turn Maude Adams in a sumptuous
production Of GAS. You Like IT. and in
a new play now being built for her, and
the Rogers Brothers in rollicking new
potpourri by John ]. McNally, entitled
1.-THE Rogers Brothers in. Harvard
The Savoy theater will open with Annie
Russell in Madeline Lucette ->yley's new
play, mice and Men, which has caught
on in London after which comes Ethel
Barrymore (probably also in a new play.)
AS usual, John Drew will open the En-
pire theater with a new play and after
wards the Empire Stock company will
spring a novelty.
E. S. Willard is booked to open the
Garden theater in 1.-THE Cardinal, and
he will be succeeded by E. H. Sothern,
who will first do IF L Were King and
then make a production of new play
After Sothern comes William Faversham,
who will discard The Royal Rival for
q new play now being written Tor him by
Justin Huntly Mccarthy.
Mary Mannering has also an unnamed
play by Clyde Fitch, which is booked to
open the Garrick theater, and after her
follows first William H. Crane in a new
play, and then Charles Hawtrey, in a
London success called 1.-THE Man from
with the musical comedy, THE Country
Girl" which is George Edwards present
musical comedy success in London, and
for the Madison Square theater John
Hare has been scheduled for a return
tour of America in new Pinero play.
So far ether managers have made book
ings for the opening of their houses as
follows The New Amsterdam, on Forty
second street, which will probably be
Lot ~
tacular Drury Lane success, blue
Beard;" the Herald Square, with Richard
Mansfield in a new play; the Victoria
Theater, with Viola Allen in Hall Gaines
new play, 1.-THE Eternal City," and after
her Henrietta Crosman, also in a new
production. The Manhattan Theater WILL
of course, be opened by Mime Maddern
Ffske in a Bihlican play. Ben Hur'' will
occupy the stage Of the Broadway thea
ter for the entire season, and the Repub-
lie, which by next fall will be known
as Belascos Theater Republic, will no
doubt begin with new production with
one of Mr.. Belascos three stars, War
field probably, being the first, followed
by Blanche Bates, and then by Mrs Les
lie Carter, who, after she begins, will
run oft the rest of the season.
At the Casino the first play in view is
"The Chinese Honeymoon" which will
remain unIll JOnn q. E1SnerS production
of 1.-THE Silver Slipper written by Leslie
Stuart, who also wrote "Floradora," is
put on for a lengthy stay. This is as
far as bona fide bookings go at present,
but much else is to be provided for early
in the season, among others for the
opening of Daniel Frohman's New Lyce-
UNI Theater, on Forty-f1fth street, which
is to have something new in the line of
dainty comedies which have made the
present Lyceum theater popular.
Elenora Duse will make an early ap-
pearance in Francesca Da Rimini,"
probably at the Victoria theater Mrs
Patrick Campbell also comes back next
season, and 50 do Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall,
Olga Nethersole and Ellaline Terriss and
Seymour Hicks
One of the attractive new stars Of the
season will be Clara Bloodgood, a bril-
liant and vivacious little. woman, who has
Clyde Fitch play up her sleeve Stuart
Robson will make a big production of
1.-THE Two Dromios,' and old stars who
will be seen in new plays are j. K. Hack
EFT, Amelia Bingham, Edna Wallace Hop
per, Anna Held, Ethel Barrymore, Erin
els Wilson, De Wolf Hopper in some
thing from 1.-THE Pickwick Papers, Dan
Daily, Frank Daniels and clever little
Willie Collier, who has also a new play
ready to put on.