The sun., 1902-02-23
THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES.
NEW PLAYS BY PAUL NJ. POTTER
AND MARTHA MORTON. .
Daniel Frohman Produces "Notre Dame. y
Henrietta Crosman "As You LIKE II. v
Emc shannon "IIer Lord and Master
aud Amelia bingham The Climbers y


Emc shannon Her Lord and Master
and Amelia bingham "The Climbers"
This viii be a week Of particularly in
teresting and numerous theatrical In
Productions and revivals. The scenery
OF the play that will be new at Days on
Wednesday evening Is so elaborate that
the theatre will be closed two evenings
for rehearsals In setting Il. "Notre Dame
J Is a pictorial melodrama. unlike anything
that Daniel Frohman's stock company
has ever acted. II Is a new dramatization
Of Victor Hugos romance Of .Notre Dame
de Paris and has been made by Paul NJ
| Potter in the manner, II Is said, OF modern
instead Of old stagecraft. The production
will occur on the Tooth anniversary Of Hugo's
birthday. The action has been divided
! into five acts and eight scenes. The bet
| ter known parts. Esmerdlda, Grinpore
and Claude Frollo will be played by Hilda
! Spong. Jameson Lee Finney and j. II. Gil
mour. Other important roles will be acted
| by Margaret Ellington, May Sylvie. Robert
Lorraine, William F. Owen, Frank c. Bangs.
| George W. Barber Scott Craven and Foster
! Lardner. hundred supernumaries will
] be employed
Eflie Shannon and Herbert Kelley will
come TO town tomorrow evening for their
annual metropolitan engagement, bringing
new play. The public popularity and
personal art which their long association
with Daniel Frohmans company brought
to them were we'll and prosperously placed
| In "The Moth and the Flame but has
since suffered from employment in poor
plays. The new piece has been successful
| out OF town and comes 10 the Manhattan
highly recommended. II is entitled. Her
| Lord and Master Martha Morton wrote
It, and IL seems to be a sort of modern
flaming OF the Shrew.- The shrew is an
| American girl, and her lord and master
an English nobleman, who loves and tames
her. Miss Shannon and MIR. Kelcey play
these parts. The rest Of tie cast names
Hattie Russell Morton Selten. Charles W.
Stokes, Douglas Fairbanks. Percy Brooke.
William Elliott, Archie Curtis. Isabel Wal
dron, Ida Darling and Winona Shannon.
The comedy is in four acts, starting in
Colorado and ending ln London.
A new play with an old title will be pro-
duced at the Star tomorrow. II is called
.The Road to Ruin and the announce
ment says -the plot has been gathered from
Incidents in connection with the famous
Fayne Moore badger game Terry McGov-
ern is the star.
Three new plays, ono In three acts and
two with only a scene apiece will be given at
the Empire on Thursday afternoon by the
American Academy Of Dramatic Arts
The short ones are a String Of Pearls. by
ia mes Barnes, and "Dorothea, by Richard
Madden. The other play ia A Great Gun,
translated by George Jessup from German
farce by Schonthan and kadelburg
A play that is new to New York but
| known TO OF her cities will be produced at
Proctor's Fifty-eighth Street tomorrow.
1t s called Mistakes VIII Happen" Vau-
| deville will be given between the acts.
The weeks revivals will be unusual.
After four moro performances Of Mistress
Nell" Henrietta Crosman and her COM
pany will bring forward AS You Like It
at the Republic. This will possess some Of
! the qualities Of new production. as Miss
| Crosmans RosdiRd has never been seen in
| New York. 1t was very favorably spoken
! of out Of town. She will use the beautiful
scenery made for Julia Arthur and given
| by that retired actress to the newer Rosd-
lind Henry Woodruff will be the Orlando.
| John Malone the Jacques, Fred ThoIne the
| Touchstone, Adele Block the Cello and Lottie
Alter the Audrey
Having found Lady Margaret unpopu-
| lar, Amelia Bingham will return 70 her
success Of last season, "The Climbers
tomorrow at the Bijou. Clyde Fitch's
comedy is among the most striking of re-
cent American plays. New scenery will be
used and most OF the original cast will
reappear. Miss Bingham. Frank Worthing
Madge Carr Cook, Annie Irish, Minnie
| DuPree, Ferdinand Go1tscaalk and Alfred
Fisher will have their old parts. BiJou
Fernandez will succeed Clara Bioodgood,
| Arthur Byron will take Robert Blossoms
place and Charles Walcot will have the part
| first acted 10y John Flood.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell will rcturn TO
psr5 Hos 10 ay TSSG m Ne S
this sea son. Her repertory will be: Monday
and Tuesday evenings and Wednesday
| afternoon. The Second Mrs. Tanqueray;-
| Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Tho
| Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith;' Saturday after
I noon. Beyond Human Power and in the
evening "Msgda.'
| Victorien Sardou's drama Of Diplomacy"
will be revived at the Murray Hill No
! announcement Of the distribution of parts
! has been made, but presumably William
! Bramwell will play Hel'ri Beduc.ed'c, Alice
johnson Countess ZlckG. ana Laura Hope
| Crews DorC, an arrangement that would
assure good representation OF the brilliant
| play.
! Of Fedora, viii be revived 10y the Green
! wall company at the American The
| tragic interest in this play is intense, and,
/ like "Diplomacy," its working out is very
engrossing. Tie American players should
be well suited to its leading Ioes with
james Wilson for tho Loris and Jessaline
/ RoP"rs tor the Fedora
| The BROOKLYN Greenwall company will
rey-ivc "A Bachelors Honeymoon" at the
/ Columbia. II is 4 farcical comedy.
| Souvenirs will be given at Corse Pay
| tons IN Brooklyn tomorrow afternoon,
! when Eta Reed, leader OF the stock com
! pany, will reappear in the title roe Of "Ca-
/ mile She will wear handsome new gowns.
| Kirk Brown will be the Armand DuUal.
Burton Holmes viii give the second Of
| his two series Of lectures at Daly's on
| Thursday and Friday afternoons.
! The ong-successful melodrama "In Old
! Kentucky" will come to the Grand Opera
/ House for weeks stay. A burning stable,
! a Kentucky horserace. and a swing across
! chasm are the exciting incidents. A
! band of negro boys who sing and dance
AZ well as play brass instruments is one Of
| the diversions.
| The lively farce Of sMcFadden's Row OF