Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-12
Plays and

IDle fulltI ~ 10 ItIuIl ANuNEIlbNA Q AoA
a tour OF the variety theaters.
Richard Golden's tour I'm Foxy CUTLER
Is proving to be a remarkable success,
financially and artisticaly. Ben Stern has
evidently hit 1t again.
Arthur Byron is to have the chief mas.
culine character In The Stubbornness OF
Geraldine," the play Clyde Fitch has writ
ten for Mary Mannering.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Milton Royle closed
their vaudeville engagement October 4 and
returned to New York to prepare for their
starring tour under the management OF
Ben Stern.
September %. at the Colonial theater. in
Boston, Mr.. Joseph Jefferson began his
annual fall tour. In the spring Mr.. Jeffer-
son viii play a two weeks engagement at
the Harlem opera house, New York.
The company that is to support Lewis
Morrison in Faust, has left New foTk
Morrison's tour under Jules Murry's manV
agement will begin on October u. A hand
some Pullman car has been chartered for
the tour.
Charles Klein. who wrote the book of
Mr.. Plckwick,' in which Mr.. De Wolf
Hopper is starring, is in receipt OF box
office statements calculated to make him
feel that he can embark on a tour OF the
world with his family without impoverish-
ing himself.
Nav Edouin has finished her long and
successful engagement in London. and re-
turns to this country late in October. She
expects to star in a new play which a wei
Fred Edwards will again be the leading
man In her company.
James X. Hackett has returned to J: Q.
G.. Duffy and Cyrus Townsend Brady their
dramatization of the %latter's "Hohenzol-
lern.'' and the manuscript Is now being
considered as a medium for Edward MOI,
with Viola Allen in The Eternal City
Kathryn Kidder, who has passed under
the management of Jules hurry for a term
of years, is engaging her supporting com
pany for the coming tour, which begins In
December. The play has been selected, but
not yet named: It Is SAID said h K1Td E 6 to DC
ties as an emotional actress.
Blanche Ring. the girl who made the hit
of THE Defender In singing The COCO
Old Summer Times" and Mrs. Robert Os-
born, who has the Playhouse In New YORK,
had a tiff last week because Miss Ring
claimed that she had been engaged to play
the title role, since changed in favor of the
comedian. Later on they made 1t up so
Miss Ring will appear In Tommy Rot
after all.
Charles Frohman has secured wyndham's
theater, London, for the purpose of con-
tinuing there the run of The Marriage
cipal role. The comedy is now running at
the Duke of York's theater, but 1t must
make way for the production of ]; M. Bar
rie's new comedy, the title of which has not
yet been decided upon. 1t win be removed
to wyndham's theater on October 26.
"A Chinese Honeymoon" has passed its
sGt anVe Psrt en6nRR, IN Was t ISRaG to GsIhie nn
odd week or two, with no hope that II
would be accepted as good entertainment
chea spI for Pprovinciai Exploitation, and
had nobody of note In the cast apart from
Louie Freear. Those who have seen both
say the American production is Infinitely
superior.
Kirke La Shelle just at present is head
over heels in business. Having started his
ARIZONA Frank Daniels and Sergeant
James" companies. he is now preparing for
the coming production Of Checkers.
which promises to be a notable event. HI
| Aoa oIan In yrinuu IN aaTlW nTOdnCfiOn of a
new melodrama called The Great Lynn
wood Robbery" Mr.. La Shelle, by the
way, is recovering very quickly from his
recent illness.
Henry NJ. Blossom, jr., whose Checkers
has been a successful contribution to thu
school Of slang literature, of which Georg'
libretto writing. A light opera from his
pen, with a score by Alfred M. Robyn, IL
director of the Castle Square enterprises
has made a contract that covers everything
Blossom may write for the stage during
the next five years.
The critics in New York City do no
Ike The Two Schools" acted there las
Tuesday evening. One impression gained
from what they write is that Alfred Capus
company has been badly made over for us
on our stage. Mr.. Winter, writing In IN
Tribune, went at it violently and had tn
assistance of Mr.. Towse, in the Post. o
the players, none would appear TO hav'
lone very well with the single exception
Of Hno Jessie amo Spsl9 iyyo Ts z the so% action 0O'o''
W ~
Cutliffe Hyne's Captain Kettle storfe
have been made into a play by Murra,
Carson and Malcolm Watson, and the piece
which is In four acts, will be produces
soon in London. H. ". Esmond will hav
the title role. and the cast will include W
l: Abingdon who msI Is reSarded v thgae as am am
Sydney Brough. who was here last seasol
with Maude Adams in Quality Street
is recalled, was produced for copyright 1
> London as long ago as December, 1900. an
was credited to the authorship of "Alfre
Weatherden," the nom de plume of thre
actors who collaborated in the writing.
. Stanislaus STANCES new play, '"Th
. Daughter OF Hamilcar," viii have its mrs
blanche Walsh will be seen in the re
mantic and tragic role OF IN
priestess of Tanit, According to detail
corning both play and production, 1t woul
seem that a genuine treat is In store, nc
1 the momentous situations characteristic G
, the fervid and tragic drama, but equal
= for musical enthusiasts. The chants an
OF Tanit and Moloch. the two popula
deities of ancient Carthage, requiring
large chorus, are said to be the most in
pressive examples of dramatic music writ
C ten by any modern composer. II is tn
4 work Of Henry X: Hadleys whose syn
T follower OF the Ldszt and Wagneria
schools.
4 Henry w. Savage has George AIDES latei
musical comedy, Peggy from Paris. we
: in hand; that Is, so far as the productio
8 goes and the selection OF the cast whic
will present II. The music, which has bee
written by William Lorraine, is said to [
u in that composers best vein. and II
e Mbretto, which more nearly approaches III
a vernacular than anything else which Al
has written for the stage, is reported
I be an extremely clever bit OF satire an
most amusing. The central figure Is
II young woman who has left a small tow
in the middle west as a companion to
: wealthy lady and who has been metamoI
8 phosed into the leading woman OF a Frenc
a comic opera company. It IL stated thu
there Is a coherent story all the wa
through and that some OF the situation
Q and combinations are ridiculous In the e.
IRENE. II is understood that Mr.. SavaR
will spare no expense to make the produ'
g ton a very lavish one.
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