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open will be the Madison Square, where H.
W. Pauls farce THE New Clown" a great
London success, will be presented for the
first time in this country on August 27.
In this play Jameson Lee Finney and Jes-
sic Busby will have the leading roles. The
Empire Theater will open early in Septem-
ner with John Drew in new play. At
the Criterion Theater W. H Crane in
David Harum' will be the opening attrac-
ton. He will give way to Virginia Harmed
in A. w. Pinero's great play, Iris which
was one of the remarkable successes of
LondOns last season. Miss Harmed has
i4EId sIql 10 eIoI eIll .sul IoI p9lo7Ios usaq
IRIS created sensation in London. Miss
Harmed will have the support of un-
usually strong company, which will In
cIude Htlda Spong and Oscar Asche, the
latter loaned specially to me for this pro-
ductlon by Mr.. Beerbohm Tree of Her Maj
esty's Theater. Mr.. Asche made a tre-
mendous hit during the London run of
Iris
The Garrick Theater will open with Cap
tain r. MarshaIs There's Many a Slip
in which Jessie Milward, the Earl of ROs-
lyn, Beatrice Irwin, who Lnen will
make her first appearance in this country;
Leo Dletrlchstefn and Sydney Herbert will
have parts The Garden Theater will open
in September with Mrs Patrick Campbell
and her London Company in new play.
Mrs. CampbelFs tour under my direction
Will continue for twenty weeks. The Savoy
Iheater Will open with Ethel BARRYMORE in
a new piece. which will be supplemented
by a fifty minutes pIaylet, Carrots in
which Miss Barrymore will also appear.
Mr. F1tch's play, The F1irt,' will not be
ready for Miss Barrymore at the beginning
of the season owing to the dramatfsts i'll
ness. She will appear in it later on at the
Madison Square Theater. Annie Russell
VIII continue to appear in The Girl and the
Judge until the new Lyceum Theater Is
ready, when she will open that house with
Madeleine Lucette Riley's new play, Mice
and Men.
'Maude Adams is still in Switzerland and
Will not appear upon the stage again until
November. She will then play Rosalind in
AS You Like It. and will revive L'Aiglon'
and The Little Minister l have a new
play for her-or. rather, it is to be ready
in September-and if we accept it this piece
VIII be produced early. In London at st.
Georges Hall and the Imperial Theater
saw an old morality play called 'Everyman,' ,
most beautiful and pathetic story ex-
qu.slteIy treated by a company of some
Iorty artlsts. This attraction l have en-
gagged intact
William Gillette will return 20 New
York in November revivng Sherlock
Hoimes for month at the Knickerbocker
Iheater- He was tremendously successful
not alone in London, but throughout Eng
land Next season he will produce Hamlet
IN New York and later on will go back TO
London with this play.
William FaverSham will bring his Euro
pean vacation TO close in October and will
take up his American travels with either
The Right Of Way, dramatized b; Gil
bert Parker from his novel by that name,
or new drama by Paul Potter. Steph.n
Phillpots, the author of Ulysses, is com,
ing TO America for my production of this
play after the holidays, probably at the
Garden Theater. This is the heaviest dra-
matte stage preSentment made in London
during the year, and it will be shown here
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Beerbohm Tree. During the season l shall
put forward Clyde Fitchs The Girl With
the Green Eyes, with Mrs. Bloodgood in
the principal part. 1 shall also present in
November, at another theater Fitch COM
edy called The Bird in the Cage another
new comedy by Jerome K. Jerome. and H
V. Esmord's My Lady Virtue which is to
nave its London Introduction in September
at the Garrick Theater
Besides. l have a French drama called
The Three Glorious Days an original play
by Captain Marshall to follow his There's
Many a Slip in London, and a new and
original play by j. NJ Barrie, which 1 may
not Introduce until the new year. George
Edwardes and I will bring over from Lon
don The Three Little Maids with the
original organization unbroken.
Crane will continue to play in David
Harum' through this season, and will have
a new comedy for next year Among NV
manuscript possessions not already men
been running for six months at the Critic
rion and the Prince of Wales Theater.
The Mummy and the Humming Bird nv
isaac Henderson; the Partisan sensation
called called The Telephone; Anthony Hopes
'Pinkerton's Peerage! the London panto-
mime seasons 'BluebeII;' The Two
Schools by Alfred Capus. which was the
strong success of the Paris season. dra
matization of Anthony Hopes The PhiIos-
opher and the Apple Orchard a new NAV
by Pierre Berton. the author of Zaza,' and
a dramatization Of Peter Dunnes Mr.
Dooley,' by Edward Rose, together with
Henry Arthur Jones' latest drama. The
London run of The Three Little Maids will
PROBABLY continue until next January The
entire company will be taken over during
the month of September from the Apollo
Iheater to the Prince of Wales
Mt. Edwardes and myself will start in
pretty soon upon the production of the new
musical piece by Paul Potter and Leslie
Stuart, the composer of 'Florodora.' In this
work Edna May will play the leading part.
Ihere Will be no less than twelve com
panles appearing simultaneously In nv
plays throughout England and her posses
Holmes in Australia
Upon my arrival here I found awaiting
me cablegram informing me that the con-
tract had been closed for the French com
edy IN which Marie Tempest will open my
Duke OF 4orks Theater, London on An
gust Is This means that l shall be able
later in the season, to bring Miss Tempest
TO this country and show the American pub
Iic that she Is great comedian as she has
been comic opera prima donna Dion Bou-
cIcault, who will direct the French comedy
production at the Duke of York's Theater,
has been added to my force of stage direc-
tors. which now include besides Mr.. Joseph
Humphreys, William Seymour, Edward
Rose and Joseph Francoeur."
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