The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-01-12

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pieces, finished the season. The com
pany r~eappeared gloriously in 1
Princess and the Butterfly by Pinero,
and finished as brilliantly with The Tree
Of knowledge by Carton. PIneros nne
comedy Of sTrelawney Of the Wells, niied
practically all of the season Of lsve-se'
although ten performances each OF amer
leans AT Home and Jerome's John unser-
field we're given. an
Three months Of every season until
1909 Edward II. Sothern acted there, main
tanning the high standard OF. the theatre
by the production OF some vaiuapie piays,
lie had first appeared there In 1850 WIN
Helen Dauvray IN Zone of Our Girls, and
Mr.. Frohman made him a star on May g.
1887, in The Highest Bidder Next sea,
son THE Great Pink Pearl followed. and
after that came Lord Chumley;. which
Belasco and DeMille wrote for MN. mls
play for 1890 was Jerome X. Jerome's The
Master of Woodbarrow." He made an
advance in art, on Aug. 81, iselg IN
Beerbohm Trees role in Henry Arthur
Jones's tragedy OF The Dancing Girl, :,
which also served to bring Virginia Harmed
conspicuously before this public, Some OF
the plays between that and the iseS advent
Of The Prisoner Of Zenda' were "A Way TO
Win a Woman. by jerome X. jerome
Captain Lettarblair' by Marguerite Mer-
ington, and sheridan and The Victoria
Cross" by Paul NJ. Potter. The enormous
success Of -The Prisoner of Zenda' started
Mr.. Sothern on a new line, and in 1890 he
King Blu in 1907 he had a costly fasco
with Change Alloy and did not prosper
with aThe Lady Of Lyons or the already
out-of-date Lord Chuh -ey. The Ad,
venture of Lady Ursula and The Colonial
Girl" were used in 1908, when Mr.. Sothern
played the last Of his annual fall engage
men,s at the Lyoeum.
During all the stock company and Sothern
seasons practically 40 other organization
acted there. The only important exception
was In the spring Of 1905, when a reunion
of old Lyceum actors who had left tho COM
pany was headed by Efic shannon, Mr..
Kelley and Mr.. LeMoyEe for The Moth
and the Flame" The last three years have
been Annie Russell's to a inrge extent.
and with what may be called a stock cop.
pany, she has KEEP, up the proud rocord OF
tho Lyoeu aao IA Miss !. hS ODD noe on
Royal Family started day less thar a
plays those use seasons were .fhe Surprises
of Love" with Elsie de Wolfe. MY Daugh-
ter-in-Law- with Ellaline ferris and Sey-
CALHOUN GGRo h''s sRich sUias savage WI" With Henry Henry
Miller, and The Shades OF Night. On
and on" and Tho Lash Of a Whip with
+. NJ. Holland and Fritz Williams. This
season has been practically all Annie hus-
sells. with Bertha Galland's engagement in
The Forest Lovers and The Love Match.
a prelude TO Miss Russell's revival OF
Royal Family. and production OF The
Girl and the Judge which will BIO the
last play in the famous theatre.
Things are happening TO London theatres
that bring out oddities in their construction
and management. We have become used
TO thinking Of fashionable theatres there
one floor below the street level, but IL Is
to think Of the Criterion, a leader
among p~layhouses, as entirely underground.
1t has been so since 1874. and the Govern
ment has several times discovered That IL is
unsafe. A report in 1882 on the theatre
of Charles Wyndham's greatest successes
said the house was dangerous. but nothing
else was done, and now, twenty years later,
Mr.. Wyndham is compelled TO regard public
An audience in a theatre wholly
beneath the street level and with the big
Criterion restaurant on top of it has had
a lucky escape every time the theatre has
been used since it's opening in 1874.
The long legal battle over DAYS Theatre
in London Is settled in favor OF the DAILY
IL was over the bar in the smok-
room, an unknown thing here except
In music halls, DAILY sublet II, contrary to
George Edwardes's judgment. Evidently it
was the best thing, financially speaking,
that could nave happened to Mr.. Days
heirs. lie lost much money during the last
wears Of his New York theatre. while Ed
wardes was producing The Geisha, San
and other successes at the London
house, a long share of whose profits will now
come to the DAILY heirs.
A suburban manager writes TO a London
dramatic paper TO explain why he was the
first To omit a bar from his theatre. AZ
hat was what he said he was going
TO explain. but he finished by only denying
that 1T was probable the ~neighboring
publicans paid him a good round sum not
have bars William Morton seemed
10 be like a criminal on trial and unable to
explain the sin Of running no bar as a side
show Of the drama
The foreign stage has just had two In
terosting r~evivals 81 plays hat nave been
acted here. Last week Sarah Bernhardt
on Sardou's "Theodora' at her Paris
A brilliant audience filled Lon
81 James on Tuesday, when George
Alexander reproduced The Importance
of Peing Earnest. " mentioned Va the pro-
Tramme a. by the author oi LADY Win
dcrmsrr's Fan" Oscar NNde's comedy
was running a. tho 81 James there and
tho Empire here when hts trial made itr
On both cities necessary II had
never taah aottd uut ~ New York IN Amerifa
until last fall. when Henry Miller produced
it iu ran fmncir"o. Miller. William IAN-
orsham. Viola Allen and May Robson had
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