Arizona republican., 1902-10-20
THINGS THEATRICAL
What Some of the Big Ones Are Doing
 in the East.

Charles Frohman is organizing a company to present "The New Clown" on tour throughout the country. The new organization will first appear in Boston at the Boston museum at the end of October. A number of new specialties will be added to the per formance.
 Captain Careless is the name of the latest output of R. Melville Baker. author of Foxy Grandpa" It is a musical comedy in two acts. Clifton Crawford, author of Nancy Brown and Mary Green, has written the score. Negotiations are pending for a pre- duction this spring.
 The Silver Slipper" company, which is to open at New Haven, Conn, on Oc- tober 21, under the sole management of John c. Fisher, is rehearsing daily at the Metropolitan opera house in New York. Edna Wallace Hopper is posi- lively to be in the cast.
 An erroneous paragraph is circulat- ing that Miss Willoughby Weston, the latest New York society woman be- hind the footlights, in "The Climbers" :" has taken the stage name of Lila Vac. Miss Lila Vane is in the same com pany. and the typesetters muddled the names oi the two women.
 Hall Caine. whose "The Eternal City" Viola Allen is rehearsing. has been taken to task by a London club to which he belongs for appearing on a Roman Catholic platform on a previ- GUS occasion. His rejoinder is that as dramatist he recognized the good feeling which had nearly always ex- isted between dramatists and the Ro- man church. That church, he says, had been the friend of the drama in nearly all ages and countries, and. dramatists had reciprocated the good will by treating the priests and services of the church with becoming reverence From the earliest times the Roman church had recognized the power of the drama to teach, instruct and amuse, and no 'dramatist, whatever his faith ought to fail in gratitude to the church which had done its best to keep his craft alive.
 The Prince of Pilsen'' closed it's en- gagement of eighteen weeks duration at the Tremcnt theter, Boston. Sep tember 20. This musical comedy has not only broken all musical comedy not only broken all records for the run
 
 but it has played ever since the open ing to the practical capacity oi the Fremont, which, considering that some Of the weather during the summer months was extremely hot. speaks forcibly in favor of th's latest piece from the pens of Pix,ey and Luder
 Stuart Robson is, with the exception of Joseph Jefferson. the dean of the EtarC Of fha cfo -J,f r-;l be his fifty-first y gar as an actor, but he shows no signs of age. and stands his forty weeks cn the road each seas on without signs of fatigue, whereas Mr. Jefferson is compelled to limit his tours to con 7arati- ely few num- Der of weeks. -Tlis se7son MT. Rob- son will alterns te in "The Henrietta" and ''The Comedy of Errors"
 No, there is n,thing new in Quincy Adams Sawyer''-not a thing It is the same old rural drama. with the same dear old snowsto. m the same dear old whistling winter wind; same old good man and same o-l lad man: but it pos sesses elements Of interest-and good, honest heart into est, at that-which makes it well -th seeing. There are just two thing lbout the play which have element If novelty that com mand respeo l attention from all classes of society. The characters in the play are: Quincy Adams Sawyer, the village gossips wondered who he was. what he was, what he came for and how long he intended to stay; Zekiel Pettengill, who thinks no man can be happy while others are misera- ble around him, less he's an almighty selfish critter; Obadiah Strout, the aforesaid almighty selfish crittur;S' Arthur Hastings. a storm-centre of conflicting emotions; Hiram Maxwell, whose sole ambition Is to get Mandy Skinner and three square meals a day; Deacon Mason, who thinks "bless- ed are the peacemakers: Abner Stiles, who has no prejudice agin the Irish; Benoni Hill, his son, with higher as- Piraticns; Bob Wood, bass singer and the town bully; Lindy Putnam, as rich as "Creazers" and yet the poorest of them all; Alice Pettengill, beloved, beautiful-and blind; Mrs. Hepsibah Putnam, jest put on earth to worry ether people; Mandy Skinner, who works out" and works Hiram Huldy Mason. who comes near having little romance; Samanthy Green, an aggra- vatin' brat; Mrs. Crowley, who should be more careful where she sits; Mrs. Hawkins, boarding house keeper and "tid bit" retailer.