The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-08-02
STAGE NOTES.

1.-The first of my New York theaters to
open," says Charles FrChman, will be
the Madison Square, where Fl. w. Paul's
farce, The New Clown a great London
success, will be presented for the first
time in this country on Aug. q. In this
play Jameson Lee Finney and Jessie
Busby will have the leading roles. The
Empire theater will open early in Sep
tember with John Drew in a new play.
At the Criterion theater w. II. Crane.
in David Harum, will be the opening
attraction. 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 been selected for the title
role of this play ahead of great num-
ber of other actresses, all of whom are
anxious to play Iris. 1t is a character
eminently suited to her versatile abili-
ties and l look forward to her triumph
in it. Iris created sensation in Lon
don. 1t Is one Of the very best of the
Pinero plays and possesses elements that
should interest and please American
theater-goers. Miss Harmed will have
the support of an unusually strong COM
pany which will include Hilda Spong and
Oscar Asche, the latter loaned specially
to me for this production by Beerbohm
Tree, of Her Majesty's theater. Mr..
Asche made tremendous hit during the
London run of Iris The Garrlck thea
ter will open with Captain r Marshalrs
There's Many Slip in which Jessie
Milward, the Earl of Roslyn. Beatrice
Irwin. who then will make her first ap-
pearance in this country Leo Dietrich
stein and Sydney Herbert will have parts.
The Garden theater will open In Sep
tember with Mrs. Patrick Campbell and
her London company in a new play. Mrs.
Campbcll's tour under my direction will
continue for twenty weeks. The Savoy
theater will open with Ethel Barrymore
in a new piece which will be supple
mented by a 5O-minute playlet. Carrots
In which Miss Barrymore will also ap-
pear. Mr.. Fitch's play The Flirt.' will
not be ready for Miss Barrymore at the
beginning of the season owing to the
dramatist's Illness; she will appear in it
later on at the Madison. Square theater.
Annie Russell will 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
Ryley's new play, Mice and Men,"
During the summer season Gus and
Max Rogers, the famous Rogers broth
ers, devote good part of their time to
the education of Gus two young daugh-
ters, One of the sights of the town is a
view of "Unce Max" holding n. four
year-old young lady on his knee. attempt
ing to initiate here into the mysteries of
spelling, The other day he began with
words of four letters. Wood was the
first selected and the little girl spelled it
so It sounded something like this: "Dou-
bleyah, OH oh. dee" "Well," said Max,
that's right, but it's wrong. No. don't
mean that. 1t isn't right, and 1t isn't
wrong. Oh, thunder, Gus, get me out of
this will you? What ] mean. my dear, is
we don't spell wood that way. Con-
found 1t, yes We do, too; that's the only
arrangement of the four letters which
will spell wood For heavens sake.
Gus, get into this somewhere, won't
you?" Mrs. Rogers then said quietly:
"In the oral spelling of the word wood
We usually say 'w-double o-d.'" "Of
course We do yelled Max, that's just
what I've been saying here for the last
half hour until I've put kinks into my
tongue that I'm afraid will never come
out. Where We're We? oh, yes. the word
wood Now, my dear, just write wood
twenty-five times and always remember
II Is 'w-double o,dr" The little one fol-
lowed the directions Of her uncle faith