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The Washington times., 1902-08-10
Opening of the New York Season.

The playhouses of Gotham all promise
to be ready for business within few
weeko.
A list of the principal theaters. with
fractions listed therefor. follows:
Fourteenth Street Thcater, August Is with
Robert Emmett" by Brandon lyman.
Academy of Music. August :, with Quincy
Adams Sawyer dramatized by Justin Adams
Irving Place Theater, October l.
Garden Theater, in September. with Mrs.
Patrick Campbell in a new play.
Madison Square Theater. early in September,
with The New Clown London comedy.
The Princess. Shubert Brothers new theater,
at Broadway and Twenty ninth Street. October
with Weldon Grossmith in The Night of the
Party
Weber & Fields, September {, with "Twirly-
Whirl.."
Daly's. September Is with ~ Country Girl
with William Norris in the leading part
Wallack's. September 2. probably with 'Mrs.
Jack" comedy of American life. by Grace
Livingston Furniss, Alice Fisher playing the
title role.
The Biiou. September s. with Hearts
Aiame.' by Genevieve G. Haines.
The Manhattan. September S. with "Captain
Molly by George c. Hazelton.
The Savoy. September /. with Robert Ede-
Ethel Barrymore in 4 new play.
The Garrick in September, with Robert Mar
shall's comedy, There's Many Slip
The Herald Square, September !. with Jeffer-
son De Angels in The Emerald Isle
The kniekerbocker. September /, with The
Rogers Brothers In Harvard"
The Empire. the first week in September.
with John Drew in play.
The Broadway, August is, with sally in
Our Alley" by Englander Hobart. 1t is to
be followed by The Silver Slipper
The Criterion. about September Is, with W.
II. Crane in David Harum," followed by Vir
ginil Harmed in Pineros Iris
The Victoria. September !, with an opera
by Planquette, produced by A. II. Chamberlyn.
Mrs osborne's playhouse. formerly the Berk-
elcy Lyceum. about October l with musical
comedy
The Third Avenue, August 2, with Gypsy
Jack" an English melodrama.
The New Star, August o.
The Metropolis Theater. August II. with Hav-
erly's Minstrels.
Grand Opera House, in August, with THE
Show Girl
The American. September l, with the Green
wall Stock Company.
The BeIasco Theater, early in September, with
Mrs. Leslie Carter in "Du Barry"
New York Theater. September 6. with king
High Ball." by Horvitz & Bowers; Marie
Dressler and Louis Harrison in the leading
roles.
The Washington times., 1902-08-10
Opening of the Academy.

The opening Of the Academy Of
Music tomorrow night will be welcomed
by all During The summer the
house has had an entire overhauling,
including electrical rewriting with the
latest up=to-dat electrical effects.
Everything is spick and span. with the
workman's hand making the renovation
complete.
Until the present season Augustus
Thomas has enjoyed a monopoly of
state names as titles for plays, but
Pennsylvania" with which the Acad-
emy opens. is the joint work of
Daniel L Hart. a young journalist OF
WHkesbarre, who has written The
Parish Priest and other successes.
and c. E. Callahan. the author of Coon
Hollow" and "Fogg's Ferry.
The title of the play is very appro-
pirate. as its plot is founded on law
peculiar to the State. and all its scenes
are laid near Wiikesbarre. The first set
shows typical miners home with a
view Of breaker and culm heap in the
background. both by day and moonlight.
Another scene is one Of the most real
istic conceivable; it depicts the bottom
OF coal mine, with the miners at work
loading and unloading cars. and an ele
vator or cage in actual use. and as a
elimination, the destruction OF the mine
by FIRE damp. In this scene Is introduced
the celebrated Eagle quartet. The last
acts contain some Of the features of
a military drama. as a regiment is call
ed out to awe the strikers. This scene
is q fac emilc to the one now being en-
acted at Shenandoah. Pa. The play is
written upon high plane with natural
witty dialogue. and characters taken
from life, and will be interpreted by
company Of merit. Judging from the seat
sale the Academy will open to an over
flowing house.
The Washington times., 1902-08-10
Mark Twain Tries DramatizinI.

Mark Twain and Lee Arthur have fin
ished the first draft of their dramatic
version CT Mr.. Twain's famous story.
"Huckleberry Finn" which Klaw & Err
LANCER will produce in November.
It was not known until within the
past two weeks that Mr.. Twain had
taken any active part in the writing o,
the play.
enthusiasm, and took as much interest
In it as IL he were'a young author with
his literary spurs yet to be won.
The Washington times., 1902-08-10
Ridge Waller in Town Again.

Ridge Waller, until last season treas
urer of Kernans Lyceum Theater, is
spending the summer in Washington.
Mr.. Waller WIS last year manager OF
Mr.. Kernan's Lafayette Theater, Buff
falo. where he made. splendid record
for himself and good deal of money
for his employer.
There is a chance that Mr.. Waller will
he placed in charge OF the Lafayette
Square Theater, this city, for the COM
ing season, In which event Messrs. Ker-
nan and Rife, the new lessees of the
playhouse. would have their interests
looked after in the best manner pos
sible
The Washington times., 1902-08-10
Annie Irish's Preparations to Star.

Miss Annie irish, who will jointly star
play, opening at the Bijou Treater in
New York Oceober 10. came TO America
with the Kendals in 1893. to play the
juvenile role of Ellean in THE Second
Mrs. Tanqueray.'
Prior to this she had received wide
schooling in the English provinces. had
played season of comedy at the Vau-
deville Theater in London. and was Sc
lected by Plnero TO play Mlrnie Gilfllan
in Sweet Lavender" at Terry's Thea
ter.
A season at the Lyceum with Sir
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writer was unknown to the theatrical
world, the reports of the initial per-
formance are TO the effect that the audi
encc found much TO admire in the play,
and that it scored what is termed a
popular succcss''-that is, 4 success
that means plenty of box Office encour-
agement.
The hero of the play, Quincy Adams
Sawyer, is 4 young lawyer fron}s Bos-
ton. and the son of rich and inhuen-
tial father, but. unlike most city chaps
in rural plays. he is not bit wicked
weak minded, or stuck up.
He is so bravely athletic that by the
end of the first act he has cleaned out
the corner grocery store entire, and yet
his native disposition is as gentle as the
dove. He relates with an angelic air
that, while he was in college he got a
letter from his sisters almost every
morning. and that it was always the
bright spot in the day
His one aim in life is TO do good to
the people of Mason's Corner, Mass,
and in order to circumvent the evil
schemer of the piece-yillain is too
strong a word-who happens TO be To-
cal music teacher, with worldly ambi-
tions, he runs for office. bH,s the cor
ner grocery. and even threatens to i'm
port two rival music teachers from Bos-
ton. and pay them to give lessons free.
While these few things are doing he
imports an eye specialist to treat the
heroine. who has suffered a stroke of
blindness, and when he has cured her
asks her to be his wife.
AS a side venture he has helped to
trace out the evidence that restores to
her own the long lost scion of the noble
English house.
The Washington times., 1902-08-10
"Bon-Ton" Burlesquers at Kernan's.

Brightness and snap are the predomi
mating features of the Bon-Tcn Bur
lesque Companv that ie booked to ap-
pear at the Lyceum this week. commenc-
ing with the usual matinee tomorrow
Two trayesties, "Tutti Frutti" and "a
Dafy Shop are the mediums used to
present the company in an entertaining
mixture of song, dance. snappy dialogue
and humorous incident. OF course, there
Is very little plot or story-there is
really no need for any. II is only an
airy framework upon which are con-
structed two up-to-date musical farces,
The Washington times., 1902-08-10
"The Rogers Brothers in Harvard"

The new vaudeville farce that John J.
McNally. the Boston dramatist, has
fashioned fer the Rogers Brothers use
this season is said TO possess consider
ably more of plot than any of the earl
ier products OF the McNally farce fac
tori
One might think from the title that
the new piece is intended to be a sklt
on college life. and that Harvard is the
only institution of learning that will
The Washington times., 1902-08-10
First New Play of the Season.

New Workers have witnessed the first
new play OF the seasons crop, and at
the huge Academy OF Music Thursday
night Boston product, Quincy Adams
Sawyer" was presented for the ap-
proval of Gothamites, and. although the
The Washington times., 1902-08-10

objected to going to San Francisco, hav-
ing the idea that this city it at the
other end of the world, the jumping of
place, in fact
The Washington times., 1902-08-10

I'm Days OF Old, When Knights We're
Bold" is the title of the new play
which Mr.. Whiteside will produce the
coming season.
The Washington times., 1902-08-10
Brief Theatrical Mention.

Charles Frohman will reproduce the
rext annual Drury Lane melodrama in
this country.
The Washington times., 1902-08-10

Stephen Phillips "Paoio and Fran
cesca" had a run of is4 performances in
London last spring. and his Ulysses"
a run OF i32
The Washington times., 1902-08-10

N.hniSs rToiiian VIII repFOduce the
rext annual Drury Lane msIodrama in
this country.
"In Days of Old, When Knights We're
Bold" is the title of the new play
which Mr.. whiteside viii produce the
coming season.
Stephen Phillips "Paolo and Fran
cesca" had run of is4 performances in
London last spring. and his Ulysses"
a run OF 49,
Julia Marlowe will use. after she is
through with Catulle Mendes' Fla
mette." dramaiizaticn of George W.
Cables novel of THE Cavalier"
Henrietta Crosman says she has con-
traeted TO produce within year Mary,
Mary, Quite Contrary" the authorship
OF which she does not disclose.
Nat C. Goodwin will be the Bottom in
a highly spectacular production of "A
Midsummer Nights Dream" which KIaw
& Erlangcr will make season after next.
Among the engagements announced
for Captain Molly" which viii open
the season at the Manhattan, are Phil
lips smalley, W. L, Bransconbe, AMI
Willie Weston.
Mrs. Sarah Cowell lie Moyne will star
next season in a piece which concerns
contemporary society. called Among
Those Present" The author Is Glen
Marlborough.
Miss Ada Crossley has been secured
by Loudon G. Carlton for a concert tour
In America during the coming season.
The same management has engaged Mile.
Zelie dc Lussan.
THE Wilderness" which is being
played in San Francisco by Henry Mil
Ter and Margaret Anglin. has made ths =
success of the season. The Empire COM
pany will use it on its fall tour.
Lewis Hooper, formerly Of The Wild
Rose" has been engaged as manager Of
Mrs. osborne's playhouse, known form
erly as the Berkeley Lyceum. at Forty
fourth Street and Fifth Avenue, New
York.
Miss Violet Lansing. a niece Of Gen.
eral Lansing. OF Texas, has been en-
gagged by Nixon & Zimmerman for the
production OF THE Strollers," and will
make her first appearance August IS in
PHILADELPHIA.
The first production Of "Corianton."
an Aztec romance founded on the golden
bible. the book OF Mormon, was given at
Salt Lake Theater. August Z. Joseph
Haworth headed the company
Julia Arthur is rapidly convalescing
after the operation for appendicitis. and
there is no question about her complete
recovery. She Is still at her summer
home on an island at the entrance to
Boston harbor.
Captain Hoods new play, In which
well-known Americans will play, is a
serious drama in four acts. called
'Eriff's Girl" In the cast Will be
Frank Mills, Holbrook Blinn, James E.
Sullivan and Madge Lessing.
An extravaganza named king High
Ball. by Horwitz and Bowers, the song
writers. will serve for the reopening of
the New York on September 6. Ed
ward E. Rice will produce it and Marie
Dressler and Louise Harrison will be
in the cast.
The Washington times., 1902-08-10

Julia Marlowe will use. after she is
through with Catulle Mendes' Fla
mette." dramaiizaticn of George W.
Cables novel of THE Cavalier"
The Washington times., 1902-08-10

Henrietta Crosman says she has con-
traeted TO produce within year Nary.
Mary, Quite Contrary the authorship
OF which she does not disclose.
The Washington times., 1902-08-10
Special Saturday Night Trips.

STEAMER HARRY RANDALL,
FOR COLONIAL BEACH. CoLrON'S WHARF.
PINY POINT AND ST. GEORGES ISLAND.
From River View wharf. foot OF Seventh Street
a; 5:i5 p. Home 10 p. m. sunday. Tickets
30 days, Colonial Beach. Sl.oo; Colton's. sI.50;
other landings at REGULAR rate. e13-u
The Washington times., 1902-08-10
For Colonial Beach

STEAMER T V. ARRowSMrTH.
Every Tuesday. Wednesday Thursday, FRIDAY
and Sunday at s:i5 a. m. Home again 10 p. m
Tickets round trip. adults. Joe: children 25c-
Thirty-d tickets Sl.00.
The Washington times., 1902-08-10

Nat c. Goodwin will be the Bottom in
a highly spectacular production of "A
Midsummer Nights Dream" which Klaw
& Erlangcr will make season after next.
The Washington times., 1902-08-10

An extravaganza named king High
Ball. by Horwitz and Bowers, the song
writer's, will. serve for the reopening of
the New York on September 6. Ed
ward E. Rice will produce it and Marie
Dressler and Louise Harrison will be
in the cast.
The Washington times., 1902-08-10

Captain Hoods new play, in which
well-known Americans will play. is a
serious drama in four acts. called
-"Eriff's Girl" In the cast Will be
Frank Mills, Holbrook Blinn, James E.
Sullivan and Madge Lessing.
The Washington times., 1902-08-10

Julia Arthur is rapidly convalescing
after the operation for appendicitis. and
there is no question about her complete
recovery. She is still at her summer
home on an island at the entrance to
Boston harbor
The Washington times., 1902-08-10

The first production Of "Corianton."
an Aztec romance founded on the golden
bible. the book OF Mormon. was given at
Salt Lake Theater. August Z. Joseph
Haworth headed the company.
The Washington times., 1902-08-10

Miss Ada Crossley has been secured
by Loudon G. Carlton for concert tour
in America during the coming season.
The same management has engaged Mile.
Zelie dc Lussan.
The Washington times., 1902-08-10

Miss Violet Lansing. niece Of Gen.
eral Lansing. Of Texas, has been en-
gagged by Nixon & Zimmerman for the
production OF THE Strollers. and will
make her first appearance August Is in
PHILADELPHIA.
New-York tribune., 1902-02-23

jM1sques ct Bouffons." Yet there is no
aon of character in this book, there is no inter
play of passion. 1t is most emphatically not
1ovel if we are TO believe that there is any
Talidity in the accepted laws of art, and as we
put it down cannot help regretting that Mrs.
Wharton has not frankly recognized her limita-
lions and put the indubitable talent which she
possesses at the service of a different ambition.
Ghe results Of her reading she has embodied
them in The Valley Of Decision" lose much Of
their value through the authors inability to
establish natural relations between them and
tie motives proper to a novel, which she has
attempted to exploit. They would have pre-
lcrved their full significance if they had been
arranged in some such scheme as that which is
Applied by, say, Vernon Lees Studies of the
Eighteenth Century in Italy" That clever
)rter has herself illustrated the danger of
treating in the form of fiction matters better
handled in critical essays, when the creative
rift is lacking, and The Valley of Decision"
luggests very clearly that Mrs. Wharton
Taight well have profted by her example This
ook indeed, inspires lively hope that the au-
thor viii some day adopt the line followed by
efhon Lee III her best work. She has the
u4oWledge, the sympathy and the taste and she
las now, we may add. the style. The work
'eIofe us IS perhaps, almost too highly pol
shed' the sentences are artfully balanced
mat at times their perfection seems strained
and cold But on the whole the smooth move
ment and the clarity Of the book command the
"armest praise. Mrs. Wharton appears, in the
matter of style, to have found herself at last:
ana although she describes an old woman's
Aand aS fat and soft toad's stomach" and
uses IN the seventh chapter Of the first volume
an eplthet which is probably meant to be strong,
a I,,,
0iher traces Of the literary affecation which has
hitherto done much to diminish the force of
her appeal to the reader \ more worLmanIil,e
piece OF writing than The Valley of Decision
has not in a long time been put forth bv an
American
New-York tribune., 1902-02-23

Mr. Pet RIGGS Lost Property; Mr.. Charles
Mauiotts "LoV" with Honor" and Nicholas
Hoibrooll," a novel 10y Miss olive EirreIL the
sister of Mr.. Augustine I;irr-U
other novels which are on their way tO print
are Mr.. Nachel's The Shadowy Third" Mr.
Marriott Watsou'S Godfrey Mcrjvale." Mr.
Bran Stpkcr's ~ Mystery of the Sea" and Miss
Silbcrr3ds ~ Daughter of Ishmacl'
An Exeter SCULPTOR who knew personally the
late Richard Backmorc is t. maxi, the memorial
bust of the novelist which viii he placed in
Exeter Cathedral. thousand dollars sub
scrbcd for the purpose in England viii have
an addition from this country.
civilian Black. Novelist" is the title of the
biography of the author of a Daughter Of
H"th." which Sir Wemyss Reid has just fin
ished. The book viii appear at the end of next
month.
Mrs Pearl Mary Teresa CruiGic says of George
Sand in her essay Introducing the new transIa-
tion of "Mauprat": with a kind of bonhomie
which one can only compare with Ffelding's
with a passion great Montaigne's for
acknowledging the truths of experience with
an absence Of self-ConSciousnesS truly amaZina,
in the artistic temperament of either sex sh,.
wrote exactly as she thought. saw and felt
HumOr not her strong point. Irony she
New-York tribune., 1902-02-23
LITERARY NOTES.


Mr.. Charles Godfrey Lelands forthcoming
work. "FiaXiuS, or Leaves from the Life of an
Immortal IS to be published early in April. 1t
Is said to be the most grotesque and humorous
work which he has produced-uhich we may
well believe. as several new "Breitmann Ballads"
will be included, and the scene changes from
Paradise to Hades, from Bohemia to Iceland
from Fairyland to Modern Babylon. Among its
mirthful sketches is one which depicts Presi-
dent Roosevelt as King of the Netherlands in
the old Nibelungen times with the Ritter Hans
Bretmann as his poet laureate
The new English monthly. The Country is
to bear this motto from Wordsworth:
Cons forth fa9 into the light Of things.
The Crimson Wing is the title of the novel
by Mr.. II. c. Chattield-Tayior. which Stone is
bringing out. 1t is a story of the FranCo-Prus-
sian War. and the title is evolved from Con
quests crimson wing"
DR. Conan Doyle, it is said, is contemplating
q collected edition of his works.
MI Henry James is to bring out new novel
soon we are glad to say. He proposes to give
to it the attractive but puzzling title OF The
Wings of the Dove"
\ history of Venice and the Venetian Repub-
lie has been prepared by DIR. Horatio Brown,
who has long lived in that city ana IS pains
taking student of everything connected with
her days of power and glory.
Among forthcoming English reprints is six
penny edition of that brilliant novel by Sir
Walter Besant and Mr.. James Rice, The Chap
lain of the Fleet" The vigor, the humor, the
fire of this book will We believe, keep II allNe
1t has the element of greatness implied IN the
fact that it is found delightful by both the
learned and the unlearned. 1t Is remembered
as an odd happening connected with the first
edition that the binder thought the title could
mean only one thing, and 50 put fine ship on
the cover
Sir Walters useful and pleasant lecture on
the Art of Fiction has for some time been
out of print and new edition is on the press.
The widow of Eugene Field takes exception to
various portions of Mr.. Sason ThOmpsOn's
Study of her husbands character and career.
She is quoted by The Chicago Daily News as
saying that THE authorized Life of Eugene
She does not think that Mr.. Thompson has
rightly construed Fields whimsical Auto
Analysis" In the 'AutO-AualySiS. " she says
for example Mr.. Field refers to the great men
ne would like to have known and to those authors
who were his faVorite ones. Commenting on this.
Mr. Thompson proceeds to tell who these great
men and authors really were saying: Rather
should he have said and so. etc 1t is fair
10 presume that Mr.. Field knew his own mind.
and his written word on such matters should be
attitude in this respect is that Mr.. Field posed,
but in other places he lays especial emphasis on
the fact that he opposed to Shams and hum
bugs. Yet Mr.. Thompson would make out Mr..
Field to be a bigger sham than any he exposed
and greater humbug than any he denounced"
Among the volumes of fiction announced for
the spring Mr.. lie Queux's story, The I'm
der Secretary Mr.. Bernard Capes's Plots; !;
Mr.. Louis Becke's "Breachley. Black Sheep;
New-York tribune., 1902-02-23
V-YORK TRIBUNE ILLUSTRATED SUPPLEMENT-

seldom. if ever employed; satire she never at
tempted. 1t was on the maternal. the sympa-
thetic side that her femininity. and therefore her
creative genius was most strongly developed"
The much talked of cut in 'Sir Richard
Calmady'' consists in the omission of only five
lines and the English and American editions
are in harmony.
The Aspirate" is the title of a curious book
by Mr.. GeOffrey Hill the letter H." its i'm
portance, its history and its uses in languages
ancient and modern.
Lord Ronald Sutherland Cover is the youngest
son of the second Duke of Sutherland and his
lovely duChess-one of the most brilliant and
charming women of the nineteenth century
Lord ROnald's book the Tower reviewed in
another column, is only of his many pub
licatiOnS. These include a Life of Joan of Arc,
volume on the last days of Marie Antoinctte.
collection of "reminiscences and various other
books subjects of art and history. He is
presently going to publish some further remi-
New-York tribune., 1902-02-23

Miss RhOda BroughtOn's new novel is entitled
"Lavinia Carew,' and il is having its first pub
liCatiOn as a serial.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-23
5z,838,97I.o7'

Tested at once and in spite of all efforts
to keep the matter quiet. the news OF
the discovery soon spread. Samples OF
the Oil have been brought to town. and
its lubricating qualities have been tested.
with apparently very satisfactory results.
1t is black IN color and burns with a
rather slow flame
1T seems that a similar discovery was
made some months ago on an adjoining
claim. but that the matter did not be-
come generally known at the time. \
company of miners has been formed. with
a view 10 prospecting. but the homestead
ers have also formed q combination
whereby they hope to mutually protect
their several interests by stalking out
mineral claims on their own lands, each
making selections on the several home
steads belonging to the members of the
company. and thus complying with the
law that demands that mining claims,
held by the same party, must not be
contiguous.
Much speculation as to the future out
come of Sis discovery has been INDUCED
in. Opinions varying from the strictly
to the most creduious have
been freely expressed. The real truth.
however. as 10 the value and extent Of
the oil will probably be learned in the
somewhat distant future"