The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-26

sage theater, Berlin, and four months at the Casino de Paris, in Paris.
 
 A feminine David Warfeld is the nov city promised for next season in the mel odramatic field. Miss Louise Beaton. who is to star in new play of the Ghet- to, Is petite and pretty and possesses both the magnetism and the unctuous smile that made WarfelA famous.
 As Rachel Goldstein, she will imperson- ate Yiddsh young woman, who comes to this country from Russia in the steer age. In the next act she makes her ap- pearance in the Ghetto, New York, in cart drawn by two goats. The famous Flatiron building Is shown with real istic imitation of the fierce gusts of wind that assail pedestrians in the winter in this neighborhood. In the next act Miss Beaton disguises herself as a "Heine" with whiskers to entrap the vile lain. Last of all she becomes wealthy, and gives a dinner at the Waldorf-Astor- Ia. Her gowns for this one act alone cost as much as the entire production, which is very elaborate. Theodore Kremer is the author of this new departure in melodramas, and sulli- van, Harris & Woods are the producers. Miss Beaton, by the way, Is their first woman star.
 James W. Morrissy, who Is to manage the forthcoming tour of Mime. Patti for Robert Grau, has taken offices in the Windsor Arcade, and predicts for the diva a triumphal season here. Marcus Mayer who returned from Europe Sat urday heard Mime. Patti sing, and is en- thusiastic over her voice, which he says Is fuller and sweeter than 1t was even in her younger days.
 Virginia Drew Prescott, who created a very favorable impression as the star of Lord strathmore," last season, is spend ing the summer reading plays in order to | find a fit vehicle for the coming year. As she lives in Philadelphia, she comes over to New York In her automobile once a week to consult with her manager, David Traitel.
 Miss Roselle Knott, whom Frank l.. Perley has engaged for the role of Mary Tudor in the forthcoming tour of When Knighthood Was in Flower" Is re- markedly handsome young woman of un- doubted talent whose Lygia in the New York production of "Quo vadis" made her famous in a single night. Miss Knott is now resting at her home in Hamilton, Ont.
 George H. Broadhurst has adopted a French farce and he is now writing an original play and the dramatization of novel. These are intended for two noted stars
 The Prince of Pilsen' closed 8 long ] and prosperous run at the Broadway theater, Saturday night July IS.
 
 Blanche Ring has temporarily returned | to vaudeville. She is singing The Good | Old Summer Time" and '"The Belle of Avenue A at the Crystal Gardens, New York
 , 'The Princess of Kensington' will open | at the Broadway theater. August 3l, un- der the management of John c. Fisher.
 Virginia Harned's new play for the coming season will be modern comedy by Haddon Chambers called ''The Gold en Silence"
 | Anna Held will be seen in the new Rich | epin play at the Knickerbocker theater the latter part of December.
 Nat NJ Wills, who will star in "A Son | of Rest" next season, direction of Broad- | hurst & Currie, is the proud possessor Of a. pretty diamond and pearl scarf-pin. It was presented to the comedian by Cap tain Marks, of St.. James, l.. l., as | token of appreciation, Wills having pull 1 ed the captains small son Jonn out Of l the bay at St. James on Monday last