The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-30
7HE STAGE HERE And ABROAD
yrpr PLAYER FOLK LOOK UPON
4 SEASON DEAD.
Same pays unEering Into Hot-Weather
Day,, and Their Managers Wear Broad
smiles-Next Year Duse Returns
Toeatre Small TAX IN Other Lands.

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-neatre Small TAX IN Other Lands.
The theatrical season wanes. 1t Is not
.tone by its inky freaks, nor yet Its custom
.rv advent Of hayseed fresh from bucolic
rranaries that one recognizes the signs OF
socav, but, rather. in the slowly swelling
r,onns on Rump Row, where most do
ssoneregate Messieurs les Jdmbons: Out
ot.,own companies that valiantly left lesser
,or;ous, on April 1, are sadly. slyly returning.
Managers with busy eyes are eau
,iansly making recruits for summer hy-by-
uight organizations, while the number OF
iasSn.,enns Rosalinds and Oridndos is simply
terrifying: Shakespeare In the tall grass
The next three months. After that deluge
al "reminiscences and rehearsals.
Yet there is hardly q manager In town
whose face is not broad and smiling. The
Darling OF the Gods, THE Wizard Of o.
.Ibe Earl Of Pawtucket --Laurance Dor
sav is groaning already in anticipation Of
a sizzling Fourth Of July matin6e!--The
sultan OF Sulu.' M. Blue Beard. the
Prince Of Pilsen,' There and Back.
4 Fool and His Money, Message from
into hot weather and big audiences. Next
month there will bean eflorcscenoe OF gay
summer comedies, musical and otherwise,
AMI then--roofgardens. fairy fun and
thirsty throats at midnight.
Speaking Of hot days. we hear that Emily
soldene is about to 60 on the boards again
in light opera. and under us, In Australia.
she sang, in 1870, Nerves 'Chilperic.' BY
the NUS, why not In 1902 After sojourn
in the dusty land Of newspaperdom, she
once more seeks the footlights, Her voice
is said TO be as good as 1t ever was-which
may be gospel truth.
Beerbohm Tree has made . strong pro-
test to Members of Parliament against the
proposed act regulating children's hours
bly, argues, the best Of shakespeare plays
will be excluded from the repertory Of the
theatres.
Mrs. Sugden has been playing Tho Sec
ond Mrs. Tanqueray' In the English prov
inces She relates interesting incidents Of
her audiences In Yarmouth during the
herring season. The theatre was filed
with bare-armed hshergirls, shawls on
heads, who sat entranced. Not . sound
s' 70 & heard s /. .as Which
that Yarmouth can give points In theatre
etiquette to New York.
Tomorrow marks the 7ooth perform
ance Of The Admirable Crichton' at the
Duke Of York's Theatre, and Charles Froh-
man will celebrate 1t by presenting to each
member Of the company . unique souvenir.
Il win contain extracts from the clever play
and the Henley poem (which is mentioned
in the piece) and also maps Of the castaways
island, and colored portraits Of the principal
actors and actresses.
Eleonora Duse will return here next sea-
son. She loves America. tho Americans and
Chicago. She announces that her roper
tory will not be limited to Gabrielle dan
nunzio. We shall see the fascinating artist
in -Hedda Gabler,s in Donnay's "L'Autre
Danger In a Dolls House and-hold
your breathl-as Monnd Wanna in the
Maeterlinok play. All Of which is good
news
I'm Dahomey' will DO produced at the
shaftesbury Avenue Theatre, London. In
the middle Of next month. Some one
may discover in Bert Williams the Kinetio
expression Of racial sorrow-eh. what
Florence st. John has been engaged by
Charles Frohman for the London produo-
ton OF Esmond's 'Imprudencs.
An exchange tells story about David
Garrick" performance during which the
speech mfr. David Garrick as drunk as a
fiddlerl' was saluted by gallery goblet
with sYes-put him on tho Black Last. "
Ha. hal hat But what's q Black Listf
We have heard Of Black Patti and Rub
instein in petuooats.
Sarah Bernhard. juvenile, buoyant
Sadie. IL planning another tour, this time
in Stuttgart, Munich. Dresden, Leipzig.
Hamburg and eight other cities. She Is
indeed an extraordinary creature.
In the London Era u the following In
teresting bit Of gossip:
Those ladies' and gentlemen there, are
their flesh crawl flock nightly to the Grand
Guignal and witness the performance OF N.
Andre De I.ordes o,s-act nish ,nmnG:, lie lie
ists come to b.. Goudraa's private lunatio
ssEgp There Is mol NOBODY ryr IN sns .d dHS
apartment issue dismal mOans., A tall. pale
gentleman enters. faqltiessly dressed: with
ini int h himself as The doctor, Tbs jour
raiists be Gin the interview. Their converse.
!on. however. Is intsIrnHtsdd 6y sn,isk !.
luhatic u.der treatment. He 8. In The ns r.
disappears, and the noise ceases. The jour
nalists BEGIN to feel uncomfortable. The
doctor returns, and the conversation pro;
ceets' Once more the door opens. several
Of the doci or'.. colleagues enter and sit down.
Two or three ladies nl.o make their appear
nnce and all behave In a curious manner.
Meanwhile, IL has crown dark; We hear the
patterinR OF the rain. followed by heavy
thunder clap. Then comes the catastrophe.
The lunatics, disguised az doctors and keep
ers, rush about the place, One crew. uk *, a a
tries TO climb the wall and hang. on TO the
!ooki0g glass. and when the Journalists MAKE
for the door. the mad crowd grow desperate.
and murder Il IN the air I'm this supreme
noment the keepers. who have been locked
In. come upon the scene. and the iunauce
are got under control. But once more we
this time the real one is revealed to us q
blee ling mas, and the drama H. at an END
EnRH'h tourists. who never fau 10 WISH the
Morgue. will, we are sure, derive mucn eot
isfaction from q visit to the Grand GuignaI'
A writer in an English magazine hints
that the libretto Of a Girl From Kay's-
k not unlike La Marie Recalcitrante.
by Leon Gandillot. . fav orite oomedie-
bouhe produced at the DAjaset theatre
thirteen years ago at Psrs. Fernaps
Gandillot anticipated Owen Hall
There Ia no doubt about the British ma
tonal sense OF humor. At banquet OF
the Eccentric Club, knowing Harry Ran:
dal's fondness for asparagus, the band
wsggishly played Keep on the Grassl'