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entertainment, he will continue 1t later
than he did last year.
1t is plain even now that there will
be an unusual number of foreign novel
ties imported Minstrelsy will part with
one of its brightest lights, George Prim-
rose, of Dockstader and Primrose, who
has yielded to tempting vaudeville in
ducements. George Wilson. he Of
waltz me-again" fame, will be back in
the twice-a-day harness, and polite
vaudeville gains once more one of its
most popular monoIoguists. Lew Sully,
also, will remain in the vaudeville ranks,
although the Dockstader forces hoped
10 capture him for the invasion of the
high priced theaters contemplated by
KlaW & Erlanger with the versatile Lew
d. Indeed, with Kendall still in comedy
and counting all the other minor min
strel celebrities that have been lured
away from the eye OF the interlocutor,
polite vaudeville has played havoc with
the minstrel market, and there will have
to be d new supply of black-face talent
pretty soon, as end men are now nearly
as scarce as the proverbial hens teeth.
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Margaret Anglin will star in Lady
Roses Daughter" w II. Crane expects
to play the leading part in THE Spend
ers." Wilton Lackaye is reading the
dramatized copy of THE Pit" Richard
Harding Davis has tempted Charles
Frohman with a dramatic version OF
"Ransom's Folly" Kyrle Bellew will
forsake his Romeo and pose as "The
Amateur Craftsman" who is none other
than the fascinating Rallies. and then
there will be dramatiZations of Winston
ChurchiITs The Celebrity" Louis Evan
Shipman's John Ermine OF the Yellow
stone" Onoto Watannas "A japanese
Nightingale" and Miss Petticoats. -
Clyde Fitch has thought well of Dickens
dramatic touch and will draw a charac-
ter from the 'Old Curiosity Shop" for
Mile James. Then there will be Madge
Leasing In Uncle Dan1." an adaptation
of David Copperfield." and what with
big revivals OF THE Christian" and ''Ths
Cavalier" and other such productions.
the author seems to have in prosoec-
his share of stage interest.
The novel will hold it's place before
the footlights until the playwrights be-
come actively able to provide plays for
all players. And even then managers
would find II hard to resist the adyer-
Using bait in a 100. 900 sale.
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Coming to the TheatelS.
Academy-"The King of Detectives"

Academy-"The King of Detectives"
The story of James Pierce, detective.
and Mildred Woodruff, beautiful young
heiress, forms the background of the
melodrama, The King of Detectives, &"
which opens a weeks engagement at
the Academy tomorrow night. Readers
Of fiction like heroes who do things.
Men who fight and win against great
odds-heroes who have brains, as well
as muscle-who possess the ability to
oxtricate not only themselves, but unfor-
tunate heroines as well, from positions
Of danger. II is this faculty, attributed
TO the heroes OF their novels, that have
made GabOriau. De Maupassant, and DR..
\. Conan boyle so popular with the
great reading public. Their great de-
tectlve stories have been read and ap-
plaudcd by thousands, and the dramati-
cations of their heroes have proven .
financial success in almost every in
stance.
1t was with a realization of this fact
that Theodore Kremer wrote The King
Of Detectives a thrilling melodrama
in which the hero, James Pierce, solves
dangerous problems and defeats the
Vaccinations of a band of criminals Of
desperate character in a plainly proba-
bic and still sensationalIy heroic man
ner. The story which Mr. Kremer has
woven into his play is said to be exceed
ingly interesting, not only as a dramatic
Offering. but because of the logical man
ner in which he works out the situa-
tiOns to a sensible and yet dramatic eli
max. The fault with most stage heroes
lies in the fact that they are placed in
highly improbable situations and are
forced by the author TO extricate them
selves IL ways that would be entirely
beyond the possibilities in real life. In
The King OF Detectives" Mr.. Kremer
has introduced many novel and sensa-
tional incidents and situations, but each
one is thought out on the line of com
mon sense. and the actions of Pierce,
the detective, and leading character in
the play, are within the bounds of rea-
son. while still possessing dramatic val
ne of more than ordinary merit.
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Irving in America.
Will Open New York Engagement With
'Sardou's Dante"

Sir Henry Irving has hidden farewell
to London, where he will not be seen
again professionally for more than a
year. His season at Drury Lane with
Dante" is said to have been phenome-
nally successful, and he is so convinced
OF the drawing power of the piece that
he will bring no other to America.
Everybody will be glad to hear of his
good fortune, but his warmest admirers
could wish that he had found Il in a
play more worthy of his great abilities
and reputation
Dante" will be presented in New
York on the Goth of October, with most
of the original London company. Il is
10 be noted. however, that Lena Ash
well. an actress OF frst-class ability,
will be replaced by Miss Nora Lancas-
ter. whose professional standing is far
less eminent
But, after all. this is not likely to
make much difference Great ability
would be thrown away probably upon
any of the minor characters OF a play
written expressly for the glorifcation of
a star. No one knows better than Sar-
dou how to confer upon a stage hero, or
heroine, monopoly Of opportunities
Fortunately, Sir Henry Irving is equally
skillfuI in making the most of any the
atrical opportunity that may be offered
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Prospective Bills at ChaSe'S.

Chase's Theater will not open this
year until September II. Mr.. Chase's rep
resentatives excuse the delay by point
ing to the improvements that are being
made now with all the haste possible by
a large force OF workmen. To accom-
plish all that was set before them they
will not have a moment to spare until
the curtain rises according TO schedule
Last year Chase's opened September
8, and the year before that il was 10
have been in operation about the same
time, but there was a postponement Of
week owing 10 the obsequies of Presi-
dent Mckinley. The second week In the
first oyster" or 'r'' month is, however,
generally the period for the beginning
Of amusement operations. AS the Chase
patrons manifested extraordinary fond
ness for a straight polite vaudeville
menu last season, Mr.. Chase purposes
anticipating the same want the coming
season. and starting with that form of
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as a somewhat uncertain quantity. He
will be welcome, however, if he comes.
Mr.. Frohman has also engaged a
French company to support Madame
Wiehe, a performer who was born in
Copenhagen. and began her stage career
there as a dancer. She soon abandoned
the ballet for oPeretta. winning success
in such pieces as ''Nitouche," La Mas
cote" Miss HeIyett, Les Cloches de
COrneville, lie Mikado,' etc, and then
proceeded to "Frou-F rou,'' ''Musette,'
etc. Next she essayed pantomime in
''L'Enfant Prologue" She first appeared
in Paris in 1900 and made a hit in a
mimodrama called La Main" written
by her husband. She is still quite
young.
Mr.. Frohman also controls. as pre-
viously announced, Sardou's new Bern
hardt piece, The Sorceress;" Grain
quebille." and new pieces by Henri Ba-
taille and Henri Lavedan, all of which,
presumably. are to be done into English.
Maude Adams Play.
Maude Adams reached New York Mon
day. and at the Empire Theater settled
with Mr.. Frohman her plans for the
coming season. She has accepted a new
play by Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett,
called THE Pretty Sister of JOSE
which has just been completed. The
play is in four acts and FIVE scenes. Ali
of these are laid in old Spain and are
said to be picturesque and full of color.
Miss Adams New York season will fol-
low that of John Drew at the New EN-
pire Theater. Her season will begin in
October, either at Chicago or Detroit.
Miss Adams viii devote this week to
planning for the new play. and previous
to rehearsals she will visit friends in
Colorado
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The Key to "Don Quixote."

AS the greatest narrator in modern
prose is Gustave Flaubert so Richard
Strauss is the greatest of musical nara
tors. There is no longer any question
OF form in the classic sense; every
music symbol and device hitherto
known in the art Of music is utilized and
re-enfOrced by the invention Of mum
berless methods for driving home to the
Imagination the old world tale OF Don
Quixote and his squire.
It may be objected here that the story
Of Cervantes should suffice without any
OF the sonOrous calculations Of this com
poser. Very true. But Strauss only
uses Don Quixote as he uses Zarathustra
or Don Juan. as a type of something that
may be discovered in all humanity.
Zarathustra symbolizes the new being.
the over Man, who is as superior 20 nor
NAL man as normal man is superior to
the ape; Don Juan is the eternal lover
Of woman and yet capable Of the great
remuneration. as was the real Don Juan.
Don QuiNote is the perfect type Of the
dreamer whose day-dreams are a bridge
into the strange parti-colored land OF
--4t---A4S@-+ NJ may Dt the LAi4lElI OF Ger
yantes or our next door neighbor. More
terrible stil, he may be our true self.
masked by the dull garb Of lies quoti-
dian struggle for bread. And to offset
the fantasy of the Knight we have the
homely wisdom Of Saacho Pauza who.
having barked his shins as well as
warmed them at the CRATE Of life. al
ways speaks by the card. A sensible
fool, he IS not understood by The foolish
sensitlyist, the poet who looks aIcft and
therefore misses the prizes dear 10 most
Ot men.
Why is not this a theme III for must
cal treatment? 1t has every element
dear TO the heart OF The poetic composer
fantasy, poetry, broad. obvious hunor
realism, nobility Of idea and an almost
infinite number Of surfaces fl for h
loving brush Of a master painter. Then
there is the psychology. Don Quixotc
half mad. chivairic withal. must be de-
picted; as a counterfeit the obese hui
mors OF Sancho Panza are ready for
treatment. After subjecting this pair 10
the minute musical scrutiny, their voy-
ages and adventures must be duly set
forth.
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Among Irish Relatives.
Mabel Taliaferro's Delightful Visit to
Erin's Lake District.

Mabel Taliaferro, who sailed for Eu-
rope on the Campania the latter part
of June in company with her GRANDPA
Their, Richard BarriscaIe. for the ex-
press purpose of making a tour of the
lake district OF Ireland, has been the
recipient of much attention there, her
fame as an artistic, and especially of her
representations of Gaelic roles, having
preceded her.
She was for some days a guest at Bal
lydonelan Castle. Loughrea, the delight
full home of James Byrne, Esq, of New
York, of the law firm of HornbIower,
Byrne, Hitler & Potter, of "a Broad
Street. whose family resides at beauti-
full BalIydoneIan Castle.
Mr. Byrne is one of the founders of
the Irish Literary Society Of New York,
and when Miss Mabel impersonated the
"FaeTy' before the society in the Will
liam Butler Yeats symbolical sketch,
THE Land OF Hearts Desire" MI.
Byrne was so delighted with Miss Ma
bells impersOnation that he urged her
to make a visit TO Ireland, and while
LAttlt W pay DdtA IoAiNAah 1fAoAAt a FiSiN.
Miss TaliaferrO has relatives in Cork
Barriscale & Co., members OF a whole
sale jewelry firm there. who made her
stay delightful, and Mr.. -Byrne's cas-
tie adjoins Coole Park. the castle OF
Lady Gregory. who is the sister of Mr..
Yeats. and with whom he makes his
home. Therefore Mr.. Yeats and Lady
Gregory called upon Miss Mabel and en-
tertained her at Lady Gregory's home.
and through them, and through Mr..
Byrne and her own relatives in Cork,
she has been able to pass the most of
her time at the delightful homes of the
nobility and the landed gentry of that
portion OF Ireland. and to experience a
taste of true Irish hospitality, OF the
marvellous open-handed and open-heart-
edness of which she had never dreamed.
Concluding her visit to Ireland. Miss
Mabel and her grandfather viii spend
a brief time in the south Of France, in
which portion of the continent Mr.. Bar
rIscaIe has some special interest. Miss
Mabel has sent home a number of small
photos she had taken. showing interior
and exterior views of Ballydouelan Cas-
tie
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CisSie or Cecilia e?
A Nice Problem Aroused by Miss Loft
tuS' Return to Vaudeville.

A pretty problem has arisen by rea-
son of the return of Miss Lotus to
vaudeville. Is she Cecilia" or "Cissie?''
Long before the actress ventured to
play Ophelia she was known as the win
some little "Cissie," but the response
bility of heavier parts than mimicry
brought a change from "Cissie" TO
Cecilia"
1t may be that Miss LOTUS will regret
accepting the offer of 50. 600 for a week
in vaudeville. in the Masonic Roof Gar
den, Chicago. Those who long ago ad
mired her in vaudeville would not be
expected to know her now as Cecilia, /"
hence it is wondered here if the actress
has cast aside her dignity and Cecilia
for seven days and appeared, as OF
yore. as the gay and careless "Cissie. -
Evidently there is only one course
open to her: but what is TO follow Miss
Lotus when she returns to share real
dramatic honor with Sothern? Surely
not "Cissie." And yet are names to be
picked up and cast aside at pleasure?
Miss LOTUS gave the public puzzle
before. For long the wonder was what
would become of Justin Huntly Nc
Carthy, but in time he was lost in the
musty files of the divorce courts. Il
was thought "Cissie" had been lost in
the whirl of vaudeville; but evidently
not. -Cissie" still is with US. and many
will be rejoiced. There was a charm
about "Cissie" that some have said does
not appear in Cecilia"
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IhOught-Not Grammar.

1t is evident that here we are con-
fTonted by difficulties before which the
old rubrics Of the art must succumb. II
Is no longer question Of mere must
clanship. Form is thing Of the gram
marians. 10 be discussed behind closed
doors by asthmatic persons who believe
In musty cOunterpOints and the rules OF
the game. y great vital imagination. de-
flying alike gods and men and capable
OF shaping his dreams. a man OF humor.
malice. irony, above all else irony. ten
derness. pity, and the marrow OF life.
love-all these qualities plus an Internal
or celestial, If you like the word bet
ter-science must the composer Of Z
Don Quixote possess.
Strauss has only begun. A master
stylist, a realist in his treatment OF his
orchestral hosts. a psychologist among
psychologists, a master Of new and
generous culture. a thinker. above all an
interpreter Of poetic and heroic types OF
humanity, who shall say to him: Dare
10 further! His audacity is only
equaled by his mental serenity. In al
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Strauss the Genius.
The Emperor of Instrument
taliStS and the Greatest of
Musical NarTatOTS-"DO
QuiXote" and Other Tone
Poems.

II YER since Anton Rubinstein ut
tered his famous and oft-quoted
remark that the music-loving
population of England amounted to near
ly per cent, the inhabitants of the
muggy isle have endeavored to prove the
Russian composer wrong. Messiah"
worship still prevails; but it would ap-
pear that the great pervading influences
of Handel and Mendelssohn are slowly
subsiding. Other composers are toler-
ated; Schumann is admired. Bach veneer
ated; and in the metropolis the name of
Richard Wagner known.
More remarkable still, London can
boast of enjoying a Straussiad. With
Richard Strauss blazoned on her musical
banners she cOmDels New York to re-
spectful silence in the matter of must
cal enterprise until the next spring: and
then. with Strauss conducting. we shall
have listened to the music of the Ba-
varian composer for exactly twenty
years.
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Criticism in Paradox.
Max Beerbohm's Definition of Faithful
Translation.

Max Beerbohm. in the London Sat
urday Review" discourses upon the
translation of foreign plays rAto English
and makes some shrewd remarks. He
says, among other things;
THE prime aim of translator should
be TO make his play sound like an orig
inal play To 10 this is the best form
Of reverent fidelity that he can pay TO
the original writer. Fidelity to the ex-
act words or cadence of the original
phrases must inevitably preclude adel-
ity to the whole work. Nay, there are
many cases in which a perfectly lido
matte English equivalent sounds unnat-
uraI. being not the kind of thing which
would naturally be said by the character
into whose mouth il is put
cit might be said, paradoxieaily, that
the further a translator goes from his
original the nearer he comes to IL. OF
course, for purposes of minute study, it
is interesting to know the exact phrases,
used by Ibsen or another-the exact
means whereby he, writing in his own
language for his own comDatriots. gain
ed his effects.
BY all means let us have infinitely
faithful TRANSACTIONS; but only on our
shelves, not in our theaters-"
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Lyceum-"Utopian Burlesquers."

Commencing Monday matinee, August
10, the Utopian Burlesquers will reopen
the Lyceum Theater. The performance
begins with a musical farce, entitled
Cabaret Du Lion" In the ollo are
Nice and Coy, THE Louisiana Girls: "
McRae and Wyatt. in "A Jack and Jill: 80
an innovation presented By a company
Of players, headed by the popular actor.
George b. Alexander; Joe Madden and
John ". Jess, in a talking act; EN-
monds, Emmerson, and Emmonds, tour
lists; George H. Diamond, baritone f:
Belle Harvey, burlesquer. The progam
concludes with a satire Hotel Ups and
Downs"
Thursday night. August Il, a special
midnight performance will be given
where news of the Jenries- Corbett fight
will be received by a special wire from
the ring side.
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A New View of Music.

1t was in 1884 Theodore Thomas per-
formed for the first time anywhere the
F minor symphony. the work OF a young
student of music in Munich. 1t is marked
opus u, and might have been written in
the pre-Lisztian days. so naively uncon-
scious is it of modern emotion. modern
thought. Strauss had not yet been in
vited to taste the musical apples of wis
dom so sedulously grown by Berlioz and
List.
He met Alexander Ritter at Weimar
and new world was opened to his ar
dent gaze. Henceforth the empty Jug
Cling with classic forms could no longer
interest him. Aus Italien" Cop. 16) was
the first fruit of this intercourse. and
while it is divided into movements and
is more descriptive than reflective, its
trend is unmistakable.
Henceforth Richard Strauss was 10 he
the standard bearer of the new in music
Although his violin sonata COP. 49, came
after the Italia" il might have been
written in 1850 or whereabouts. so re-
specially does it cling to outmoded con-
Ventions of form, Of feeling. According
". 1t has been overprafsed for its sanity
as If saneness and music had much in
common!
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A Student of the Orchestra.

After trying his prentice hand at the
classic forms. Strauss saw in the or
chestra a chance for his peculiar gifts.
though he was not satisfied before. he.
too, wrote a music drama and discovered
that in his domain Wagner was practi-
cally napprOachable. '-Guntram" Is a
genial" work. not significant one.
Nor. aside from It's beautiful orchestral
setting, has "Feuersnot" much 70 rec
ommend II on the eide OF originality.
In "GUntram" Strauss has followed the
Wagner Of "Lohengrln" and -'ParsifaI''
In legend and treatment; in ''FeuersnOt''
IT IS the homelier ''Afeistersinger" with
an added touch OF the archaic-Iabored
and artificial IN the Won Wolzogen book
that Strauss shows.
But with the orchestra solo-in his
music it Is one yet many Instruments
he is the emperor Of instrumentaliats. the
true artistic son Of Bcrlioz and List,
more fantastic than Berlioz because Of
greater imagination, more daring than
List because List preceded him. In his
psychologist exploitation OF certain char
acters in poetry, philosophy and fiction
Strauss patterns after List, though he
probes deeper, thinks wider, has a big
ger command Of his tools, and is more
OF a reallst.
ia effect. Richard Strauss is the first
OF a great school Of psychological real
lists ! have compared him elsewhere
10 Flaubert IN his searching analysis.
fearlessness Of problem. no matter how
ugly or painful; and 10 these qualities
there is allied a superb color sense and
4 technique that has no parallel in art.
You may observe that / have until
now avoided this misunderstood word
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o. GOSSIP OF THE DRAMA FROM MANY POINTS OF VIEW *p

particularly suited to the part of Queen
Elizabeth. Paul Kester. who has just
finished the dTamatization OF the book.
has made Queen Elizabeth a strong char
acter in the play, giving many opportu-
mites that have not been given this his
toricaI character in other plays Miss
Robson has made a careful study of the
part and a strong characterization OF the
Queen Is promised.
Miss GaIland viii have an exception
ally strong supporting company. She
will begin her season at the Chestnut
Street Opera House in Philadelphia, on
September o.
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The End Is Not Yet.
No Sign That the Dramatized Novel Is
About to Die.


Daniel Frohman IS the latest pro-
moter to Kill off the novel play. For
years the end OF the dramatized novel
has been predicted, and despite Mr.
Frohman's opinion there are signs
that the end is as far off as ever be-
fore.
A look over the list of attractions
for the coming season proves this
Not a few managers assert drama
tized novels will prove to be the most
interesting plays Of the year. OF course
this opinion may be Influenced by self
interest, but nevertheless there is
truth in it, Promoters are in bust
ness to make money, and much as they
may talk about their artistic intent,
as long as novel plays bring satisfac
tory returns the author will get ~oyal-
ties from the box office.
The stage owes much to the novelist.
without the novelist last season there
would have been a serious lack of plays
for the metropolitan theaters. Indeed
as the season grew longer good plays
grew less, until in the late spring
| there were no productions of merit to
! take the place of departing successes
| Perhaps Mr.. Frohman's view is based
upon comparison Of the dramatizcd
novels of today, with those of yester-
day. East Lynne" Uncle Toms Cab
! in" and THE Forgemaster" seem to
dwarf the productions present play-go-
ers have seen. and might possibly lead
| to the belief that authors should tc
driven out of the playwrights raser,
walton.
However that may be, the list of books
dramatized for our entertainment mex
| winter IS long.
Forbes Robertson will be seen in ''Th'
| Light That Failed" Orrin Johnson Is re
hearsing with a large company il
Hearts Courageous" Mabel Taliaferr,
viii play the part of LOvey Mary il
! Mrs. Wigs OF the Cabbage Patch.