Evening journal., 1903-11-07
PLAYS AND PLAYERS

Girls Will Be Girls" coming to the
Grand Opera House on Tuesday night,
has for its locale the interior and extc-
rior Of a seminary in Boston, and the
fifty or more pretty young women who
take part in it are said to be charm
ingly simple and simply charming In
dainty gowns of organdy and other
girly dresses. The musical numbers
which Joseph Hart has composed in
clude many whistleable tunes, among
them Japanese lullaby, "Moy San,'
which is sung with unique electric ef-
feet. Mr.. Brady's company is headed
by Al Leech and The Three Rosebuds,
a quartette well known here, and in
cludes Felix Haney, the original HI
Holler Of Way Down East There
are fifty-six other people, a few Of
whom will not be girls.
Charles Frohman, who owns the dra-
matte rights to Sherlock Holiness, has
protested against the use of the detec-
tives as a character in The Sign of
the Four" seen here several weeks ago.
Mr.. Frohmans lawyer threatens to ap-
ply for an injunction to prevent the ap-
pearance Of Sherlock Holmes.
The name of the play in which Annie
Russell will appear this season has
been changed from THE BY Path" to
"The Younger Mrs. Parting 1t is an
aptation from the French by Haddon
Chambers. The National Art Theatre
Society is to hold a reception. with ad-
dresses and a concert, at the Herald
Square next Sunday evening.
Miss Mary Shaw and Miss Alberta Gala
tin both Of whom are starring in Ibsen''
Ghosts" under George II. Brennan's
manaPemeut, write to New York tha.
'-hey desire to act the week preceding
Christmas during which most dramati,
companies are resting. III possible thei
wishes will be met. as the popular appre
clation Of Ghosts" continues both hn hi
Northwest where Miss Shaw is playinl
and in the Southern circuit over whicl
Miss Callatin travels.
The company supporting Howard XVI
/ in Rosemary" viii consist of Fredericl
Webber. George Castor. Henry Booker
/ Norman MqcDonald, Alfred Conibear
/ Louis Ellsner, Helen Prindeviie, Edni
Gwen and Margaret Hardy Miss Prinde
Vile. who VIII play the role assumed b.
Maude Adams I'm the original production
Is the youngest leading woman in tn
country. Mr.. Kyle's tour is managed b
George II. Brennan.
theatrical engagement of the hlghes
order of excellence will be the appear
ance at Grand Opera House on Thursda
niglnt, of Miss Viola Allen as Viola
shalSespeare's delightful comedy
Twelfth Night" The coming of Mis-
Allen 10 Wilmington Is matter for con
lgra.ulation and augurs an evening d
unahoyed enjoyment. There is no actres
before the public today who is held I
higher esteem than Miss Alien, and he
career. since becoming star" has bee
one Of the most remarkable known to th
history OF the stage. Her-success as Gior
lQuayle in "The Christian" was extraord
nary, and ehen followed two equally SUI
passing hits with In the Palace Of Ii
King" and ''The Eternal city"
Grace George is to begin her Phila
delphia run in Pretty Peggy on Nc
vember l6 At the Broad Street Theatr
early in December she goes to To
@ ionlO ana Monlieal.
Wilton Lackaye and company wi
present Claiming Poilock's dramatiza
tiOn OF Frank Norris novel, THE Pit
for tn. fret time on any stage Novem
" ber 8, al Hartford. The production
by all odds the most important of tn
season. and it viii be watched wit
= much interest.
FRITZ Scheff. who was induced h
Charles b. Dillingham; TO forsake gran
u opera for the comic opera stage, wi
= follow Henry Irving at the Broadwa
i Theatre, November 16. appearing
!. "Babette," the latest work Of VictC
d Herbert and Harry b. Smith. The ne
piece, styled a romantic comic oper
deals with the period of Louis XII
N Miss Scheff will be supported by FL
q gene Cowles William Castleman. ID
is Hawley, Josephine Bartlett Lou
~ Harrison and L. ]. Connolly.
The charcoal kiln scene in Owe
Davis new melodrama "A Gre,
ly Temptation or Down Where n
III Mississippi Flows" which is booke
r. for early appearance at the Lyceul
le Monday is novelty new to the stag
n' The set is a very spectacular one al
represents clearing IN the woods
el which are about so charcoal kilns an
r. the flames of the burning wood illun
Is mate a setting Of surprising Lowell
ness.
ne To Little Canyon" a mining can
~ in California I'm the famous golden dal
Oh Of 1870, came Lord Sterling, (Charli,
an English nobleman. How he m
and fell in love with Nell" the wal
- Of the rough, but tender hearted mine
o. who inhabited the canyon, Is dellgh
X fully told by Gwen Davis in his ne
ie western melodrama "The Road
Frisco which Davis & Darcy W
1e WILL FILL UP L0WLANDS
/, Government Will Improve Prevailir