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4.Sfisfetty Peggy, IN which Miss Grace
George is starring, will come into New
York for a run, opening on March 80.
Negotiations have just been completed
for a London production in the spring.
Mr.. Henry E. Dixey will star under
the management of Miss Amelia Bing-
ham4an Mr.. Clyde Fitch's play, The
Last of the Dandies." which is booked
for a Broadway theater about March
8. Mr.. Fitch will stage the play.
Stuart Robson, who is starring in
THE Comedy of Errors" plans to
make the present season his last in
Shakespearean comedy, or in any of
the other plays with which his name
has been closely associated during his
forty-Odd years on the stage. Mr..
Robson has become a rich man
through his profession, is now reputeI
to be worth more than $1,000, 900, and,
according to Daniel V. Arthur, his ma
ager, intends to devote the rest of his
years on the stage to the creation Of
absolutely new parts.
At the New York Bijou theater Mon
day evening, Jan. II, Charles F'rohman
presented a new play by Clyde Fitch,
entitled The Bird in the Cage" 1t is
in four acts and in it Mr.. Fitch, with
his usual dizziness and brilliancy, de-
pictS scenes and incidents that have
the charm of novelty. The story is that
Of an attractive young girl employed
in the home of Philip Loring, a paper
manufacturer, and who loyes the fac
tory foreman, becomes the bird N
the cage" after being lured into meet
ing BERTHE, the frivolous son of the
house, in the smoking room after the
other folks have retired. Discovery
leads to complications which look
ominous for a while, but everything
comes out right in the end. Mr. Ed
EWard EtaTrigan, who has not been seen
on a Broadway stage for seven years,
made his temperance in this comedy.
The entire cast is an exceptionally
competent one, and all deserve men
ton for their artistic work. 1t includes
Guy. Gates Post. Arnold DAILY, Grace
Henderson, Jennie Satterly, Sandol
Milliken and Charles Mackay.
Paul Wilstach is writing a play for
Adelaide Thurston, which she will pre-
sent next season. 1t is entitled Polly
Primrose" The drama will have a
Southern atmosphere.
Klaw & Changers production of the
| Drury Lane spectacle, Mr.. Blue
Beard" will receive it's premiere at
| the Knickerbocker theater, in New
Il,
| 21st inst. This. extravaganza. will be
staged in fifteen massive scenes. in
| one of which seven complete changes
will be made in presenting the gor
geous ballet. 1.-THE Triumph of the
| Magic Fan" During the performance
| fully 1000 costumes will be worn by
J the company of over 400 principals.
! chorus and ballet. There will be two
! great balIets, The Land Of Ferns"
| and "The Triumph of the Magic Fan"
| In each of these 250 people will appear.
In the latter ballet the evolution of
| the fan will be pictorily presented from
| it's first inception by the Egyptians
| down to the present day. In this fea-
| ture a new troupe of Grigolatis will be
seen in an act entirely different from
! that shown by the aerialists in The
Sleeping Beauty and the Beast" The
| ballet of the fans will more than equal
the ballet Of ''The Four Seasons"
which attracted SO much attention in
the DFury Lane spectacle Of last sea-
son, both in romantic interest of the
subject treated and in the extraordi-
tnarily artistic beauty of the costuming.
Many of the dresses worn in this fea-
ture are hand embroidered. In re-
spect to costuming, "Mr. Blue Beard"