New-York tribune., 1903-05-11
NOTES OF THE ST4GE.
Mrs. Ward to Write Play for Mss
Robson, Aided by Louis n. Parker.

Robson, aided by Louis n. Parker.
Liebler & Co announce that they viii aSain
present Miss Eleanor Robson as a star next sea
son. but 1t will not be IN a dramadzed novel this
time Henri Battalle. the well known french
dramatist and sdmirer of Tolstoy, who made the
original stage version of Resurrection has been
engaged for months play for Miss Hob-
son. called La yalliere,'' play built about the
devotion of Louise for Louis XIV. Tne scenario
of this play has already been accepted by MI
Tyler. and the completed book will be reaoy i ioG
his inspection in June But anoinSr pIty & = w. >ai
in preparation the work OF Mrs Humphtty, "aTd ara
and Louis N Parker Agatha IS us M fi'Ig ToV ,,Ii
This play has also been accepted and will De reaGy
read both he will decide which Miss Robson wall
appear in next fall Edwin Arden %n9 bd S1e Tas m m
the present season, has been signed as MISS foo-
sons leading man
Ben Greet who has become familiar in American
theatrical circles this winter by his fine prooucuoh
of 'Everyman' has entered into a series OF lucra-
tive with various universities ana coheeeS
of the East to present plays in the open at the
various college grounds this spring beginning AT
Princeton on the afternoon and evening OF May 8
Twelfth Night" AS You Like Ii. A Coined!
of Errors and Ben Jonson's Sad shepherd are
the plays he will give with his "Everyman com
pany as the cast. Mr.. Greet has corniorta0le
guarantee from every university and coiiese "he'e
he is to appear and as he carries no scenery; pays
agency his prohts promise to oe snus. 1,tca+,r
Two performances Will De given at
on the lawn Just south of the presidents house:
At Harvard four performances are scheduIeu. III ~
Sever Hall. There will also be perfor nances , az
Wellesley, Yale, Smith, Brown Bryn Nv ,roy+a
ottawa and McCiiII. Mr.. Greet calls his company,
% ~neh f Oh suCn scenm arch The Woodland Play
ers'' pretty name that should play us par 4tn III
srounds Tea1its about abe t''ii WeiiesIey cr,.r
ItEvery!nan'' closes its season at the GaTden
Theatre next Saturday night. completing RECORD
of about hundred performances IN tnlS JI1y Inr
d Mr G reet nas @d moraty play next year that
will cover much of the West. as yet unvisted' ana ana
enthusiastically received this season IL VIII ho'
IN am NJ forced to admit" Mr. Greet said the other
day that when takes into account tne 49,
InteIlige1t people here Everyman not rela-
lively well received in this city as IN IN SelTr Sa
cities: not well received as II should nav . 80
Boston quickest TO see its literary ana ms ms
o9di@ enough after Chicago had discovered what
il is city more eager to witness lie peI-
Some one asked Mr.. Greet if he couldn't make make
# possible forsake his own country for tllne @
and present in America for number or seasons
his pastoral plays and his old style productIons o.
worth my while was his answer As an artist ]
have no country; or. better, that IS my coun'rS
which wants and appreciates my art
The announcement that a theatrical manager mas
moved his office from building 10 anotner can
hardly be expected TO set public Interest a-uPioe'
but Colonel Savage's exodus from the Knckeroock-
or Theatre Building up the old house numbered
IA West Forty-thrd-st is not without curious n
terest none the less. With king Dodo Ihe sui
tan of Suu' The Prince OF P1isen MS fhsi9ii
Opera Company and several new productions on hs
hands with the consequent incessant blond parade
of aspiring soubrettes Mr Savage found his former
offices nadequate. he got hold or an olo houSe'
fixed it up to suit his purposes, and moved III
And here is where the story begins TO dlnerenale-
No signs were hung out. no elevator lnstaHeu ITO
elaborate decorations plastered on the walls III
stead the old starcases were left as the only y
means ii III I9in raTtridge papers were hung; above
the oid-fashiOGed marDe HrepIaCes alu ~ lons
too faithfully allowed TO stand @ LOT 'ne , T he
OF their gilt frames Even me ne 1iaSted in the
centre so that the bill posters can stand IN p!1S
Of new Iithograph pasted UP for trial on the rear
wall of neighborly Forty-seto2Ilc- 81, aTd
a smbdued mellow light into the hGmehse
Tbe second and top of the building have
been converted into single large rooms, ms, win WIN
music tried and all candidates put through .ts Iner
PAGES for the irrelevant sounds TT IToTn tnes
where ~The Atlantic Monthly is evolved az ieast.
oestinn should not come hard. And. indeed. there
really is some such subtle suggestion in the whole
att; 5 fb %ndow vi tS so much SO that George kings
bury. Mr. Savages Inahager was sISr dr99ns,sd
in. Just moment, said MI. kingsoury' oeckoh-
Heavens said the caller, are you lmltatins
And little later Frank MouIan. wandered in.
suppressed jest in the presence OF the ~ fb
music room, where. he was soon heard singing
Shuhert softly
singer named Miss Edith Helena will appear
at Keths this week. She is said to reach tie
highest note ever attained by the human voice Iar
outdoing the famous soprano, Sister Mary Jane.
She initiates a violin. meanwhile going through
the durnt, motions of PLAYING one. so that the
audience a. first suppOses 1T is the fiddle they hear
sfqE sin ebs sa% 6 ts n'0 ren Ra9hss SfT ean 70
use a lasso with great skil Perhaps that i 10"
she got the top note
The twenty-second annual meeting Of the Actors
Fund of America will re held AT the Savoy 1heaue
next Tuesday afternoon
" an intery4ew published in "The Pail Mall
Gazette" Sardou. after bidding his caller 10 ny
m he serious. since he was not FreIchnfH
ostod why there should be- an international
theatre '.Why should playwright be Obliged 20
write exclusively for the stage of his own coOit
try,a-, be asked. Tt will not always be So the
..ssftv * ceasing to exist. and it viii soon cease
- ,s, entirely Art has fears OF sea
sickness Then after a remark about his Dante
which Irving has produced first on the English
stage he continued;
OF course French writer's. and French writer's
S,ar 9IitSr " Italsns Germans Norweglans-yes. and
the greatt sadeTnann 81 5n9n a aDd D rbseR IN nv
minds eye speak-fhaye no. the nasse art P OF
Writing is French characteristic ana the others
They err In stdgecrdrI ever
an an - ther,t~- They are too long in some places
and too short in others. and lack the explanatory
ta,Scbee At The proper moment which the perfect
49, T,Dsf haVe This doesn't mean that English
tseTgman and Italian playwrGhts should not write
Ya,-. 70 france for FrenchmeH make point Of
adnirng everything exotic. just because u is ex-
otIe Fyerv foreign play is masterpiece 10 French
r.ar whether they go and IL not
r. H. nv arm conviction that when free trade IN
= bound become. a recOR-
s,izsd tenet OF the theatre. when Germany is writ
ino nIavs for Spain and Holland for Germany
Paris will be the Pnero of the world