New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-31
NOTES OF THE STAGE.
Selecting Children for Plays-Neso
Plays- Fishes Plans.

The process OF selecting children for parts In
play is altogether the most haphazard. amusing
and half pathetic feature OF a new production.
The first thing to be done is tell Mrs Taliaferro
how many children wanted. and then send your
stage manager around to her Offices IN Fortieth-st
He win ind that she has gathered In army OF
youngsters. enough to equip twenty plays Mrs
TaliafeTro has already dedicated her own brood 20
the stage, and she exercises netherly care
this little host OF unrelated aspirants Confronted
by such an array of babbng possibilities. the stage
manager sits down helplessly but Mrs. Taliaferro
cheeriIy says. What do you want frst?'
The other afternoon the stage manager for Ideb-
Ter Co.'S coming production of Mrs. Wigs OF
the Cabbage Patch sat down before the noisy as
semhage
I want boy OF 1--WE. to play Tommy" said he
Mrs. TaliafeTro dived into the crowd, and pres
entity emerged with small boy. fat of face blond
WHAT'S Your na ~ ersss ss Ia zen fSaG s low
M4am sd Burjon James piped up the youth
stage can You recite anything SSs@su the
Why not said the stage manager
ma 7o12a leIt my voice IN Far Rockaway with my
Won't do. said s the ma1 i've cot 70 hear xo
In your part before Friday"
But IN get it back sure by Friday" said VIII
"Engage him Numbered the stage manager over
Two little girls Of eight and ter. years were next
tfhro5ng William meanwhile being set aside for
one little girl. when asked if she had ever been
on the stage replied, = never have been, but
sional engagement st another recited FliBy
but with Julia Mar1owe politeness, long list OF
that TIA it served as recommendation quite equal 10
Disappointed ones bore their grief Bravey and VENT
silently OF with their mothers alone But not
There was before them ali the only prospect, ap-
Parently the only desire: of stage career. Down
South this is called child labor.
George AIDES first adventure into legitimate
drama will be made in Chicago tonight. with
MaelyH Arbueke in the leading part. Henry W.
savage will manage the production, one of his rare
ventures as a manager outside the field OF English
grand opera and musical comedy The play is
phase of rural life in the Middle West familiar TO
AIDE from his boyhood days.
Tonight in Grand Rapids. Louis James and
Frederick Warde, will depart from their Shakes
pearan repertoire of recent years. and appear for
the first time in a new play by Rupert Hughs and
Collin Kemper. based on the life of Alexander the
Great The scenes are laid in Macedonia. Egypt,
on a peak in India and finally IN Babylon. Grand
Rapids will at least be instructed in geography.
In this column yesterday Miss Fay Davis was re-
ferred to English actress. This. of is
q mistake She is a graduate of an amateur dra-
as most Of her professional stage career has been
passed in Great Britain
Mrs. Fiske will begin her short fall season at
the Manhattan Theatre on September II. with
regular performances Of Mary of Magdala." She
will however, give several performances of Ibsens
Hedda Gabler,' play that has received only few
Bates being the previous interpreters of the strange
ly fascinating. detestabe Hedda. Mrs. Fiske. how
ever IS not new to IbSen; her performances of "A
Dolls House have been an occasional feature of
Oh Hedda Gabler" will begin about October 1.
Charles Frohman has purchased the English and
colonial rights TO His wife's Husbands"
The Peggy from Paris" company viii close in
Portland, Ne. next week. and come to New-York
on a steamer that Mr.. Savage has chartered for
them thus getting q rest and sea voyage before
they open Wallacks Theatre on September 10. The
than the last when it was first produced last win
ter Since then, especially in its long summer run
up, as they say In stage slang 1t is going to be
an interesting thing TO see next week whether this
or better action. more Conference OF plot. grea er
| all painfully similar friIls of management which
have been TOO long the mainstay OF American mu-
| sical comedy. If SIr. AIDE has done the bracing
the Stage manager has done If eggT II oubt
less become at least appreciably like her myriad
predecessors.
! Tonight James T. Powers will appear at the
Broadway Theatre in the English musical play. "A
| ward German revised and somewhat altered for
| he American stage.
| It is a thrilling moment in "The Evil Men Do
! when the mother appears in the burning belfry
where the celestial choir boy is confined sezes him
in .T her arms. and leaps out
! Saturday. w 90 MS 'i0' On
! Into space: into space" repIied the n,araeAr
! Didn't We suggest that spenddIy though
THE WEATHER REPORT.