The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-03

The Theater Magazine for August contains much interesting reading mat ter and the usual abundance of striking pictures. J. Redfern Mason contributes well-written estimate of the English actor, Forbes Robertson, who is about to visit America, and this is illustrated with number of fine portraits. There is a full account of the new French play, Business is Business < which has made sensation in Paris, and Henry 'The Holy City" which is to be one of the features of the coming theatrical season. A description of Henrietta Crosman's Summer retreat in New Hampshire is given in a characteristic interview with that actress, and yete- ran manager describes humorously the days when the drama thrived on the waters of the Erie canal. There are views of New York's beautiful new playhouses, the New Lyceum, the New Amsterdam. etc., etc, together with a written description of these modern temples of Thesps and E. A. Bingham gives an interesting account of Eiitch's Gardens, paradise for the players sit- uated in Denver. A. E. Lancaster, the dramatist, denounces the custom com- mon among managers of putting a play in rehearsal without first reading it to the actors, and Lionel Strachey, in a caustically written article, condemns certain recent plays as fagrantly im- ;y,o ol,,la t1l colored portrait of Miss Blanche Ring in, character Con the cover), full-page plate of Miss Ada Rehan as Lady Tea gle, part she will play this coming season, and large portrait of Mile. Ac- kie, the dramatic soprano of the Paris Opera House whom Mir. Conried has en-
 gagged for America. There are also striking portraits of Orrin Johnson. the well-known leading man who will star this season in Hearts Courageous" Martin Harvey as Napoleon, Sarah Duncan, whose classic barefoot dan- cling has created stir in Berlin and Paris, John Craig, Edward Harrigan, Vesta lilly Olive Ulrich, Iva Merlyn, J. E. Dodson, Edna Aug. Madge Carr Cooke, Mabel Taliaferro and many others. t' 4 e~
 The frontispiece Of McClure's delec- table August fiction number is alone quite worth the price of the magazine. It is drawing by Jessie Wilcox Smith, reproduced in four colors, showing lit- tie boy dressed in sailor suit, with bare legs, sitting alone in the family pew at church, with lot of sleepy worldly-faced grown-ups in the pews behind him, himself wide-awake, vide eyed and intent, his hands crossed in his lap, his feet hanging just off the hassack, and forgetting for once to fid- get as he discovers that .'the minister thought just as he did about a great many things" The picture illustrates a charming little story by May Kelsey Champion, called "The Method of Charles Stuart York;" illustrated by other beautifully reproduced drawings by the same artist. ,
 Outing for August is a mid-cummer number. The breath of the woods is in the opening article and pictures. "Go- ing to the Woods" by Leonidas Hub bard, Jr., and the smell of the sea in A. J. Kenealy's story of Small Boat Sail ing;" Emery Pottle's sketch, "An Is- land Summer" and Robert Dunn S ! characterization of the Atlantic sum- mer shore, the last iIlustrated by some striking drawings by Henry McCarter, who also designed the attractive sea- shore cover of this number. There are also practical description of how best to build seaside lodges, by E. E. Hol-