New-York tribune., 1903-07-25
NOTES OF THE STAGE.
Wallace Munro Repents Of His
Offer.

Wallace Munro this week made an announce
ment that he would engage only Southern women
for the company that is to play the coming sea
son in The Cavalier Now lie is sorry that he
spoke. Up to date 2ss daughters Of the sunny
South have responded, and Days Theatre has
been besieged with ambitious Southern girls seek
ing an engagement with THE Cavalier" Munro s
lot has not been happy resUt. since there are
only six vacancies. and he does not claim 90 be a
judge of beauty Every State in the South has had
applicants, it is said. The announcement of those
who win will be made on August l.
IlebIer & Co. have called rehearsals Of the Ed
ward Harrigan Under Cover company for the
Murray Hill Theatre next Saturday, at 10 a. m.
in the play, and twenty-nine of them important
because of the individual charact terizatons of each
people" as some of the scenes, like those in the
Harrigan plays of old, are long on mobs."
Professor George Walter Dawson. of the Univer-
sity Of Pennsylvania, and authority Italian
gardens. has made the design for Olivia's garden
of the most important scenes in Twelfth
Night" which Miss Vioa Allen is to present next
season. His drawing in water color, which is now
being painted tor stage by Emmens. promises
1t is said by those who have seen 1t, to be mag
nhcent scene.
Miss Lottis Williams will again star in
production of the comedy drama, Only a Shop
Girl" which has been entirely rewritten. commenc-
ing the season at Newark She will be the second
Theatre the week or august 81
Csesar Augustus having repented his ways. has
bowed his horned head and returned to his home
at the foothills of Vesuvius. in Pains amphi-
theatre, Manhattan Beach In honor Of the home
coming of the hungry bull. and after the destruc-
ton of "Pompeii." MIR. Pain will introduce tonight
new and poetic fancy. The Birth of the Rose"
The many out Of town visitors who will be in
New-York for the next two weeks may profit from
a visit to Manhattan Beach. where "A Chinese
Honeymoon opens engagement on Monday
next. This is the organization that will make
tour of the country from coast to coast next sea-
son. and therefore the people from the West and
the South who in the metropolis the last week
in July and the first week in August will have an
opportunity to form opinion in advance of the
merits OF "a Chinese Honeymoon before the or
ganizaticr reaches their own Town; John Hen
Tracev Miss CbTistie Hudson. W H. C.arke and
Edward Clark are the principals of the company.
Lawrence D'Orsay. who is starring in The Earl
Of Pawtucket' in this city is deft with the pencil
and brush. He intended originally to be artist,
in fact and spent many jolly months in the Quar-
tier Latin. in Paris.
Il not bad painter, think said D'Orsay,
the other day although 1 remember criticism
made of my work in my earlier days by James
Mcneil Whistler. author OF The Gentle Art of
Making Enemier.' who died last week, which took
the concet out Of at the time. draw
ing from the nuGe in academy in Paris when
Whistler dropped in. as he often did, and casually
came behind me and looked at my work for so
long that felt BATTERED | was certain he CON;
turned my head and said politely:
What do you think of my drawing Mr
he transfxed me with those cold eyes of his. and
then dTawied in the true Whistler manner:
~ don't see single thing in your drawing
that reminds me OF the model.
opinion on anything"