The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-09
FINE CROP OF new PLAYS HERE
THIS WEEK WILL BE 4 BUSY ONE
IN THE THEATRES.

SHho ZEN WILL he u bCof ONL
IN THE THEATRES.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell in sardou Drama
The Liberty TO Open-"The sho.Gun"
Coming Out-French Players Here-Otis
skinner 10 Produce 1.-THE Harvester"
Henry Miller In an III. A. Jones Puzzle.
This week promises to be the most prolific
In theatrical novelties Of the present sea-
son. A SaTdou drama, with Mrs Patrick
Campbell as the heroine; a new comic opera
by George AIDE. the appearance OF a much
heralded troupe OF Partisan actors, Otis
SINNERS production Of Jean Richepin's
lie Chemineau,' and Henry Arthur
Jones comedy, with Henry Miller In the lead
ing part, to say nothing Of the opening Of
new theatre and the reopening Of the old
Weberfelds Music Hall as an Anna Held
playhouse, with Lew Fields as director. will
provide Broadway with enough sensa-
lions to last ordinarily over several weeks.
Sardou's last successful drama, 'The
Eorceress," with Mrs. Campbell In the
role of a Moorish girl for whom Christian
nobeman Of old Spain sacrifices himself,
Is to be produced by Charles Frohman to-
morrow night at the New Amsterdam
Theatre for the first time in English Sarah
Bernhardt won q new triumph as Zordyd,
the Moorish girl. Mrs. Campbell is to
create the role in English and it Is expected
to give her exceptional opportunities as
an emotional actress. The play itself
b q strong one. In it Sardou has gone
back to the Spanish Inquisition and has
utilized all the dramatic possibilities Of
that period as background for his story.
The production will be elaborate and costly.
The company, with Guy Standing as Mrs.
Campbell's leading man, is exceptionally
strong.
The new Liberty Theatre in Forty-second
street. between Broadway and Eighth
avenue, In which the Rogers Brothers are
TO take UP their home tomorrow night,
10 said to be the best intellectually as
we'll as the newest playhouse built in New
York. 1t contains all the latest novelties
In playhouse construction and the most
complete precautions against fire and
panic yet devised. 1t has about the seating
capacity Of the Kniokerbocker, yet it can
be emptied In two minutes. There are
twenty-one separate fireproof exits ex-
elusive OF fire escapes. Not pillar stands
in the house to obstruct a view Of the stage;
the stage itself is unusually large and pos
sesses every sort Of notion in mechanical
and electrical equipment. The staircases
are marble; the doors are covered with en-
boesed leather The color scheme is old
gold, amber and ivory. The ventilatng
system ia 80 arranged that the temperature
of the entire house can be raised or lowered
at will. The air during a performance is
entirely changed every five minutes. There
are smoking rooms and lounging rooms
deliberately decorated and every other sort
Of comfort. The Rogers Brothers, who
have an interest in the building, expect to
stay there for the rest Of the season.
@The Shotgun" George AIDES Corean
comic opera, comes out tomorrow night
at wallaok's after having been whipped
into shape on the road. The music is by
Gustav Luders, and the piece itself returns
in Q measure to the old lines Of comic opera.
from which 80 many of the recent musical
plays have departed. The plot revolves
about chewing gum magnate who is on a
tour around the world in search OF q title
and lands in a Corean island. where as a
prisoner Of war he turns things upside
down by promoting trusts, minimizing
labor and generally upsetting things ac-
finally getting into the deepest trouble by
making love to the widow Of a departed
Shotgun. The scenery includes a beautiful
wistaria garden. The cast Is all that could
be desired. II includes Charles E. Evans,
promoter: Christie Macdonald, Georgia
Game Thomas C. Leay, William c. Weldon,
Dorothy Maynard and many more.
Jean Richepin's play. lie Chemineau"
(the Roadster), which Otis Skinner pro-
duces at the Lyric tomorrow night in a
Canadian setting, as 'The Harvester won
a triumph at the odeon Theatre in Paris,
and 10 familiar to Londoners as Beerbohm
Trees Ragged Robin" Mr.. SINNERS
Is wbo hs Sm so MS
sThe Kings Jester The scene is laid
In the French Canadian wheat fields, and
the play has been described both as poetic
and idyllic. The gypsy character por-
trayed by the star is novel type in recent
the merrymaking and the dances. COM
bined with the poetic text Of the drama and
the scenery specially prepared for 1t, are
expected to provide new sensation for
theatreland.
The season OF French plays to be given
by the actors brought from Paris by Mr..
Cayelles begins at the American Theatre
tonight with lie Bossu" THE Hunchback),
q drama in five acts and twelve tableaux,
by Amicet Bourgeois and Paul Teval,
adapted to the English stage as THE Dukes
Motto" In which the late Charles Fechter
achieved great success. 1t is an elaborate
and exciting story, quite in the vein of
Stanley j. Weyman, that the play tells.
It hinges about the heroism OF Capt.
Ldedrdere, soldier Of fortune, who, failingto
save the Duke de Nerers from assassination,
prevents the abduction Of his daughter by
the assassins by taking her away himself,
and at the proper time producing her to
claim her fortune. Naturally, he falls in
love with his ward, and through many
plots and counter plots at last restores
her to her own. at the same time killing
in a duel the late Dukes rascally cousin,
the instigator OF the assassination plot
and the last of the murderers. NJ. Dulac,
an actor with a great reputation in Paris,
plays the hero, and the rest Of the company
IL made up Of men and women who have
won regulations for themselves on the
French stage.
Charles Frohman will present Henry
Miller In new Henry Arthur Jones comedy