The sun., 1904-08-28
THIS WEEK IN THEATRELAND.
NEW PLAYS AND SOME OLD ONES
no PLEASE NEW WORKERS.
'sThe school Girl" at Daly's-FOurteenth
street 10 Responsibilities for Eighth
fAyenue-New PlayhOuses-And the
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seashoro Attractions Are stin Potent.
More theatres reopen for the season this
week. Very soon Broadway will forget
that on the almanac II Is still summer.
Daly's throws open It's doors on Thursday
evening, when Edna May will make her first
nppearance in the new musical comedy
sThe School Girl" The music Is by Leslie
St,,ar author Of "Florodora, but there are
Interpretations by Paul Rubens. author Of
sThe Three Little Maids and others. The
book is by Paul NJ Potter and Henry Hamil-
ton. This, 1t is said, Is to be great big
COSMOPOLITAN entertainment instead OF an
entirely English one, such as Days has
often known, and as might be expected
from the fact that the production and most
of the artists come from London. where
the comedy was conspicuous success for
two seasons. Edna May, of course, is an
America actress, though for four years she
has been accepted as a strong local favor
ite In England. At the head of the English
contingent is George Grossmith, Jr,, the
leading comedian of the Gaiety Theatre
In London. He is over here on three months
leave of absence and it will he his first
appearance in New York since SHOP Girl"
days. Miss Hyam Of Charles Frohmans 8
Vaudeville Theatre Comedy Company OF
London Is at the head of the galaxy
OF English girls. The others are Mildred
Baker. Clara Braithwaite, Jane May, Lulu
yalli, Vivian Howles, Roy Louise, Dorothy
and Barbara Dunbar. Madge Greet, l..
Darcier, Mrs Watt Tanner, Robert Minister,
w. r. Shirley and Murri Moncrieff.
4The Royal Chef" which opens the Lyric
Theatre, also on Thursday, is the work of
George F.. Stoddard and Charles s. Taylor.
The music comes from the pen of Ben NJ.
jerome. The story deals with the troubles OF
a Cook tourist, who, reaching the domains
OF the jah OF Colory, chronic dyspeptic,
is promptly impressed as cook by the
prime minister In place Of ore who has lost
his head as a penalty for having deprived
the Raiah OF n stomach. The musical
numbers are expected to be the hit of the
piece. Some OF them are "The Tale of the
Tailless Frog" -1t's Way They Have In
Chicago" -O'Reilly" and -What's the
Matter with the Man in the Moon?" Ida
Renee, the English Yvette Guilbert, makes
her debut in the piece.
William Collier will resume his successful
run In "The Dictator" on Monday night at
the Criterion Theatre, when the house
opens for its regular season. In Richard
Harding Davis comedy Mr.. Collier
achieved the triumph of his career at this
theatre last season. playing, to crowded
houses well into July. He will remain at the
Criterion fer three weeks only, before going
on the road. The company will include
Louise Allen, Jack Barrymore and all the
favorites.
pf tho (Nahha Patch who
has been popular stage parsonage as well
as book character all over the country in
the last year, is to make her bow to a New
York audience next Saturday evening at
the Savoy, which has been extensively
altered and redecorated. The piece has a
strong cast, and this promulgation OF the
pleasing to New York. It has been kept
out hitherto by the difficulty OF securing an
opportunity for long run.
Wallack's Theatre rcopens on Thursday
with -The County Chairman, which did not
run long enough last season, though 1t had
q stay Of many months to please its admir-
ers. The same actors will play in 1t.
sweet Kitty Bellairs" takes up the even
tenor of her way at the Belasco on Saturday
night This play also will be welcomed
back as an old favorite.
.Pif, Paff, Pouf" is still stock Broadway
attraction at the Casino
The Fourteenth Street Theatre reopened
last night with w. A. Brady's Girls Will Be
Girls" The new piece brings out Al Leach,
the vaudeville performer, as a star.
The American Theatre, which has been
In the hands Of decorators all summer, is
also having its first week of the season.
The play is q new melodrama, The White
Tgress OF Japan 1t is given with elabo-
rate scenic and mechanical effects The
cast includes Fanny Mcintyre, Marion l..
Japanese actor and nearly two hundred
others. The theatre has been made into an
exceedingly handsome playhouse.
Openings OF the next week include aThe
Duke OF Killiecrankie,' with John Drew in
It, at the Empire on Sept. S; "A Madcap
Princess" at the Knickerbocker,- and the
the same day; Denman fhompson's re-
vfval Of .The Old Homestead at the New
York; and the Rogers Brothers new farce
at the New Amsterdam. The BijouTheatre
Is not to open till Sept. 10.
Military Mad, with its large cast, is doing
we'll at the Garrick. The cast includes
Leo Ditrichstein, Ida Conquest Henry V.
Donnelly and Thomas A. Wise.
Tomorrow night "The Maid and the
Mummy goes into its last week at the
New York Theatre. 1t has been played to
good houses and may return to Broadway
before the first OF the year.
Checkers" finished it's first week at the
Aoademy,of Music last night with a large
audience. Its new pickaninnies have made
a great hit.
The isle Of Spice" is drawing large
audiences to the Majestic Theatre.
With tomorrow nights performance
Sam Bernard and THE Girl From Rays"
begin their last week at the Herald Square
Theatre. No farewell could be more reluc-
tantly said, though this musical show has
been on Broadway for nine months. 1t is
to DO followed by "The Spellbinder.
Paris by Night wound up Its season on
the Madison Square Roof Garden last
night. but tonight the entire company will
appear In the more popular songs in the
piece. q large array Of vaudeville artists
assisting them. For the rest Of the week
L. ye.l, D., ,.sn -.