New-York tribune., 1904-09-26
NOTES OF THE STAGE.
Miss May Irwin Back on the Stage Again
in a Roaring Farce.

At Waterbury. Conn. tonight. Miss May Tr-
win viii return To the stage, in farce called
Mrs. Black Is Back" by George Y. Hobart From
a perusal OF the story Of the play it is not hard
TO accept her agents statement that this farce
Is Of the variety known roaring" Mrs, Black
Is Back il built lie little white lie, that
rapidly assumes terrifying proportions
plication after complication follows upon it. Mrs.
Black. which will be Miss Irwin's part. is a widow
who is well, fair and nearly forty She marries
a professor OF geology in a New-York university
aud starts off by telling him that she is twenty
nine This is a bad beginning, but she has a son
adds TO her future troubles by telling the pro-
fessor that he is ten OF course the son turns up.
less than for his mother for he IS forced 20 assume
clIt,,re anS them Of b m t " physcal
troubles VIII not prevent Miss Irwin from singing
several songs. however, during the progress of
the play. and those who have heard her sing re-
her unique skin in pointing a negro lyric, Miss
Irwin viii be her own manager
Joe" Weber has abandoned his idea of burlesqu-
ing THE Coronet of the Duchess" when he opens
his music hail. for reasons that are sufficiently OBJ
vious. Instead, he IS preparing burlesque Of The
sorceress" which will be offered not long after his
Held wiz play Mrs. Campbes part when the bur
lesque produced though the thought is barren
Of the travesty; possibly she Will Sardoudle as the
Sorceress The music hall has been overhaued this
summer and made much safer n win be informally
opened on October j. although the date for the
public opening is not yet get.
W. IT. Crane has read carefully and with the
conflicting emotions OF the noveIist's hero all
that was written last week about his performance
brleI ana terse. Il nave been an actor for forty
two years he said. "and II seems that now must
time" 1'''
The cast for ''rne BilonaIre" which s to be sent
out the road again. with Thomas Q. seabrooke
in the late Jerome Sykes's part has been competsd
and the tour VIII begin in October,
AZ the L o'clock train from Pttsburg reached tns
Jersey City station yesterday a short Fat man
apopiectic with rage, jumped from the train ran
across to tho ferryboat and dived into the darkest
recess Of the cabin. lie clothed in purple ana
fine linen. but the state OF his face was a sin and
shame. The striped zebra OF Rarnum's CYrcus
would have smiled welcome could ne have seen It.
The man was Lew Dockstader returning to civiii-
cation. or almost His mnstrels play a weeks en-
gagemen5 in Newark before coming to the Herald
r9o~ker,, ne ssd piooroiI, n, I. s5t rTilO" Td
insly at the water the ferryboat was pI0ughing
If little alum is put IN water the water will not
wash or burnt cork Pittsburg Iokers knew this.
Dockstaders dressing room, and he had to take the
train az black as sny darky; He monopolized the
be several days before his skin resumes its clean
their usual buoyaucy. Dockstader has perpetrated
more practical Jokes, perhaps, than any other man
DO things like that; It's an outrager'
Al the Fourteenth Street Theatre tonight new
play of Western life called "A Texas Ranger will
be shown with young actor named Sydney Ayers
IN the title part. The cowboy play seems. Ike
the 'be-gosh drama" TO have a sort of chronic
fascination for managers, and also sometimes for
the public Now and again il bobs up with musl-
cal attachment, as IN The TenderfOot.' he tramp
OF cowboy boots do indeed make q fine noise on the
stage and perhaps its popularity is not 10 be Won
deTed az
The other openings tonight st the Belasco.
the American and the Berkeley Lyceum theatres.
Mr. Days production OF a new Shaw play at the
last week in New-York for the present lie returns
in December, however. 10 produce that Shaw farce.
hitherto untried in this country. You Never Can
IeIi. ~ith Us dentist hero; dramatizauon OF
uniind 10 call Il.