The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-17

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 Plays and Players.
 Caroline Kelly McCord will play one of the principal roles in The Man From China which will be the summer attrac- tion at the Majestic Theatre. New York.
 Tn May. Miss Edouin and Fred Ed wards expect to play an engagement in New York. presenting comedy drama by Alice E. Ives which they successfully tried out in England last season Con- tracts will probably be signed this week while they are appearing in "A Bache- lor's Dream at the Circle Theatre in New York.
 George H. Trader. whose character work in the original Alcazar Theatre Stock Company, in San Francisco, dem onstrated his possession of unusual pow CTS of observation and portrayal of pecu- liarities. is prominent in the support of H. Reeves-Smith. in "The African Mill lionaire"
 There is no doubt of the sweeping sue cess of The Sho Gun" the new musical comedy by George Ade and Gustav Lu- ders. now in the early stages of it's run at the Studebaker Theatre, Chicago. Heretofore in his long experience as a producer of works of this character Mir. Savage has found it necessary to expend several weeks time upon the task of re- vision before the results were satisfac- tory. In the case of ''The Sho Gun ne was able to leave for New York in less th an a week, for the entertainment had already established itself firmly in popu- lar regard.
 Ezra Kendall will have a new play next season, a subject to which both Mir Ken dali and his managers are just now pay ing a great deal of attention. A half dozen plays have already been written for him. and playwrights have travelled with him at intervals for many hum dreds of miles, but play has to suit Kendall down to the last line before he will appear in 1t. and the end desired has not yet been reached-but the man. agement has now reached a point where they are entertaining strong hopes. The Vinegar Buyer has proven very profit able venture. but Mir. Kendall has now played in it for two seasons and natur- ally he is demanding something new.
 
 Since the accepted triumph of Miss Eleanor Robson in the Israel Zangwill comedy Merely Mary Ann." Zangwilfs reputation as a playwright has gone up about a thousand per cent. Mir. Dan Frohman has a contract with him for a dramatization of "The Serio-Comic Gov erness." and Charles Frohman will also probably contract with him, during his stay in Europe for play for one of his stars. Some day, perhaps, the public will realize that his Children of the Ghetto" was all that Mir. Tyler claimed for 1t, really the greatest play of the past de- cade.
 Now that 1t is generally and positively known that this will be the last season that the famous family of farceurs, the Four Cohans, will be seen together, the question naturally arises, Tn what dif- ferent directions will these talented peo- pie travel next season?' Manager Fred Niblo. who has directed their business in- terests successfully, for many years. comes to the rescue with the following statement: Miss Josephine Cohen will star next season with her own company in new. high class American comedy, "The Leading Lady" which is now be- ing written for her by Leslie Corbin, a New York journalist. George M Cohan is making stellar preparations in his new musical comedy, Little Johnny Jones'"