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burlesque house. Anna Held. Aubrey
Boucicault and Harry Morris have been
engaged, and Edgar Smith will furnish
the burlesqueS.
Wagenhals and KemDer have secured
for Miss Blanche Walsh the entire Eng
lish rights to Jacob GOrdin's domestic
tragedy. The Kreutzer Sonata" which
was presented in Yiddish over 300 times
at the Thalia Theater, New York Miss
Walsh's first appearance in 1t VIII De
in Chicago in December.
Wilton Lackaye has gone to his Long
Island cottage for the summer with his
wife and little son. Mr. Lackaye is
close student and a. brilliant speaker
He is the first actor to receive an offer
from a political organization to stump
the country in the interest of Presi-
Dental candidate. His long tour already
booked with The PITT made his ac-
ceptance of the offer quite impossible.
Lackaye has made a great reputation
as a speaker and he is in demand at
meetings in every city he visits.
Joseph mart anu OdIIlc uc NAdA
fused an offer of $4,000 for forty weeks
to return to vaudeville.
Lee Shubert sails for Europe, author
lied by William A. Brady TO offer Ros-
tand or Stephen Phillips the largest
cash bonus ever paid an author for
play founded on a religious character,
that Grace George is very anxious TO
enact. If either author accepts this
will be Miss Georges greatest produc-
tion.
The Theater Magazine can always be
relied upon for splendid pictures OF
stageland. but its July issue breaks all
records as regards their number, there
being no fewer than 100 half-tone
plates The reading matter. likewise,
is more interesting than usual The
articles include an account of Perez
Galdos, the Spanish playwright, whose
drama, Electra" has just made
sensation in Paris, and Yone Noguchi.
the japanese poet. contributes an en-
tertaining and instructive paper on
"Theaters and Theater going in
Japan" "A Morning Chat With Can
dida" dorothy Donnelly) constitutes
the interview of the month, and DR..
Judd. the veteran manager, tells how
Buffalo Bill first gained celebrity. This
being a special vacation issue, two
pages are. devoted TO pictures of the
leading players at their summer
homes, and Wells Hawks. continuing
his series. How Theaters Are Man
aged" tells about the attaches in front
of the house. The papers on Fam
Gus Families of American Players,
which began in the May issue, is con-
tinued, the present article being de-
voted to the Jeffersons, and illustrated
with rare portraits lent by Mr.. JEFF
ferson himself. The experiment tried
by the Peoples Institute of New York
to give the poorer classes fine dramatic
performances for a nominal sum is
described in an article entitled ''Twen-
ty-five-cent Shakespeare for the Peo-
ple," and there is full page pictorial
feature describing New York's new
summer amusement resort, Dream
land" at Coney Island. MillicenJ
Moone writes an amusing letter TO
James K. Hackett, and Julia Wemple
continues her interesting Confessions
of a Stage struck Girl, The pictures
include scenes from Mrs. Wigs of the
Cabbage Patch" a Little Tragedy OF
Tientsin." woodland The South
erners.'' ''Varennes,' etc, and portraits
of Grace Heyer. Bertha Galland, Nell
Hawthorne, Paul Cazeneuve. Mona
Desmond, Harrison Ford, Dorothy
Tenant Mrs. Leslie Carter, Fanny
Brough, Gabriel Pares, leader of the
Republican Guard Band of Paris,
which is going to St Louis; Howard
Kyrle Jessie Jordan, Franz Won Vec-
sey, the phenomenal violinist, who is
coming to America, etc.
Yone Noguchi. the Japanese poet,
we'll known locally through his inter-
esting Anglo-Japanese verse. con-
tributes to the Theater Magazine for
July a fascinating article on 'Theaters
and Theater-G Going in Japan" He says
in part:
Modern Japan, despite it's ready
adoption of western manners is in
things theatrical still faithful to the
ancient feudal days. and the san
culinary, interminable dramas written
many centuries ago are still the chief