The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-02
SHOW BILLS OF THE AUTUMN.
MORE NEW PLAYS COMING OUT
AT TIE THEATRES TINS WEEK.

schumann.Heink in l'Omlc Opera--New
YOrkytlle Theatre to Open-IryinE
Place season Begins--Weber Music
Hall Ready--Latest OF MelOdramas.
Nine. Ernestine Schumann- Heink, prob
ably the greatest contralto In the world. il
to forsake the real opera stage. for q while
at any rate, tomorrow night and to come
out as the star OF Loves Lottery comic
opera to be produced at the Broadway
Theatre by F. c. Whitney. The piece Ia by
Stanislaus STANCE and Julian Edwards,
authors OF Dolly Warden" and other well
known light musical playa. The scene Ia
laid In an English village in the time Of
George Ill, and Nine. Schumann- Heink
is to have the role of the heroine. Wallace
Brownlow leads the male contingent OF
singers. The advance sale Of seats has been
very large, and the production is awaited
BY many admirers Of the grand opera con-
tralto with great deal Of interest.
A new theatre. the Yorkvile. at Eighty
sixth street and Lexington avenue, also
opens tomorrow night. 1t has been built
by Meyer r. Bimberg. better known az
"Bim the button man. and il has been
made as fireproof and safe as new theatre
well could be. The frames are all of steel
covered concrete, marble and thing. There
are four exits on each floor, leading into a
ten foot alley on each eide. A 10000 gallon
tank filled with water is on the roof. con-
Meeting with automatic sprnklers and
stand pipes. A double asbestos curtain
separates the stage from the audience, and
the balconies are without pillars, giving
an unobstructed view of the stage. The
color scheme is ivory with light blue tints
The seats are green with a gold design
on the back OF each The wide aisles are
carpeted in green, and there is handsome
lounging room on the first floor. David
Belasco's comedy Sweet Kitty Bellairs. I"
with Henrietta Crosman as the star is to
open the theatre, but after this week the
house will be devoted exclusively to vaude-
VILE
The Irving Place Theatre, redeoorated
40 that it is almost made over reopens on
Thursday evening for the season under
the management of Heinrich Conried with
new three act comedy by Gebhardt
Schaetzler-Parasini entitled "Sein Princess
chen" ellis Little Prinoess') The play
deals with the domestic adventures and
misadventures of an aristocratic land
owner, Baron Hans p,n Brenktn, whose
pretty wife has inherited fortune, under
the condition that she leave the village in
which she has happily resided with her
husband and take up her abode in town.
There the rustic habits Of the Baron soon
lead him into such trouble that with his
wife, he withdraws again to the country
though his wife, the Little Princess" does
not have to sacrifice her fortune. The cast
includes several newcomers, among them
Miss Marguerite Russ and Fritz Kleinke
from the Leasing Theater in Berlin; Helm
rich NARROW from the Court Theatre in
Hanover and Bruno Schoenfeld from the
Leipzger Theater.
Lew Dockstader and his minstrels 20
to the Herald Square Theatre tomorrow
night for two weeks engagement. The
boss minstrel has new jokes and songs
and also an airship, in which he travels
many thousand miles (by cinematograph)
deals with Seeing New York" Among
the Ministries of lesser degree is Neil
0'Brien. There are several stage specta-
oles to vary the minstrelsy. One shows
Gen. Sheridan on his charger, others a
tropical forest and plantation scene
and the performance closes with very
picturesque piece OF stage display. The
audience sees a pond covered with water
lilies, which open slowly as the music be-
gins, disclosing the head Of a minstrel as
the heart OF each lily, and the petals of
the lilies move to and fro, swaying with
the song.
The Weber Music Hall is to be opened
informally for inspection on Tuesday even
ing. but the curtain will not go up on -Hig-
gledy Piggledy' and Anna Held until Thurs
day, Oct. 10.
The solitary new drama Of the week is
to be melodrama. 1t Is called After Mid
night, and II is to be produced at the New
Star Theatre tomorrow night. 1t deals
with life In New York. It's crimes are said
TO be founded on police records, and the
part Of its hero, the young man from the
country who comes to the wicked city,
has been written especially for John Web
ster. who will fill it.
John Drew begins his second month in
tho Duke Of Killicrankie' at the Empire
Theatre with the same large audiences
that have marked the progress Of this play
from the very first night. One OF the most
amusing hits In the play Is the breakfast,
at which the widow Of a glue king and
the Lady Henrietta. whose social paths
arc WIDELY inherent, anu WHO heartily OlS-
like each other. exchange compliments.
Edna Mays song MY Little Canoe" is one
OF the factors that have made -The School
Girls success at Days, and there are
twenty other charming songs in the piece,
each worth hearing One Of them is +We
Want to Be Simpler" sung by the three
Gaiety Theatre comedians, George Gros-
smith, Jr.. James Blakeley and Fred Wright,
Jr.
Lefty" with William Favesham, also
begins its fourth week at the Hudson
Theatre, with crowded houses.
Clara Bloodgood and the Clyde Fitch
comedy "The C1ronet Of the Duchess "
are to leave the Garrick Theatre at the
end OF this week, giving way to Henry
Miller, who, on Oct. II, will appear there
in Henry Arthur Jones's successful play
Joseph Entanged.' Miss Bloodgood, in
the role Of the New York girl who marries
q broken down English Duke and repents
her bargain. takes advantage of her OPP
portunities for some excellent acting.