New-York tribune., 1904-08-21

Theatre will have a successor to "Rabes in Toy
land and THE Wizard OF o." The book tells
the story OF "Bogpopka." sixty-seventh King Of
Nicobar, an island in the China Sea. north of
Japan. The book is by Allen Lowe and George
E. Stoddard and the score by Paul SCHNEIDER
and Ben Jerome. Mr.. Whitney will bring COM
pany of one hundred and thirty to the Majestic,
and among the principals Alexander Clarks.
Herbert Cawthorne Gilbert Gregory, Georgia
Fiske Otto Brooker, Joseph Keller, John Hen
bricks James Phelan Miss Blanche Buckner
Miss Matte Martz Miss Susie Forester Miss
Leslie Leigh, Miss Alice Yorke and others
Checkers will begin its season at tho
Academy OF Music tomorrow night. The COM
pany is substantially the same seen last season.
with Thomas w. Ross. in the title role, and
Dave Braham, Jr., Miss Katherine Mulkins, Miss
Harriet worthington. Charles Willard. Wallace
Worsley and w. H Clark among the rest of the
large company. This is the second engagement
OF Henry NJ. Blossom. jr.'s, play at the Academy
of Music. and its fourth engagement IN this
city. The opening night will be the occasion
also OF the stage debut OF Miss Jane Woodend.
the wife OF DR.. w. Z. Woodend-
The American Theatre opens for the regular
season next Saturday evening. w. T. Keogh
will produce q new meodrama, "The White
Tigress Of Japan" The new play is descrih.i
as a romance of Russo-Japan. and shows scenes
in Japan. China. Corea- Manchuria. st. Peters
burg. and Port Arthur at the present time One
OF the will show the escape of the Rus
slams from Port Arthur. IN which two hundred
men will be employed The story tells of XII
hume, Countess Of Ogawa, known as THE White
Tigress OF Japan"
Messrs. Williams and Walker, fresh from Lon
don. in the new In Dahomey,' Will be the open
ing attraction OF the season at the G~1nd Opera
,Dig
continue for two weeks.
The John c. Fisher regime closed at the Man
haitian Beach Theatre with the final perform
OF The Silver Slipper" last night. To-
morrow 1.-THE Princess Chic" will begin weeks
engagement there. with a cast that includes
Lyman Wheeler, Miss Caroline Boelen Gus
Vaughan Miss Julia Kohles George G. Gala
han, Miss Jane Wander Zee, Tom Smith Martin
and Miss Dorothy Williams.
After nine months run in New-York Sam
Bernard, IN THE Girl from Kays," with Miss
Hattie Williams and the original company Is
again at the Herald Square Theatre Mr. Ber-
nard Hoggenheimer is facetious ever, and
the part of Winnie is drawing applause for Miss
Williams.
'ong engagement at the Madison Square
Garden Roof will come TO close next Saturday
night when Messrs Weber and Rush withdraw
Paris by Night" from the Garden TO send II on
q tour.
F. C. Whitney's military opera. when Johnny
Comes Marching Home" will begin its third
season at the New Majestic Theatre. Brooklyn.
on September 12. The cast will be practically
the same as in the engagement at the NewYork
Theatre.
Miss Lulu Glaser will make her first appear
ance In a new comic opera, "a Madcap Prin-
Of
Dillingham;, next Thursday night, in Rochester.
factor ip the crusade Of education through
entertainment has been reached in the plan
which will be carried out by the Educational
Alliance this season of well organized Chill
dren's Theatre. Thirty matinees will be given
on Sunday afternoons through the winter
months beginning IN November and ending In
May. All the plays being rehearsed by
professional stage managers. The plays of Mrs.
Frances Hodgson Burnett, and William G. De
Mile are among those chosen.
"The Royal Chef" 8 r a menu OF music, win
open the Lyric Tho e.. After a long run at
the La Sale Theatre ta Chicago, tho comedy
went into the Garrick Theatre there, where 1t
has ended its twentieth week The date OF the
opening here is set for Thursday. September /.
The run of Miss Henrietta Crosman in Sweet
D.
Miss Crosman's last New-York performance in
Sweet Kitty Bellairs" will occur on Saturday,
September "a. and on the following Monday
David Warfied will appear in a new play by
Charles Klein. entitled '"The Music Master"
Charles Frohman will sn the second season
Of the Empire Theatre on Monday September
8. when he win present John Drew in Robert
Marshalrs latest play. THE Duke of Kill
cranke." Mr. Drews support this year will in
clude Miss Fannie Brough, Miss Margaret Dale
Ferdinand Gottschalk and Miss Kate Lester.
The last two weeks are announced of the
engagement of THE Maid and the Mummy"
which has been running at the New-York Thea
tire since July %.
The Rogers Brothers In the new McNally
farce. 1.-The Rogers Brothers in Paris" will open
their season a week from tomorrow night at
the Star Theatre in Buffalo coming to the New
Amsterdam Theatre Monday evening" Septem-
Der D.
Denman Thompson will revive THE Old
Homestead" at the New-York Theatre Monday
evening. September 3. Waiter Gale the original
stage tramp, will return to his old part of
Happy Jack.
The Prince of Pilsen" will open its season at
the Montank Theatre Brooklyn, September /.
with a cast including Misses Trixie Frganza
Jeannette Bageard and Jess Dandy and Arthur
Donaldson
Charles Frohman will present Miss Edna May
in the musical play THE School Girl at Days
on Thursday. September l. For this production