Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-28

harder on the American music hall people
than on those in the legitimate" When
Whole companies are brought over their
return to the United States is guaranteed
On the other hand few vaudeville perform
ers nave engagements before they leave
america SO the actors fund idea appeals
strongly to them r. G. Knowles and Eu-
gene Stratton, who are two of the high
salaried American music hall performers
IN England, are both interested in the
sGheme IL Is proposed to have the SIM
pest KIND OF an organization, the control
10 be IN the hands of five trustees with
no membership fee. Each American actor
Will be given card which, by special ar
rangement will entitle the holder to enter
one of the best hospitals without the usual
long-W1nded, red tape operation REQUIRED
in England in case of a sudden illness one
big fund benefit in the shape of a con-
tInuous performance will be given annually
In London, and it is being planned to hold
the first one next July.
X
Lucky is the author whose stories dram
atize" well, and in this respect w. w Ia
cobs seems especially favored OF his
Lady of the Barge Jacobs and Louis N
Parker made comedy which ran over 200
nights at the Haymarket last year. and
winch Will be done in the United States
ere long. The Monkeys Paw" in dra-
matte form has scored in both London and
Paris, and The Ghost of Jerry Bundler''
mas been made into an effective one-act
play. with Parker's assistance, Jacobs is
now adapting another of his novels and
he has just granted permission to
French playwright. Jean Bernac, to make
stage version of his short story. THE
Brown Mans Servant" for production at
the Vaudeville, Paris.
X
When an interviewer asked George Ber-
nard Shaw the other day to what he at
tributed his present popularity, the dram
atist replied: ITO my merits" AS tn
/ the latter opinions may differ but there
is no doubt of the increasing interest in
the prophet In his own, or, rather. his
adopted country. Forbes Robertson is CON
WINGED of this, and when he begins onera-
tons at the new Scala Theater next month
ne Will revive first Caesar and Cleopatra -
and then The Man OF Destiny" Mean
while, at the Court, John Bulls Other Is
land" is now being played every evening
and You Never Can Tell" five afternoons
a week On the 23d Man and Super-man'
will be put on for a run, after which Can
dlda Will be revived for the sixth or sew
enth time. Mr.. Shaw must be pinehing
himself to make sure it isn't all dream.
The Elizabethan Stage Society which was
started something like twelve years ago
to give performances of Elizabethan plays
in the EliZabet manner" has brought
its career to a close with a novel rendering
of Romeo and Juliet" 1t has often been
said that that is the most difficult of
Shakespeare's plays to act, since the two
leading characters demand the appearance
of extreme youth, and at the same time
command of dramatic art that comes only
from experience. The Elizabethan Society
tried the experiment of sacrificing art for
youth, but the result was not encouraging.
An extremely young actor, Esme Percy,
portrayed Moutagus son and a girl actress,
Miss Dorothy Mimic. enacted Capulet's
daughter. Their naivete and artlessness i'm
parted a certain charm and naturalness to
the situations, but there was a distinct loss