Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-26

accept the play his manager, Charles
Frohman, will take it off and provide
Mr.. Goodwin with his third for this
| season.
| Ada Rehan is not yet strong enough
to begin rehearsals of Captain Brass
bounds Conversion" and the opening
of the play has been postponed until
April.
Henry Miller will appear as co-stai
with Ada Rehan in Captain Brass
| bounds Conversion" when the Shaw
play is put on in the spring. This ar
rangement win not interfere with Mr.
Miller's plans at the Princess theater.
| Henrik Ibsen is said to be suffering
from arterial sclerosis He is very
feeble and unable to move, but is men
tally bright.
Eugenie Blair has completed arrange
ments for her Forthcoming revival of
"Olver Twist" She has a new and
faithful dramatization of the story
She will open her, tour at Washington.
1.-THE Duel" now running at the
Comedie Francais, and "Dr. Wakes
| Patient" now in London, are two new
plays announced by Charles Frohman
for New York production after the hol-
days Besides, Hattie Williams will
have new musical play, "The Duchess
of Folies Bergere," and later "Our
Girl" Gillette will present "Clarice'
in New York in February. In the same
month an elaborate production of
| "Mizpah," by Ella Wheeler Wilcox and
Luscombe Searelle, will be made. Su-
tro's "Mollentrove on Women" and an
opera comique called La Petite Bo-
heme" are also scheduled for spring
productions.
William Winter has returned to New
York after spending the summer in
Los Angeles and resumed his active
| work as dramatic critic of the Tribune.
A new play by G. M. S. Mcclellan
| and GreSac'S new drama, 81 Give My
Word" are two plays secured by Wag
enhals and Kemper for Blanche Walsh.
| Other new plays purchased with the
view of production at the new Astor
| theater are Madeleine Lucette Ryley's
comedy, Mrs. Grundy," Overwood's
Clothes and Rachel Crothers' ''The
Three of U.s." Miss Walsh's first play
at the Astor theater will be 1.-The
| Kreutzer Sonata"
Olga Nethersole is making a great
success in the east in her new play,
1.-The Labyrinth" She opens in New
York at the Herald Square theater,
November 81.
Fumagalli, the Italian actor, has
undertaken to give Rome an entire
season of Shakespeare The bard is
popular in Italy, and it is said that no
Italian actor considers that he has
sounded all the depths of art until he
has played him.
Ellen Terry will not visit this country
until next season, and then she will be
heard in readings and not in theatricai
productions.
Henry Arthur Jones, though he
doesn't always succeed in pleasing the
public with his plays, is almost invari-
ably happy in his titles. His new
piece which James Welch is going to
produce at Terry's soon after Christ
mas, is called "The Heroic Stubbs,"
from the authors usual work.
Edith Evelyn, the new leading lady
of the Alcazar theater stock company,
San Francisco, will make her first APP
pearance Monday night, playing the
chief role in the strong drama, Mrs
Danes Defense"
Max Heinrich is to leave his home in
Southern California long enough for an
appearance in a song recital in Music
hall, Chicago, on the afternoon of
Thanksgiving day November 30. He
will present "Enoch Arden" and three
groups of songs.
Cecilia Lotus will sail on Friday
for England. where she will soon begin
Pan" i'm London In which she will have
the title role. Miss LOTUS finished a
highly successful vaudeville tour at the
New York theater.
salt mine is said to have been dis
covered on Jefferson island, the Louis
lana summer home of Joseph Jefferson,
which largely increases the value of
the estate. Burke and Burke, eXecu
tors, filed bond OF more than $15O,OOO.