The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-26

sheile is to produce soon. has just sub mitted to MT. La Shelle another fin ished play of Mexico and Texas Called
 Iaska.
 De Wolf Hopper. who has been coin- ing money through the country in the William A. Brady and Sam S! Shuberts revival of Wang" is to appear next season in q new opera. entitled "Elysia, by Reginald De Koven.
 spectacular play that is designed to appeal especially to children Is be- ing written by Fred Ranken and Regf- nald de Koven. It will be presented in a New York theatre at the begin ming of next season, and will be put on for a run in the expecation that 1t will outlast the season. It will be, per Ihaps. the biggest thing in the way of a spectacle that wm. A. Brady has ever produced.
 Wilton Lackaye's adoption of Victor Hugo's masterpiece. Les Miserable, Is to be one big feature of that actors s
 repertoire next season. The play Is called Jean villjean" and is said to be very strong. It will introduce some ex- ltraordinary effects, among them ct- lneometograph change from behind the scenes that will be startling as well 2 novel, MT. Lackaye win produce the plays that are constitute his large repertoire in Pittsburg and Chicago dur ing the coming Summer. Charles B. Hanfords seanson has de- |monstrated that Shakespeare" does rot spell ruin" Indeed, the two Shakespearean plays in Mir. Hanford's repertoire ''Othello" and The Tanning of the Shrew" may be said to be there by popular demand, inasmuch as local managers. who must be accepted as the
 most competent judges of their pa trons' taste have insisted on them from season to season. Mir. .Hanford. in presenting Don Caesar de Barzan" has not strayed beyond easy call from the Shakespearen drama, for Don Cae- sar's" worthiest exponehts have been players whose regulations are closely linked with the classic drama.
 Grace George has left the all-star cast of "The Two Orphans" and Is again
 at the head of her own company in a new comedy by Harrie K Chalmers, en- titled Abigail" It is story of con- temporary life in the West Side board | ing houses of New York. William A. Brady confidently expects that the new play will make a sensation. Grace Georges role Is sort of West Side
 Trilby, whose environment amid the poverty stricken geniuses of New York
 Is decidely picturesque and very in structive as character study.
 | Theatre ticket spectators in Boston
 were badly bitten during the Cheek CTS" engagement. Anticipating the
 big demand for seats, they purchased blocks of tickets for every performance
 Immediately the management discover
 ed 1t, they secured four megaphone
 men, placed two in front of the theatre
 and two at the next corners of the
 street one at either place, so that every body might receive warning that tick
 cts purchased on the sidewalk would
 not be received at the door. The spe-
 culators got rid of some of their hold
 ings by moving farther up the street,
 but toward the last of the week they lcapitulsted and accepted the generous offer of the management to redeem
 their tickets at purchase value and
 quit. The tickets were then sold to the
 regular playgOers.
 | Rensjniscing after the first perfor- nance of The Education of MT. Pipp'
 Kirke La Shelle and Daniel V. Arthur iWno are tue pToouctHS HiahdSeis ol this latest Augustus Thomas play lcounted up and found that between them
 they two had produced half of all the iplays Thomas has written. La Shelle Twas sponsor for Arizona and '"The Earl of Pawtucket," and Arthur, N~ as manager of Stuart Robson, had put or
 "The Jucklins." "Oliver Goldsid!th and "The Meddler. Charles F'roh-
 man has presented three. Colorado "The Other Girl" and Mrs. Leffing- wells Boots" Alabama" was pro- duced by A. M. Palmer. 'In Mizzouri'
 by Nat Goodwin, and Della Fox made
 her first appearance in the title role
 of the first Thomas play, "Editha's Burglar" La Shelle has been holding for three years another Thomas play entitled wisconsin" and Thomas is doing a new play for Lawrence D'Orsay