Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-17
London Theater Gossip
'cial From a Stan Correspondent.

LONDON. September Z, 1905.
There will be no more novels by J. NJ.
Barrie. No more at least unless the writer
should be led to alter what is at present
his firm decision regarding further literary
work. In view OF the money he has made
out of his plays this decision has been ex-
pected by Mr.. Barries friends for some
time. And II must be admitted that The
Little Minister Quality Street." "Critch-
tom Alice Sit-By the Fire" and Peter
Pan"-if you leave out Little Mary"
which ran for 300 nights in London-con-
stitute wonderful record OF successes
Mr. Barrie is at present at Trouvile. the
French watering place and here 1t was that
he announced to a friend, the other day
that in all probability he should write no
more novels OF course the money side OF
the case appeals to him strongly. but he
honestly feels that in the stage he has
found his true means OF expression. At this
moment he is hard at work for the further
delectation OF theater-goers. Besides the
piece upon which he is now engaged Mr..
Barrie has sketched out the plots Of no less
than three new plays upon which he will
begin work in due course. His last two
successes, Alice Sit-By -the-Fire' and
Peter Pam" Will be shown TO Americans
almost Immediately, while his new play
will probably be ready for production by
Mr.. Frohman at the Duke of Yorks Thea
ter London, some time in the coming win
ter.
The artistic world in Berlin IS agog over
a rumor that a work IN which the actual
words of Goethe's Faust are set to music
is about to be produced in the capital The
idea of using his great work as the Iibretto
of an opera discussed once during
Goethes lifetime. Kappelmeister Anselm
Weber having deputed Inland TO feel his
way on the subject with the poet, but moth
ing came of II. Needless to say. all this
was years before the appearance of Gou-
mods opera. which, by the way, German
programs invariably set forth as Mar
garethe.' and not as Faust"
1t does not seem to have been quite def
nitely settled whether Ada Rehan Will APP
pear as Lady Cecily in the American pro-
duction of Captain Brassbound's CONVEX
sion," but Ellen Terry has bound herself
finally to play the part when this play Is
produced at the Court Theater in Sloane
square next winter. This part was, Of
course, originally written for Miss Terry,
and offered to her, but declined al the time
by the actress through diffidence about
playing in a piece in which all the other
characters were men. Before playing Lady
Cecily this perennially youthful actress is
to go on tour in Alice Sit-By-the- Fire."
and afterward she Is likely to be seen in
the new Barrie play. a part in which is
being especially written for her. The forth
coming season of Bernard Shaw the
Court will begin with a revival of John
Bulls Other Island" which seems to be
now generally recognized it's authors
best work 1t will be followed by new pro-
auctions OF Man and Superman" and
You Never Can Tell" by which time Mr..
Shaw expects to have ready the new play
on which he IS now working.
NJ
Vienna is about to honor the memory of
Brahms in a delightful manner. A small
memorial house is to be erected on the
Flizabethan Promenade, the cost off the
building being borne by the Brahms So
ciety. but the place coming under the direct
protection of the town authorities In this
memorial house will be found all that the
great composer ever got together In the
way OF pieces of furniture, etc.-such as
were specially associated with the masters
home life-as well as manuscript and keep
sakes valued by him. and full of associa-
tons for the friend and admirers OF the
last of the great tone poets.
Still they come, these novelsts who have
embarked in the playwriting business The
latest Of them is Mrs. Henry de la Pasture,
whose dramatization Of her romance.
Peters Mother Ohio Stuart is going to
put on at the Prince of Wales Theater as
soon as the run of Lady Madcap" is fin
ished Later on at the Adelphi he will pro-
duce another piece by this authoress-who
Is perhaps best known by her story De
borah of Tods"-the second play bearing the
title OF THE Lonely Millionaire. Mrs. w:
K. Clifford whose Likeness of the Night
as PLAYED by the Kendals. made so strong
an Impression, will also be presented on the
piece 1.-The Searchlight," which was paid
the compliment of publication in the Nine
teenth Century" will be played at the Great
Queen Street Theater in December. The
heroine is a woman, who, having poisoned
her brutal husband and been acquitted. Is
driven from place to place by the search
light of public opinion. AT the iast-named
theater too which is now In the hands OF
the Mermaids Society. Maxim Gorky's play,
1.-THE Beszenoffs," will be done later In the
season. The characters are Russian fam
ily of the lower middle class, and strug-
gle is shown between the elder members.
who can neither read nor write. and the
younger who have absorbed all the knowl-
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