The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-08
NEWPLAYS AND OLD THISWEEK
DAVID BELASCO BRINGS "ADREA"
TO ELECTRIFY NEW YORK.
\ New George bernard shaw Comedy and
an Old Henry Arthur Jones Play-"Mrs.
Lenlngw eli's BootS'-"Rantana," Win
Jefferson DeAnEelis, Comes to Town.

Jefferson DeAnselis. Comes to Town.
This is likely to be an interesting week
for New York theatregoers Five novelties
are promised and at least some OF these
= are likely to catch the town.
Next Wednesday David Belasco puts
ON at the Belasco Theatre "Adrea,' the play
for which he made convention hall IN
Washington into real playhouse and
which he has said he has had fight to
produce at all. elsewhere than in his own
theatre, on account of organized opposition
to his works Mr.. Bolasco has made 1t
no secret that he expects "Adrea.' his own
work in partnership with John Luther
Long. to electrify New York. Its scene
is laid in an imaginary Island in the Adriauc
in the days Of the Roman decline, thus giving
| opportunity for gorgeous stage pictures
The piece has been written Cor Mrs. Leslie
Carter. who has the high tragio title role
of the blind Princess who becomes the We
tim Of her wanton SISTERS malice. II Is
one entirely removed rom the type Of
heroine she has recently played.
The story Of the play was told when It
was produced in Washington, wherJ chs
audiences acclaimed the production to
the Last degree. The cast includes such
well known actors rs Tyrone Power, Charleo
! A. Stevenson, K. d. Mclean. Claude Gllns
water, II. r. Roberts, Franos Powers. Ii
G.. Carlton, Gilmore Scott, Marshall WEIGH
and Edith Crane. There are mo.N than a
/ hundred others.
At the Lyoeum Theatre tomorrow night
| Charles Wyndham and Miss Mary Moore
/ begin their ninth week hers with IA new
| production Of The Case Of Rebellous
/ Susan one OF the brilliant coined les written
| by Henry Arthur Jones. In this play local
theatregoers are expected to find fresh
| revelations Of tho artistic qualities OF the
| two London stage lavontes. Charles
/ Wyndham appears as Sir Richard Cdto, the
/ kindly and wise uncle OF the reDellous
/ heroine the role he originally created
aud Miss Moore portrays the plquant and
| in three acts and will have handsome pro-
duction. 1t was done here ten years ago
! at the old Lyceum Theatre
Tomorrow evening win also witness the
! presentation Of another Of the George BeT-
nard Shaw plays. You Never Can TELL
by the Arnold Daily company. The presen-
! tatiOn this time is at the Garriok, under the
direction OF Leber & Co. 1t is comedy
/ pure and simple bnstling with humor and
scintillating with the brightness Of the
! Shaw dialogue There are complications
and complexities, but there is no problem
manifest, nor is there any visible tendency
! To criticism Mr.. Daily plays Valentine,
and the part of Phihp Cldndon has been
given to Sumner Gard. a young actor Of
note. Mabel Taiaferro has been with
drawn from Mrs. Wigs OF the Cabbage
Patch TO create the part OF Dolly here.
! Miss Drna de Wolfe. JeHreys Lewis, John
Findlay, Frank Hughes and Eda Br7lna
are also in the cast.
Charles Frohman will produce Augustus
Thomas's new play, Mrs. Leffingwells
Boots, at the Savoy on Wednesday evening
Mr. Thomas's has been very happy in tle
delivery Of New York types in mis- recent
plays, and II IL promised that the new pro-
duction will offer something in this respect
that will be sure to please. FAY Davis
will have the Leading woman's role, and
Margaret Ellington, Jessie Busley. Dorothy
Hammond and Mrs. Adams will be with Ter.
William Courtenay will have the role OF
the young hero and other men in tie cast
will be Vincent Serrano, Ernest Lawford,
who distinguished himself in the Clyde
Fitch and Pinero productions this season
j. H Barnes. j. II Seville, and Louis Payne.
The play resembles The Earl of Pawttlcket-
and The Other Girl, by the same author.
in that the incidents portrayed take place
in the same house and within the period
Of ten hours. The scene is laid at Larch-
mont.
Jefferson De Angels brings -Fontana."
his Japanese comic opera. to the Lyric next
Saturday night. 1t isn't all Japanese.
for the first act takes place in California
the second at Nagasak and the third on a
yacht homeward bound, Some ingenious
stage effects have been arranged for these
scenes by II H. Burnside who sta ed Lady
Tea2ie and there are some pretty musical
numbers in the score. The plot-for the
opera has a plot-te,ls of the struggles OF
Commodore ErereH owner Of a vineyard
called Fantana. to induce his daughter
who IL named after this vineyard. 10 marry
bogus count when she Is in love with
Lieutenant in the rsvy She exhibits so
much determination that her father seizes
upon an invitation to accompany a Japan
csc diplomat on his yacht as an opportunity
for separating the lovers Then anaccident
prevents the arrival OF the diplomat. and
the commodore compels h- valet, imper-
sonated by Mr.. De ANGELS. to pass himself
on IA the owner. The complications fol-
lowing this conspiracy allow ful scope
for the humor Of Mr. Do Angels and Katie
Barry. who viii be remembered for her
Fifi In a Chinese Honeymoon and for the
voices of Adele Richie, Hubert WIlkie
Frank Rushworth, Julia Sanderson and
George Frederick.
Mile Dir e st. Cyr is TO produce three
act modern drama entitled The Stronger
CALL by Anna Alice Chaplin in Carnegie
Lyceum next Monday evening. She has
plaved with Mrs. iiske and with Maude
Adams, and is said to he prot gee Of Sal
vin The play is founded on The White
Garden sho story by the same author.
A series of plays in which Agathe Barsesou,
the Rumanian star and Harry Valdez.
escaped from Berlin, are to have the chief
parts alternately has been arranged for
the irving Place Theatre this week. To-
morrow night there is 10 DE a repetition OF
-Medea" Tuesday night THE Golden
Widow again. On Wednesday Nine.
Bar escu il to be seen here as the heroine
in Sudermann's "Magda, in which she is
famous in Vienna. For Thursday, Friday
and Saturday evenings, Herr Conried an
nolinces a novelty in a five act drama by
Arno Holz and Oscar Jerschke, entitled
aTraumulus." On Saturday morning there
will be special performance for students
Of Lessings -Minna Won Barnhelm"
Among the reviva!s at present on the
stage that Of The Little Minister with
Maude Adams in It, is winning the greatest
success at the New Empire Theatre. She
begins her third week there in the Barrie
comedy tomorrow night. Crowded houses
witness every performance and 90 into
costa les over the acting OF the star.