The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-19
Observation-Disclosures
RICHARD MANSFIELD HERE ron
4 MONTHS. ENGAGEMENT.

| at the disposal Of the 81. Petersburg ORA
matte Company. the organization expelled
recently from Russia for presenting there
Eugene Tschirikoff's drama, The Chosen
People," and this now celebrated work
will be given at a matinee next Thursday
afternoon. The play deals with the wrongs
Of the Russian people and particularly
Of the Russian Jews. The final scene Is
the Kishinefi massacre, and it is said 10 sur
pass in realism anything seen before on
the English stage. The company comes
from London, where, after its expulsion
from Russia IL was received with open arms
and won a great success The play will
be given here under the direction Of r. n.
Orlenefi, and will be interpreted by four
teen skilful players. The stage manager is
! N. Orloif.
Richard Mansfield comes to the New
Amsterdam Theatre tomorrow for a
months stay, In which he will be seen in all
the best known plays in his repertoire, and
! finally, in the last week in Molere's comedy,
Tho Misanthrope." This week his schedule
will be- Tomorrow, Beau Brlmmel;'
Tuesday, king Richard III Wednesday,
! Tolstoi's Ivan the Terrible Thursday" DR..
Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde; Friday, King Richard
! Ill; Saturday (matinee), Beau Brummel;'
Saturday night, THE Merchant OF Venice
In the second week A Partisan Ro-
nance will be added 10 his repertoire.
! There are 100 players in Mr. Mansfeld's
company for the different long casts in
these plays, and as many leading ladies
as there are prima donnas in grand opera.
! Eleanor Barry plays the Czdritd in Ivan the
! Terrible. Julia Marie Taylor plays Porto
in The Merchant OF Venice and Lddy
| Anne in king Richard Ill" and Gertrude
| Gheen and Irene Prehar play the leading
women's parts in DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde, y
Beau BrImmel" and a Partisan Ro-
| nance Others are Mildred Morris, a
/ daughter Of the late Felix Norris Helen
! Glyddon. wife Of the late d. H. Harnns,
| Vivian Bernard and Alma Hathaway.
! This being the last week in town Of the
Weber stock company, Mr.. Weber will
| celebrate il by putting on for a week a
! burlesque on -Dida, famous illusion Of
| the vaudeville stage. Iva Barbour and
| Edna Chase will be the illusions, Mr.. Weber
/ himself will lecture thereon and most Of the
! rest Of the company will be water carriers
! Next week -Higgledy- and The
| College Wdower will be delighung folk
/ out OF town Tonight benefit vaudeville
/ performance is TO be given for Al Minehan
treasurer Of the company.
Arnold DAILY is to keep up the spirits Of
| his company and his audiences in Lent by
reviving Candida at a special matinee
a week from tomorrow. Two such Shaw
matin6es will follow there. Meantime You
| Never Can Tell" glides smoothly into its
eleventh week and is likely TO go on for
many more.
| Frank keenan, will keep his present pro-
gramme, consisting of The System of DR..
| Tarr," AT the Threshold, A Passion in a
Suburb" and The Lady Across the Hall, =
at the Berkeley Lyoeum till Friday or Satur-
day, when he will produce another new one
act piece, "A Woman's Pity" by F.. NJ. Dav-
| idson. He has also in preparation the most
recent success Of the Antoine Theatre, Paris.
Herr Conneds stock company at the
Irving Place Theatre will present there
tomorrow night a new three act comedy
by Gustav Heidelberg, the author Of AT
the White Horse Tavern The new piece
is called Der Familientag" CIhe Family
Reunion) Ferdinand Bonn and Rudolf
Christians will be seen in the leading parts
! and Harry Walden in a smaller role The
| cast will also include Fra Helm Carrie Lind,
who will make her American debut The
play will last all week.
Ellis Jeffreys. the English actress, moves
10 the Knickerbocker Theatre tomorrow
night with The Prince Consort, and her
engagement will continue indefinitely
/ there The same cast will be seen, in
Guiding Ben Webster, Kate Phillips, Henry
Z. Dixey and William II. Thompson.
The old sherlock Holmes with Will
liam Gillette, IL drawing capacity audiences
to the Empire Theatre. 1t might almost be
a new play instead Of being very close TO
its 35Oth New York performance. The
company includes members Of the original
cast and Hilda Spong in the role OF hddge
Ldrrdbee.
Mrs. Lefingwell's Boots Will soon
reach it's Tooth performance at the Lyceum,
II is still playing to the capacity Of the
theatre and New Workers seem TO he getting
no end Of fun out Of II.
Wright Lorimer, who is playing THE
Shepherd King" at the New York Theatre
for the last eight times this week, will give
a special MATINEE on Thursday afternoon
at which he will be seen in two one act
plays, a Clerical Error" and "Chatterton,
and the third act OF "The Shepherd King
to an out. May Irwin il to follow him at
the New York next week.
sThe Duchess OF Dantzic' goes merrily
on at Days. 1t gets to It's tenth week
tomorrow.
The FRITZ Soheh opera company be-
gins its last week at the Broadway Theatre
tomorrow. II has occupied that house
for FIVE months with pleasure to large
audiences and profit TO the company. For
tho final performances Miss Soheh will
stick 20 "Boocaccio, in which she has made
perhaps tho best impression on New Yorl
theatregoers. After her comes the new
fFlorodora,
Jefferson De Angels still draws larg,
audiences to tho Lyric with "Fantana.
There are both fun and melody In II and New
York has frequently shown that 1t likes
that combination.
sAdreas will have Its one hundredtl
performance at the Belasoo Theatre very
soon. The theatre Il filed at each perform,
anoe and there Ia no sign Of the popularity
that Mrs. Leslie Carter has won In IL de