New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-11

| players vino might possibly be induced now anf
give the people chance to See them It Is already
done every Saturday morning at the Irving PiSSs
rates, 81 600 was taken in at the box office for the
se c6Too S the Sn pa4 81 @ leading Eng
! fish speaking aetors-and their manasers--nay pc
People Institute to hold Is and 70 strive to astain
| souvenir book of Mr.. ManteiI IN his Shake
spearian characters will be given away at the Gar
den Theatre next Friday night in celebration OF his
fftieth performance New-Tork. Besides the col
ored portraits Of Mr. Mantell in his several char
| tons of the Kenney Meadows drawings.
Something was printed in The Tribune yester-
| day about @. B. Shaw's latest play Major Bar
bara," which was recently produced In London,
with Miss Annie Russell in the title part. 1t is
possible now to give few of the epigramnatic
marks which doubt scattered thiokly
through the discussion, and which appear to have
ms.nufseturer Of spirits defends his yfoduot
O'Clock at night what no sane person would do at
Lady Britomart and her husband discuss their son
everythS saws ons hat clearly points to
political career" is the rejoinder But Stephen
about British character.
All Az, cries the father Nov we know what to
soqeow from this distance these r fs i
SEPARATION. The humorist is working hard Miss
Wynn-Matthfson, who appeared here as Everyman
in the production of Major Barbara
Eva Davenport says she is quite serious in her
announced intention of appearing next year as
Falstaf in THE Merry Wives of Windsor" She
says the idea was suggested to her by Forbes Rob
ertson. and that on writing to II, Ben Greet ne: too
pears to be more of humorist than sometimes IS
evident IN his acting ye afssr a s9n6
BernHaTdt played Hamlet!
The stage haos an additional ornament. Tod
SLOANE the jockey will appear at Hammerstein's
this Week. As James J. Corbett is engaged for
Shaw's novel there seems to be ground for
the pesslmistic complaint of degeneracy in the
quality of our actors.
At last the pursued sex" are to be favored by
the managers. Now these many years the ladies'
have been the favored ones at every souvenir per-
Torrance at theatre and the hundredth
night of such and such play have been presented
CareV freasuped and given o Their male es
coTts to lug home. bUlging from the pocket Now.
night at his FiftyeightS Street theatre VIII give
to every man in the audience silver ash tray to
ladies will get nothing at all, which is right and
proper
James O'Nefl1 is going 70 say farewell to Monte
Crsto' again. He has played Edmond Dantes 1902
times. which looks like a worlds record. He has
hidden it farewell almost as many. He says never
again after this season will he PLAY it-honest njun
this time He will be seen in the character at the
West End Theatre in Harlem Christmas week, how
ever.
Walter y. Lawrence has engaged Oliver Doud
Byron for the part of Colonel George Annesley in
THE Man the Box" in which Henry z. Dixey
is starring at the Madison Square Theatre. Mr.
Byron was for years a star. 1t is several years
since he last on the stage in New York
however. Mr.. Byron is the father Of Arthur Byron
and brother-in-law of Miss Ada Rehan,
Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield the wife of Admiral
CronwinshieId, U. s. N, and author of 'The Arch
bishop and the Lady and other stories has written
act play dealing with exciting incident
during the American Revolution called Between
Two Fires which will have it's first presentation
under the direction of Mrs. II. c. De Mile at the
Lyceum Theatre Tuesday afternoon. December rs.
when series of matinees will be inaugurated in
Guiding new production of Mrs. Frances Hodgson
Burnett's charming play, The Little Princess
Miss Sarah French. who was in the original pro-
duction Of Mrs Burnetts play, has obtained the
rights from the author and will play the part of
Sara Crewe. She will also play the principal role
In Mrs. Crowninshields play
Rehearsals Of the company engaged by Klaw &
Erlanger to appear in their production of J. !. c.
CIarke's dramatic version or General Lew WalIace