New-York tribune., 1905-11-06
NOTES OF THE STAGE.
e. S. Willard on increase of The
aires -Postp0nement at the HUing.

'ee' Go 4 OSt IOHtHtCHt TT tNt IIItHS.
E. s Willard who on Saturday finished an en-
gagement of two weeks at Toronto, which is usually
a 'one week stand.' playing The Fools Revenge
for half of the engagement, made address the
university there last week which was not without
general interest of course. to students and OBJ
servers of acting. but which also had its peculiar
interest in New-York. He said.
1t may surprise you TO hear me say that the
rapidly increasing popularity of the theatre IN IN
dramatic art. You can readily understand that the
ing demand for pIays and actors to keep them open
and make them profitable. But dramatic art cannot
be got ready made 1t is thing Of slow and toll,
and in muscle in nerve and in spirit, TO meet the
Happily, considerable body of playgoers re
that the Continuous dernand for art, beauty and
purpose in the drama has been sufficient not only
frivolity and license but to create at last reac
tonary feeling among those inclined to regard [re me
action going already. The signs Of the times
indicate wholesome dramatic revival That means means
better and more uniform organizations II means cans
plays that shall have literary worth artistic coT
struction and humanity significant characters.
means also ii greater earnestneSS greater Zedl
on the part of the actor Already the revived stock
company is proving decided attraction III +bat i1i"
find public interest aroused more readily by pro
gramme which inclues a variety of plays. calling
for Versatility on the part Of their exponents than
by the special production of one play rely reIylLS f
chiefly upon its appeal from spectacular PGlnt G1 %
view. All signs indicate revived interest III
the art of acting.
Here in New-York the first paragraph of this
extract will find a ready agreement perhaps
than the second. The increase of the NUMBER VI
theatres in this town in recent years mas oeeh
enormous and unprecedented, and no one VINO mas
matched closely the attractions which have oeei
concocted to fill the new houses can uoNOe ~
truth of Mr. Wizards assertion, that ,It dusi-
% ne6ies of the poorest quality have been me @
chief oilers but necessity mas peeIi hear horn
OF OF b our when so much is exhibited fhat dS IS
bad exhibited with blaTe OF bPeedless it is in
tbe ai' that good taste should deterorate ae
bad taste m tbe East to eyes blinded by Broad
way as is to Mr. Willards eSdf1 eSdnuy Of a great
art. at least. is always as 'he Si'a"O
rock in a weary land
G. o,+ has been the demand for seats io'
eFrhlingsluft" in the last few days d, 'ne l.or37
placa Tbeatre that Mr. Conred has been com.
need to postpone the production Of ms mex
poveItv a musical sequel to All 15Sinqsl1ft-
sen b performed every evening and at the
day matinee this week
Of Hearst This. however, does not prevent ms
heing a capahIe and pleasing actor Even s1S seHtu
has its vagaries He is such warm SUPP. supp E
that he has wagered his dignity IN 'he 80, t
the election and If he ms Miss Nison to
the Horse Show dressed in his Groom i II hit of a
sacree la ne ob @ Miss @ Nson to have him n Me
She might attract attention, soi11e'iiiie SO 1o - "
known fact actresses dislike TO 40
,a NOW comes the news Grom the Belasco
Tbeatre) that Miss Blanche Bates IS gonhs u iiue
for, trenton to Jersey City on horseback next
c,,,,a,, cba wanted to ride all the way from ron
5qHadsi 55IfdsiIrbia hut MI Belasco woudnt let f mel
Miss Bates has f GSanhatan She going to
revive Under Two FlagS, She win cry the
aTarurn aT1 Of .'The Girl from the 6oluen
through Elizabeth and Plalnnelo'
,,,rto, Holmes will soon be heard at the LyceuH
Theatre in this city in series of hve lraNei-
oeues" on entirely subjects Last SUNNI
Mr. Holmes spent some weeks III OOei -, e. ;
attending the performances OF .he ne" ,,,s:da
80 .11,be School of the Cross" He also lllaue
an extended tour through the BaVaraan 1yIoi' M
i+, sc Uaenerian legends and the castes anu
naIaces of the unfortunate King Ludwig Oh @ ID
wr Holmes also spent several months In the
fI,niP the ionic Port Arthur, with WhIch
Mr. Holmes has chosen i 10 be nes as usual illustrated
bU Mr. Holmes himself, and with MOTION Den,a
made by his fellow traDeiT 5as been profusely illus
rated nv acduantances of Mr. homes W io 6en re
ntalv present at Nogrs headquarters durlng rS
siege while added series d "a o 4 K1lropatkin S
Teadonarters Mr. Holmes will give doupie tI sentT
at the new Ly2epm on IheIert @ successive Friday after
Moons at O'Clock and course on ecfiVeIv 11e No
Sunday evenings At o-0V' DOeiiii-9
Vember II ana ~
Grace Elliston Edmund Breese and hlcharo Den
nett will be seen in the principal roles oil Chdile
11laip,s latest play THE Lion and the Mouse
which will have its first presentation IN Ne" LOT
AT the Lvceum Theatre November % The Lion
and the Mouse is being presented at lhe fN N
Theatre in Boston. where it seems to nave W.: won
80 II is a drama dealing in apparent serious
moss and sincerity with modern american II n
ccndftions In THE Boston IranSC;rlPt II, -
parker while pointing out many tecllllCdl Iae
comfnes rejoices that here Is d Il eitfte s,,bor
Siote N an interest at larger ana more VIZ
to the hour and he reads with its success d Sie "
the times
And tonight comes Peter Pan, the poE "lo
1,,ou1dn.t grow up to shame, perhaps those Oh US
who would or who did. Help back. again Peter
Pan!
Considerable money was raised at the Harlem
Casino last night for the charity fund Oh the
1srae1itfscher Briider Verein Bumenthal NO l.
at a concert conducted by Leon Laski and given
h,. members of Miss Marie CahilPs 'Moonshlne
cornnanv bv permission of Daniel Y. Arthur SilVle
Helm conducted the muslcal ttunlpeiS III lIIi
Frederic PaIIlding and George Beoan aPpea!gT ~
The feature the entertainment was tHe SUE -
NV New Submarine" by the girls OF the -hooh
shine" company
DAMRoSCH DENIES THEATRE RUMOR.
Walter Danaroseh yesterday said that there was
No truth in the reports circulated on Saturday that
b had bought large plot of land and intended 70
erect an opera house on It, soIne%nal on tne sts