The Washington times., 1906-07-08


one of the Shuberts' big productions,
and the leading part is said 10 fit
Jimmie Powers unctuous. eccentric
style of humor like the paper on the
wall"
Speaking of big productions" the
Braden production of "Barabbas'-
Tyrone Powers as the repentant thief.
of course-promises To be one Of the big
gest K is claimed that il will employ
POI people. The play is written in four
acts and ten scenes-in Jerusalem, and
its envirOns at the time of the Cruel
fXion-and the Incidental music. both
for chorus and orchestra, is TO be COM
posed by Julian Edwards.
Another Braden production which
promises 70 be rather interesting is
The Man and the Angel by Stanley
Darke It is "Trilby' sort of play
and Miss Frances Ring is TO have the
leading part of Sonia Stepniak. the
beautiful eighteen-year-Old daughter OF
Prince Paul Stepniak. an eXiled Rus
sian nobleman, residing In London
Sonia is possessed of a marvellous voice.
and eventually becomes u great artistic.
She has three suitors and guardian.
who is a cripple. a sort of Svengali, who
endeavors to keep her from marrying.
induced by selfish ends
The play is in prologue and four
acts. and the scenes are laid in and
around London. Though in a measure
a problem play, 1t is one in which the
problem is solved.
Miss Ring has recently been identified
with George AIDES plays. She had a
leading part in THE County Chair
man." and last season played the star
part-that of the WidOw-in The Col
Iege Widow" THE Man and the
Angel viii open on the last day OF
August al the Lyceum Theater. Roches-
Ter. n. Y.
Holbrook BIinn will play the leading |
male part. that Of David Tryne, the half |
insane crippled Svengal. who makes |
all the trouble.
Lulu CHASER win appear in a somewhat !
novel role next season, that of an
'angel" She is actually going TO back |
a young actor named Herr, who sup I,
ported her last season in Miss Donie
Dollars" and who made hit in a char |
acter sketch.
one of the next season projects that /
production of BTOwning's "Pippa I
Passes" in which Henry Miller is to 4
feature Mrs Sarah CoWeII lie Moyne. /
IT will be the first professional attempt /
TO present the curious and remarkable !
drama. Mr.. Miller and Mrs. lie Moyne /
are confident that they can so stage /
the piece as to assure a commercial /
success.
one Of George Cohan's troubles-they /
the so few and so small nowadays that |
he has TO use telescope to find them /
is that he can't figure out how they /
are going 10 dramatize the bad meat |
proposition.
It has yet to be announced that !
George COhan is going to play Lon |
don season, but there seems no doubt !
that Jacob Adler is about to try his for
tunes in Europe. and it is argued that /
the fact that this remarkable tragedian !
can play only in Yiddish, a corrupt mix |
.tuTe or Hebrew and German. while il is /
d terrible handicap with the American I
actor will have decided advantages dur |
ing a foreign tour. And In spite of the 1
handicap here. Adler has attained un- !
questioned eminence. not only among /
the people o. his own race but with /
the general public, which cannot really |
understand a word of what he Itters /
No greater tribute could be paid to the /
emotional force of a man and his skill /
in pantomimic suggestion Watching Ad- /
Ter act il is almost impossible to under I
stand that one doesn't understand, The /
meaning of what he does so explicitly 3
defines the purport Of ali he is saying
one is not obliged 10 decipher any par s
ttcular combination OF voweIs and con- |
sOnants.
Cohan and Adler! We beg his pardon. F,
either or both of him, for the juXtapO- ?
sltion, but il was too whimsically pleas ,
ing TO pass by
So also is the story that Clara
Lipman, pleased with the remarkable |
success of Julie Bonbon" is turning her /
attention seriously TO playwriting; that /
The Shuberts have several plays from /
her pen under consideration for their (
various stars; and that she is now at
work upon a serious play which has a |
very strong emotional role for a woman. |
and mans part that is of almost equal |
Importance.
Fact her press agent says so.
All but two of the regular attractions |
at the New York theaters have sue /
cumbed TO the sizzling heat of the past
few DAYS "The Lion and the Mouse !
holds on az the Lyceum and the "Socia! /
aEhlrl" at the Casino alone hold the fort
with the roof gardens and the seashore. |
Even so breezy a play as the Girl of
the Golden West" and so cool an actress |
as Blanche Bates have concluded 10 take !