The Washington herald., 1906-11-14
ABOUT PLAYERS AND PLAYS.

James X. Hackett is doing The Walls
Of Jericho" for the benefit Of the Brook
/ lynites this week
/ Brooklynites are being regaled and edi-
fed this week with revival Of the good
/ old Galley slave
There is an aerie rumor afioat along
/ Broadway that Augustus Thomas is en-
( gagged in writing a new play for Sam
/ Bernard.
/ RObert Mantel persuaded that he has
! made a great success in his impersOnation
/ of Richard III. is now considering the
wisdom Of adding Richard H. to his
/ string.
! Miss Eugene Blair revived Clyde Fitch's
popular play. The Woman In the Case"
/ at the MetrOpOle TheaJer, New York. on
T Monday night She was very warmly re-
/ ceived
Eleanor Robson Is boasting up and down
+ Broadway that she has secured promise
/ from Thomas A. Edison that TO her will
be sold the first Of the wonderful new
/ electric batteries for automobiles that IS
permitted 90 leave the wizards shops
THE Road 10 Yesterday" was produced
a. the Garrick Theater in Chicago on
Sunday night. Il is looking backward"
play The characters as tie result OF a
wish made on the twenty-third OF the
month are transported 800 years into the
past
The story of a colossal t50.O1Oo00 thea;-
riC3l trust. combining everything in the
amusement line down TO the graphophone
music mills. has been set afi0at again,
but Is declared TO be merely a case Of
a new man getting hold Of an old story
thar had very little basis when it was
new.
The latest link added 20 the chain II
/ Shubert theaterS is the New Lyric in
/ Cincinnati. which was opened Monday
night by DeWolf Hopper and Margaret
/ Clark in 'Happyland." The new theater
is steel and cement structure, said to
be as near freproCf as money and science
could make IT,
Willie Collier produced his new piece.
Caught in the Rain" at the Savoy Thea
! ter. in Atlantic City. on Monday night
/ The original manuscript Of this play was
destroyed In the San Francisco earth
quake, and ii was rewritten by Collier on
/ scraps Of paper menu cards and other
| odds and eads on his way across the Pa
/ cifc 10 Australia.
FRITZ Schef has new palace auto
furnished with all the comforts OF a
home. including 4 cellaret with trimmings
/ and other necessary ingredients of garden
parties FRITZ has been putting on so
many airs since she get the mogul bub-
/ blewagOn that she caught q violent cold.
land the Chestnut Street Theater. Phil5-
delphia. had to remain dark Monday
! night.
At last the dream Of Hamlet" with
/ Hamlet left out, has been realized IN
/ Haddon Chambers three-act farce of Sir
/ Anthony" no such character appears
among the persons Of the drama Sir
| Anthony is a member Of the gentry whom
/ the snobs Of the farce incessantly talk
about. and claim acquaintance with, but
who is never introduced on the scene
/ The new piece was produced at a matinee
/ In Boston on Monday and is reported 10
have gone with a rush.
! one way New York managers try to
| snatch success from the jaws Of failure
! is to change the name of the play that
/ gets the lemon from Broadway and palm
| IT of on the provinces" BY this means
/ they may be able to get back the money
they invested in scenery and costumes at
! least, and il is possible the uncriticul
! provinciaIs may find merit where the
wise guys along the Great White Way
saw only stupidity. The Blasley Dla-
monds." one OF the lame ducks OF last
year. is now on the road as '"The Morn
ing After
Oscar Hammerstein is having no end OF
trouble in trying TO carry out his inde-
pendent grand opera season in New
York. The courts have restrained him
from producing the Puccini operas: the
singers he has engaged in Europe to ap-
pear in them threaten to sue him II ne
doesn't let them come over and warble.
and now It is announced from Paris that
Eduard de Reszke. headliner of Oscars
whole operatiC outfit. has cancelled his en-
gagement because the impresario failed
to make good in certain preliminary
arrangements. oscar denies this and
says de Reszke's voice IS on
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