New-York tribune., 1906-10-29
NOTES OF THE STAGE.
The New Act for "Peter Pan" and "Thmee's"
Sewing Machine.

| When Peter Pan" shown IN Boston last
Monday there bit of business in the
! fourth act which convulsed the house. When the
curtain rose disclosing the pirates the deck OF
their ship he whom Hook. with his pirate lisp
/ calls 'Thmee" seated at sewing
chine. He punctuated Hooks bloodtbirsty remarks
by running this machine, to the confusion of Hook
and the delight OF the audience. The climax came
when Hook in the midst of his most blood
thirsty peroraton. The pirate who did so want
mother pulled out his cloth from under the needle
and tore it in TWO with a great, ripping noise.
Hook stopped. the wind quite gone from his sails
and the audience shouted with laughter. The idea
for this business came to Mr.. Barrie last spring
when he and Mr. Frohman were watching per-
formance in Birmingham. England. and 1t
then added to the English production.
Potter Pan" will remain in Boston until Christ
mas. phenomenal run for play at the Hollis
Street Theatre. end will then come back to Broad
way, with new act. This will not be the meet
production, out an act written solely for Miss Ad-
ans Indeed several PASSAGES in the present pro
written for Miss Adamss use. One Of these is the
not cccyr in the F,neIian version The new act re-
toices in the tide OF Tho Terrible Encounter with
mermaids and from the but in saving Wendy
the back of a bird bur Peter is LETT on a tnv
roc+S with the seq rising about him To die he
ffFits feter, 'na' "'io ne he" sensation Unsuitable
But he does not die The sea is visible for a
/ moment. tossing over the submerged rock: and
then Peters .'cock-a-d -doode-doo' is heard and he
favorite.
No definite announcements are yet possible re-
garding Mr.. Barrie's next play, save that it will
be fantasy" He has, Mr.. Frohman says.
some seven or eight schemes for plays in mind but
which Of them he will first work upon
paper Mr.. Frohman cannot say. and perhaps he
I thinks Mr.. Barrie cannot either.
Amos judo has been dramatized Althea Luce
and Leonard Liebling are the names of the drama
Tiers. Mr.. Mitchell has had considerable wait
for the hour 10 strike; the book was published some
yet. It Is not stated THAT any manager has ac-
cepted the play.
William Vaughn Moody. # would seem. arrived
at interest in the theatre late in life. or COM
paratively SO. for he is still young man. It is
said on good authority that not until he witnessed
a performance of William Butler Yeats's Hour
Glass" while he was teaching in Chicago. did he
nave nave so much as a thought of writing play. At
firm the report that in his undergraduate DAYS il
was impossible TO interest him even in the acaH
practical theatre. Accordingly. those who knot
Divide Although it IS now only October bV tbe
sold. '''e ""eaus oeeh
The Casino will be dark until Saturday n.ht
when The Blue Noon will rtss th.re
To-day. at Keith & Proctors Fifth Aveny. Thu
me
in vaudeville. Arnold DAILY will present there "Hou
He Lied TO Her Husband" The question that IS
ag1tating the breasts OF the management Is how
many of the patrons OF the Continuous will know
enough about Candida" to understand t.
Miss Olive North who has been with the H,ppo
drome since its opening, will not appear in The
forthcoming spectacle at that house. because sha
says. she is not tank actress" Her part re-
CURED her 20 plunge into the big tank the staee
and she positively refused to get wet So batbaj
! signed ~ te-
Work will begin to-day at the Garden Theatre
enlargng the orchestra pit for the coming Perform,
ances OF Puccinis Madame Butterfly" AS there
are sixty men In the orchestra three OF chairs
Will have to be removed. The pit win be sunk ten
feet, SO that the musicians will be concealed from
the audience almost, as at Bayreuth. The opera
Itself will be heard In Boston Tonight where IL
Will remain TIL the New York opening. the week
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