Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-22

the Parker romance 1t will be recalled
that Mr.. Harvey made his first American
appearance some seasons ago In The only
Way" However, the piece did not appeal
as novelty, as 1t had been given previ-
ously by Henry Miller, and therefore the
English actors tour did not extend beyond
the eastern cities.
Preparations are being made for the
London production Of Charles Henry
Meitzer's historical play, The First
tried the piece on this side, with but in
different success, some seasons ago.
II is announced that Florence Roberts
will be seen in "Gioconda" next season.
Miss Roberts gave the first English pro-
duction of the d'Annunzio drama in San
Francisco in 1904. Duse is the only other
actress who has ever played it in this
country.
Thomas w. Ross, not Nat Goodwin, is to
be the star of the new Cohan piece, "Popu-
larity." The assigned reason is that .
younger actor than Mr. Goodwin is needed
for the part This probably means that in
this latest masterpiece bodily activity is of
more consequence than brains.
Henry B. Harris has decided on Septem-
Der l6 and Hartford as the time and place
for the initial production of Charles Klein's
new, play The Daughters of Men" On
at the Colonial theater in Boston, after
which it will be taken to New York for an
extended run.
Arnold Daily has obtained the American
rights to Grandfather Coquesne," one
act play by Cosmo Hamilton, which had its
first performance last month at the Car
rick theater, London, at a benefit for the
O Prussian intruder on the stage and the
rest of the play is reported as violent and
blunt.
Justin Huntly Mccarthy is putting the
finishing touches to new play entitled
Caesar Borgia." The character of the
soldier-cardinal, with its many varied as
poets, is of a kind to appeal strongly to the
Imagination of the melodramatist Now
that he has completed his play Mr.. Nc
Carthy. after his customary fashion fash Is
first, play or novel, is as yet unsettled.
The new Astor theater in New York will
be opened on Thursday August 80 by
for the first time as Puck in "A Midsum-
mer Nights Dream" During her engage
%ent Miss q Russell ssn yin give MATINEE
nah," and later in the season she will be
seen in new play by Jerome X. Jerome.
season w. s. Gilberts delightful parody Of
Hamlet" "Rosencrantz and Guilden-
stern" He himself will appear as King
London frequently and always With sue
cess. II is full Of Mr.. Gilbert's best and
most characteristic humor.
The money that yields dramatic interest
in Three Women's Gown" a new play in
a Ylddish theater of the Bowery section
Of New York, is triple tainted. A Jew
with clothes cast on by women more fash
ionable than wealthy. He has purchased
a fine gown from a respectfully married
disreputably unwedded belle Of the smirch
set. Again II comes back TO his store, and
again he sells it-this time to pure poor
girl to wear at her debut an actress.
The maiden finds in an obscure pocket Of
the dress five bank notes of a thousand
dollars each. Whom do they belong to?
thrust them there to tempt her when she
should find them. He was a temporary
owner Of the siren. also, and may have
them into the garment when she had
It on. Anyway, as he was a plundering
officer of a life insurance company, the
OF his swag. Al the time of the play he
is pursuing the Jewish maiden. But she
wouldn't take his polluted cash even under
the described circumstances What shall
she do with It? IT is tainted Christian
give 1t toward the building Of Jewish
synagogue"
Cecil owen has been engaged as leading
man for Robert Mantell during the coming
season. He will have line Of parts for
dolly Davis win be in the company that
Is to play Daisy Farm" AT present they
are filling a stock engagement at Rochester.
worth of "Parsifal tickets the first year
he gave that opera in New York, Baireuth
still hourishes Every seat for the twenty
soon was sold several weeks ago. That
means receipts OF about $4,000, and as the
expenses are small, few costly singers be-
ing engaged Cosimo and Siegfried Wagner
will again pocket about 100000 clear profits.
Their satillites-queer people-will, as usual,
deny this. Some will say that the profits
were only 81 lSS; others that the widow paid
the deficit, and still others will declare
that the widow and her son will not benefit
by the profits, because these are added 10
the funds for the perpetuation OF Balreuth
festivals. Why, the reader may ask, this
eagerness on the part OF Frau Wagner s
friends TO hide the fact that Baireuth has
the most profitable opera house the world
has ever seenI Because wagner abhorred
the idea Of making II such. What he aimed
at was model performances OF his works
by their greatest interpreters in the world.
This is not what Balreuth provides today
far from IL. hence the financial observation
Just referred 70.