The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-28
NEW PLAYS FROM ENGLAND.
FORBES ROBERTSON IN SHAW'S
CESAR AND CLEOPATRA"

Lena AshwcIl In The shuIamitc'' at the
LyrIc-A New Theatre, the Lincoln
square. TO Open MiIh'"The LOv Route
James T. Powers In The Blue Moon"
Forbes Robertson and Gertrude Elliott
will present at the New Amsterdam Theatre
on Tuesday night for the first time George
Bernard Shaw's Cesar and Cleopatra
In Mr.. Shaw's version Of history Cesar.
then a man OF 81, places Cleopatra, a gin
Of 10, on the throne, upsetting the plans
Of the Roman adherents OF her you ger
brother, PtoIemv Dtonpsus. Having done
this he departs promising TO send her as q
present Marc Antony. The play Is in four
acts with seven scenes, representing the
courtyard Of an old Syrian PALACE a SPHINX
in the desert and a throne room m TINS
palace; the council chamber OF the ShAh-
cslIors OF the Kings Treasury IN AlexanorAa'
Cleopatra's room and the roof OF a peiace
in Ale andri and the east haroor OF Alex
andria.
Lena Ashwell, an "a glish actress OF dis
t~inction, will make her New York oeonC
at the Lyric Theatre tomorrow night In
The Shulamite, q dramstisatiou OF Anna
OF the Plains" a novel Of South African
life. Miss Ashwell's part il that OF the
Young wife OF a South African farmer
who loves her in his own rough way but
who shows his affection by beating her.
A Young En- glisbman stirs her latent pas
sions and after 4 dramatic scene they plan
! 10 clone. The staying Of the Boer husband
halts them and their efforts to hide his
death leads them into complications from
| which they at last emerge sucoessfuliy'
A stage setting Of more than usual beauty
is announced for the play.
On Tuesday evening another playhouse
will open. The newest addition Is the
Lincoln Square, on Broadway between
Sixty-hfth and Sixty-sixth streets, and the
opening play is The Love Route oy
Edward Peple. It's scenes are laid in New
York and Texas and its story is OF the
wooing of a girl ranch owner by a young
railroad en- gineer. Odette Tyler is the ranch
boss and Guy Standing the engineer, while
Olive MAY, George Woodward, Herbert
Aging, BeItram Lytell and j. c. Marlowe
have prominent parts.
THE Man of the Hour George Broad
bursts new play OF American political me-
will lave it's New York tryout at the Man
haitian Theatre tonight. A political boss
an Alderman. a schoming financier and an
upright Mayor are all tangled up in the plot.
Part of the scenes are laid in the city hall
of an unnamed large American city. The
cast includes Frederick Perry. James L,
Wilson, John Flood. Diva MaTolda and
Harriet Otis DeIenbaugh.
In the Blue Moon James T. Powers
will reappear as a candidate at the Casino
on Saturday evening. Mr.. Powers Is
Private Charley Taylor, bandmaster Of the
Royal Muzzerfernpgger Band. who helps
TO s~traiChten out the love affair OF an Eng
lish girl brought up as a HGrPsse . sha an N
win his own sweetheart by proving his
skill in all sorts OF unexpected roles. The
hook is by Harold Ellis. with lyrics by Percy
Greenbank and music by Harold Talbot
and Paul Rubens, In MT Powerss com
Edith Sinclair, Kathryn Robinson. Edward
M. Favor, Templar SAKE and h Ryiey.
william Gillette in "Clarice' continues
the attraction at the Garrick Theatre.
Marie Dow hes the title role.
At the Hudson Henry Arthur Jones's
newest play, The Hypocrites,S is in its
third month. The cast contains many
we'll known actors.
This is also the third month Of John
Drew's successful season in His House IN
Order at the Empire.
This will be the last week Of The House
of Mirth" with Fay Davis at the Savoy.
Hattie Williams in The Little Cherub'
has proved one Of the seasons chief sue
cesses. This is her fourth month at the
Criterion.
At Wallack's Sam Bernard is repeating
in The Rich Mr.. Hoggenheimer' th'
success which he won in The Girl From
Rays
Al the Manhattan Theatre Grace Georg,
enters tomorrow night upon the eight
week OF her engagement in the Hopwood
Pollock satire Clothes With the preeen
week Miss George will abandon her Wednes
day matinee to The Man OF the hour,
and will give but one matinee OF Clothes
each week, on Saturday.
1.-The Tourists" remains at the Majesti
Theatre. where It is likely to stay a goo'
, part of the season. Among the cleve
, entertainers are Richard Golden, JUL
Sanderson, Alfred Hickman, Vera Michelen
and Anna Boyd.
Miss Eleanor Robson enters tomorrow
upon the fifth week Of her engagement Il
, aNurse Maiorie" at the Liberty Theatre
She will continue to present this play for
= few weeks more before a change is made.
, At the Madison Square Theatre "Th
: Three Of U.s." with Carlotta Nilsson, .hs
> jumped into immediate favor.
. Blanche Bates in The Girl OF the Golde
West" has but a short time longer to n
a main al the Belasco.
In the last week contracts were mad
by which three more stars are to be added
those who surround Lew Fields in -AbOr
Town" at the Herald square Theatr
Blanche Ring, who was with Mr.. Fields in .
Happened in Nordland" last season, inal
Rurates her engagement under the Shube
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