The Washington times., 1906-06-17
Weird Plans for
Coming Season

W DdL happens 10 the DtSl Adlu DldnSs
what. Oh what. can they expect will
happen 10 theirs? They are making
some OF the wierdest plans for next sea-
son. some that sound. like The. Dream
OF the Rarebit Fiend." And. by the way.
that man-Winsor McCay. isn't it?-the
creator of Dull Care" Hungry Hen
rieIta. 'AIr BUnicn." ct al. Is going
into vaudeville after the manner Of other
successful CartOOnists In twelve or
fifteen minutes he will draw a series
OF twenty-five pictures, in his we'll
known manner. and then, selecting
people at random from the audience be-
fore him, he will proceed to draw their
pictures Mr.. McCay's speed in define
alton mas been the amazement of his
brother artists. and there is no doubt
that his audiences will be equally i'm
pressed.
But that is 4 digressien.
Il dare say" said J.. II. Sothern to a
New York interviewer a few da,-s ago.
that when Miss Marlowe and l an
nounce our plans some people will think
US crazy. The American dramatists will
he represented by three plays-aH OF
them poetic. Two are from the pen
OF Eric Mackaye, who wrote 'Feuris the
Wolf and The Canterbury Pilgrims
II w BOynton, OF the Atlantic Monthly,
whose Journalism and Literature you
probably know has written the other.
NO, We 90 not intend 10 produce Mr.
Mccarthy s play on Jeanne dare. Mr..
Mackayc has written = play on that
subject FOR US and another on Sappho,
the Greek pOetess. The latter Is set IN
n single scene and affords opportunity
for beautiful stage picture. MIR Boyn-
toms play deals with IduncelOt and
Guineverc
In addition 10 these, We Will pro-
duce D'Annuncio's 'Joria.' Sudermann's
John tho Baptist, neither Of which ha 5
been seen here, and we will revive
Hauptma1ns The Sunken Bell The
four Sha@espearean plays Of this year
viii be repeated, -.iJh single new pro-
duction. As You Like It
Mr.. SothCrn was asked IL he would
then appear as Orlando for the first
time.
My intention is to alternate as Touch
stone and Jaques on successive nights.
Sude-mann, Shakespeare. D'Annunzio.
Hauptmann. Mackaye. and Boynton-au
IN one season! As Wilton Lackaye is IN
the habit Of saying, Cen you beat
thatg'
Now. when Cissie LOTUS was playing
with Sothern-(beg pardon, when she
was playing with Sothern she was 'Ce-
cilia')-she wouldn't have let him do
that sort Of thing. Cissie gets up into
the clouds occasionally. but she likes
the earth and the fullness thereof too
well 20 cut loose entirely. Which IS
perhaps why she has Just signed .or
next season with Joe Weber and his all
corr1nanr
the music hall to the legitimate-of the
mcst legitimate sort-and has finally
landed with Jbe Weber In sort of
apotheosis Of vaudeville Here's luck
TO her. anyhow.
AS for Joe Weber. he's having a siren
uous time catching his stars for his all
star company One OF the biggest and
brightest of them, ample Marie Dress
ler," withdrew temporarily ito have a
necessary operation performed II de-
veloped. however, that that was a mere
euphemism- Miss DressIer was peeyish
about the payroll-wanted to figure
financially as amply as she does phys
ically, and sailed a week ago on the
Minnetonka Tor a London season with
George Edwardes. Tableau: The Mime
tonka in the ofting with the ample Marie
leaning over the rail and smiling be-
nignly at Joe, who stands on the dock
waving his contract whereby the lady
binds herself TO appear only with him
or under his management for some years
to come Alas, poor Joe,
Meanwhile Joe has signed vet other
contracts with Stella Mayhem to take
Miss Dressler's place in The Jays and
The Squaw Mans Girl Of the Golden
1rn- TfCu
pleasing lady; but really, you know. II
would take a pretty big artistic 10 MI
Miss Dressler's place. And already Stella
has been heard to murmur plaintiveIy:
The critics with one accord saw that
nv vaudeville methods cling to me-.
said Stella Mayhem. plump and pleasing
in baby blue as she waited TO go on the
stage at Weber's Music Hail ''Rless
their hearts-and heads-Tve only F,f
six weeks of vaudeville in my life L
have been on the stage a long time.
! won't deceive them about that, but
have happened TO be with on'y a few
plays-and in all of the productions I
had specialties, so the critics were not
entirely wrong. Anyway. wouldn't tell
them so. ->ren't they a handsome race
of men2"
Here's luck to Marie-Lady Greatheart
Ot the nEOItSSlOn. ana mere. also, Is luck
to Stella MAYHEM. good fellow and
clever. And hang comparisons-whats
the use?
Then look at Annie Russell, They're
planning to make her play Puck, in
The Midsummer Nights Dream" Ac-
cording to literature put out by her man
ayers before they could persuade her
TO take the part. her adaptability to
the role was the subject of many pro-
tracted debates. in which the actress
stoutly maintained the negative. II was
finally decided that Miss Russell should
have fortnight of probation. The
fortnight has been devoted to study
and rehearsals. and to reconciling the
actress to Robin Goodfellow's somewhat
airy attire.
Miss Russell's metamorphosis from
fhe ingenious stage maiden TO Shakes
reare's sauciest boy will be a remark
able as Miss Maude Adams transforua-
ton from Lady Babbie to Peter Pan"