The Washington herald., 1906-11-02
ABOUT PLAYS AND PLAYERS.

ABOUT PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
Manager Percy G. Williams. OF the Co |
lonial Theater. New York. and the VII |
liams circuit, comes proudly to the front
with the announcement that hS has cap |
tured real live French prince and /
princess for the delectation of his pa 1
irons. They are Prince Robert and Prin- |
cess EsteIle de Broglie. the latter a Cali
foTnia girl. who eloped with the French /
nobleman after getting a divorce from |
her first husband, an American, whom /
sne married in Paris. The prince also has /
gone through the divorce court, and had |
his allowance cut of after his elOpement !
with the American girl. The pair found |
themselves stranded in New York, and /
are going to try to make living by |
their musical talent. The princess Is said |
10 be a singer of some ability, and when |
she appears at the Williams theaters |
her husband, who is a musician, viii |
conduct the orchestra.
Richard Mansheld's production of Ib- |
sens Peer Gynt." seen in Chicago for |
the first time on Monday night, requires
IIEEfHlhLiDQ. /
ming until after midnight.
His Child is the name OF the little
One-act thriller in which Cissy LOTUS |
will be seen in vaudeville on her forth /
coming tour OF this country She gave
an invitation matinee performance Of II /
for the benefit of her friends, IN New
York yesterday.
Henry Arthur Jones, the English dram
at!st. now lecturing in New England. |
tells his audiences that the English and
American playwrights simply aren't in
it with the French. He says We and the
English have made an awful mess Of
our drama, while the French have done
fine things. In France the drama is
reckoned fine art says the despairing
Henry Arthur, while I'm England the
great mass Of piaygoers have lost ali
sense that the drama Is the art of repre-
Sc ing life. and go to the theater mainly
70 be awed by scenery, or 10 be tickled
by funny antics and songs and dances
that have no relation 70 life. and merely
provide means Of wasting the even
ing in entertainment not far removed from
idiocy. Come 10 think of a.. there's a
gooo deal in what Henry Arthur says.
and it applies TO America quite as well
as 10 his own native land
There's no let up in the frothy flow of
musical comedy. 4 new one is scheduled
for early production by the Shuberts
The Mimic and the Maid" it is called,
and y. Baldwin Sloane is responsible for
the music, while the book comes from
the pen Of Allen Lowe. 1t will be- pro-
duced some place in Connecticut about the
middle CT December.
Camille d'ArviIle is going to take the
read shortly in a musical COMEDY. called
The Belle Of London Town"
The press agents are cleverlv working
up interest in the coming production Of
Oscar Wilde's ''Salome." IN New York
by zestful disclosures calculated to make
the public understand how very naughty
it is. They have now let It be known
the piece was not really produced at all
in public in England. owing 70 the inter
dlction OF the censor. II was performed
IN private at the London house of Mrs.
John W MaCkay. however. We are told.
and King Edward is said to have Wit
messed this presentation.
There has been another postpCnement
OF the premiere Of Mrs. Leslie Carter in
her new play, Cleo in which she will
BE- seen for the first time free from the
Belasco guardianship. Il may now be the
middle of December before she makes
her debut in the new venture.
The report that Anna Held had recover
ed her bag Of diamonds isn't true. It
was started by a brace of amateur de-
tcctives. who thought they saw a chance
to get little advertising cut of the
affair on their own account