The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-21
Fay DAVIS m A BOOK PLAY.
"THE HOUSE or MIRTH" TO BE
PRODUCED AT THE SAVOY.

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yisss Alien In "Cymsenne" at the Astor
and Sam Bernard In "The Rlrh Mr.
HOgkenheimer" at waIlAck'S- IA
Week Of Henry n. irving and Miss Baird.
'The House Of Mlrth. a play which Clyde
Fitch has helped Mrs. Edith Wharton to
make from her novel OF the same name. will
have ITS first New York production at the
Savoy Theatre tomorrow night with Fay
Davis in the chief part OF LAZY Bart. IL is
announced by the management that the
play follows, moro closely than is common,
the novel, and that the six scenes OF Its four
acts are unusually handsome. In the
company are Charles Bryant, Charles
Grant Mitchell, Katherine Stewart, Olive
Oliver and Jane Laurel.
The recently opened Aston Theatre will
have a new occupant tomorrow night when
"A Midsummer Nights Dream with Annie
Russell. gives way to -Cymbeline, in which
Viola Allen is now starring. Miss Allen
has been seen here In recent years in two
other OF Shakespeare plays Twelfth
Night and "A Winters Tale and in both
she has found favor with the critics. In her
newest effort she is supported by a COM
pany which includes Henry ]. Hadfeld,
Sidney Herbert, jefferson Winter, c. Leslie
Allen, j. H. Gllmour, Fuller Mellish and
Alison Skipworth. It 10 announced hat in
view of the length OF the play the curtain
will rise at 8 O'Clock.
Sam Bernard IN a now musical play VIII
appear at Wallack's tomorrow evening.
The title. The Rich Mr.. Hoggenheimer.'
10 a reminder Of his earlier SUCCESS In The
Girl From Rays AZ Piggy Ho0oenheimer
he was amusing in that play. and o
that character Harry B. Smith has written
q new farce. to which Ludwig Highlander
has added music. In It Mr.. Bernard Is a
worried father who undertakes TO break
OF a love affair between his son and an
American shop girl. To relieve his wife
Of worry he invents an excuse for coming
to America and is promptly pursued by her.
On the boat and in this country he gets into
constantly increasing trouble, not the least
Of il being due to his hirtations with q young
actress. Mr.. Demands company numbers
among its members Georgia Game, Kathryn
Hutchinson. Marion Larson, Edwin Mean
der. Percy Ames and Ivan Anderson.
Il. B. Irving and Dorothea Baird begin
the last week Of their engagement at the
New Amsterdam Theatre tomorrow even
ing, presenting Charles l. and Mark
helm" These two plays will be the bill
for Tuesday evening. On Wednesday
afternoon -Paolo and francesca" will again
be presented. Wednesday, Friday and
Saturday nights THE Lyons Mail and
and Thursday evening and Saturday
matinee -Markheim" and -Mauricette"'
will be the attractions. ~Markheim' and
-Mauricette" are new. and Mr.. Irving has
not yet been seen in them during his run
New Amsterdam Theatre will be dark,
and on Tuesday evening, the Soth, Forbes
Robertson and Gertrude Elliott will begin
their engagement in George Bernard
Shaw's play Cesar and Cleopatra
There has been a hitch in the opening
OF the new Berkeley Theatre, in Forty
fourth street, near Fifth avenue. and the
date now set IL Wednesday. October a.
The Berkeley will open with a double bin.
The first number will be q dramatic in
cident" entitled The Day Before, in which
Miss Ethel Hunt will make her American
debut. The second part OF the programme
will be a revised edition OF 1Mam'zelle
Champagne with May Yohe In the title
role.
Chauncey Olcott viii be at the New York
Theatre this week in his newest play,
Eileen ASHORE by Theodore Burt Sayre.
The scenes of the play are laid in and around
Dublin in 1904 and give Mr.. Olcott a chance
TO introduce a number Of new songs. Flor
ence Lester is his leading woman.
The Measure Of a Man" had it's first
New York production by a professional
cast last night at weber's. Chief among
| the performers are Robert Drouet, +. M.
Holland, Percy Haswell n Mary Hall.
Blanche Bates's last five weeks at the
Belasco in The Girl Of the Golden West
are announced. She will give way To
.The Rose OF the Rancho the annual
Belasco Theatre production.
Klaw & Changers production of THE
Prince OF India begins its fourth week al
the Broadway Theatre tomorrow evening
where it will remain but five weeks longer
On Nov ember "a it will be transferred to
another city to all contracts made before
its New York run began.
William Gillette in his own play, 'Clarice,
continues the attraction at the Garrick.
This is the third month OF the Henry
Arthur Jones play, the Hypocrites," al
the Hudson. Prominent in the cast are
| Jessie NlllWdIut DOlho hCahOt ACSllC HaOCl
and Richard Bennett. d
At the Criterion Hattie Williams in The
Little Cherub" il still proving that English
musical comedy can be tra~nsplanted tC
America and flourish.
John Drew in Pinero's His House ir
Order"Nat the Empire has found his Creates
success Of recent years.
Grace George is nearing her fftieth per
Torrance as Oliuid ShsrlGoJd in the Hop.
wood-Pollock society satire Clothes,
which she and her associate players arr
presenting with so much success at tbs
Manhattan.
The musical play The Tourists" is no
likely to go on tour for some time, for 4
continues to draw good houses to he Males
tic. In its cast are Richard Golden, JuliS
Sanderson, Alfred Hickman, Vera Niche
lena, Anna Boyd and Grace La Rue.
Virginia Harmed has successfully chanRec
from emotional drama to sprightly comedy
in Sardou's THE Love Letter" which shI
is playing at the Lyric.