New-York tribune., 1906-06-18
NOTES OF THE STAGE.
Actor Managers and the
Lterarg Drama.

There has always been more less agitation mere
for the reign of the actor-manager. and numerous
artistic advantages have been pointed out as likely
to result from it. At present America has several
players who practically actor-managers'
namely, Mr. Mansfield, Mrs. Fiske Henry Miler'
James X Hackett and Mr.. Sothern and Miss
Marlowe The first two have long given us the
best our stage affords and from the rest, in their
capacity of managers, the output is yet to come
But from their promises for next year 1t may De
that they offering to the literary drama
In this country an opportunity for hearing 1t
has failed to get In seasons past Mr. Miller % mas
already bought for Miss Anglin play b by a4aT Mam
and formerly a professor of English at Chicago
(though he is Slow about producing it, a drama
BY Percy Mackaye, built from Hawthorne story
Feather Top" out Of the ordinary in conception L
and executed In imaginatiye prose: % And And, Mr.; b
s2hen qna Mis- MarqS 5e W0 G IN
verse, based on Scandinavian mythology and sug,
the tt' original not Mr. Daudets friend This latter
play is set in single picture Moreover they have
secured a Launcelot and Guinevere drama by II.
Of T3e 9S'2i %tianc n2s Monthly @ Mr. % Boynton is
@ Fngh of at Phps ena hoady
How many of these plays will eventually see the
successful, time alone can tell, but their accept
fy ar ohar er3 wiz ~ eot as so a
attention to writing for the stage
The motto of Charming Pollocks latest play
written in collaboration with newcomer. Is to be
found in the remark Of one Of the IN the
r4 IN 70 tho one a OF the m me IN world & you be-
peYe eYIooi In the survival of the best fitted Mr.
"SartOr Resartus."
Arthur Wing Pinero has gone on a vacation to
celebrate his twenty-ffth year Of successful play
writing THE Money Spinner" his first long play
was put on twenty-five years ago in London, with
the Kendals and John Hare in the cast His only
has not abandoned writing. however. and though
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forteth. 1--'''' '-''
George Ade contributes an article To George
Cohan's weekly press sheet. The Spot Light this
week. entitled us Georges" From the original
St George" he says, patron saint OF England
who Is shown in his favorite NthOgraph to be fight
ing the syndicate down TO George Wilkes the
great trotting stallion. the name of George has al
ways been the trademark of a live one Every
good Pullman porter is named George If when
alighting at one-night stand. you insist upon
upholstered hack; with the blanket neatly folded
Can you see the Chicago public lighting to get
h aG SEE In PsSe Ten by f 1
name had been Wilfred AIDE, would have been in
George Bernard Shaw had been christened sam
ali winter in Eg @eT YORK;? ThnS 6Ver have
This is the 'ePg m sncs s2qf qs Hd
Walter N. Lawrence has engaged Aubrey Bouci-
cault for the principal part in production that he
is going 10 make early in the autumn Mr. Bouci-
cault Will play historical character. After a
few weeks the road the production is to be
brought to New York for a Broadway hearing.
The Mile. Champagne company. which is to
hold forth at the Madison Square Garden roof all
summer, left town on Saturday for Atlantic City,
where the first performance viii be given the
Savoy Theatre tonight. A week will be put in at
the seaside resort to get the show IN proper shape
for it's opening at the Madison Square Garden Roof
next Monday.
David Belasco announces a change of time in
| opening the performances of Miss Blanche Bates
| in The Girl of the Golden West" in its ninth
month the BelascO Theatre Instead OF 8 o'clock
sharply at Sis At this time the first picture the
conception of Mr. BeIasco is revealed The dsclos-
| ing Of this scene and the rendering Of the dainty
| incidental music delightful factors in creating
typical Belasco atmosphere" 1t is therefore i'm
portant that every should be seated pre-
Cisely At the Saturday matinees the curtain will
| rise at O'Clock, usual