Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-24
IN NEW YORK'S THEATERS
(By Acton Davies,

Another important figure in the
world OF theatrical management next
year will be James X. Hackett. He
has just secured the lease OF Fields
theater and will move his big success,
MIR. hopkinson." there next week. 1t
IL rumored that another theator IL soon
to pass. into Hacketts control and e
VIII be at this theater rather than at
Fields, that he and his wife. Miss
Mary Mannering viii make their head.
quarters.
"The Alcalde' new comic opera
In which Thomas Q. Seabrookc Is to
star and the new Mae,erlinclS play
which Alfred Sutro Is 10 adapt into
English are two OF the latest attraC-
tons which he has secured.
The suCden termination OF the tour
Of "Mizpah,' the Biblical play which
ELLA Wheeler Wilcox wrote and which
Charles frohman produced may be
taken as an indication that that man
ager has washed hia hands OF religious
plays for all time. The day before he
saied for England he remarked II don't
thlnG the public want TO see religious
subjects on the stage, produced "Miz.
pah' on the road because thought It
had gooG deal OF human interest and
poetry, but ! never expected that II
would make an appeal to New York
audiences.
"A play like ben Hur" only turns up
once or twice in lifetime and II was
tho chariot race rather than the re-
llgions theme which made the success
of that"
War TO the knife has broken out IN
| that usually happy family at the We
! Der Music hall, Marie Dressler, who
| Tor long time has had her eyes fixed
! lonBingly on the neshpots of Mayfair
and the strand. announces that she Is
| going to London this summer to fill n
| Years engagement under George Ed
! Warde's management. Mr. Joseph We
( Der, lor present manager, announces
! that she isu't going to do anything OF
| Tue sort Her contract with him. he
claims. has still two years to run and
| there Isn't the slightest loop hole IN It
! through which MS willy Marie can
| make her escape. To all of which,
| MISS Dressler merely wags her head
| and says both sagely and succinctly
! All right bat Just YOU wait and see."
Annie Russell, plaintive and piauante
as eeyr, has just returned from her
nNe months season In London and is
TO start out a fortnight hence
IN sister Hannah" a Quaker play by
Pau Kestcr. Miss Russell rather
lodged the question OF the success OF
George Bernard Shaws play Magic
Barbara In London, by explaining
that Mr., shaw was kind enough to her
after her first appearance IN the role
OF the salvation Army lassie, but that
| there WAS far too much OF Shaw In ii
and far too little Annie Russell AT
an events Miss Russell hasn't tbs
slightest desire to present the play in
this country
AT the theaters this week tho atrac.
tons are as follows; Beasco, "Tht
Girl Of the Golden West" New Amster.
dam, Mansfield I'm repertoire; Criterion
The Mountain Climbers" Empire
Maud Adams I'm Peter Pam" Broad
way, Elsie Janis In THE Vanderbilt
Cup;' Herald Square, George NJ. Co
han in George Washington, Jr.;"Man.
haitian, "Charley's Aunt" Wallack's
The Squaw Man" Hudson Otis Skin.
ner In THE Duel" Lyceum, "The Lioi
and the Mousse" The Hippodrome
"The Society Circus" Academy OF
Music. THE Heart OF Maryland" Mad
ison Square, Howard Kyle as Mozar
IN THE Greater Love" Days Law.
renee DOrsay In THE Embassy Ball;
Fourteenth street. David Higgins II
HIS Last Dollar" Casino De Wolf,
Hopper in "Happyand;" Lyric, Mex
icana;" the Savoy, mir. Hopkin
SON. Majestic. Blanche Ring In Iii,
Majesty" Biiou, David Wariield II
THE Music Master" The New York
"Humpty Dumpty;" Knlckerbocker
FRITZ Scheff In Mile. Modesto" Prin
cess, Henry Woodrow In Brown O
Harvard Fields, Louis Mann and Ola
ra lipman In Julie Bonbon;" Colonial
Charles f. Evans and company, Franz
b. Bryan and American Girls Alham
bra, Vesta Victoria Berzacs Coined,
Circus, Emma Carus. Harlem Operi
House, THE Clansman," Hammer
stems, Henry De Vries; Joe Webster
Music Hall, "Twiddle Twaddle," ant
the "Squawman's Girl OF the Colder
West" Garrick. "Gallops" Garder
Theater, Raymond Hitchcock IN 9TH
Galloper;" Madison Square Garden
Barnum & Bailey
ACTON DAVIES.