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The Washington times., 1906-09-09
- a rew nsOre NoveItios.

Wednesday. the GarFick opened with
William Il. Crane. in The FTide OF
Money" by Alfred Sutro. Thursday saw
the first production OF THE HypGcrltes.
by Henry Arthur Jones. at the hudson,
and Lew Fields opening Of the Herald
solare with About Town" and Satur-
day had five openings. The Judge ana
the Jury" at Wsllacks; Rose Stanl N
The Chorus Lady" at the Savoy; Da-
vid Warfeld's third year in The MUSIC
Master" az the Bijou; FRITZ Schen's re-
turn In Mile. Modiste" at the Knicker-
hacker and the reOpening Of the Hippo
droue with a revival Of The Society
Circus The Roger Brothers In Ire
land" which has been seen in wash
inaton and THE Heir 10 Hoorah.
which has not, though Il has been IN
New York before close the list OF this
weeks openings. The latter comes 10
the Columbia week after next.
Last week was really much buster
There were openings every night In the
week except Friday. Monday, Hackett
opeped his newly acquired theater for
r1arIv FIelds0 with The Little
Stranger" and half a mile down Broad
way. Marie CahfIl opened Daly's with
Marrying Mary" Tuesday Hilda Spong
opened Weber's with Lady Jim" by
Harold Heaton.
There's a bunch for you! Some OF
them Washington has seen. the others
IL certainly will see before the end OF
the season. Most important OF them Is
undoubtedly THE Hypocrites," by Hen
ry Arthur Jones.
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..The HypOorites" scOrss.

From all accounts. THE Hypocrites"
IS "a play as Is a playa real drama.
and Ike all real dramas, something Of
melodrama. impressionist. reaHsJ.
what you Will, but full OF power and
good red blood. And it's acted by a
cast as is a cast, a company that could
scarcely be improved upon. cluding Jes-
sic Millward arthur Lewis. Doris
Keane. Richard Bennett, Leslie Faber,
J. II. Barnes, W. H. Denny. Helen
Tracey, Cecil Kingston. and others.
1t is the story, frankly. OF a woman's
mistake. Of a manly curates determine
ton 10 see justice done though the heav-
ems fall-and they come pretty near H.
The man in the case Is engaged quite
suitably to a rich baronets daughter.
So the girl must be brow-beaten or
bribed into eXonerating him. She must
be hustled out of the way, her lips
sealed.
Here is the motive OF the whole play.
The elder WiImores knew the facts. So
does the curate. And as thesf eoEs!der
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A Remarkable Contract.

Doubtless the most extraordinary con-
tract ever entered into by a theatrical
star and a theatrical manager, is that
which has just been consummated be
tween Mrs Madge Carr Cook, the star
in Mrs. Wigs OF the Cabbage Patch. ="
and Charles Tyler, manager of Liebler
& Co. BY the terms OF this unique con-
tract. which Mrs. Cook signed on the
eve of Mr.. Tylers departure for Eu-
rope, she agrees to play the role Of the
Optimist Of the Cabbage Patch for
the term of her professional life.
Among other provisions. II expressly
stipuiates that Mrs Cook is 10 remain
upon the stage. playing no other role
than that of Mrs. Wigs for life, un-
less by mutual consent the contract Is
dissllowed or physical disability neces-
states her retirement
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RE. n governess and tutor travel with
the youthful player. who is considered
a budding genius.
The war over the rights to play THE
KreutZer Sonata" in English goes mer-
rily on. Wagenhals & Kemper have
sent out a song of triumph TO the effect
that Supreme Court Justice Geigerich
had decided that they had a right TO
produce the play. and Uhat now they
are going after an Injunction 10 keep
Harrison Grey Fiske from producing 1t.
Mr.. Fiske saws nothing OF the sort
All Judge Geigerich did was TO deny
our application for a temporary injunc-
tion. and leaves the matter of the right
TO produce to be decided by litigation"
Meanwhile Wagenhals & Kemper haYS
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80 - Now" . Rit.

After the Ginero playa long way
after. perhaps though It's a good play
OF its kind-Jhe production or ne
Man from Now" at the New Amster-
dam. attracted the attention OF New
York theatergoers. Produced by saw
age. written by John Kendrick Bangs
q al. and played by Harry Bulger
~ al. IL made a big hit in Boston our
ing the late spring or early summer ana
bids fair 10 make an equally big one
IN New York now. Il IS described oy
one OF the New York critics as al
girls. glitter. and gags. but II the
girls are pretty enough. the gags WHY
enough. and the glitter sufficiently
glittering that is pretty Eood recipe
Tor the modern musical comedy.
IN thousand years, If Messrs. Bangs
Savage-et al. Of Course-are right
the present excess Of female popuia-
tion statistics say that there are IN
thesa United States 10000 more males
than females. but so much the worse
for s+atisticsy will have increased so
greatly that there viii be hardly any
thing but women left. And they'll be
eorgeousIy arrayed. most Of them wear
ing tights and all of them smiles
Their costumes viii be singulariy
effective and the lesser girls will play
football or do dumb bell exercises pref
tily. and the major ones march anu
counter march effectively. Music nan
songs and music hall wit will be Ireely
dispensed by . stage tramp; and an eA-
ceedinglv pretty and fetehingly sauCy
Young person, Helen Hale oy name
viii sing some lifting catchy songs very
cleverly. smile most lnIecJlous45
smile that won't come on, ana wear
most becomingly some well choseH
clothes. which also won I come q"
what there are OF them.
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PinsrO's New Play a Success.

OF the productions of the week just
past PlnerOs His House In Order
at the Empire. with John Drew and
Margaret Ellington In . the principal
parts, is by far the most important.
There seems to be no dissenting voice
IN the verdict that II IS a great play.
interesting in theme. logical in develop
ment and fully deserving Of the great
success ii won in England. There seems
TO be much that is debatable in the play,
but on the whole Il is voted as worthy
of an honorable place beside the best
that PinerO has done.
It's success was assured at the first
performance. Mr. Drew was recalled
again and again. and there seems TO be
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An Actress Who Is Really Grateful!

of performances by children in New
York. My work as Nancy Sykes In Oil
yer Twist attracted the attention OF
Sam Harris. Of Sullivan, Harris ana
Woods. who sent for me and gave me
a three years contract When l was
sixteen / had the leading woman role
in A Race for Life, which played at
the Academy here in Washington two
years ago"
Rather young for such a strenuous
role" / commented.
Yes" she agreed, "the company
manager told me i had better add
couple OF years 10 my age that the
company might have more confidence in
nv ability. and l did So" Miss Ed
mcnd laughed at a recollection Of tho
age question. Two women OF the
company" she confded TO me, spread
the story that I was posing as an I'm
faht phenom' by claiming TO be only
eighteen-that in reality 1 would never
see twenty again. What do you think
OF that?' she inquired gleefully. When
Miss Edmond laughs one laughs with
her. Ii is more than infectious.
Il came very near playing opposite TO
Jim Corbett this year." she observed
biuons. in which the name Of Terry Nc
Govern had been mentioned. Il am half
sorry 1 didn't"
Hes quite good looking" I remark
ed "but as for that. the man playing
opposite TO you tonight is. an exceed
ingly prepossessing young chap. Yes
mo-"
"Oh. I never think of the personality
Of anyone with whom 1 am playing"
she said decidedly. The personal equa-
tiOn does not figure"
How long a contract have you with
the Mittenthals?' 7 inquired
Eight years"
That's pretty long 1 commented.
"Supposing YOU should wake up some
morning and find yourself famous. what
would do? II you have an eight-year
contract with, as I judge. sliding
salary scale YOU can't profit by a won
derfuI personal hit"
II that should ever happen" she re-
piled. the profit will 60 % my man
ageut-as It should. They have given
me nv chance and deserve any re-
ward that might come of their venture.
II IS remarkable that should have been
given my chance after such a short
stage experience. Most girls wait years
for one-some work as hard and with
as much ability as l have for ten and
twenty years. and never get fl. con
slider myself very lucky
That upset me. To hear real actress
speak IN such terms Of her manage
meut. and show herself ready to give
credit 10 anyone or anything aside from
her own genius for a success. was "a
shock 10 my stage beliefs.
Then you have pledged yourself TO
comic opera" / observed, as 1 said
good-by
mot necessarily" she answered. "Of
course the Mittenthals could give me
straight drama. But If I make "a sue
cess I'm comic opera / shall probably be
pledged tJ Do for 1le next eight
years
'If that's the situation" 7 observed.
sagely. you may consider yourself
pledged F. p. MORSE
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Of cabbage now Grown is called the
Mrs Wigs" and that IN Wallace,
Idaho a new silver mine has been
named after the lady; and that Mrs.
Wigs is 10 be done in German. Wonder
If they'll amend the title 10 read Mrs.
Wigs. Of the Sauerkraut Pot?"
Kyrle Bellew IS home again from a
foreign shore. He and Frank COnnor
arrived yesterday after a summer S
cruise in Norwegian waters on Afr Bel
lew's yacht ''Moonstone" He Is 10 ap-
pear this season under Dillingham; man
agement in a new HaddOn Chambers
play, and in a new drama by Maurice
DOnnay entitled 'Afoliere."
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been doing very well with Blanche
Walsh ia the play and Mr.. Fiske IS
preparing to launch his production OF II
tomorrow night at the Lyric.
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mas succcsdei "TLe Virginiau. at the
Academy there. These two, whl ID are
among the last plays staged hy Klrke
la Sheue. and are sriu retained by his
estate. are both dge M the Columbia
HOorah" comes first. and with &, "a
sombTero which Benjamin Higgins. its
owner, is vCry. fond of. 10 ls part of his
cowboy costume Iu the pIav. and was
worn by William Cody .hunaIo BID
while scout iu the employ of tho
United States Government
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waraeld to Take the Road.

New York has welcomed Warhcld and
1.-THE Music Master" once more. He has
opened mis- third year there and has i'm
med!ately sold out for the four weeks
for which ne is advertised To stay -nere.
After that he positively will go on the
road for his first and last tour In Kline's
great play, and in time reach The
Belasco. And. though New York has
not had enough Of Warneld. Warfeld
owns 10 having had enough Of New
York, and to being for once glad TO take
the road. ,ked II the opportunity Of
playing before new audiences prompted
the feeling. lie said: Audiences are
very much the same the country over
As a usual thing they are unanimous
night after night. and in town after
town. When speech is punctuateJ by
a laugh in Philadelphia, It is pretty sure
10 get the same response I'm Chicago. or
even IN places that YOU never heard or
unless you've played One-night stands"
Another play that Is doing well with
q return engagement in New York Is
THE Heir 10 the Hoorah," with Guy
The Washington times., 1906-09-09

sham) as Amelia. More Shakespeare,
and mighty interesting Shakespeare at
that,
The Washington times., 1906-09-09
Behind the FOOtiightS.

vt is noticeable this season that most
of the theatrical bows have many
strings 20 them. Nearly an OF the
welI-kuown stars are beginning the
season with plenty OF plays TO fall back
on. but few cf them expect 90 play as
many roles between now and knockiu g
of time next summer as does Eleanor
Robson. She expects 10 open the Liberty
Theater. Nev Ya-k. about September 20,
with Israel ZauEwilrs new play. Nurse
Marjorie" to be followed by Susan In
Search Of "a Husband" by Eugene vs..
Presbrey. from Jerome X. Jerome 3
short story. and In connection a one
act play, Tina 10y Miss CI0thldla
Graves In November she VIII appear
in new play by Mrs. Humphry Ward
and @. Haddon Chambers. called
Agatha" and Mrs Ward will make
her first visit 10 America TO see the
premiere. Mr.. Chambers VIII come over
TO stage il. Included i'm her repertoire
this coming season viii also be The
Girl Who has Everything" I'm which
Miss Robson appeared "a part of last
season In January she viii do The
Lady OF Dreams ia Princess LOin-
taine). by Rostaud. which has never
been done on this side the mill pond.
though Nine. Beruhardt has done 4. in
France and which has been SO com
pletely remodeled as 10 be practically
eew TO any stage. She expects to
produce one of the classic comedies, a
pew version OF Judge Robert Grants
play, "JuleaveuCd Bread" by Leo
Dletrichstein, and one-act play by
Butro. II rather looks as though Eleanor
were irving 10 break Charlotte Walkers
record of last season.
Forbes Robertson is TO come over
next spring for "a short supplementary
season. and with William Faversham
will present "OtheIlo" to the American
public. Mr.. Fayersham VIII play Iago
70 AIr. Rohartsnn-s nthenn with Co.
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A Costly conversation.

i M Holland. Daniel v Arthur and
H. Fred zimmerman, jr., carried on a
Sl67 cable conversation during the sum
mer with the result that Holland has
come home prepared 10 begin rehcarsals
for the part of Mr.. Guthrie, a steel mag
nate In Cora Mayulrd's play. The
Measure Of a Man" Mr. Holland was
borrowed by Messrs. arthur and Zlm-
norman from George Tyler or Liebler
q Co. with whom he has been under
contract.
The Washington times., 1906-09-09

THE CIansman. which is 20 play a
returu engagement AT the Columbia
early iu October. has reached the bur
Icsque stage of success that is, IL has
been bulesqued an over the country.
The favorite title sa far has been The
Clam Man" Another IS The Klau
Kan" It is rumored that Joe Weber
VII. introduce a burlesque Of SIR Dixon s.
play In his new offering Speculation is
rife as TO whether Mr.. Weber VIII play
the. part Of Little Flora or Nanny Eve.
II Is told-by the press agent Of course
IL .LIE-.r-..I. al.. " III. ~. r-..-
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Another Premiere for the National.


The National seems Co Doe running 90
premieres this season. u opened with
one Next week Sc promises auuJlar 5a
the Eraden production of L3l.s Evans
Sh.pm1n's con Parole" with Charlotte
Walker and Vincent SeryanO at the
head of the company For the week .f
October 1 it promises Miss Viola
Aliens production Of "Cymleiiue." first
time ou any stage, and the week follow
Ing Jefferson DE Angels makes 4is bpv
in new comic opera. The Girl and
the Governor This ls announce as
the first attraction Of lle newly are.u-
ized Interstate Amusement Company.
OF which Msnaaer RapI-y was oa- Il
the charter members.
Washington ought 20 give each Of
these a good seud-of. especially "On
Parole" f0r both Charlotte Walker and
Vincent Serrano are well known here
and socially popular as well as artist5-
cauy admired. Mr.. Serrauo was at one
time a figure In official life as one of the
attaches Of the Colombian legation.
Seven children who make ND the DIV
erful juvenile appeal in Mrs. NViggs OK
thn Cabbage Patch" have organized "a
seeing Washington" Club for their en-
gagement al the Columbia Thaater next
week. Master Holmes. the Little Tom
my OF the company. is being educated
by TiebleT & Co. as q prospective star
in a Juvenile play being written by Bar
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~ y

he has certainly put his own house in
order
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{ is told-by the press agent OF course
hat IN California the favGrite variety
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while she was waiting for voce-the voice that
almost the first memory of her little girl
hood the voice of Dragomr, the great Russian
tenor who had driven two continents mad. Could
it be Dragomr-her Dragomir? she wondered, as
she waited tensely; and she dreamed again of the
long ago picture that had never faded: the great
white room in the winter palace at Peterhof where
she had been caressed and paid homage by the idle
waiting, when in had burst Dragomr, his
dark eyes aght with the news Of his permission to
go to Berlin to study and to sing.
But Dragomir, s" she had walled in the midst of
the rejoicing her baby hands tugging at his sleeve,
you said l was to grow up to be your wifei When
shall grow up to be your wife now?'
Whereat he had laughed and caught her up and
kissed her and, with her throned on his knee in the
midst of the idle women-in-waitng, he had set
little ring upon her hand and called them to witness
that when he was great and rich and famous and
happy he would come back to claim her for his own.
Then had followed troublous times, disorders at
home and abroad, suspicion and revolt, and in the
end her Uncle Sergus, deposed from his place of
trust, wounded and outraged by those nearest his
office, had fled to America-and since then there
had been only the walls of the school and the gentle
reproof of the nuns and word at all of Dragomir
Save that now, this very night, he was to sing!
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B y 7 u d O n ] e N k S

made his living partly from a farm which he owned
and partly from a small jewelers. shop, exhibiting
a few bits of od-fashioned jewelry interspersed
among number of cheap clocks and Watches such
might find purchasers in a small town. Inside,
back of the little counter, a workbench, the
tiny lathe, bits of watch-makers materials covered
by bell-glasses, the high stool and the jewelers.
glass the engraving pad, and other tools of trade
with which the old Swiss watchmakers began and
which remain the insignia of the good old craft
wherever machinery has not supplanted it.
But like many another apparently MINERS
ed in the monotonous round of unchanging
tine, this eweler had his dreams and his ideals. 1t
is true that they were connected closely with
his trade. He does not seem to have been
whose thoughts strayed far from the beaten path.
He had been impressed by the high price which
charged for that fine pink powder known
jewelers. rouge" He had made inquiries of
those who supplied him and found that it was not
a manufactured but natural substance. For
long time they could not inform him whence it came
His curiosity aroused and out of his slender
profits he sent for such books he thought might
inform him to the of supply. In his
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Sonia waited, sunk in remember1ngs and thrilling
with anticipation. For it was not strange that in
the pleasant confusion of her entrance to the busy
shining lobby she had missed what had sent num-
bers from the place the chilling perfunctorv an
nouncement that Dragomr was indisposed and
would not appear that evening. Sonia waited u1l-
conscious of this sunk in her renemberngs and her
dreams. And nothing told her that Dragomr was
not to sing, and nothing warned her that though
he was not to appear he had against his physicians
orders, slipped from his hotel, minded to hear a
bit of the opera from the front. Nor could she
know that, as he down the corridor of the
grand tier he passing the doors of dozen boxes
that would gladly have opened to him; and instead,
acknowledging his insuferabe WEAKNESS of all that
they had to offer, was remembering with gratitude
the key that day placed at his disposal by his de-
parting frend-young Holliday-Noel himself
She heard the door of the box softly open and
turned, with a sinking heart, expecting to meet
the hoarse reproaches of Uncle Sergius. Instead
she saw hgure-huge, towering, erect-outlined
for a moment against the brightness of the door,
then cut soldy in blacker shadow than that of the
boXs dimness He sank in armchair beside
hers, and it if one living, instinct with
life and with the pride of strength had come
Continued page Is
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her cloak fell along her white skirts! And alone!
it was impossible. Who was She in the box of the
Holliday-Noes?
Then the lights were lowered, and there up
trembed from the orchestra the faint thread of
violin. The twenty glasses in the opposite boxes
had found out nothing. And presently Sonia, with
a delicious breath of excitement, that although
Uncle Sergius was manifestly nowhere at all, and
though earthquake disturbed the clouds of
chiffon in the pit the curtain slowly lifting itself
and the opera begun.
They were singing The Rhinego1d Sonia, as
she listened half of the opinion that it was
she herself who gliding and waving forward
and back in the maze of green waters-surely it
no more wonderful to be Rhine maiden than to be
Sonia, free of convent walls and alone in box of
the grand tier listening to the opera waiting to hear
Dragomir? All the sweet of her liberty and her
adventure singing in her veins, all the sweet
of young life and the honey of romance" were
in her heart-so little it takes to make one mad
with delight when she is twenty and safe away from
two who ponderous and done with glamour.
Wavering waters, weaving and whirlng
Rhnegold-Rhinegold
Glorious joy
Sonia could have sung aloud with the gliding
figures in the green waters the stage And all the
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hood l do not know what this jewelers. rouge
is; but it may be the remains of some prehistoric
shell, to be found where communities of the ancient
shelltsh happened to meet with a favorable
environment.
At last the jeweler sold his shop and stock of
goods homestead and farm, to supply himself with
the funds for his explorations. We may be sure
that he had little hope of success, for he still re-
tanned prudence enough sentiment enough, to
reserve from sale one portion of his farm-that in
which was the burial ground of his family. With
all his other worldly possessions converted into cash.
this modern knight of commerce sailed for Europe
and there wandered for years among familiar and
unfamiliar, accessible and inaccessible localities
that seemed to him likely contain the object of
his search
We often hear of the total depravity of mani
mate things; in the of this knight Grant, we
shall find a new proof that there may be a
diabOlical nature at work among the ions that
Wbrate endlessly around us. The quest neither
success nor failure. AS if some Mephistopheles
had so placed the rouge as to lure him ever on,
he came now and then upon little pockets of the
precious material, but all too small to reward his
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nEOPLE used to talk of business and of romance
as if the two were in all ways opposed. Only
OF late years have poets and artists so far
departed from the conventional as to find subjects
for pen and pencil in the minor slirnishes of that
great battle with inanimate things which in its
entirety is known Familiarity business"
Kipling in "McAndrews Hymn" demonstrated
that there impossible gulf between ancient
poesy and modern engineering, and we may be sure
that wherever mankind is engaged in the struggle
against nature, against his fellows, to secure
for his loved ones that which will make their lives
happy, there is the essence of romance, even
though it be hidden behind the sordid phrase,
trying to make money"
In the numberless documents that have passed
through that remain filed in the Patent Office
at Washington stories thrilling and
varied the which the genius of Charles Reade
evoked from the dry chronicles telling of the life
of the parents of the great Erasmus.
a pathetic little story has come to the writer of
this indirectly from the lips of General Leggett,
who manyyear ago was prominent patent lawyer,
with offices in Cleveland, Ohio, and in Washington.
He was man of large practice, having business
connections throughout our country and
Europe. He became known later in his life as the
head of great eectric-lght company, when that
business was IN the experimental stage. The
incidents of the story were said by General Leggett
to be found among the records in the Patent Office.
It's hard, lacking the genius of Charles Reade,
to tell the incidents in such way to round them
oIt and give them life, and | shall not attempt
more than brief suggestion of the outlines of the
story, relying upon the readers imagination to
supply the details.
In small town in Pennsylvania young